It's been awhile...........again..............

Claire & Daddy at the lake

Jerry and I get the campfire started.

Jayden & Janelle

Claire & Daddy

The bridge in Canada. . . .The water is up this year, so we had to be careful not to hit our heads!

Claire helps Dad with his seeds.

The lake cabin!

playing in the sand

Grandma & Grandpa

Out on a boatride

Our huge woodpile

There must have been a storm or something because there was a tree down on our neighbors boat house, and several large branches down. It's hard to believe Jerry just recently had a heart attack!!! He is doing GREAT though :)

Unloading wood from Jerry's old deck. We decided that if we run out of firewood this summer, we better just call it a summer :)

Claire loves Taja :)

Jerry man's the ship

Kaydra at a concert

Kaydra goes for a basket

Tate, Collin & Cole - Buddies :)

Baseball is Cole's FAVORITE sport. Luckily it's Nathan and I's favorite sport too. . . There are some weeks that Cole alone has 6 games. He is playing pee wee and Cal Ripkin this year :) Between Kaydra, Cole and me (I am playing softball too), I think we will be spending LOTS of time at the ball diamonds!

This is usually what Cole and his friends are doing after school They love baseball.

One day we had a little accident in our front yard. Cole, Collin & Tate were playing 500 with a baseball. The ball had rolled down the street so Cole ran and got it. He turned around and threw the ball back.....Collin could not catch it, and Tate was not looking. The ball hit him straight in the face. He took a trip to the emergency room where they determined his nose was broken. Tate was fine that night and even went to school the next day. However Saturday, his nose was bleeding again and he threw up some blood so back to the ER he went. He had to stay over night in the hospital and had to have surgery. He missed a whole week of school. Cole felt so bad he also missed school on Monday. Cole was in tears!! Then I was in tears!!! It was a long week. It is hard to see the kids hurting so much! Tate has made a full recovery now :) You can't even tell that his nose was ever broken!!

Avary, Claire & Payton playing during Kaydra's softball game. They love going to games :)

First trip to the zoo for the year!

Ellie sleeps for most of her trip to the zoo!

Feeding the animals :) Notice Claire & Payton had to be "twins" for the first zoo trip!

Brayden LOVES the zoo. He was wide awake the whole time!

I am playing softball this year too. Here are some after softball festivities :)

Last day of school get together :)