sitting on the steps

sometimes it is nice to sit with your buddy on the step

sometimes, your mom will catch you sitting on the step and try to get a picture, usually you are too fast for your mom to catch pictures of you... that is, unless, you happen to be busy talking with your buddy!

Lynkin gets a new brother

Today, Lynkin's mommy went in for her scheduled C-section and Lynkin got to come over and play for a while so that his mommy and daddy could spend some time with the new baby (Lindyn).

Calvin and lynkin had a great time tearing apart the house...

then we went outside and had some more fun

We have Apples!!!

Our apple trees are finally producing!!! and the results are beautiful. We are still trying to figure out what kind of apples we have, but it appears that each of the five trees are a different kind, because they are each at a different stage of development... We were able to make an apple pie out of these big beauties that we took off the tree today. they are sweet and crunchy with a sour kick, perfect for apple pie or maybe some applesauce! The other trees are not quite ready to go yet, and all the trees will hopefully give us apples at different times so that we are not overwhelmed with them all at once...

any body need any apples?!!?

African Safari WildLife Park

Today, Calvin's speech class took an extra special field trip to the african safari in the school bus.

which is good, since adam said this was the only way our happy a$$es were gonna get to go, no way were we ever taking one of our vehicles in there!

It was not as bad as he thought, though, and the animals seemed pretty tame, aside from the fact that they really wanted all of the food that you have right NOW!

Calvin and I had a pretty heated conversation on whether or not this was an alpaca or a llama... I am still quite certain I was right!

Pool time at Grayson's

The kids think they are so darn funny!

We went to the neighbors for some cool off time in the pool today... it was pretty warm outside!

We love New York

After our visit to new york city, we have decided that we love new york as well...

we finally understand the meaning of those t-shirts!

last day of Camping

On our final day, we were much too busy packing all of our camping supplies up to get any good pictures.. but, that didn't mean that cal didn't have some fun...

East Harbor Day 3

On our third day of camping, we went for several bike rides. this proved to be one way to keep cal entertained for the good part of a couple hours... we were very glad we had the bikes and cal's little bike trailer...

then, we all went to beach again... and the Brandt family showed up for a little bit of family time!

cal and daddy made sand castles

and we had a great time hanging out...

Camping at East Harbor Day 2

On day 2 of our camping trip, we were able to go to the beach, which is why East Harbor is where it is and it's namesake...

AND our pals that live up the road from us came for a visit too! cal and grayson had a great time playing around, and by the time we were done, everybody was ready for a nap!