Six years ago today...

I became a mom and nothing has ever been the same!  What a wonderful job I have been blessed with, being the mom to one special little girl. Kylynn Joy is 6 today!  Today we will be celebrating her birthday with Easton and Brinley at the campground.  Looking forward to a beautiful day of celebrating my BIG Girl!  Can't believe where the years have gone, fast for sure.  Life is so spicy with our little Diva!

What I'm Wearing Wednesday

Thought I'd share 'What Easton's Wearing today!

He loves his sister's shoes

Practice, Practice, Practice

Kylynn started practicing about 2 months ago and gave up, but last week she started practicing every night with Jason.  Addisyn had to join in as well.  We now have two two wheeler riders in the family.  We're now working on starting and stoping and turning.  Hopefully they'll be ready to go when head out camping this week.  They sure are having fun with it.

Notice Jason is running behind Addisyn, she is a little bit faster than her sister, just a little more daring.  She is a hoot to watch, she weaves back and forth and just cracks us up.  Her little legs go so fast.

A little family get together

Yesterday we hosted some of my mom's family at our home.  We don't get together for the holidays any more so we decided to start a new tradition, a summer get together.  Let the pictures tell the story.

 Aunt Amy made a delicious snack that proved to be a hit with everyone, including my kiddos.  It also brought many laughs as Easton kept dumping it in the grass.

 Then we started playing some bean bags.

 Easton learned to drink from a water bottle, or not.

 And we played some dutch nuts, more good laughs.

 Addisyn and Aunt Amy

 Uncle Darryl has a side kick, Easton.

 My dad and Uncle Rich finally beat Jon and Colin - lots of fun trying to beat them.

 The whole group

back row: Uncle Darryl, Jon, Aunt Pam, Uncle Rich, Colin and Jim

middle row: Kylynn, Addisyn, Aunt Amy, my mom, Aunt  Debbie,

front row: Keaton, Beth, Austin, my dad, Logan, Whitney, me, Easton, Jason

 My mom and some of her sibblings

Aunt Pam, Aunt Debbie, Mom, and Uncle Darryl

Me and my aunts, they love my photo arm

We all had a great time and promised not to wait another 2 years to get together.

Wisconsin Dells Day 3

Our final full day in the Dells.  The kids were not happy about seeing this day come to an end.  They had a blast with their cousins and riding all of the water slides.  They were so brave, even Easton did a big boy water slide today.  We sure had a ton of fun.  These are just a few of the pictures I took.  I actually took over 500 pictures on this trip.  I'm hoping to create a photo book to help us remember this amazing trip.

 The girls love their littlest cousin Austin

 Our little ducklings all ready for their duck boat tour

 Jana and Austin

 Addisyn, Daddy, and Easton, in the back of the boat

 Most of the crew on the duck boat

 Some of the beautiful scenery we had on our tour.

(Dells actually means flat rock, great for the science teacher in me)

 Mommy and Easton on the duck boat

 On our way to the water park for the afternoon

 One happy boy

 Easton and Daddy on the waterslide

 Addisyn and Mommy

She was saying all the way down, "this is the best day ever!"

 Addisyn and Papa

 Mason and Aunt Kristi

 Easton trying out one of the little slides

 We couldn't get the girls off this slide on our last night

 Story time with Grandma

 The whole family, a great time was had by all

My kiddos with Papa and Grandma

Happy Father's Day

This Father's Day was special to our Brother Brandon and his family, they baptized Austin Ross today.  What a special day it was as we witnessed their commitment to the Lord to raise him to know and love our Lord.  It was nice to be all together as well for Father's day.  The kids love being with their cousins. 

 Jana, Brandon, Austin and Pastor Ed

 Easton and Old Papa

He warmed up real quick today, he even let Uncle Bob hold him.

 Buddies

Cole and Addisyn

 One tuckered out little guy, Austin

 Addisyn and Mason

*she told me tonight that she just loves babies*

 The kids with Papa Vugteveen

 Papa and all his grandkids

 Old Papa and the girls

 All the dads and their kiddos

 Daddy and his three munchkins

We love our Daddy!

We enjoyed our day.  It ended with the girls trying to ride a two wheeler.  Hopefully by the end of the week we'll have two riding with no training wheels.  A beautiful day to celebrate our father's.  I'll get to see mine next weekend!

Wisconsin Dells Day Two

Day two began early with some snuggles in our bed watching the Disney Channel.  The kids loved having their cousins there to play with all the time.  After breakfast we headed out to 'Lost World' waterpark.  The guys, dads, were happy about this one it had a drop floor waterslide that they were all excited about so they were quick to head over there before the lines got long.

 Cole, Easton, Cambrey, and Kylynn

 Uncle Brandon and Easton on the Lazy River

 Daddy and Addisyn

 Had to put this on here, Jason had to get down the slide to catch the girls. 

Thought he looked kinda funny.

 catching Addisyn

 The drop slides that Jason loved were the blue and red tubes

 Addisyn and Cambrey having a great time

 My girls

 Mom, Lindsey, Dad, and Tibbe

 Jason and I

 My kiddos

 Taking the shuttle to the go karts

 Waiting in line for the go karts

 Brinley Mae

 Austin Ross

 Mason Dale

I was on baby duty and photo duty with Grandma

when everyone rode the go karts

 Aunt Jana and Kylynn

 Grandpa and Addisyn

 Daddy and Easton

 Lindsey and Brian

Brian's go kart was a little slow

 Our family

 Grandpa and Grandma

Happy 40th Anniversary!

 All 8 grandkids

Mason, Brinley, Addi, Cambrey, Austin, Cole, Easton and Kylynn

 We also celebrated Cole's 3rd Birthday

Love the bow in his hair

 Blowing out his candles

We ended the night with the 5 oldest in the bath tub.  We were trying to get them out when Easton decided to clear thm out REAL quick as he decided to pee in the tub.  He got some good laughs.  Another fun filled day.  One more full day of the Dells left to share.