Colin turns *10*

Okay - so I'm clearly behind on this blog.

Here it is Eli's 4th birthday and I'm writing about Colin's birthday back in July! :)

But, that's life these days, so I hope you understand!!

We had a small bday party for him at the pool with family...

Colin with the Wells' crew

Grammie and Granddad

Colin with the Teson boys

Eli showing off his 'I can get the diving sticks off the bottom of the pool' skills

LOVE THIS KID!!!!

Happy Birthday, Colin!!!

July ordinary days

Brian and I met up with the kids one afternoon and went to Kaleidoscope.

We all had a great time - but boy has it changed since Brian and I were little!  It was kindof crazy in there!

Maggie and Katelyn hanging out one evening - these two are only a few days apart in age but MUCH different in height!

A few of our neighborhood friends came to watch Colin and Maggie swim at one of their last home swim meets - Eli just wasn't feeling the picture! ;)

We went to a shaved hawaiian ice stand to celebrate Eli's good season as a t-ball player

And more fun swimming at the pools!  We spent so much time there this summer, but it was fun!

Maggie's 8th birthday party (finally!)

We finally got around to celebrating Maggie's 8th birthday in the middle of July (2 months later, but hey, it was still lots of fun!)

She invited a few of her closest friends over to swim, have a sleepover, and see a movie the next morning!

We ordered pizza at the pool...

Did some jumping on the trampoline...

Ate some delicious ice cream sundaes...

Put on unicorn face masks...

Decorated some flip flops...

Got a *little* bit of sleep that night...

And saw a movie the next day (Aladdin - it was really good!)

It's nice that Maggie has a good group of close friends that she likes to hang with.  Such polite and friendly girls that will most definitely change the world one day!

Happy Birthday, Mags!

4th of July fun!

Our little family is starting to really enjoy the 4th of July!  Our kids typically have been pretty nervous/scared about fireworks, but have let us buy a few more of the 'big ones' as they get older.

They still love the quiet ones though!

Smoke bombs are always a hit and are soooo much fun to run through!

And we bought the sparklers with the extra-long handles so they thought that was pretty neat!

Colin doing some sparkler dance moves

Eli took all the 'loud' fireworks and hid them so we wouldn't set them off :)

Our neighbors from a couple houses up the street stayed up late with us one night

The next day we went to Grammie and Granddads for a bit and the kids wanted to paint some USA pride on our cheeks.  Maggie did mine and Colin did Eli's face paint!

Maggie with Olivia and Dave's girlfriend Jordan

All the grandkids at Grammie and Granddad's (minus the Texas Tesons)

Family pic 2019

Eli even wanted to start lighting the smoke bombs so Maggie volunteered to help him

We had a wonderful 4th of July holiday and spent quite a bit of time with friends throughout the week.  We are blessed!