The County Fair

Yesterday was Connor's 4th birthday and seeing how we already had his birthday party on Monday, we decided to head to the Hudsonville fair to celebrate.  The boys were so excited.  Of course there are three things they had to do at the fair; eat fair food, walk through the animal barns, and ride the carnival rides.  And that's actually what we did.

 

  

 

 

 

 

Then the money was almost gone, and they still wanted dessert so we headed to the locate Mc Donald's for some flurrys.  YUM!!!  

 

What a fun night!!!

FOUR

The Party

Last night we celebrated Connor's birthday with the grandparents.  and seeing how we just came home from vacation, I had about 8 hours to plan the party, decide the location, shop for food and gifts,  prepare the food, and finally travel the 45 minutes to get to the party location.

We had the party at Drenthe Grove, a quiet, but nice park in Zeeland.  Not sure why we had the party there except that sometime I feel bad that everyone has to travel so far to get to our house. 

Grandma VD hanging out with the boys before dinner.

the food:  hamburgs, hotdogs, baked beans, potato salad, finger jello, watermelon, chips, and oreo fuffly salad.

Connor and Grandpa praying before dinner.

Everyone enjoying dinner

 

 

Presents

I had a hard time trying to figure what Connor really NEEDED for birthday gifts this year. So I took the boy to Toys R US (aka "the word world store" more of that later.) and the first thing he saw was Toy Story 3 stuff everywhere.  He couldn't decide what he wanted, cause he threw just about everything in the cart.  I had a hard time keeping up with him putting things back on the shelf.  

Connor and Grama before opening presents

Connor with his new scooter...big stuff.  I can't believe he's old enough for this.

Presents from G &G Van Dam,  Pixnar Cars toys and a fishing pole.

Then finally the present he picked out himself.  Toy Story 3 stuff - Rex as a roaring flashlight,

Woody, Jesse and Bullseye,

his Woody guitar,

and a Buzz Lightyear Umbrella (hoping this one will last longer than one day.)

CUPCAKES

If you don't already now, I love making cupcakes, and birthdays are no except.  When I asking Connor what kind he wanted.  He suggested Red cupcakes with yellow frosting, well mommy overruled that and made yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting and he was fine with that too.

It was a great party...now I just need to come up with something to do on his actual birthday.

Camping with Small Group

Last week, we had a beautiful week for camping.  The weather was hot.  The company was amazing.  The kids were entertained by friends.  We were camping with our small group from church. 

the boys playing in the water waiting for their friends to arrive.

playing games at the picnic table

Sweet Stella

Connor with his big caught for the week.  The boys didn't have much luck catching any fish.  Between the fish being very smart and the boys putting their own worms on, we went through lots of the worms.  But the boys loved it.

One bummed out fisherman...he didn't catch any fish.

Friday morning the dads took all the kiddos except Ellery (she napped) out for a hike to Devil's soup bowl.

Spending time by the lake playing in the sand.  This was one of many holes dug in the sand.

WOW!!!  what a dirty face.

Crazy Brendan

We took all the kiddos to Sandy's for icecream on Saturday night.  We head all the boys line up for a picture...

and then the girls.  There's way more boys.

So there's just a few of my favorite pictures. I want to say thanks to the Jelsema's, Dieleman's, and Bird's for a wondering week.   I hope you all enjoyed the week as much as we did.

POTD - 8.12

POTD - 8.06

POTD - 7.30

treasured items from my grandpa and grama geerlings