Visit from Aunt S & J

Aunt S and J were in town from the San Francisco area for a friend's wedding.  It was a great excuse to get everyone together.  The family hosting has twin boys that will be starting 5th grade.  Fortunately, she held on to a lot of the toys they loved earlier in life.  Kamden was super shy when we got there but as soon as a massive amount of cars and trains came into the picture... he was as friendly as could be :)

TRAINS!  YAY!

(sorry, not great photos)

Kamden and Nana

July 4th Celebrations

The weekend before the 4th of July is a big deal in my parent's town.  They have all there celebrations then...  including a parade and very impressive firework display.  Unfortunately, fireworks are terrifying to most 2 year olds (not to mention way past bedtime). 

 Enjoying some watermelon and buggy rides before the events...

 At the parade... it was short but had a very large number of fire trucks...which is really all that matters to my kid!

On the actual 4th of July, we went to the parade in Parkville.  Great time!

Shatto Dairy Tour

Shatto is a "local" dairy farm that makes delicious milk and other tasty dairy treats.  I use the term local liberally because it is about an hour and a half from our house.  We recently went on a tour to check it out.  It was worth the drive!

"hot" off the press!

Baby calf that was just born a couple days ago...

Checking out the milking machines...

Grandpa & Grammy's Barn

Grandpa M and Grammy are building a "barn" or a giant building for a house/garage/hanger for all of Grandpa's fun toys.  They have come a long way and we recently took Kamden down for a visit.  He was in HEAVEN.  Grandpa has an buggy, tractor, and airplane!  He didn't want to leave :)

Babies!

This group has come a long way!  We all met online and have supported each other through the struggles of infertility.  Kamden was the first born in the group but now basically everyone has a kiddo!!!!  Last month we got together with the kids at Deanna Rose Farmstead.

 

B turns 5!!

I can't believe he is FIVE!

A little bit of Angry Birds style fun with a balloon launcher and box/ball game

The little ones were quite excited about one of B's farm gifts they (somewhat) patiently waited for Grandpa to open it and only fought a little bit of the tractors inside :)

Dining Room

A few dining room changes.  I have been wanting to recover the chairs with some fun fabric for years.  I FINALLY got around to it this week.  Nothing was wrong with the fabric but I wanted something a little more bold and trendy.  It doesn't cost much and is fairly simple to do .. yet it completely changes the look of the chair and the room.

I bought a couple of sconces to complete the wall.  I think it looks pretty great with new frame.

If you want to get really nostalgic - this is the realtor's photo from before we bought the house!

We bought the house FIVE YEARS ago next week!!!!