Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Birthdays, Fun, Some Work and some MORE Fun!

We are entering the end of summer, and have started the busy Birthday season!

Here we are celebrating Grandma Rikli's birthday with confetti poppers! This time we did it outside :)




Grandma had 2 little cakes. One was chocolate and one white so both of us boys were happy.


Doing a little dance game on the Wii on one of the hot days we had.


Now it was time to celebrate Daddy's birthday! Another yummy cake!


We got to go to Legacy Academy again this year for the NMB event. Since it was on Daddy's birthday, Mommy took us and Daddy stayed home and watched a movie.

Sam and I had a lot of fun!




G&G Hyland brought some yummy peaches for us. Sam ate most of them!


The icemaker in the freezer was making noise so Daddy and Sam decided to fix it. Sam really did all the work. He got a bunch of his tools out and definitely worked safely (note the glasses).



Daddy took us to Play N Wisconsin and then we went out to lunch with Mommy.We were moving too much to get many pictures, but here was one!


The Corn Fest parade was last week. This was right at the start and the fire trucks were honking their horns so it was a little loud.


Sam was WAY too bold about collecting candy. We had to keep reigning him in off the street, and he had to sit on Mommy's lap for 5 minutes since he stopped listening, and he was very unhappy about that.

It was a perfect day for a parade, and they both had fun.


Last Friday Mommy got done with work at noon and we headed to Little Amerricka. I am definitely going to be the ride enthusiast out of Sam and I. I went on a bunch of things. Sam went on some of the rides, but loved the bouncy house the most.


I really liked this roller coaster!


Mom had to squeeze in the boat with Sam. They had fun!


Mommy and I went in these chairs that went up really high and then went up and down. You got a great view of the park.


Being silly on the carousel...


Mommy and I both loved the bumper cars. It was super fun!


Over the weekend, Mommy went to Minnesota for "baby" Owen's baptism (we still call him Baby Owen).

He is so cute, and Mommy had fun getting to see him and his parents and grandparents.


They went to the Minnesota Zoo, which Mommy said she will have to take us to someday.


Mommy thought it was funny that these camels looked like they were posing for a family picture...



Aunt Kate got us these NBA Championship t-shirts. We were very happy to take some pictures in them!

Next week school starts for me so we are enjoying a few last activities before it starts!

Friday, August 14, 2015

Halloween?!

It seems like Sam and I have had quite a bit to do with costumes lately.

Here we are at the library dressing up as a Minion and Spiderman...


We played a game called Hedbanz, which was great except we couldn't put the cards in the headbands because Sam told everyone what card they had. We ended up showing the card to everyone except Sam and the person who was trying to guess what they were!



We had a garage sale, and Grandma and Grandpa Rikli came to help and to entertain us. Hopefully we didn't drive away any business by looking like we were living at the end of  our driveway!


Costco got their Halloween costumes in, and we GOT ours!!!

Sam is going to be Batman!


I am going to be Darth Vader!  Now the costumes just have to make it until Halloween :)


Last week was the library pool party. It was a cool night (mid to low 70's) so it wasn't nearly as crowded as it normally is. I went right in the water. Sam did too, but he didn't last as long as I did. Luckily, there is a sand and play structure area so Sam spent the rest of the night there. I stayed in the water until I had to come out!



I'm big enough for the big slide this year!



Warming up!



Bike rides are one of Sam's favorite things to do! He would love to be able to bike everywhere and usually asks if we can ride bikes when we are going places.


On our bike ride, we stopped at my school to check out the new playground equipment. It's pretty cool, but it wasn't the design I voted for (all the kids got to vote on which style to be put up) so I wasn't super impressed.


Riding home!