vacation...um, er, staycation.

Well we had planned to head up north with Grandma (Matt's mom) this year. Her friend had graciously offered her cottage to us for a whole week. Unfortunately the below dinosaur wreaked havoc on our trip.

Grandma was watching the kids for us and she and Lincoln decided to jump over the dinosaur. This fun game did not end well for Grandma as she broke her ankle in 3 places and had to have surgery the next day. She is still in a cast and is recovering, so we weren't able to make the trip this summer for obvious reasons.

Instead, we had a staycation and tried to do some fun things around here while we had the time off of work. We saw cousin Riley play ball for the first time. Go Riley!

And the kids ran the bases after the game.

We visited the Detroit Zoo on a gorgeous, sunny day.

We swam in Uncle John & Aunt Suzette's pool. In fact, this was Cassidy's first time swimming and she had a lovely time in her little floatie.

She even tried drinking some of daddy's beer. She's a grabby little thing!

We were also able to spend time with some friends, go to a movie (Harry Potter), and of course do non-vacation-like stuff such as researching and buying new car seats, getting Matt's car fixed, running errands, doing laundry/yardwork/house cleaning, and trying to help Grandma out as she recovers. It was a busy week. Maybe next year, we'll get to relax for 5 minutes. Here's hoping...

brother and sister.

Time for some pics of our growing kids.

Cassie is sitting up really well now. Check her out below playing in her crib with her aquariam. Next milestone: crawling. Watch out, I think this girl is going to be into everything. We shall see.

I love stroller rides!

Hi everyone...I'm 7 months old today (7/15/09).

And I can eat baby food now. My brother loves to shove food in my mouth! Mmmm...peas today.

Linc makes Cassie smile like no one else can. She just gets stars in her eyes when big brother is around. I shall treasure these pictures always and will look back at them when they are beating up on each other as teenagers!

My momma thinks I look precious in this pic.

And then she took a pic of me while I was sneezing!

And here I am with my cute sunflower dress on. Linc always tells me I look pretty when I have a dress on - what a nice brother.

Crohn's Walk

The kids participated in the Crohn's Walk along with our usual walking crew this year. Well, ok, the kids strolled and the rest of us walked, but I hope to keep up the tradition and do this walk as a family each year. This year, the walk was at a new venue: the Detroit Riverwalk. The scenery was great, though, in my opinion, the Riverwalk is not large enough for the number of walkers. Regardless, we were supported by many family members and friends and are grateful for their donations each year.

A couple of pics from the walk...

Linc and Papou bonding before the walk.

Linc, Grandma, and Yia Yia sitting by the fountain before the walk began.

summertime.

It's already August...where is the summer going? With no major events in the last month, I've been lax about my blog posts and thought it was time for an update.

Here are pix of the kids enjoying the swingset. If I only had a pic of Matt as he "enjoys" mowing around this monstrosity.