Monday, August 24, 2009

Weekend with family!

A few weekends ago we went to Chris' parents for a little family get together. Some of Linda's family came in from Ohio - so it was a FULL house! 25 of us - 11 kids and 14 adults. It was such a fun weekend, with lots of yummy food, games, swimming, tubing, a slide show in the back yard and a camp fire to roast marshmallows on every night!! I know our kids had a blast. We didn't see Allie all weekend- she was too busy having fun with all the cousins! A big thank you to the Yoders for hosting such a fun weekend!Bill giving all the kids and Pete a hayride.

Some of the food!
PJ, Brian, Chris, Bethany, Alex and Luke.

The breakfast crew. Bill was the head chef - making 50 some eggs and cooking a pound of bacon for each family. That would be 6 lbs. per morning! Yeah, we didn't go hungry!

Friday we went down to the park so the kids could go swimming. It was cool, but they still had fun!



"Boy, this soda sure hits the spot!"
Heading out for a day of tubing.
All the girls - Allie, Sydney, Izzy, Leah, Natalie and Josie.
The gang!

Tubing time!


And we're off!

The tubes all loaded up on Bill's trailer.


Luke and Alex building a fire.
Leah, Allie and Izzy.

Adam and Blake enjoying their breakfast.
More eating!



Allie and Adam with Grandma D.
Time for goodbyes! :(
Kim and Matt packing up in the pouring rain!

Since there were so many of us, a few of the families slept outside in tents. Allie and Adam loved it - it was our 1st time "camping" as a family.

Our cozy tent.
On our way home we stopped at my parents to have lunch and for Chris to meet Ashleigh's Steve. Steve and Ashleigh got engaged in July - getting married next August. Everyone in the family had met Steve but Chris - Ashleigh was saving the best of last! :) Right, Ash?!
Here is Maddax with Grandma Sally. Isn't he a chunk - such a happy baby and cute as can be

Some of the gang at mom and dad's. Good seeing everyone - what a fun weekend!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Anniversary Weekend!

Our Anniversary was yesterday - 7 years! Wow, how time flies!! We celebrated over the weekend and did something as a family (we didn't have a babysitter anyway). Sundays are family day at the Pirates stadium in Pittsburgh, so we decided to try out a baseball game with the kids. :) The PNC stadium.



Before the big game! :)



"Let's go Pirates!!"
Adam with all his boo-boo's! He ran into the counter top the other day and just missed his eye. As you can see, the counter hit him right above and below his right eye. He always is falling and seems to always have some kind of mark on his face!
We got to the stadium early, so all in all the kids sat for 4 hours!!! ;-{

We did a family picture in one of those photo booths before the game. Our picture ended up on the jumbo tron during the game. Wish I had gotten a picture of our picture!! :)


We had great seats!
Allie did very well during the game and enjoyed participating with the yelling, cheering and clapping! :) She loved that we got to sing "Take me out to the ball game!" But by the 7th inning the she was hot and tired and informed us that she needed shade, that she was going to melt! :)





A few more pics before we leave.



We had fun, thanks Chris for taking us. Happy Anniversary, babe! Love ya!
After dinner we let the kids run/bike/play off some of their energy.

Allie is doing really well with no training wheels!

So is daddy!!
Now for some b-ball!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Monday, August 3, 2009

Sleepy boy, swings and my new bookshelf.

Adam missed his nap on day last week and fell fast asleep at the dinner table! :)

The kids love our neighbors swing set!


For my mom and sisters: The new shelf I got for our office.