Leaves, Leaves, Leaves

The leaves have just started to fall in our yard, but that first day we had to scoop up a little pile so that Payton and Bryson could jump around in them.




After playing in the leaves it of course was time for a nice long bath! This time it was Bryson and Rowan in the bath though! What cuties. They just love splashing around in there.

New floor!

We are still trying to sell our house, but in the meantime I couldn't stand our carpet anymore! Sooo last weekend my dad put in new flooring that we had purchased. I must say it looks pretty good!



The top pic is of the old old flooring. It was a poured floor which was apparently popular in the late 60's early 70's. WOW! Pretty special in the harvest gold color. Although I must say it's had new flooring put over the top of it and then ripped out and it's over 40 years old and it was still in great shape. Too bad it was so ugly! Anyway we put the new flooring in the entryway and the greatroom/dining room. A much needed improvement! Bryson keeps saying "Papa put in new floor?!" and poor Rowan just slides around on it when he crawls. He's starting to get the hang of it though!

Weekend away!

Over Labor Day weekend we always take a family trip to Lake Sara. My Aunt Bernice always enjoyed taking pictures of me in the morning with my bed head. Bryson has now graduated into the bed head stage!



Rowan just hanging out at the lake.






A few more photos of the lake.

That's my boy!

I swear Bryson is so like me! He can fall asleep anywhere!

In the first picture he was pretending to be asleep. He woke up one morning and came out to see me in the kitchen while I was making breakfast and decided to lay on the floor and catch a couple more zzz's. The other picture he just went back into my bedroom and was drinking a cup of milk and decided to go ahead and fall asleep. I guess he was really tired!

On no big boo boo!

Bryson had a big fall on Friday. He made the mistake of getting on Emma's bike which is too big for him. The other mistake was that Emma's bike was sitting at the top of the driveway backwards. When he climbed on top of the bike he started rolling down the hill backwards and panicked before Bev could get to him. He apparently turned the handlebars of the bike and caused the bike to jerk which threw him off. As a result he got a major boo boo on the head!
Of course in typical boy fashion he cried for a few minutes, refused to put ice on it, and was playing and having a good time before daddy even got there to check it out.

Freedom Celebration!

Last weekend, Saturday, June 26th to be exact we went to Gifford to help celebrate the Fourth of July early. It was really hot, but we hung out at the park all day! The kids had an absolute blast. Payton participated in the parade, a watermelon eating contest, a talent show, and a cricket spitting contest. Marc and Payton actually both participated in the cricket spitting contest. Marc did pretty well I must say. Payton not so great, but I was actually glad...that means she doesn't have much practice spitting right?!

Bryson loved being able to run around and he absolutely loved the petting zoo! He even fed the animals. Rowan enjoyed seeing the sights and taking cat naps when he could. It was a great day in Gifford!

Updates

So I have been a very bad blogger lately. I haven't been keeping up. So here are some quick updates. Rowan is growing like a weed! He had his first ear infection a couple of weeks ago which was really sad, but he responded very well to the medicine. We are very thankful for that. He weighed 14 lbs. at his appointment! I can't believe how big my baby is getting. You forget how fast they go through clothes at this age. He is doing wonderfully though so I can't complain one bit!

Bryson is also doing great! He is still hanging out at about 29 lbs but getting taller. I can't believe how tall he's getting. I am constantly amazed at how blessed we are.

I just got over an episode of shingles so we are waiting patiently and hoping that the boys don't get the chicken pox from being exposed to them through me. So far so good.

We just had a great visit from Austin and Payton for about 2 weeks. Austin had to go back home to participate in basketball, football, and some detasseling at the end of the summer. He's getting so grown up. He was such a big help when he was here the last couple of weeks. Bryson misses him terribly!

So far we are off to a great summer. I will try to do better blogging for the rest of the summer!