Amanda's Wedding

We enjoyed a jam packed weekend, one of the highlights of the weekend was Amanda's wedding. Amanda has been babysitting our boys for some time now and the boys LOVE her. The boys got to the wedding and waited to see Amanda. They had a good time pointing out people to us that they knew and we didn't, "See, there is Amanda's Grandma!". When Amanda came into the church Cullen informed me that, "She looks just like a princes, look at all the jewels on her dress!" The wedding was so nice and Amanda did look beautiful.

Amanda's wedding had a photo booth and if Geremu had it his way he would have stayed in there all night:). Below the boys are showing Amanda the pictures of them from the photo booth.

When the dancing started that is pretty much all Geremu did...

The flower girl was Amanda's cousin, Geremu and Cullen know her through Amanda. It was pretty obvious that both of my boys were happy to see her again. Geremu was happy to have another dancing partner besides Cullen.

Cullen preferred to dance with Amanda...

Honestly, Cullen can't get enough of Amanda, he just "wanted to spend some time with her". We had to explain that it was Amanda's special day and that she needed to spend time with everyone at the wedding. Amanda was/is so sweet to the boys, she kept telling me Cullen was fine and not to worry. Even when I would take Cullen away from Amanda, she seemed to be on his radar all night- LOL.

Geremu enjoyed working the dance floor. If he wasn't dancing with the flower girl or Cullen he preferred to dance by himself. I have to say he did pull out some pretty good moves.

We knew it was time to get going when Geremu stopped dancing and sat on the side of the dance floor watching the action, with this look on his face... He was asleep before we even pulled out of the parking lot at the wedding.

It won't be too long until Amanda is back with the boys on weekdays, and they are really looking forward to it. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Cullen requested that Amanda come to our house in "her princess dress".

Missing Up North

Well slept in our beds at home one night and in the morning Cullen told me, "I miss up north". Can't say I blame the kid it was a BLAST! After my family left my Uncle Tom and his kids came up and we hung out. I also got to spend a little time with my Aunt Janet and her family. I'm a little on the tired side today, I'll blog about our weekend tomorrow, it was FUN to say the least. So for tonight I'll leave you with some pictures of our time up north...

Up North with Family

My sister accused me today of being a bad blogger... She is right, and I'm going to try and get caught up. Our first week up north was spent with my parents, my sisters and their families. Here is a picture of the cousins.

Our boys spent ALL day outside.
And they clearly LOVED every minute of it!

Minnow/frog/craw fish/turtle catching.

Basically anything the boys could get in the net.

Baby Charlie enjoyed his first summer in the north woods.

Andy likes to be a part of everything,

tagging along with the older boys whenever possible.

Meredith was charming everyone, awe...
Johnny and Cullen loved spending the afternoon fishing with Nick.
Enjoying cousin time.
Andy figured out how to chubby-wubby and decided to get Geremu back for the past year and a half.

Up North

We've been up north for a while now. My entire family was up here this last week, they left today. I'm sitting outside the library on my computer using the wireless... I'll write more when we are back home. Or if it rains....

Keeping Busy

We've been keeping busy around here this past week. We have gone out in the canoe quite a few times. The last time we went out we stopped at two different parks just off of the river. Here we are right after our limo dropped us off at one of the parks...

Geremu has recently learned how to do the monkey bars. I have never seen him more proud of himself, when he gets to the other side I usually get a, "Me did it!" (We are still working on him using the word I)
Here the boys are looking for frogs, this is a favorite activity.
Last night Nick went fishing with his father, he said the water was rough. They had some luck catching 6 large fish. Judging from the look on his face, he had a good time.

Hans

Lately when it rains it pours, literally. We've gotten a lot of rain in a short amount of time recently. The other night it started raining so the boys ran to the back porch to snuggle with Nick and watch the rain come down. We have to pull the furniture away from the screens because the direction of the rain shifts quickly and things get wet inside the porch.
When I was younger, we had neighbors from Germany named Hans and Anna. It seemed like every time it rained hard Hans was outside (sometimes in his tighty-whities) in the rain cleaning out their gutters. We have new neighbors, Chris and Meaghan, it turns out Chris has a little bit of Hans in him...

Right after taking the above picture I went around to the back of our house only to find Nick pulling a Hans as well...
My boys don't seem to mind the rain, here they are enjoying the puddles after the storm...

Black Listed

While I was staying at my sister Megan's house I got the honor of helping decorate Meredith's "new" bedroom. Here are a few shots of the end results.... After we started decorating we had to make a trip to Target, while we were there I found the cute little book/shoe/doll house you see in the picture below for the low price of $19.99. This super cute shelf also got me black listed from shopping with my sister in the future (according to her husband). Just try and stop me Kyle- blahahahaha.

After leaving my sisters house we made a little detour to one of Nick's favorite parks. It was a perfect stop for our family.

Here Nick is showing me why he can't run with the boys and me.... He pulled his hammy running two weeks ago when I first left for North Carolina. Is this what happens when we start getting old?