Maternity Clothes

Now that I am down to the last 4+week of pregnancy, not only am I tired of the clothes that I have, but nothing really feels like it is that comfortable anymore either.

I am so grateful for my friend Sara at work, who searched online for maternity fashion and came up with this hot number...Who wouldn't want an expandable dress...now this is something I could get and wear now and later! Or maybe not...

Yikes.

2 wheel bike riding

These are the spoils of our labor of love...we've had just a few tomatoes this year off our plant, but it's been fun to grow our own.

Wish I could say we grew the corn, but I was just excited the boys liked it so much!

I thought teaching Noah to ride his bike was going to be a lot harder, but we took him out to the church parking lot, I said "you've got to balance," to which he replied, "Okay, I think I've got it"...and took off! It's been a great thing and this was just one video I was able to catch of him a couple days after he learned. Note the swim goggles...apparently he is practicing to be Evel Knievel.

Fun with Neighbors

Our neighbors are great. They invited us over for S'mores one night and had HUGE marshmallows. This was the aftermath of one marshmallow and Micah.

Oops..don't know how to make this picture right...Noah was just hanging by the side of the pool and they caught a cute snapshot of him.

Chris will get in the pool with all the boys (they have two young boys as well - one high schooler too) and throw them up in the air. Scott did a great job catching Micah being thrown in all the stages.

We really do have such great neighbors. They are a lot of fun and we all just enjoy being around each other!!

Chris...

To the man who makes me laugh everyday...

who challenges me to think beyond what I know...

who is the most caring dad...teaching independence to them now.

To the man who loves basketball so much, he will play it even though it hurts.

To the man who loves cheesecake that birthday cakes are EASY to figure out.

Thank you for everything you are. Happy Birthday!!

Thank you for always posing for self portraits with me even when this is how they turn out...every time!

You are my favorite person and the one I always want to be with-no matter what.

Happy Fourth of July

We spent a couple hours at Lake Michigan this morning. The water was SO cold, but the boys had a lot of fun. Every time I started to feel a little hot, I just got my feet wet, but all three of my boys got most of the way in the water.

I'm not sure what Noah was doing in this picture, but he loved playing in the sand.

Micah had so much sand all over him...he didn't even care! It just made me itch!

I'm not sure why no one would smile for the camera.

This was the view just before we headed down the long flight of stairs to the beach. It really is a beautiful lake.