Smale Park

My parents came over to spend the day with us before the kids go back to school.

We spent the afternoon downtown at Smale Park.

Abby & Ella finding their way through the life size maze.

The kids loved the splash playgrounds in the park.


Isaac "boxing" the water.

I think the water won!

Splish

Splash

Ella was getting chili.  A reminder that summer is almost over.

We'll take advantage of all the Summer time we can get!

Summer Recap (part 2)

Another highlight of our summer would have to be Comargo Camp.  The kids look forward to camp all year and absolutely love everything about it!

God blessed us with a wonderful camp this year.  The speakers were great, the weather was beautiful and   as usual we had the best cook ever!

Ella completely in her element helping serve desserts.

Something else we love about Summer is spending time with family.  My family is pretty scattered so it was great for all 19 of us to spend some time together this summer.  I love it when we're all together!

The kids also got to have several sleepovers with their cousins this summer.


And go swimming together

And bowling together.


I love Evan's expression in this picture.  I'm pretty sure he's afraid the girls are going to win!

Summer Recap - BFF's

One of the highlights of my summer was getting to spend a couple days with my long time bff's.  

The funniest thing ever -- we all showed up wearing yellow!  No, it was not planned!

We spent the evening downtown Cincinnati 

and of course had to get a few shot's with Cincinnati's famous pigs.

And then there was lots of eating, talking, eating, shopping, and talking!  Love them!

Hours of Fun

One ladybug water sprinkler

Plus one (almost empty) bottle of dish soap

Plus one trampoline

Plus one 100 degree day

And four kids

Equals hours of fun!