Water Balloons

One of our favorite summer pastimes is playing with water balloons! It’s crazy because it takes quite a while to fill a good amount, and the kids go through them so fast, but what fun!

We have played them so many times that I automatically pick up more every time I run to the dollar store. Earlier in the summer, our friends, Hunter and Alexandria, came over and they loved getting all wet.

It’s fun to watch the kiddos, and I will be interested in seeing how differently Colt will approach water balloons next summer. This year, he was content to break the balloons all over himself, while Emma loved breaking them over Colt’s head. I had to intervene a lot and make sure Emma was getting wet, too!

Enjoy one small video clip I captured.

O beautiful for spacious skies ...

Every July fourth holiday, I think about the Sandlot. I just want Emma and Colt to have special memories like the kids in that movie. Sure, America has changed a lot, and we live in the boonies, but there are still a lot of special memories to be made.

This year, we celebrated at Karen’s lake house. We got off to a late start because Colt Buddy took a late nap, but we eventually made it to the lake, ate hamburgers and hot dogs, swam and waited for the sun to go down.

A lot of Karen’s family and friends were over celebrating the holiday, so the kids were a little skiddish (they don’t love large crowds of strangers ... even if they are the friendliest people in the world!).  We still played in the water and then bundled up around the fire while we waited for the fireworks to start.

The kids ate smores and then we did sparklers while we waited for the traffic to die down a little. It was a pretty fun and low-key day. It also seemed to be another reminder that we are getting older. We used to host (or attend) a pretty big party and stay up until all hours letting off fireworks and having fun. This year I couldn’t get back to my pillow soon enough.

Long Indiana weekend

We picked a weekend to do something fun in Indiana with my parents. Despite a few interruptions, we had a good weekend. It wasn’t as eventful as we had hoped because my dad was having a lot of trouble and pain with his feet and legs. He wasn’t able to do much with us, but we still had a great visit.

On Saturday, we went shopping and ate lunch 

at Steak n Shake (where the kids ate free!), and we waited for Jeremy and Emily to get into town. We kind of just relaxed the rest of day and had fun playing Headbandz later that evening. My mom pulled one we’ll never forget – strip club! Haha!

On Sunday, we went to Chuck e Cheese and then the park. The kids were loving it (and we adults were, too). When we got back to my parent’s house, we played with water balloons and enjoyed the slip n slide. Even my mom went down!

We had planned to go to Kokomo Beach on Monday morning, but rain ruined our plans. My dad also ended up going to visit his doctor that morning. Everything checked out OK for him, and he was given some medication and ordered to rest.

It was a great weekend!