mud pit.

When Jeremy digs a hole to plant watermelons, some little boys must play in said hole first. And get absolutely filthy. Mud for days y'all. It was one part adorable and lots of parts disgusting. But they had a blast, and I suppose that's ultimately all that matters!

bowling.

We took the boys bowling last week – the first time for Sawyer; Cayden had been once before with school. The bowling shoes on our boys was adorable. And then watching them tote their ball to the line and rolling it as hard as they could? Was so much fun! Jeremy and I were certain that their balls would never make it to the pins, but they did. While taking approximately a minute to get down the lane. We rented our lane for an hour thinking we could get two games in. Haha, joke's on us! Since it took the boys' balls so long to go down the lane each time they bowled, we completed one game with just five minutes to spare. We won't talk about who won (ahem, it was me), or who bowled the lowest score (I believe that would be Jeremy), but the boys did have the advantage of the bumpers being up for them. It was a really great family outing that I think we're have to rotate into our family fun adventures...

I'd honestly forgotten how much I enjoy bowling. I'm really not that good at it, but there's just something about feeling like you know all the techniques. And sliding your foot behind you as you release the ball. I'm totally a pro.

fourth of july, twenty fourteen.

We've been spending the fourth holiday with my parents since Cayden was a bitty baby. It's nice that the holiday always seems to fall on week that my sister and brother-in-law have their older children and we can all celebrate together as a big family.

After a hot dog dinner, we attempted to take some family photos for the first time (ever!) and it went about as well as could be expected. The fun thing? After we took all the photos and every one was in meltdown mode, Jeremy discovered the lens was on manual focus. So some photos were nice and focused, but the majority were not. Sad face. Guess we'll just have to all get together and take some more family photos sometime soon. Yay!

Our neighborhood usually has an awesome little show of fireworks above our lake. This year, there were TWO houses that decided to have some really great explosives. We just had to turn our heads back and forth. Like a little tennis match in the sky. I don't think there was a clear winner; all the kids enjoyed all the fireworks, so a win all around.

Once the fireworks were over, we headed back inside for brownies and homemade vanilla ice cream. A delicious way to end the evening!

wordless wednesday: smiles for big brother

graham's nursery: bookshelves

I think the last update post on Graham's nursery was adding furniture. And then, well, he surprised us about three weeks early and not much got done. We're finally back to working on the nursery and hope to have it done sometime before he turns ten. Haha, ok, hopefully before he's six months old. That leaves us about three and a half months to get to it.

But hey, bookshelves! We finally got them up and were able to put all the lovely books that we received at our diaper shower. The big boys also donated some of their books to Graham. It's a perfect little area in the corner of his room that will one day house a beanbag for him to snuggle into and read to his heart's content.

Also, please to be noticing the ceiling light that we installed. It makes my heart sing every time we walk in there. So much better than the pesky fan that we used to have in there. One step closer...