Back Into The Swing of Things!

School and soccer are back in full swing for us now. Bryce is in 3rd grade and starting his 10th season of soccer. Dylan is in 1st grade and starting his 6th season of soccer. Cayden will be starting Mother's Day Out again next week and starting his 1st season of soccer. We will have some busy Saturdays these next few months with 3 games to watch, but it's so much fun to see them play and advance every season!


Bryce & Dylan on the first day of school.


Bryce


Dylan


Cayden

Fun on the lake

We had a fun day on the lake while we were in New York. The boys enjoyed riding the 'rocket', fishing and swimming in the lake. (I just realized that these 2 posts are out of order, so read the New York one first!)


Bryce & Dylan with their cousins Keith & Austin.


Bryce & Keith riding the 'rocket'.


Dylan & Austin riding the 'rocket'.


Daddy & Cayden warming up after a jump in the water.

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!