July

The move is greatly inhibiting the posting ability. So here is all of July in one post.

As always, we had a fabulous time at the lake!!!!

On our way:)


Fun in the water...

Owen jumping off the block

Maddi jumping off the block

Maddi and mommy dealing with the annoying horse fly!

Maddi LOVES to swing. So much so that she'd just sit in the thing for hours and wait as people came by and pushed her, then left, then someone else would come by and push, and so on and so on. So cute.

Lots of fishin' of course!

Row row row your boat...

Mr. Rob came to visit while on duty in his police car. Owen wants to be a police officer AND loves Rob so this was a treat for him:)

Bags, 4th of July and blocks!

 

Another fabulous year at beautiful Estling Lake.

One of the things Brett and I have always wanted to do was go see Blue Man Group. So, thanks to Gigi, we headed out one night when she was visiting. It was so much fun and Brett and I were chosen for audience participation:) Basically, we sat in another part of the theater for the first 20 minutes of the show and then they took us to our seats pretending like we were late and they made a big spectacle of us. It was a great show and lots of fun.

One random day Maddi got a hold of some lipstick on the car ride home. Pretty funny to look at, but no so much to clean up...

We went to the park one last time with Owen's good buddy Alex and his mom. His past teachers Rahel and Katie also stopped by to say goodbye. Goodbye's are always hard.

Getting ready to say goodbye to our house. Bittersweet for sure. We were so lucky to find this charming little house 6 years ago and to have such a wonderful landlord, friend and neighbor to go along with it. We'll miss you Merle and Dan!

Time for the artwork roundup:
Maddi

Owen

June Roundup

Well, clearly I have fallen away from blogging this month. But it's for good reason!!! We are moving back to Houston, TX:)

Brett got a job so we are on our way. We went down last weekend to look at houses and found one so we now have an offer down on our first home. So exciting and scary all at the same time.

We did manage to capture some of the fun this month though so here it is.

Father's Day Presents
For Father's Day Maddi made Brett a picture but Owen is finally old enough to really start making gifts, yay!!!! So, we did two things:
1) He filled out a list of questions about all of the things Brett likes. It was so cute.

2) We also used freezer paper stenciling to create a t-shirt. Owen drew a picture of Brett. It turned out SOOOO cute.

Maddi is growing up so fast and is so much fun right now:) Here are some recent pics. of her:

 

 

Owen's final swim lesson

Brett being silly

Owen really likes writing now which is so great because he used to hate it. Maybe it's because he gets to sharpen the pencil!

Nonna Barbara made a blanket and pillow for Maddi's babies which she loves!!!!


In mid June, the church celebrated Corpus Christi by going throughout the neighborhood and praying at several altars. They asked if they could use our house. We were so honored and it was really neat to watch.

Lastly, here is a June round up of artwork...

Owen

Getting ready to head off to the lake! Let's hope all goes well because poor Maddi is sick. But it worked out for Owen because he and I got to take the bus home which made him very happy::)

Happy Father's Day!!!