4th of July Celebration

July 3, 2010 - We celebrated the 4th at my Dad's house in Waterloo. Ollie was asked to help with the fireworks display in the back yard this year. How cool is that?! We all had a good time playing games, swimming, grilling and watching the fireworks!

*Baseball, Football, Horseshoes*


Playing catch with Grandpa Boardsen

Oliver and Kaj

Jaren and Grandpa playing football

Oliver playing horseshoes

LOVE this face!

Oliver and his little brother, Jare Bear

*Setting up the fireworks*

Andy and Ollie

LOVE those dimples!

*Swimming*

Jaren

Oliver

Eden

I hardly have any other pics of Eden from today because she was in the pool
THE WHOLE TIME!!! My little fishy!

Sweet Mr. Finny

Ready for the fireworks. BRING IT ON!

*Wrestling*

Jaren and Remy wrestling downstairs

"Ta-da... nipples!" - Ollie used to say this when he was two years old! ;o)

*Lighting up the sky*

Oliver looking studly as always

VIDEO: You can see Ollie a little on the bottom right hand corner with only his swimming trunks on. He's running the switchboard for the fireworks!

Ollie and Andy. Thanks, Andy, for letting him help you with this! What a fun night!!!

July 2010 - Petting Zoo with Bry and Gram

Today my mom and brother, Bryan, joined us for a day of fun outside. First we went to the arboretum and then we happened upon the petting zoo. The kids were so excited to see the animals and get to feed them. Lots of animals were pretty tame and the kids could get close to them without the animal running away. I can tell the kiddos had fun. I LOVE looking back through my pictures to see all the smiles on everyone's faces... even on some of the animal's faces!!

Ollie laughing at all the rabbits he's trying to feed with a single carrot!

Eden feeding a cute bunny.

Jaren holding a kitty cat. Later on he'll be having a date with his nebulizer for a breathing treatment. Oh, but these kids love animals despite their crazy allergies!

"What's up Shrek?!"

Love Eden backing away from the unpredictable llama!

I LOVE llama grins!!!

"What are ya eatin'?!"

Follow the leader........

Ollie feeding this bunny. He was so calm and sweet.

Bear feeding the bunny.

The kids LOVED getting to be so close to the rabbits!

Love the depth in Finny's eyes. I wonder what he's thinkin' about!

Mom and Jare Bear

Finny and Bear

Ollie getting tired of walking so he hopped on Uncle Bry's back for a ride!

Uncle Bryan and Phineas

Eclipse Girls night

June 30, 2010 - Midnight showing of "Eclipse" the third installment in the Twilight Saga.

We have 'Team Edward', 'Team Jacob', and 'Team Jacward'... for those who are undecided!

We had so much fun getting sparklafied, answering trivia and re-enacting scenes with Edward and my make-shift Jacob barbies, actually Eden's barbies... not mine! I'm sure people thought we were nuts! Oh... so much crazy fun!

My friend Amy and I even got bit by Edward... some bite mark tattoos... ;o)

We had such a fun time!!! Can't wait until 'Breaking Dawn' comes out!!!

Finny's first time swimming!

June 24, 2010

Swimming at my dad's house.

Ed and Finny

Me and Eden

It was my nephew, Carson's, first time swimming, too!

Jaren playing with Joey

Sweet Finn