Dad's 60th Birthday / Anna Takes a Drink!

This year my dad celebrated birthday number 60. It's so hard to believe that my dad is sixty. They had a big cookout and also celebrated Aletha and Madeline's birthday too. The kids jumped on the trampoline even though it was really hot that day. So we broke out the baby pool and the slip-n-slide.

We caught little miss Annabelle taking a few sips of the cool water as she crawled around and played. Thanks Jeff for taking the video. LOVE it! Just watch...

Maumee Bay Afternoon

With the summer quickly closing to an end, we took the kids to Maumee Bay state park one very pleasant and warm afternoon. All the way there we heard "Wahs dat bridge for?" as Braden wanted to know what literally every overpass was used for. We eventually started making up things since it was about 40 minutes of driving. At one point we started saying things like... "Elephants cross that bridge." "Monkeys cross that bridge."

Once we finally got there, we enjoyed the beach and let the kids play in the sand and water. I especially enjoyed watching Braden sneak off to create a little mischief and chase the gulls... Too funny.

Annabelle ate some sand before we could take it from her, but other than that she had a ball too.

Garner was up and down the beach in his floaty suit and had so much fun swimming all over the place. Then we picnicked on the beach at dinner time.