Where does the time go??

Hi there....just to get you up to speed. We have had a busy week already. I committed to take pictures this week during Northbrook's VBS. It has been such fun for me. I am really enjoying all the kids and the excitment they bring. So every night has been crazy and late for us. Simon started his summer tutoring yesterday with his teacher from K5 and a few of his classmates. We stayed for lunch and swimming. Today was golf league.

June is Dairy month

Sunday....farm breakfast. We went to a farm pancake breakfast with Grandpa today. We try and do this every year. He enjoys it and so do we. The rest of the day was spent playing with Jenny and running some errands. Dad came home around 7:30. : )

While dad's away

ok....so I am exhausted. Randy went up north for the weekend, so we decided it would be a good time to have a sleep over with a friend. But that wasn't enough, so we have had 2 sleepovers. Last night we had our good friend Rene, and tonight our most favorite cousin...Jenny!! We made a small campfire just to make smores tonight.

Strawberry picking

Oh my gosh!! It was worth the wait. The berries at Basses are beautiful!!! Some of them did not make it to the check out stand.

Brewer game

We all headed to the Brewer game today. Most of Simon's class as an end of the year party. They won, which always helps. It was a perfect day for a game. In case you were wondering....the brat won the race!! : ) Summer is so great

Golf league starts

Today was the start of our Little Putters mini golf league. We have decided to do this rather than tball this year. We have 16 kiddos playing. It was chaos, but fun.

Have you ever seen this??

Randy ended up at the dr today due yucky yuck on his arm. We were VERY concerned about the red line going up his arm. The Dr says it is some sort of poision ivy, oak, or sumac. It is extremely itchy. They were not too concerned about it. They gave him some antibiotics and cream. He thinks he got it digging for worms so Simon could fish....what a good daddy. Nobody else seems to have gotten it.

First "official" day of summer vacation

Well, it was the first day of summer vacation. It was good to have nothing to do today, I got caught up on alot around the house. Simon had Nathaniel over and the boys played all day, even went swimming!! nuts. After dinner, Simon helped day cut the grass. Soon he will be doing it on his own.

catching up

Oh my gosh, where to begin. Friday was graduation day and it was so much fun. It is so hard to believe I have a first grader now. Looking back at the slide show Ms Hetzel made they have all grown so much. Thank you Ms Hetzel for all your hard work and for loving our kids. The party was such fun.

SO....then off to camping. The annual father's day trip with 4 other couples and kids for an all out adventure. This year proved to be just that. After back and forth phone calls accessing the situation in Baraboo we decided to go. The normally 2 hour trip took well over 4 with a trip on a ferry boat of all things!! They had 94 shut down due to massive flooding. I have seen these kinds of things on TV, but never up close. It is really something. Very sad. We heard of people driving 8-10 hours to get there because of all the traffic and detours. Once we actually got there it was ALL good. The campgroud was beautiful, alot of people cancelled so there were not many people there at all. We fished, frogged, swam, and the best thing of all bike riding. Simon's confidence on the 2 wheeler went up about 100 notches. We barely saw him. He met some new friends and they all rode and rode and explored all weekend. He is becoming so independent. I popped the airmattress, but other than that, no problems what so ever. On the way home today we stopped at Lake Delton for lunch and to see the drained lake. We actually walked on the bottom of the lake. It was so sad. Randy and I were there at a Bed and Breakfast about 6 years ago. Anyway, I have attaced alot of photos for you to enjoy.

Farm Fun

Today was a trip to Madeline's "auntie's" house. Polly has a beautiful horse farm in Sussex.

We spent the time riding horses and gathering eggs from the chicken coop. Afterwards we

had a picnic in the park. We all made it home safe before the rain came.

Tomorrow is the big "graduation day"...stay tuned.

Wednesday

well, all his friends are now out of school. We have until Friday.

Today was a good day, we had lunch with Grandma Jo, I helped

with a project in the class and Simon had his 2 good buddies over

to play all afternoon.

We are headed to the Dells this weekend for camping with friends, so

that gave me time to get organized and start packing. : )

Stay tuned for camping fun photos.

boys will be boys

We had our friends Matt and Brad over for a visit today, while I was weeding the garden, I heard alot of giggling. I was thinking to myself, boy sounds like they are really having a fun time on the swings....ha! Check out the big water/mud/sand mess they found and decided to swim in it. I luckily had them cleaned up before their mom came back.

Now Simon and dad are out shooting the BB gun...oh to be a boy.

Monday, Monday

Well, we have started our last week of school. It is sad to think he will be in 1st grade already

We spent the afternoon at a McDonald's birthday party for Brad. He turned 5 and we all helped celebrate!

Mike took Paige and Simon to see Kung Fu Panda tonight and they loved it. Culvers afterwards, who wouldn't love it.

What a weekend

No, we did not move to a house on the river. This is the result of the massive rain on Sunday morning. The dog enjoyed it, Simon wanted to get his suit on and swim in it, but there was too much lightening. I have never seen this much water in our ditch. What a wild ride.

We spent a wonderful day with family at Bill's 40th birthday party.

Hope you are all dry....I was about to start building an arc, but God did promise that he would never flood the earth again so I am clinging to that. Also, as a visual to that promise. A rainbow.

Simon, Michael and Paige

Party, party, party

Today was just that...party. First it was our friend Michael's birthday and he celebrated with a pirate party at the park. It was really fun, especially the story of "hairy, smelly, pirate Paul" who legend has it lives in the park and comes to steal birthday gifts. The only way to get rid of him is to get him wet, he wants to remain smelly. So the kids did just that, soaked him with squirt guns and water balloons!

The second party was Paige who had her golden birthday and turned 6 yesterday. It was really fun. Even when we had to grab all the food and move to the basement while the horrible storms passed over. A birthday party we will not forget!

Happy Birthday guys.

Buddies

Simon and Alexandros

Today was an all day (well most of the day) field trip to Camp Mini Kani. It was called early due to the weather.

We had a fun time doing jazzersize, hiking, learning about animals and having lunch! Photo attached is the melted ice cream sandwich he was trying to finish.

I was a fun day....we have a weekend full of parties planned. Stayed tuned.

PS ALL the fish have died!!!!

It was a good day here. Not much new to report, we purchased some new pets today. : )

One died shortly after we got it because Simon thought he could hold it on his lap and pet it.

It is not a dog!! He thought the funeral flushing was big fun.

We also found a polywog at a new pond today and are planning to watch it transform into a frog.

Unless of course that one dies too.

Hope all is well with you.

Pedicure

Well, today I got my first ever pedicure. The "church" ladies went to Azana for a "team building" day. It was so awesome. I highly recommend this if you have not had one done in the past. Costly, but worth it. Then off to the Olive Garden for lunch. It was all good!!

Tuesday....

Well, sorry I have not updated in a few days.

Not much new to report. Simon has been enjoying his last days of kindergarten. We had lunch and a playdate at our good friends the Bushmans today. ALWAYS enjoyable to be with them.
She made the most amazing salad from things she just happened to have. ( I would have done
frozen pizza)

So between school and playing with buddies it has been a busy couple of days.

Watch for something exciting tomorrow!!

Sunday

Sunday was a good day. Simon even commented on all the fun things he did today.

I think he is nuts....he has been bugging us since we put the pool up last week to go swimming, so I let him jump in today. It was about 70 outside, the pool temp was 62!! I thought he would be in and out, but you know kids, they have no sense when it comes to water temp, they just want to swim. He lasted about 30 min in the pool, just having a blast.

Our cousin Nick came over and I took the boys golfing and fishing and then we went to Grandmas for dinner. It was all good.

Hope your weekend was restful.