Atlanta!

In late July, we took a trip to Atlanta with some very dear friends of ours to visit family, and to do all sorts of fun things. We headed down Friday to make an Atlanta Braves game. The boys had a great time, even through the few spouts of light rain. We had a blast.

Here, two cousins, Elijah and Jake, who love to hang out with each other.

Buddies. These kids have been friends since birth! Great friends, the Heads.

The boys with matching shirts from their Grand-K, ready for the game.

This picture of Joshua turned out a little dark, but I thought it was a great shot of the field with all of the bright lights.

Cotton candy, of course. The only stipulation was that they had to share it with their Momma.

A bunch of crazy cousins having a blast. Here, Isaac in D-Dah's lap, Elijah, Jake, and Addie.

The next day, we hung out at Nana and D-Dah's awesome pool. We swam, ate, talked, and swam some more. Here, Isaac with a rad suit ready to hit the water.

If you've never been to Stone Mountain, GA, it really is a great place to go to see a laser show when it gets dark, to eat some expensive food, and to run around and play with some great friends until late. Here, 4 buddies stop long enough to pose for a quick picture: Jackson, Isaac, Elijah, and Jake.

We had a blast!

Other Summer Happenings

Other noteworthy aspects of our summer:

Isaac played his first season of T-ball. Here he is with his team and coach (all the way on the right--the only one with a baseball hat on). He finished the season even with a broken collar bone. We were so proud of him!


The day to day grind--

Playing the computer while little brother just has to be part of it:


Cooking with Mom and then licking the beaters (this one's for you Kelly--I know how much you love messy face pictures :)

At last but definitely not least, because this is actually a very common happening in our family: gigantic goose eggs on foreheads left from climbing and then tumbling back down again onto the very hard kitchen floor (head first obviously). Poor Joshua. It didn't slow him down too much though.

Playing Catch-Up

It has definitely been a long time sine I've posted about our family adventures. Isaac had just broken his collar bone. Well, he has healed quite nicely. We thought a few weeks ago that he had broken his arm, but that was, thankfully, just a false alarm! I wanted to show a few pictures of some field trips we've taken this summer.

First: to the Peach Orchard! We headed south (not too far) to a beautiful peach orchard with our local homeschool group. It was a beautiful place, that I hope we can visit every year to pick fresh peaches.

Yes, that is a 2.15 pound peach. It was gigantic. I think it was a record, at least for that orchard (no, it was not one that we picked--they had already picked it when we got there).

Here's a view of the orchard from the top. They took us on a tour to show us all about how they run their orchard. This was taken from the back of a tractor.

The boys on the back of the tractor, learning loads of facts about peaches, and anxious to pick them.

Finally, time to pick. It doesn't take long to fill those buckets when you pick big ones!

And, finally, each of the boys enjoying their delicious peaches!

I made a couple of peach pies, that we enjoyed with vanilla ice cream. But, I forgot to take a picture! Well, we sure enjoyed them anyway!

We also took a trip to the library when it held the finale to our summer reading program. We got to speak to police officers, fire fighters, and EMS workers. The boys even got to push lots of buttons in the police car, which set off sirens and lights, which was something they thought was totally cool, and Mom thought was totally loud!

Here are the boys (minus Joshua who was in the stroller beside me) with Officer Beth.

Elijah in the police car, pushing all those buttons, making all of those loud noises. Hopefully the only time he'll be in a police car!

The boys inside the huge fire truck, ready to put out fires!

And, inside the ambulance. Need I say, hopefully the only time inside one?