Ohio State Fair and Family

We were able to find a time to go visit family in Ohio for the summer.  It sure was nice to see everyone and the kids really enjoyed seeing everyone Great Grandma, Cousins, Great Aunt's and Great Uncles and Aunt Audie too was able to come from New Jersey to see the kids.  We did a lot of just hanging out but our big day out was to go the the Ohio State fair and to be honest we were not impressed the Iowa State Fair makes Ohio's look like a small county fair for lack of better words.  Anyhow the kids enjoyed the animals we found Brutus and we also got to see the Buckeye guy while at the fair.  The weather was a bit hot so we only spent about half a day but really that was all that was needed to see everything.

We had a bit of fun with the tablets and played a lot of games "drawsomthing" was my fave however Xavier really liked the water game.  On our last morning The Grandma's came to send us off and we were able to snap a few shots of the kids and them and this being the best however not great it was tricky just getting the kids to sit still a min.

I know Great Grandma enjoyed see the kids she keeps talking about how we are all growing up so fast and it seems just like yesterday when the big kids were tots.  I wish we live a little closer to make the trip more often but we make the best of what we do have.  The drive home was a bit long but we managed it in one piece and we spent the day following being lounge potato's...its amazing how tired you get from riding in a car.

Fireworks and Parade in Slater

 

 

 

Keeping Cool!

Owyn has created her own Cooling off spot.  After coming in from playing and being super hot she like a cold drink and then goes to the side of the chair were the AC vent is and since its so hot it pretty much runs none stop and she sits or stands over it getting cool and when asked what she was doing this what the look I got from!

British Soccor Camp

Xavier got is first real attempt at soccor through British Soccor camp at the end of June when he attended a week long camp from 9-10am Monday through Friday.  Coach Matt was really nice and had a lot of patient as he worked with the two three year olds and Owyn even tried a bit.  It was great the camp was early in the am because the week of camp temperatures were in the 100's so it was HOT!  The kids learned some games like Astronaut, cat and mice, bowling and a few others I can't remember the name of.  However Xavier created a few of his own creative games like take the cones from everyone and stack them and one day he decided he was going to make the restaurant Tasty Taco's and made tacos for everyone to eat.  It was cute but a little off focus.


Daddy was able to come along one morning and got to learn the game of cat and mouse.  Daddy was the mouse and Xavier chased him trying to get his orange tail. Fionn also got to come along for the day and play Soccor Fionn,s favorite games was bowling!    Here is a picture of Coach Matt, Xavier and Carol(Xavier's second cousin)  Since Xavier was the only one signed up to come we were able to invite Carol and the Daycare kids along with us.  Xavier had a lot of fun and sad he wanted to do it again and Matt said he might be our Coach again so well see next year.

Double headeder

 It's birthday time!  Both kids were very excited to celebrate their birthdays together, yet separated!  It was twice the fun all rolled into one.  We started the celebration with Owyn to celebrate her turning One we choose to do a Cupcake theme party...Since she really is our little Cupcake!  We made cupcake for everyone to enjoy and then I made her a very special large smash cake!  At first she wasn't sure what to do with it but once she realized this taste good the was eating her Strawberry flavored cake like a crazy girl.  She did have a little help from Jordyn, who was telling her to dig in.

 After cake we did cupcake pinata the kids just had to pull the string to break out the bottom and then we finished up Owyn's party with opening her presents which she lost interest in pretty fast and the rest of the kids helped her open them.

Then we kicked off Xavier's "Sail with Me" Party by all the kids gearing up into the swimsuits and sliding and splashing in the pool.  After a bit of cooling off in the pool we got out the paint and the kids went to town painting the boat Daddy helped Mommy put together.

Owyn enjoyed the paint alot...she thought it was really yummy! She kept sticking the paint brushes in her mouth no matter how many times we told her "Yuck" and showed her how to paint on the boat.  The boat painting ended when the Bigger kids (Molly) decided to start painting the little kids and Xavier was like "this means war" and he got his hands loaded with paint and the chase was on!  The Paint War ended with a rinse down in the pool and then we got out Xavier's Birthday cake which he was super excited about because he wanted ice cream cake! We had a little trouble keeping the candle lit so he could blow it out but we got it all worked out.

Owyn sure enjoyed have more sweets and when finished she went for another dip in the pool.

We ended the Birthday celebrations with Xavier opening his gifts and the big birthday gift being his bike!  He was excited about it but needs to grow just a few more inches before he will be able to manage it on his own.  We then enjoyed a grill out and after it got dark we roasted s'mores to ended the evening.  It was a lot of work to do both birthdays in one evening but it worked out really well and I was glad not to have to worry about birthdays for another year!

Edited to add pictures of party, sorry so spread out I try to get them all together but it just keeps deleting and I tried to move in order of party but that wasn't working either.  So at least I got them uploaded! So please enjoy them!