4th of July

We had a great 4th of July, the Gooby family and the Huber family came over for a little prefirework fun, check out these poses....

One great part about living downtown is being able to walk to any downtown festivities.


Best buds

Max did really good with the fireworks this year, but refused to take off the earphones.

We had front row seating at the marina pool, we had the whole place to ourselves, it was a great night!

Max's 3rd Birthday

Max got a big boy bike for his birthday this year, he is doing great on it!

After the party at home we headed for the Desoto Speedway for some 4th of July racing fun, unfortunately for the second year in a row we were rained out....

No problem, we all headed back to the house for some Dance Revolution fun, good times!

Max's 3rd Birthday

Daddy showed Max how to eat his birthday cake with his excavator, and he LOVED this idea!

Max's 3rd Birthday

I love Ava's pose, seriously.....

Pinata time!

We had some (unorganized) water balloon game fun!

Max's birthday cake

Well as most of you know, Jim makes the boys birthday cakes based on what they are into that particular year, just like Popster has done for years. This year we chose a construction theme, which if you know Max is very appropriate, the boy is OBSESSED with trucks! Gg and Popster baked the cake and made the icing for us this year, what great parents! Thank you guys, we then had a cake decorating party at Gg and Popsters with Mom, Dad, Michele and kids, what a great time!

Christian and Gracie made construction signs to hang from the crane, this cake turned out awesome!

July

The kids all checking out Max's awesome pirate ship water table from Gg and Popster, thank you Gg and Popster!!

Gracie and Caterina, these girls have so much fun together, we need to get them together more often.

Michele and Jim

Gracie lovin on her boys

Summer

James had the opportunity to do a baseball camp at Pirate City this summer, he loved it! It was so great watching James and Devin, they were some of the smallest ones there but they did so good.

Christian and Caterina came down for some Florida sunshine and stayed with us one night, we had such a great time bowling and going to the beach, the boys love their cousins!

Camping with Nana and D Daddy

Well Nana and D Daddy bought a new toy, a camper. So the boys and I joined them in a little camping adventure up in Homassassa Springs.

James and Dad in enjoying some shrimp at "The Freezer", what a cool place.

James told us when we got to Homassassa State Park he wanted to hold a snake, well guess what... we walked right up on a guy with a snake who asked James if he wanted to hold it, he was so excited.

Nana and boys checking out the manatees

On the boat ride the the state park

Nana and D Daddy's new toy, the Zepplin, Jim wrote "Led" on the back in blue tape but someone removed it..... don't know why...

Summer

Mindy and AJ had a beach house out on Anna Maria for a week with AJs family, it was so awesome to see these guys, those Wheeler kids are stinkin adorable!!

Clayton, Bailey and James chillin out after a hard day of swimming in the pool, what a life...
I can't even take this picture...

Me and Mindy, I kidnapped her one night for dinner and drinks at the Tiki bar.

Check out these monsters!

I just love this picture of Max and Cappy. Max drives Cappy absolutely CRAZY, but he loves him so much, he always wants his picture made with him.

Summertime!

We spend a lot of time at the ballpark in the summer, the kids love it and so do we!


Check out these boys, they love trying to catch foul balls.

James and his best bud Devin

Trip to Pennsylvania

The Kimmels had a BIG party for Elyse's highschool graduation and Chris' 21st birthday, we couldn't miss out on the celebration so we flew up and stayed for a while, what a great time. I love PA, its so beautiful up there and so great to have some time with Jims family.

Boys checking out the boats at Penns Landing in Philadelphia

We made sure to eat plenty of pretzels while in Philadelphia, yummy!!!

Jim and I had seen Dinic's on Man vs. Food not long ago and had to make a special trip to check out a sandwich from the Reading Terminal Market, it was the best thing I've ever eaten! Thank you Aunt Cheryl for being our tour guide!

Knoebels fun

Trip to Pennsylvania

Michele and Christian

Max and James LOVE their cousins Christian and Caterina, they are such sweet kids, we just love that we've been able to spend some time with them this summer.

Uncle Rob and kids at Knobles, what an awesome amusement park, we are definitely doing Knobles again!

Mikey and Robbie live in Colorado, it was so great to catch up with them, we are hoping to take a trip out West next spring for some skiing fun

Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Rob throw the most unbelievable parties at Club Kimmel, I love this picture of them!