Splashin' Fun

Today the mom's group took the kids to the sprinkler park in Carmel. I wish our town would build one of these. A public park with water jets and waterfalls to play in, all for free! Can't beat it.

Aaron takes his watergun fights seriously!

Rachel gets an assist from Aunt Becky to run through the water

Aaron needs no such assistance

Rylan and Avalyn decide to stick it out together

After baking in the sun I was ready to crawl in the stroller with Madison. I don't think she would mind.

Maybe, I'll just crawl in with Allison

Not sure what to call this move, but Rachel and Madelyn would throw their arms back, stick their little behinds out, turn around and back into the water.

No Fussing

While my friends are posting lovely vacation photos from SC and NJ, I'm giving you a video of my whining child! Rachel had to go to her room, because she was fussing and whining. After a few minutes this is what we heard. The translation if you can't make it out is she's saying "I'm done fussing".

Backyard

Cool new camera features - Part 2

This camera also does stitch assist. Basically it helps you line up a series of shots to create a panorama. This is the backyard. I'm going to get this one perfected before we go to Florida. Panorama of the beach anyone?

Nest

This is what I found in my tree out in the front yard a couple of days ago.

I watched the momma bird on the nest and was looking forward to the baby birds. Unfortunately, this is what I found yesterday

Uggh...nature...survival of the fittest

Bust a move!

I got a new camera this week. I wanted a small one that would fit into my purse. It's a Canon Powershot, and has a feature that I didn't know about when I purchased it. It takes time laspe video. In this mode it will take a still photo every 2 seconds and then play them back as a video. I can see definate blogging possibilities for this one!

Here we are cleaning the garage out today. Here are a few things to watch out for: Aaron doing skateboarding tricks, me jumping rope (blink and you'll miss it), pumping some iron. And for the record, we don't move this fast in real life. If we did, I would be a lot thinner! :)

On the cheap!

In an attempt to secure my VBS job in the kitchen for the next 5 years, I made snacks for over 100 people to the tune of about $6. How did we accomplish this modern miracle? Two Whirly-pop Poppers, 2 bags of popcorn, vegetable oil, sugar, and food coloring = colorful bowls of sweet popcorny goodness!

Believe it or not, we emptied out that bowl and made more...16 batches total!

Adventures in VBS - Part 2

Just wanted to prove that Aaron was in fact at VBS this week and really enjoyed his chips!

So did Rachel!

For someone who seems to spend an extrodanary amount of time snapping other people's photos, Diane is awful camera shy

Never mind, we'll take care of that!