I don't think I can possibly catch up on everything now. I'll give it a try though haha. Just grabbed a cup of coffee and am going to try and make my first post on new xanga. I mean try, not only because it is all new to me, but because I have a fussy 3 month old who does not let me put him down for anything. He looks cute but...awww shucks yea he's just cute, ( and crabby right now) teething possibly?

So I just figured out my first obstacle to continue writing UNDER the picture..you have to go to text, start writing, then to visual again ..not sure how it will look when it is published though.

So the kids had a great summer and we did alot. We didn't go to the Lake as much as I wanted to, mostly because we only had a few weeks of weather where I thought it was warm enough to do so. (yes that part of this summer stunk) I think it didn't even get into the 70's until the middle of June, we had a week of 80's in June, then a few weeks in July. Some of August was ok, when it wasn't raining.

It rained so much we decided to dig and install a drain system to the ditch in our front yard because the water being pumped from our basement was going directly to our lawn outside the back door and creating quite the swamp area. We have never had that problem before but we also haven't had all the rain we had this past summer.

 

Some things we did over the summer, well besides add to our family.

 

We went to a 50's graduation party for a friend.

 

 

 

 

 

We went to a park with a Lake (other then our Lake)

 

We went to a convention

Anthony is trying on my shoes at the hotel

 

 

Marks mom stayed all summer,his dad came for half, I am so glad they were able to stay with us! Such a big help! This is his mother holding a passed out Anthony at the convention.

 

 

 

Alaina made numerous toad and frog houses and had families of them in various places around the yard, and eh em, in her bedroom...sadly some of the families didn't make it when i found them

                                                                  a survivor!

 

 

 

We went to parks to during the summer here is one time Marks parents went with us

 

 

 

This last pic is one of the best shots I could get of them before we had to book it to the van because of the storm rolling in. I think Marks dad had taken about 20. I don't have many of all of them because,well I can't always keep all of them together, and especially when the camera comes out, they scatter!

 

Anthony developed these spots all over his hands and feet and he wouldn't eat for almost two weeks. We took him to the doctor and found out he had Foot and mouth disease, which had to run it's course. We also found out he had the sores in his mouth too which explains the not eating.

                                    I don't remember any of the other kids having this virus called Coxackie.

I would definitely remember it!

I spent many many hours, and still do snuggling this little guy!

Oh boy I can tell by the text that this post will look interesting

I just switched it somehow and don't know how lol.

Well Linn was able to get some great snapshots of the kids

We had another Assembly in August to attend

WOW they are all together once again lol

and this one is the best we could get of all of us, Anthony wouldn't stay still for it!

So this one makes up for him not looking in the family pic lol

Baby after bath smelling yummy!

And I think I am loving the new features on xanga, I just figured out I can drag and drop the pictures where I want them haha.

Well that pretty much wraps up the summer. And this post because Anthony decided to run out the back door and the baby is now awake.

I have so many pictures I was thinking of just doing a summer picture post. We'll see.

Right now,back to mommy land.