Friday, July 27, 2018

Camps

This week the kids both attended a summer camp of their choice.  Claire chose theater camp again and Oliver chose hockey camp again.
 The kids had to come up with their own play.  They had to write it and perform it all on their own.
 The concept was really cute, the idea was a "Battle Of The Bands".
 Claire did great and I love to see her on stage!
 Her friend Anna from school did it with her and the girls had a blast.
 Miss Jaime and Miss Victoria did a great job and the girls had a blast!
 Claire and her new friend Mackenzie.
Claire's best buddy Kathleen came to see her show!!!
Kathleen and I had fun in the audience!  Grandma was there too to check out Claire's show!
Unfortunately Oliver's final hockey game from his camp was the same day as Claire's show!  I did get to watch a few minutes before I had to go see Claire though!  Oliver had so much and loved every second of his camp!
Oliver looked great out there!  Even though his team lost the final game, they had a blast!


I am so proud of both of the kids!  They worked so hard and had so much fun!!!

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Soccer

We have been running around crazy lately with sports and even though it is crazy I do love it!  Here is Claire enjoying some post ice cream celebrations with her soccer team.  After a big win the girls definitely celebrated!

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Jellystone!!!

Last week was our annual trip to Jellystone!  This was our 7th year going and it was a blast!
 "The girls", as Giada calls them, had a blast playing together!
 Jacqie talked me into going down the water slide!  "You won't even get your hair wet!" she told me, and 2 seconds in a kid dumped a huge bucket on me!  Then they couldn't even get a good action shot of my coming down the slide lol! 
 Then of course Jacqie comes down with her hair all dry, sunglasses still in tact, and looking like a boss!
 Mark bought us new and improved 1970s folding chairs for around the fire!  Jacqie was nice enough to give me my own cupholder.

 The ladies!
 Camden and Liam came up for a visit and Harper loved reading to Liam.
 It was ridiculously adorable!
 We had some fun practicing some cheerleading moves.
 We tried to get everyone on Nick's back but we couldn't make it.
 Although these two goofballs had some moves.
 Nerds.
 Cheer off.
 Seriously...nerds.
 Nana and Papa came up for a nice visit.
 Kitty and Dawn came with them and brought some friends for the kids to play with.  They all had a blast and Oliver is already asking for another play date!
 Baby Sammie came for a visit too!!!  The kids loved playing with Sammie and loving her up!
 The boys!
 Me and my girls with Yogi!
 My babies with Yogi.  I can't believe how old these kids are getting!!!
This is from our very first trip to Jellystone in 2011!!!
And this was from 2014!!!
 Of course we all enjoyed the "Hey! Hey! Hey! Ride"!
 Our goofy group!
Love this crew!

 The kids still loved singing all the songs!
 Goofballs.
 Love these faces.
 This year the weather was gorgeous!!  We usually have really iffy weather so we were all thrilled when it was hot and gorgeous all week.  They busted out this huge water slide and the kids were pumped to get on it!
 That is until they realized that the water was ICE COLD!
 Oliver still loved it though!
 My Jellystone peeps.
 Uncle Nick taught Claire how to chop some wood.
The other Uncle Nick set up a big projector screen for the kids to watch movies at night!  The Wizard Of Oz was a HUGE hit!
 Fishing was a hit as usual.  Claire helped Uncle Nick get his worm on his hook.
 Oliver caught a ton of fish!
 Harper was so proud of him and cheered him on!  She would run over and yell "OL-A-VER!!"  He let her touch each fish that he caught!
 Jacqie baited all of Harper's hooks.
 Uncle Nick finally caught one with Jacqie's touch!
 Love it!
 My little fisherman!
 My littler fisherwoman!
 Read to fish!
 THE GIRLS!
 THE GUYS!
This year Mark and I got sleeping brand new sleeping bags to take on the trip instead of lugging all the bedding back and forth.  We laughed so hard when we rolled out our "Mummy" sleeping bags but I will say, they were SUPER comfortable!
Daddy and Claire had to leave very early because Claire had a lacrosse tournament so that left me and Oliver to pack up.  Oliver was such a great helper and we packed up all of our stuff, had a nice stop at the gift, and grabbed a quick selfie with Yogi before we headed home.

It was another amazing year at Jellystone.  I can't believe this was our 7th year!!!  We always have such a great time.  I am already excited for next year!