Oh Summer, Summer Fun

We have had an awesome start to our summer. 

We went camping down near Louisville. Caleb ended up getting his first stitches after a swing at the playground near the campsite came back and split his forehead open. It was plenty warm so we didn't even build a fire - just cooked dinner and roasted marshmallows over the coals.

We went to see "Fire Dancers" at the library. I think Cameron and I were expecting more Polynesian type fire throwers but the boys liked the interesting interpretive dance routines with fire plus they DID have a fire truck there which was definitely the coolest thing around.

Cameron and I went to a play in the park and saw "Hamlet."

We've done a lot of bike riding and playing outside with friends.

We saw a snake show at the library. This snake was huge and Ben was sooo proud of himself for petting it.

We went to the children's museum in town - the boys were so excited and moving so fast that I had trouble just keeping up with both of them. So no pictures.

We went to the city's "Touch-a-Truck" event where the boys got to climb on buses and trucks and race cars and police cars and tractors. They love love loved it.

 

 

We went to the Indianapolis Indians baseball game. During the first three innings every time they announced who was up to bat Ben would yell, "Go Jeff (or whoever was up to bat)! Do your best!" And he waved his little American flag high and proud for a LONG time.

It has been so much fun and there are a pile of adventures yet to come. 

Happy Memorial Day

What a fun day! We headed south to Spring Mill State Park and explored the old pioneer village. Apparently the village used to be a huge industrial center for the area but started to fade away in the 1860s. The three story mill was pretty awesome to see working. The boys had fun running all over the place and getting as dirty as possible. And of course they slept great all the way home!

Put Down that iPad and PLAY!

Operation "Get These Kids Out of the House" is now under way and I have to admit, it's been a blast. We went canoeing for family home evening, went to the children's museum here in town, went to the observatory with Cameron to see the moon and Jupiter and Mars. And played outside a whole lot. We wrote the alphabet in giant letters all the way down the sidewalk and then had fun racing each other to the different letters. We blew bubbles and planted the garden. Ben rode his bike and is definitely getting close to ready for a big boy bike.
Hooray for spring/summer and nice warm weather.

Ben and Caleb with their best buddies Joshua and Baby Luke

The boys were so exhausted by the time we finished looking at stars that they just sat together on this chair while we put things away.

Ben LOVED helping dad paddle the canoe.

Flying the awesome kite from Grandpa Briscoe

We took the side off Caleb's crib. He's pretty excited that he can get out of bed whenever he wants!

"Take a picture of me with this big stick and my big muscles."

Canoeing is so fun. I think we'll be heading out to the lake a lot this summer.

Caleb's "I've been caught face"

Ben throwing rocks in the water with a dirty bum. :)

Playing outside all day sure makes for some tired boys

They're so cute when they sleep!

It's Been a While - Some Christmas pics

Wow! I didn't realized that I haven't put anything on here in quite a while. Guess other things just keep coming up. Christmas in Utah was soo much fun! We were there for almost a month and still didn't want to leave.  Ben LOVED seeing Santa at Grandma and Grandpa's house. And the boys both got spoiled and had fun playing in all the snow.