fun neighbors

We have such a great time with our neighbors in the evenings at each others houses. Here are a few cute ones i have taken recently.

Brady's new Corvette. He can't reach the pedals yet so Sadie and Cody give him rides.

pinata

We decided to make Sadie's pinata for her birthday party this year since they cost about $20 at the store and then you have to buy the goodies to put in it. We looked how to make one on youtube and it seemed pretty easy. You can find anything on youtube. It was easy but very time consuming and lots of flour. Sadie had fun putting on the newspaper layers and then painting it when it was all done. When i asked her if Hello Kitty is supposed to have a mouth she said yes but when we checked all of her Hello Kitties none of them had a mouth. She wanted a mouth on Hello Kitty so bad that she went downstairs and drew one on with marker. And her she is!

We still need to put some ears on her.

Bunny treats

Today we wanted to make a treat so we decided to make bunny rice krispie treats. Sadie had fun decorating them with sprinkles!

feels like spring

Wow what great weather we have been having. It has been so nice to get the kids outside to play. They LOVE it!
And having great neighbors to play with makes it even better. Today they guys decided to get the giant bee/hornets nest out of the tree on our island. They finally knocked it down with the football and then burned it in our bonfire pit. Quite the excitement for the kids.



Leah loves her new car from our neighbor Emily, thanks Emmy!

Up North

We took our family trip to Boyne this year. It was a much needed break for us. We went for two nights and stayed at the Boyne Mountain Run Condos. The condo was great and very spacious for kids. We cooked some of our own food and the kids had room to play and watch their own dvd's. We went to Avalanche Bay waterpark on Monday night and all day Tuesday. Sadie never wanted to leave. She went on every single waterslide and even tried surfing or boogie boarding. She was very brave. She went on the smaller waterslides over and over and over all by herself and NEVER wanted to leave. Leah even loved the waterslides with mommy too. She kept signing and saying more whenever we got off the slide.
Can't wait to go back!

"See the slide i just went on mom, it was the dark tunnel slide"

Getting ready for one of her many trips down the waterslide. I was suprised i could get her to stop for just one second!
Leah relaxing watching Blues Clues

Here is Sadie on the boogie board. She did Awesome! A lot better than I did. I wiped out so bad they had to shut the thing down on me because i thought i was drowning. It was crazy.

and here is Brian wiping out when he tried to surf

Here is Sadie screaming down the waterslide. You knew when she was coming down because she screamed the whole way, every time!

We stopped by Frankenmuth on our way home Tuesday. We went to the candy store for Sadie and then to Bronner's.