Lake Norris and Ohio

After the wedding in Iowa Griffin, Grace, and I rode with Pop Pop to Cincinnati for a night, then we headed to Norris Lake for a few days.  At the end of the week Josh met us in Cincinnati, then Josh and I went to Pittsburgh for a wedding while the kids stayed with BeBop and Pop Pop.  It was a busy week of travel!

Some pictures from Norris Lake:

They were excited to go down to the lake for the first time!

Griffin loves driving the boat!

The water was pretty chilly, but not too cold for the kids and Pop Pop!

Griffin loves the horse swing

And he loves the sand box!

The kids in the hammock 

They went on lots of rides on the paddle board with BeBop

Grace was having fun playing peek-a-boo at the dock!

They love having water fights with the water guns!

The kids love the jet ski!

Griffin loves building with blocks and was quite proud of this 'boat lift' he built (he requested I take a picture)

A little fishing

He loves jumping on the raft!

Squirting BeBop : )

Griffin on the trainer ski thing

Grace wants to do everything Griffin does, so she did it too without any hesitation

We had lots of rides on the hot dog

Riding with BeBop

Griffin loved to spend nap time making mud pies

BeBop and Pop Pop with the kids

It was great to spend some time with Jordan & Peyton too in Cincinnati:

The kids all helped make Peyton's 2nd birthday cake

BeBop with all four grandkids!

Having a party 

Griffin and Grace were lucky to get to be at Peyton's 2nd Birthday Party while Josh and I were at the wedding!  

Iowa for Chelsey's wedding

We went to Iowa for our cousin's wedding and had a great time!

 Gabby & I

After an 11 hour car ride, this is just what we needed! 

 The kids had so much fun running around together

 Grace had her nails painted for the first time by Aunt Cookie

 A trip to Iowa isn't complete without visiting the John Deere dealership to play in the tractors!

 Grace

 We had fun playing at the park - Griffin surprised us all by going across the monkey bars without help for the first time.

 The Moms in the park

 The kids in Clark's Tower, a cool tower my sister and I grew up coming to in Iowa.  It was fun to take our kids there!

 Jordan and Griffin - best buddies!

Our family

Grace all dressed up for the wedding

Griffin looking handsome for the wedding

 Griffin and the bride

 And he's already kissing the bride!

 Gabby with Chelsey and Brandon

 Our family

 Jordan took this photo of us

 The cutest cousins!

 And more adorable cousins - we took so many pictures of these cuties!

 Griffin had just given Jordan a big kiss!

 Jordan also took this picture!  Thanks to Jordan, we finally have a few pictures of adults!

So cute!

It was a fun wedding reception and great to see family!

April 2013

April was a fun month!  The highlight of our month was the trip to Sanibel ... this is what we did in between our trip:

 The kids getting ready for vacation ... Griffin was excited about his new hat!

 Grace in her car while Griffin was off to school

Griffin is so happy when the weather is nice enough to ride his bike to school! 

Off he goes! 

Griffin thinks it's hilarious to pick Grace up ... 

... and clearly so does Grace! 

Griffin's class went on a field trip and Grace and I were chaperones - she was so excited that she got to ride on the bus too!

Obama drove right by our house - the kids loved seeing the endless motorcade!  (He made a speech in our neighborhood about the gun safety laws)

 The kids love making pancakes in the morning - eating on the counter is their favorite part

 Griffin made a count down chain to our Sanibel trip with all the things he was excited to do on vacation

 The kids love this car at the zoo ... they look forward to playing on it more than seeing the animals!

 Hanging out at the zoo

 Griffin cracking up 

 We spent lots of time at the rec center's pool - the kids love this slide

 They play so well together in the mornings and go on 'trips' on this little cow 

 Griffin helping Josh with a project

 Grace in her dalmatian outfit and dress-up heels

 Griffin is really into police officers lately and spends a lot of time in his police costume

 Police officer and police dog

 The kids had fun at Touch-A-Truck again this year

 Friends in a bulldozer

 We went on a fun hike in Evergreen with Cohen and Sam

 Hiking