Happy Father's Day

For Fathers day this year we met my family at Cheddars in Ft Wayne for lunch. We had a good time and as always, I made everyone pose for fun pics outside the restaurant. (They'll appreciate it in the long run....)

Dad with all his good kids :)

Scott and Leegan

Seth and Chloe

The Many Faces of Isaiah

...he's my more serious one....(that's his dad in him)

Indy- Part III

So remember in Part II how I said I was going to attempt to "post as we go"? Yeah. That didn't really work although I believe I gave it a good faith effort :)

Anyway, the last part of our trip was to Carribean Cove, an indoor water park at the Holiday Inn in Indy....10 mintues from Tom & Dori's house. It's a similar idea to Kalahari or Great Wolf Lodge only smaller. (we have 2 young kids who didn't know the difference :) ) Isaiah was living large and thought it was the greatest thing ever. Quinn and I enjoyed ourselves although he wore out earlier than I thought he would on the whole water thing. E...well he pretty much sat and watched. I would say he didn't like it but sometimes he likes kicking back so I guess you'd have to ask him what he thought about our time there. The boys also enjoyed our time in the hotel room...wrestling, playing DS and Q spent an inordinate amount of time playing with paper plates and plastic cups. Who knew?

Q thinking he's big....

Getting ready to go swimming...Q kept wanting to take pics,saying "cheese"

Me and Q on the lazy river while Izzy went down the body tubes over and over and over...

Indy, Part II

After the zoo, we spent the evening with our friends Tom, Jen & Kevin and their son, Nolan. Nolan is 5 months younger than Quinn and quite a friendly and lovey little guy...too bad Quinn was NOT feelin' the love back until the end of the night. Kevin grilled dinner for us and we spent time talking, watching the babes play and Isaiah hoopin' it up on the Wii. I am realizing now that the only pics I took were of the kids so I guess you will just have to imagine the adults being there :) Quinn (2yo) and Nolan (19 mo) Nolan trying to give Q hugs although he wasn't very responsive...

Q spent about 1/2 hour reading...to himself and Nolan (who listened very intently). Very cute.

Nolan giving Izzy some love.

Quinn finally lovin' back! :)

Our Family Trip to Indy

We decided to take a short family trip to Indy to take advantage of E and Izzy being on Spring break (some of us still had to work but took a day off :( ). I thought I would try and post as we go....we'll see how that goes! So our first day was staying at our friends, Tom & Dori's home and the Indy Zoo! Unfortunately, Dori was out of town the whole weekend and we missed seeing her...but Tom was a gracious host. Here are some pics from yesterday afternoon... petting sharks, E's fave animal (bats :) ), Izzy racing a cheetah and some random ones...

Cheeeese

Quinn was unexpectedly in the mood to pose for pics and kept saying "cheeeeese" so I took advantage. :) Just a couple of my faves... (and I happened to be trying out my different "color" options :) )

I'M BA-AAACK....

Obviously I have been missing for quite some time and I am hoping that there are still people out there that check on us and are waiting with bated breath to find out how our lives are going....

Anyway, we are crazy busy. E finished school, started working as a first grade teacher, is completely overwhelmed with testing and report cards right now but I think starting to like it?!?!?! I work alot but spend the rest of the time with my kiddos, doing yoga and having random dinners with some amazing girlfriends. Isaiah is playing bball, doing excellently in 3rd grade (with a teacher that is a bit difficult sometimes) and being a FANTASTIC big brother. Quinn is a "hot mess" but stinkin' adorable when doing it which isn't always the best mix. He is ornery, LOVES to dance (some day I'll have time to figure out how to post it) and gives us a run for our money.

Here are some of the newer pics of our family....I will hopefully follow with a few more of my boys in a couple of days.

the "Look"

A wrestling match...Q may be able to take Izzy soon!?!

I don't think he's "smiling," I think he's "showing you his teeth" :)