Our Summer Adventures

Ethan got into the oil based paint when Christina and I painted her kitchen table and chairs. The lady at Lowes recommended the oil base paint to me, but I vow that I will never use it again. We were scrubbing black paint off our skin for weeks! Luckily, I got to Ethan fast enough that it only left a grey area on his tummy for a few days.

Here's Ethan playing in the water with his cousins, Asher and Derek. Derek is the oldest by just a couple of months, and Asher and Ethan are only two days apart. These boys are going to have fun growing up together!

Alyssa loved swimming at Grandma Roses' house with her cousins.

Grandma Roses built a fort for all the kids to play in, and they loved it.

This is the bed that Alyssa sleeps in at Grandma Jacks' house. She got up early one morning and helped Grandma and Grandpa collect snails from the backyard. Grandma likes to put them in the garbage to keep them from eating her plants, but Alyssa wanted to keep them as pets. She had them in a ziploc bag, and put it under her pillow, but it wasn't shut all the way. The above picture is what greeted me when I went in the room to get some clothes for the day. We had to take the whole bed apart to make sure we found all of the snails.

Here's Brian reading a Princess book to the kids that Alyssa got for her birthday. He had just finished boards and driven up the night before, and we were all so excited to see him.

Alyssa got a Cranium game called "Hullabuloo" for her birthday. It seems like it's a great game for all ages.

Brian is famous in our house for building towers. He likes to stack things (ice cream, then canned soup, then cheese, etc.) on the conveyor belt when we're grocery shopping, and sometimes he stacks various dishes and food items during dinner. It looks like Ethan inherited the stacking gene from Brian. He was so proud of himself! (Notice the two cheeze-its on top.)