celebrating the fourth of july!

we celebrated the fourth of july at our house with a picnic on the back deck.  it was nice to have a weekend off work and to celebrate with good food and family!

love, laurie

a rare moment of quiet from leko

leko is very vocal and spends most of his time yelling at us.  so i couldn't resist snapping a photo of him in a rare moment when he was quiet and resting in my lap.

love, laurie

happy 4th of july weekend!

have a wonderful 4th of july weekend, we're really looking forward to it!  noah has been enjoying some fun in the yard lately splashing around the the water!  it's going to be a hot weekend, so we'll have to cool off.

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

some recent preschool snapshots of mr. noah doing his thing!

love, laurie

another visit to the strawberry fields

we took a trip to lakeland to visit the strawberry fields one more time before strawbery season ends, and we picked a bunch of delicious strawberries.  of course we visited the tractors and had fun on all of the rides too!

love, laurie

planting flowers

the boys had fun playing in the dirt and planting some flowers in the planters outside our garage door.  

love, laurie

first bike ride of the season on the trail

we took a trip out to the bike trail for the first time this season.  noah enjoyed riding along on dad's bike and stoping at a few playgrounds along the way to play too!

love, laurie

saying hi to butterflies

over the weekend my dad attended the annual butterfly release.  he came home to us with extra butterflies and we had a nice little ceremony of our own releasing them near the flowers.  noah was especially happy that one landed on his finger and then his leg!

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

a few recent photos and some artwork from preschool.

love, laurie

cooling off on a hot day

our neighbors invited us over for a little summer gathering, and noah enjoyed cooling off in the baby pool.  he also enjoyed dunking himself in the bucket of water for the water balloons.

love, laurie