Grandpa, I caught a big one!!

It was our kind of fishing... You drop the pole in, a fish jumps on, you pull it out, and Grandpa takes it off the hook and throws it back in!! What a great way to spend a Saturday morning, Thanks Grandpa!!

Waaaaa!! The first day of school!!

But we weren't ready for summer to be over! Okay, so be it, but I can't believe how fast they're growing! Sarah's in third grade, Matthew's a big pre-k'er this year! I'm so proud of them!

Going to the zoo, zoo, zoo...

We waited until everyone else was back at school and we pretty much had the zoo to ourselves! Matthew's favorite was riding the train, Sarah's was playing hide and seek with the walrus!

Lake Michigan... Why don't we go there more often??

You can almost pretend you're at the ocean, and it's only a three hour drive away! What a great weekend with the Middaugh family! Sarah and Sarah Jean are two peas in a pod, and Matthew and Zane enjoyed each other as well! We even pushed through some rain on Saturday to go bowling and to a small town children's museum! We always spend the weekend talking abut how we should do it more often.... maybe next year?

Yes, the mama actually got to relax for a bit!

Mooooo! A trip to the dairy farm

Who knew that you could milk three thousand cows, three times a day with a staff of forty people? It was a learning experience at Fair Oaks Dairy Farm in northern Indiana! We spent the day with Grammy and Grandpa, and even watched a baby cow being born! I think the highlight may have been the milkshakes, however!



Sarah is an excellent climber, scurrying to the top of the giant milk carton like a monkey!

And then the Cordova's rolled into town....

Meet our new neighbors... Mackenzie, Luke and Jackson. They're one more reason to love our neighborhood!
It was nice to watch the kids play in the yard, even nicer to be sipping margarita's on the deck with Bill and Stacey!

Water balloons

What's better on a muggy Indiana summer day than water balloons?! Hanging out with Logan and David...