What the heck we've been up to

I've been slightly glued to my (new:) macbook for the past few days, transferring and updating pictures and figuring out the whole mac thing. Once I got all my pix (somewhat) together, I decided that it was about time to finally update this stinkin' blog! So this is literally my 39th blog post in the last few days, covering our last 8 months! Big events here, folks. We're talking vacations, major birthday milestones, graduations, reunions and and random fun pix. But I cheated and edited the dates to show when they actually occurred and not when I finally got around to posting about them. So, if there are any readers of this blog left out there, please feel free to check out our last 8 months if you find yourself so bored... :)

Saying goodbye :(

Like I said, those 2 1/2 days went by way too fast. We had such a great time and hope we can get you guys out here again sometime soooon!!! This was a very quick attempt at an all-kid picture before loading them up in the car for Karin to make that 6-hr road trip again.

Cousin visit!

We didn't have them for nearly long enough, but we sure made the most of our 2 1/2 days! And these guys sure made the most of the dirt hill in the yard... with the help of a lot of water. Yikes... that ended in a serious hose-down of the kids!

James

Lizzy

Adam

Joseph

Luckily Abby was content out of the mud:)

More fun times swimming!

Anna-girl

And, of course, more cotton candy time:)

Playing games...

Playing with "baby" (crazy that mine are more toddler than baby now!)

...And lots of time exploring outside

My personal highlight of the visit was blueberry picking! We just happened to hit this farm the morning that they opened up a whole new patch of berries... we all had a great time! Not to mention... free samples while we picked!

Mmmm... look so good you could just eat 'em!

Once she discovered this bucket full of berries, Sadie was quite happy just sitting there eating to her heart's content. It was pretty funny. I swear she was there for over 15 minutes, snacking on berries.

Jack took a brief break from running crazy through the bushes to steal a few blueberries from Sadie.

What a mouthful!

 We scored!

We love to share:)

Aw, cute big brother

It turned into a pretty warm morning

 All-in-all, we ended up with 12 pounds of blueberries! Thank goodness we have plenty of blueberry-lovers to take care of it all.

Before we headed home, we decided to stop by Guy's work to check out the fun stuff there. Too bad I forgot socks for the kids so they could play in the play area...but we still had a fun time playing around.

Back to the house

Happy Sadie girl waking up from her nap!

Peek-a-boo

More exploring and fun in the yard

Of course we had to do something with those blueberries! Seriously, 12 pounds!

It was cute, Sadie and Joseph were reading a book with Karin. About 30 seconds later Yo Gabba Gabba came on and Sadie was immediately trying to get off of her lap so she could watch the show.

Like a magnet, I tell ya

Sweet girls:)

I had made this "Movie Good Guys and Bad Guys" memory game on a poster for Adam's party. Things were way too crazy that night and I forgot all about it, so we pulled it out with the kids and had fun matching good guys and bad guys from different movies.

The kids finished the game just in time for, oh yeah, warm blubbery pie! Oh man it was sooo good. And it was even better for breakfast the next morning!