Kiss

The girl loves a good kiss! and she especially loves if Unkin or Daddy are giving them to her! This was at the ball game Labor Day weekend. Too cute!

Bed "Bugs"

Some nights getting into my own bed can be an adventure, and this has nothing to do with my Awesome husband! Ben likes to play in my room during the day. I should probably prohibit this, but sometimes I just can not bring myself to care! A couple weeks ago on an especially exhausting day I went to go to bed after putting the kids down (poor Matt was working an overnight shift in the ER) and I found the following. It was such a sweet reminder of what I am blessed to spend my days doing! I had to document this for Matt and for myself, even though I was exhausted, sick, and alone, I went to bed with a smile on my face!

Little boys ROCK!!!

Daddy's Helper

This kid is the best! Matt was getting ready to go outside and clean up our car, we are trying to sell it. Ben wanted to go out and help, of course! I mean, Dad, water, outside, what's not to want to join in! I told him he had to have some pants and some shoes before he was ready. He came back like this and yelled, "Ready Mom! Help Dad!" The best part is it was like 90 degrees outside!

I did finally talk him into some pants. No shoes, but he was on the grass so they weren't all that necessary. He lost the hat himself after just a few minutes in the heat! He did, however, do a GREAT job of helping Dad!

Couch of many Colors

Okay, so you can't see it all that well in this photo, but there is blue crayon across the entire front of the couch, the bottom under the cushions. On cushion is purple, and the other is green. While I was engrossed in building Ben's cammo scrubs, he was doing this! I have to say, these couches rock as far as kid friendliness! a damp washcloth and it came right off! and kudos to Crayola, when they say washable, they mean washable! Thank Heavens!!

The bus and the barn and an un-pictured dump truck also received some decor. I got to admit, he did the crime and he did the time! Ben cleaned off the toys himself and helped me with the couch!

The last week of August

The unbearable heat finally broke the last week of August. So we headed to the park. Clara had her first slides! Ben and Clara road the orange catipillar and generally had a good time!

Just like Dad

well, these pictures are obviously in reverse order. Whatever. I can not make blogger do what I want. Any who.... These are the cammo scrubs/pajamas I made for Ben. Matt has a pair of cammo scrubs and Ben really wanted some like that. I was planning on making jammies anyway, but i was double lucky that the pattern really does look like scrubs! Ben was thrilled. I think they turned out pretty good for only my third attempt!

Dancing with Daddy

This is one of Clara's most favorite things to do!! Dance with Daddy! They whirl and twirl and she even gets dipped! Ben has wrestling, Clara has dancing! They have the best Daddy!

Determination

Ben's determination to continue playing no matter how tired is evident in this picture! when I first walked up he had his head down on pillow and was driving the car around the track!

The Best of Baby Fest

My favorite part of Baby Fest was the hair bow boutiques! I got Clara a head band and a flower! This is her sporting it Sunday morning for church!

Baby Fest

We went to Baby Fest with Unkin and Ray Ray on Saturday down at the fair grounds. I wanted to check out any new kid stuff! It was fun and the kids were very well behaved the local newspaper put 2 pictures of Clara on their website, on of just her and one of all of us. The top picture is Clara riding Matt's shoulders in the way out, the bottom is about 10 minutes after we got in the car! They are such good sports!