New York fun!

We spent last week in Buffalo with Dave's family. Had beautiful weather and lots of fun with everyone. The boys really enjoy seeing their cousins there.


On our way to Niagara Falls, we stopped and had lunch by the water.


Dave & the boys at the Falls.


Some may call these the 'American Falls', but I call them the 'proposal falls'!! 11 years ago on July 8th, my hubby proposed to me while we were looking at these falls. We had crossed into Canada and were standing looking at the falls when he popped the question!


The boys with their cousin, Austin.

Happy 4th Birthday, Cayden!!

Cayden turned 4 years old on Wednesday, the 4th. We had his party this weekend at a waterpark near us. He celebrated with about 10 of his little friends and was a perfectly hot day for a waterpark! We can't believe our 'baby' is 4 now!! He is full of boy energy and we love hearing all of his interesting make believe stories!! Quite the story teller!!


Cayden with his soccer cookie-cake and the balloons that Papa & Nana sent him for his party.


Cayden starts playing on the city league soccer this fall, so he wanted a soccer party! Should be interesting with 3 boys in soccer!!


Cayden with his friends at the water park party.

Cousin Fun!

My sister, Renita, and her family came to visit last weekend. My boys absolutely adore all of their cousins, so they were very excited to spend time with Brooke & Blaire! Another cousin, Laura, came over for awhile this weekend also, so we all had fun together.
Saturday evening we went to a quaint little town near us and watched an outdoor play. They had an awesome area for picture taking, so much to the dismay of the males in our group, we had a few picture sessions!!


Renita, Brooke, Blaire, Scott


Renita & Scott


Our Family


Dave & I


Brooke gets told ALOT that she looks like her Aunt Sheila! So, she wanted to take a picture with me.

Summer Fun at Papa and Nana's!!

We had a wonderful few days at Papa & Nana's this summer! Of course, right now, the highlight of the boy's trip there is to fish in their pond! And they did lots of that! Papa & the boys set out a trotline 2 nights. Although they only caught one catfish on it, catching the little perch to bait the trotline was alot of fun!


Papa, Dylan and Bryce out in the boat pulling in the catfish off of the trotline!


Dave took a ride in the boat with the boys out on the pond!


Can you see the excitement??!!


Bryce & Dylan fishing.
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Little fisherman Cayden.

The Fishermen

The boys have done alot of fishing with their Daddy lately. This is one of the bass they caught in our pond this weekend. It doesn't matter how big they are, they just love pulling them in! And it's great to see the smile on their face!

Milkshake... the kitten

Our cat, Whiskers, fathered a litter of kittens with the neighbor's cat. So, we had to have one of the babies. :) She looks just like her Daddy except with a little white nose! The boys absolutely love this kitten!




She gets quite babied around here! Here she is napping on a pillow and wrapped in a blanket!


Cayden loves carrying her around wrapped in his 'nighty night'!!

Beach!

We went on our annual Beeman Beach Trip this year again and had a wonderful time! The boys always have a blast at the beach and we adults enjoy it also!


The boys on the beach. I'm still looking for all my beach photos, we had too many cameras this year taking pictures! ha


Dave and the boys at the condo pool


Cute Cayden!! He has become our 3rd fish in the water!!


Papa took the men & boys on a couple of fishing trips. The first one wasn't successful as far as fishing, but the boys loved it anyway! The 2nd one they came home with lots of speckled trout!


One day we went to the aquarium in Corpus.