Gliders and Rockets!

We celebrated the boy's birthdays on Saturday night! The boys got rockets and gliders and a bunch of other things from Nana and Papa!Kellen pumping air into his rocket to get it to fly!
Ethan's ended up on the roof. The next morning it was gone. The raccoons took it to play with. Lucky for us Nana thought ahead and bought a few extras! Way to go Nana!
Kellen and his glider. Ignore where his hand is. His hand is always there
Papa trying out the glider

Grant's Farm

We went to visit Nana and Papa for a short vacation! We had two days to spend with them. some of the time we spent at the pool or watching movies. On Saturday we went to Grant's Farm. It is like a zoo that Anheiser Busch keeps open to the public. It is where the Grant family lived and later where the Busch family summered. It is such a neat place. We always try to go when we go visit. Nana and Kellen on the "train" that takes you through the nature preserve!
Ethan looking at the animals on the "train" He was worried that it would go too fast and he would fall off.
While on the train we got this close to an elk!
Once at the zoo part there are tons of things to do. One of them is to feed the goats baby bottles. Above is a picture of Ethan feeding the goats! They really get pushy when you go in.
See what I mean about pushy. Kellen does not even have a bottle for them and they are climbing him
Ethan feeding the goats
Kellen feeding the goats
Kellen
Ethan feeding from the safety of the other side of the fence. He did not like feeding them inside
Kellen feeding them from outside

Since I went in with the kids Jared bought me a sweat shirt that says " I survived feeding the goats at Grant's Farm!" I love it and I wear it proudly!
Mike, this picture of the Cappybera is for you!
A parrot that we saw
There was a bridge that had a cooling mist for people to walk under. The boys loved playing in it!
The boys running through the mist
Here they are again! You would not think that a light mist would get them so wet!
Flamingos! I NEED a few dozen of these for my front lawn!
Eagles that we were so close to. They do not leave their open habitat because they were hurt at one time and now they can't fly!

Crazy Lips!

A few weeks ago Grandma Schumacher brought over a special treat for Kellen, Ethan, and Aiden. I put them up high and forgot about them until today! I got them out and all three kids had fun! Ethan with crazy lips with braces

Kellen with kissy lips

Aiden with buck teeth. He kept putting them in sideways

Kellen

Ethan

The Potters

The new harry Potter book came out last weekend and we were one of the millions that got their copy on Saturday! We even bought Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. They were the nastiest things that I have ever eaten. They came in flavors like vomit, earwax, pickle, dirt, earth worm, rotten egg, sausage, black pepper, and soap. I do have to say that the dirt one tasted just like dirt. Don't ask how I know I will never tell.


Grandma Sandy sent the boys some Harry Potter glasses and here are the newest Potters!This is Kellen Potter casting a curse to rid the world of Lord Vold....... I mean He Who Must Not Be Named

Someone must have cast a silly spell at Ethan Potter

Kellen Potter showing off his wand. It is a six inch birch with a core of Bullmastiff fur. The BullMastiff in question also lost two other hairs that are in the wands that are linked to Kellen's

Ethan Potter and his Birch wand with a Bullmastiff fur core. Is one of the wands that is linked to Kellen's

Anna Potter and the third of the Bullmastiff cored wands that are all linked together. Her's is also made of birch

Kellen Potter

Ethan Potter

River Fun!

On July 8th we celebrated all the kids' birthday's in my family. We spent the day out on the island and had so much fun! The kids had to play games and they all won prizes. We had a good time keeping cool in the water.All the kids had to choose an adult to toss water balloons to. They had to see how many tosses they could get before the balloon broke. The picture above is all the teams getting ready to play!

Here is a sandy Ethan throwing the balloon

Lulu seems proud of herself!

Bella in the distance. I can't believe how tall she has gotten

Cassidy and Aunt Sherry playing the tossing game

Trevor mid catch. I think that Trevor and his dad won this game. But we all had fun playing

Kellen in his Life Jacket

Kellen playing in the water

Ethan playing in the cool river

Grandma Sandy cooling off

Bungee Trampoline

On Tuesday night we went to watch fireworks at the Jefferson County Fair Grounds. Unfortunately, we got rained out. We did get to have some fun before it started to rain and thunder and lightning. The boys got to do a bungee trampoline and they loved it! Here are some pictures of them. Some of them are kind of blurry, it is hard to get good pictures when the boys were bouncing all over the place.Ethan all strapped in and ready to go

Kellen getting strapped in

Kellen mid bounce

Ethan attempting a flip.......he did not quite make it

That is Kellen in mid flip. he was so good at it! He just kept flipping and flipping!

Ethan mid jump

Ethan swinging from the bungee thing

Salamander

Last week I was doing the laundry in the basement and I saw a toy lizard on the ground. I went to kick it out of the way and the darn thing moved! I almost wet my pants. I caught it and put it in a Rubbermaid container until we could release it in the swamp. Kellen has no fear when it comes to holding slimy things. You could not pay me enough to hold that thing!

This is the Eastern Tiger Salamander. I do not want to go into the basement ever again. The laundry is now up to Jared or we just buy new!