Lakes Boys Heaven

In case you were wondering what The Lakes Boys Heaven looks like….we found it!

 

      

Fall Sports

Fall Sports is upon us again!  This year Finn has signed up for Golf on Saturday’s and T-Ball on Sunday’s.  We’re trying something new for Riley this year that I am REALLY excited about….Gymnastics!  After 4 seasons of having Riley signed up for soccer and clinging to us the entire time instead of actually playing, I had enough.  I’m quite certain that soccer is just not his sport and that he needs a different outlet and he needs something that is just his and he won’t be compared to his older brother by.  I really wanted to do some kind of Martial Arts but it was impossible to find something that worked with our schedules.  But Boys Gymnastics fit perfectly!  We’ve only been one week but HE FREAKING LOVED IT!!!!  I’m calling complete victory on this one.

 

And one of Riley in the yellow shirt jumping up and down on the trampoline, which by the way is his FAVORITE part!

We aren’t allowed in the gymnasium so it was really tough for me to get any pictures.

Finn is playing golf and tball again!  He is a Durham Bull this year!

Our Summer Bucket List Album

I've had this on my to-do list for a hot minute now, but when the boys went back to school and we had lots of discussions about the FUN things we did this summer, it got me thinking that I really wanted to make a photo album of all the FUN stuff we did this summer! We did alot of cool things that weren't actually on our summer bucket list that I didn't want to forget about. I finally put some time aside (after getting a coupon for a FREE photo album) and put it together! It came in the mail last night and the boys LOVE it! And so do I! Here it is!

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My Little Buddy

Baby Kellen and I get to spend alot of quality time together now, and this kid just cracks me up.  He is so sweet and loving and happy and FUN!

 

 

All.Day.Long.

The boy can sing!

 

Second day of summer camp, baby Kellen walks in, announces "heeeey" to the class, high fives his teacher and runs to his friends without so much as a look back.

Science Summer Camp

A friend of ours organized a morning of science experiments for our littles at her house! 

We put a bar of Ivory soap in the microwave and watched it expand!

We put pop rocks in to a balloon and then put the balloon on top of a sprite bottle, pouring the pop rocks into the sprite and blowing up the ballooon!

 

And then we drank some of the pop rock sprite!

 

Then we mixed cornstarch and water which made this really weird substance.  It was both solid and liquid and really cool.  And as you can see, the adults had as much, if not more, FUN than the kids with it.

And then we created a Mentos and Soda Geyser!!!

 

And then we enjoyed some frozen yogurt pops!

Stone Mountain Play Date

Kellen and I went on a little play date with our friends out to Stone Mountain where we found an awesome little spot at the creek where the kids could wade in the water and play and we had a picnic.  It was glorious!

 

And this is how Kellen fell asleep on the way home, with a pretzel sticking out of his mouth!  Ha!

Hair Cuts

Poor Kellen, his hair was all down in his eyes and he couldn’t even see, but I wanted to wait until after The Bigs school pictures to cut it because I didn’t want it to be too short.  So I literally scheduled the hair cuts for the afternoon after picture day!

Befores and Afters…to be honest, Riley’s hair was perfect before, but this momma only makes combined trip for hair cuts!

   

Shade Festival

This was the first year that I got to go to the Shade Festival in Grant Park.  I think that Todd took the boys two years ago because I had a wedding, and last year Todd and I had a day/night away from the kids and Uncle Buzz took the bigs to the festival.  We had the most perfect weather, it wasn’t too hot and, well, the festival is all shaded so that makes it nice!  King of Pops and Beers and Great Music and Food!

The weather continued to be awesome that weekend and we had a picnic dinner Sunday afternoon in the front yard!