Monday, July 5, 2010

Parade, Sparklers, Friends & lots of Fireworks



It's been a busy, but fun weekend. We started by attending the Caledonia Parade on Saturday morning.  The boys are I had tons of fun, got tons of candy, t-shirts, bottles, and lots of flyers from different VBSs and locate  government people running for varies offices.  Next year I will need to come prepared with bags for each of the boys to put their own stuff in.



impatiently waiting for the parade




the parade had just started (1/2mile down the road)  and Luc was already covering his ears.




After the parade we spent the afternoon home doing a variety of things.  I was texting with Michelle about when her dad's firework were...not expecting to go, but just to fill Mike's curiosity.  When she texted back that we were welcome to come to the cottage and see them.  Thanks again for inviting us, we had a wonderful time.













When fast forward to last night, G-pa Hopkins gave all the kids at his fireworks, a goodie bag filled with more fireworks.  So Mike and the boys had fun with those last night








The boys perched up in the treeless treehouse, while Mike lite some more dangerous ones


 and there's more to coming, tonight we are heading out to see more fireworks.  What a FUN weekend it's been!!!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Summer Photo Op #2 & #3 - crafts and frog hunting + Sneak Peak

Yesterday, the boys needed someone over or something to do, so that they would stop asking me "where are we going today?"  Well we did both.  Nat and the kids came over for a couple hours and there was a calm atmosphere around our house.  They started the play date trying to catch frogs and fish; they even saw a snake.  After some time they came in the house looking to play wii...WHAT?!?!?!  So I pulled out some paint and brushes and a bunch of $1.99 model building cars and planes.



Connor's beautiful paint job...I think he has a future in painting cars...LOL!!!

 


Brendan and Austin J spent the most time at the painting...
 



the rest of the kids preferred the frog hunting.

 









Here are the finished models...the boys needed lots of patience waiting for the glue to dry.  I wondering how long it will be before they are destroyed. 
Luc's plane

Austin's plane

Brendan's bomber plane

Connor's car

Finally, here's a sneak peak of the latest project that I have going.