She might be able to take Grandpa R. in a corn eating contest...She ate 3 ears the other nite at dinner and was looking for more.

This morning Eve woke up and gave me "the look". Yes, she has a lot of looks for her lack of language, but I knew what this look meant.
So this afternoon, we took the crib out of the room and put in her "Big Girl" bed. She is sleeping soundly in it as I type this!

The day before we moved in I took the kids out to the field to take photos. I've never seen the grass so high and thick. Luckily the bugs weren't to bad so the kids had fun picking and smelling all the wild flowers while I snapped away!



This kids on their first morning in the house. They've already developed their little routines. Cade has to pick out his outfits in his new low shelf closet. Genevieve has to kiss Cade before going to sleep. And many many more.



Fourth of July weekend we went up to the cabin for a day. EVERYONE was there! Eve got her first boat ride, and spent the whole day in the water with Cade and Jilly.





Grandma warming up the little water bug! (Can you tell where Eve gets all her looks from! Don't they look like twins!)


Jilly beans birthday party!


Daddy changing a diaper...check out her face!


I know, it is dark, but I hate using a flash at a museum. We took the kids to the Science Museum this weekend and saw Star Wars. Eved love the Jawa, C-3PO, and the Wampa-who she could have stared at all day! Cade love the whole thing and though all the interactive parts were great!


Andrew's big ping pong tournament. Unfortunately all my hard training still didn't turn up a win this year!


Summer has been going by too fast, and we've been very busy; Going to all the street fairs, playing with the kids, trying to find time to work on the house (we still have windows to do). So far it has been great!
Summer isn't official unless there has been a little mishap. Last year we had Andrew's knee, this summer Eve accidentally touch the hot motorcycle and burned her left hand. It was very scary for me because I was around the same age when I burned my hand and arm badly. (I got to have a sock on my arm all summer!) Luckily hers wasn't as bad as it could have been and she is being great about keeping her bandages on, but I can tell it hurts her a lot. She has learned how to do things with one hand pretty quickly. (It is actually really cute, I will go to help her and she kind of pushes me out of the way and gives me the "I can do it" look.) More importantly she's definitely learned the meaning of "hot things burn".

We're in, we've been in for a few weeks, pictures coming soon!!

We've been having some great summer weather and the kids have been loving it. For Father's Day we had a great picnic dinner outside, went back to our house for dessert and then the kids got a Bug ride!


A few days ago I took the kids outside and taught Cade how to use my reflector.


Here is his first attempt trying to fill the light in on Eve's right side! Looks pretty good to me, next week will have to work on diffusing the harsh sunlight...


He wanted to do it to himself, but it was TOO BRIGHT!


On Friday, Grandpa R was playing at a carnival, so the kids and I, and Chris and Jillian met up with Grandma R and listened to music, rode rides, played games, and ate junk food!







Somehow I always get suckered into going on the super jerky kid roller-coasters with Jillian...








We then headed over to a park to wear off some sugar induced energy








That night Cade got to go "camping" in the backyard with Dad! I think it was the highlight of his summer so far! He got to stay up late, bring his flashlight outside, sleep in a sleeping bag, and listen to all different types of sounds. He LOVED it!

A few house updates: Outside only. We are growing grass, slowly...and starting to do a little landscaping.






I'll post some inside photos soon. All the doors are trimmed, the floor has its finish on, windows are almost ready, and we get our Certificate of Occupancy on MONDAY! And yes, we will be moving in and finishing the rest while we are there!

Somewhere in the middle of all our rainy weather we had a really nice warm day! So nice that we set up a pool for the kids! They loved it. They got to swim while we shoveled dirt!! I loved it because they could play in the dirt and clean off in the pool! Perfect!







Genevieve gave us a big scare about a week ago. She slept in late, so I went to check on her and she was laying in her crib but was literally white everywhere-lips, face, hands. I picked up her and she was breathing and awake but very lethargic. We rushed to the Dr. and luckily on the car ride over her color started to come back. At the Dr. she let them touch her all over, lay her down, finger pokes, and she didn't care, she just sat there. Not normal Eve behavior at the Dr.'s office. After a lot of tests all they found was an ear infection...needless to say I am watching her closely, and am still uneasy about the Dr.'s visit (I'm happy they found nothing, but I have some unanswered question, mainly "why did she turn white"), she seems fine and she has a check up in a week or so.
Genevieve and Cade loved it though, because Eve got all the popsicles and juice she wanted and of course Cade did too!



Planting flowers with Grandma












Great Grandma's 75 birthday party! (My kids have very good genes)






Playing with Caitlyn at the party



I didn't feel so well this last weekend, so while I laid downstairs, this is what Cade and his dad did...



For my birthday all I wanted to do was take the kids to the MN zoo so Cade could finally see the new grizzly bears. We did and they both loved it.



She likes every animal, but show her a pig (any type, any size) and she'll scream, "no no no"...weird...






Even Bri got to join us which was fabulous! The kids loved having her there, Eve couldn't stop saying, "Brianna, brianna", which sound more like "B-nana"