Summer 2009

It has been a long while since I have taken the time to update the blog. I guess I've just been enjoying the summer, especially since it's my favorite time of year. Looking back at the pics and since it's been 3 months since I have updated it amazes me how much you can see the kids have grown. Since I print these for memory pages for the kids...I wanted to touch on a little of everything. So here is a quick clip at what Summer 2009 had in store for us. I will be adding another blog post with our trip to visit with Thomas Train shortly.

Father's Day - The Dad's celebrated Father's Day with a meal that us ladies and kids specially prepared. The boys made the dad's some special keepsake boxes and an extra special shirt that had all of their handprints on it. Garden Planting - We planted our first garden this year. The boys had a lot of fun helping us to care and pick the veggies that we got. We planted several peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, Pumpkin, and Zucchini. The funniest thing that some of these plants were started with a 20 cent pouch of seeds that took off on us. The boys especially liked watching the corn grown that surpassed them in no time. It's funny how I have one pic of the planting then the next poof we have veggies. We celebrated Daddy's 60th birthday with a surprise Luau. We have many pictures, but I wanted to post this one of the cake that I had made for him. We had so much fun and many family and friends to join us. What a blessing for such a wonderful fun filled day.
Then we took a day trip to Boyd's Bear Country in Gettysburg, PA. This was the first time in a while that we had gone. We must have had so much fun, because coming home with their bears are the only pictures that it looks like we took of them. They love those bears so much and that's their night night buddies right now! Darin had is visit with Dr. Baker, who was the surgeon that took care of him. He said that Darin is doing well and we are just waiting for teeth to come in. To date he has gotten 3 teeth that are slowly coming in. We are just supposed to follow up with the Craniofacial clinic in November and then back for his one year check from surgery in February. It's amazing what a good job they did and how his scar seems to be fading and looks so good. We are very grateful for Dr. Baker and his team. Of course we spent a lot of time swimming in our pool and the kids had their own little one too. I am so proud of how Justin loved the water and attempted to swim...by the end of summer he was doing well with his arm floaties and learning how to swim. He had gotten really confident and I hope that it will continue next year when we start back again. Ryan did well too and by the end of summer he wanted out of his boat and tried to follow in Justin's footsteps. Darin didn't mind the water at all and he even accepted the splashes from his brothers.
Darin is a really good eater and there is nothing so far that we have come across that he doesn't like. We'll he was the first one to have a Happy Meal before his birthday. On August 18th he joined his brothers for kid’s night and enjoyed his first Happy Meal. I was surprised that he really liked the Cheeseburger more then the fries. Darin just pulled up for the first time on his own a couple of weeks ago.