Summer Week 5

Probably my favorite thing about summer is picnics at the park with friends from all stages and facets of our life past and present. We are so lucky to have friends from college, church (now and then), bible studies, etc. I just love it. 

We got to get together this week with our friends (who used to live behind us at our old house). Our boys are weeks apart and we still wish we lived that close. Minus our crews that just keep growing and Sager needing to go to the bathroom multiple (i mean multiple times) we had a blast. 

We wrote our favorite disney characters. They say it takes six to eight weeks for a reply so we will see. We wrote Jake from the Neverland Pirates, Olaf, and Elsa & Anna.  Made for a fun afternoon mess!

 This guy spends a lot of his days making messes and well trying to keep me watching. You can't quite see in the picture but he has the grill scraper here. He is making a quick dash for the stairs on our deck (we need a gate) and has chalk all over his face and probably had some in his mouth. He can be found sampling all sorts of dirt, sand, water, rocks, etc. Thankfully he isn't a swallower but he does like to keep things in his mouth.

We hit up the jumping pillow close to our house one morning. $5 a kid for a morning of fun. Its at a local campground. We will be back. Hopefully with dad as he always makes it way more fun!

But dad was off to pick up the beams for our new house (yes - we are building again). These are from my grandpa's 100 year old barn they tore down. Are they not amazing. Now if only I can find a way to incorporate them all into my house without making it look quite like a barn.