August Birthdays

First of all, I have backlogged in the last update, so you may want to go back and look at it....It has some important news.

Caleb went to a princess party, but he went as a knight! I think it was the hottest day of the summmer, but it was a lot of fun.

Toby Chillin'.
Snuggle bunnies (can you see my black eye?)

Ken's Parent's came into town for about 9 days and brought Josie and Collin with them. Collin and Josie are so good to Caleb. They are great kids, we really enjoyed having them around.

Caleb and Josie went to Vacation Bible school at Caleb's preschool. They also went to Dan Nicholas Park and Lazy 5 ranch (pics above). We celebrated Joe and Beth's birthday the same week and then Thursday Nancy and Skip took the kids to the speedpark. (Go-carts, bumper boats, arcade). At the very end of the week we had a Shark birthday party for Caleb...It was the busiest week of the summer.

My mother in law made this cupcake cake. I think it turned out really well.We had blue punch with fish ice cubes and blue jello, with fish and seaweed in it. We also had some goldfish and pretzels.
Josie helping me out.We played pin the fin on the shark.We made acquariums.The Pinata.Caleb and Emma, Their birthdays are two weeks apart.We played musical gifts to the jaws music.

Our well water can be a little cold.

The waterslide we have enjoyed all summer.

clean up time!

A Jam packed July

First of all, we have been busy this summer. I haven't kept up on the blog very well, but hopefully this will bring us up to date.

-For Toby's birthday my parents came into town and we had a train party. We also went to Dan Nicholas Park. We rode the carousel, train, saw a little zoo and went gem mining. It was very hot, but a lot of fun...

-Then we headed to Chicago for our family reunion. It was a lot of fun. We went to the acquarium, John Hancock building, Navy pier, and had a rainbow cone at the "Taste of Chicago". It was great to see our Aunts, Uncles,cousins and their spouses and their kids.

-After we got back from Chicago, we had to deal with the fact that our first house is vacant after our renters of 3 1/2 years moved out...man did we hear a ton of terrible stories about that family. I guess the neigbors had a party once they moved out. They said the neighborhood was peaceful. We are selling it to Ken's sister and her husband. Of course we have spent many hours fixing it up....but are ready to release it to Beth and Joe.

-Ken has sold his house that he is subcontracting . It's his very first house he has built. We have a blog of it (look at our links under Craftman building). We are very pleased with how it has turned out. We are also relieved to have sold it..However we have not closed yet...so we still have to do that.

-At the beginning of July I also took my state exam for Real Estate. I am now officially a provisional broker for the State of North Carolina. I need to get signed up under a Broker in charge and I should be learning much.

I forgot to mention that we went camping with some neighbor friends on the last weekend of July and Toby gave me a BLACK eye. He threw a camelback water bottle at my face. It was an accident...he said he was sorry. I had a black eye for 10 days. I know I haven't mentioned the fact that I also found out I was pregnant after we got back from Chicago...so I wasn't really feeling that great when we were camping--but we had planned this in january (the camping trip).

-Caleb had Vacation bible school and Swimming lessons in the last two weeks of July. He can now swim to Heaven.

So there you have it. I wish I hadn't missed July updates, but better late then never.