Naked Fan Boy...

The other day I turned around to find this.....

I guess he was feeling hot and standing in front of the fan seemed like a REALLY great idea. Can't say that I don't agree! ha!

Sticker Fun!

Mr. Man loves him some stickers... I mean LOVES him some stickers. He found a package of letter stickers and insisted on having them stuck all over his body. So of course I thought it would be more fun to put actual words/phrases on them. :)

First up a back sticker tattoo that says, "Keep it Real"



I wrote "Nate's Boy" on his belly. Nathan put "What up Shorty" on his arm.



And on his chest it says "Stud!"

I think there was a "Logan" and "Dad" somewhere on him as well.

He is a fun little dude.

Road side fun...

Mondays are Grandma days for Logan. Typically they are at our house, but due to some circumstances lately it has been easier for Grandma days to be at their house. Logan doesn't mind at all as he thinks going to their house now only means "baseball camp." This morning they met Grandpa for breakfast and a trip to the park. Grandpa had a surprise for Logan on the way home that he came up with a week or so ago. How much fun would this be for an active almost 3 year old?!

Talk about a GREAT road side adventure!! My mom said Logan actually showed a bit of hesitation/fear for the first time in a looooooooooooong time. He didn't want to Grandpa to stray too far from the bale. Logan very VERY rarely shows any fear so it is kind of nice to hear he understands that concept! ha! I don't need a little evil knievel for a child. I wouldn't last til high school!

Logan is very blesssed to have Grandparents who are always thinking of fun activities and adventures for him. They are always thinking of ways to entertain the kids... even with the simplest of road side fun! What a blessing these two are for him and for us. Thanks Mom and Dad for always loving our boy so so so so so very much. I know he feels the same about you!

Waiting for Grandma...

Mondays are Grandma days and Logan was ready for her to arrive.

He said to Daddy - "Daddy, open da door. I sit on da porch and wait for my Grandma!"


When she pulled in the driveway he went running as soon as her car stopped. :) He sure does love his Grandma a whole bunch. :)

Pool party at Nana and Papa's house

After Dad's birthday breakfast we headed to Nathan's parent's church. Nathan's mother recently became a local pastor through her church denomination ("local" meaning she can only serve at her church, but not any other church within their denomination.) Anyway - she was preaching for the first time that morning so the family came out to support her. Afterwards they had a whole bunch of people over for a cookout/potluck. It was quite yummy. Logan took a nice little nap and when he woke up he knew he was pool bound! The boy loves him some water!

Happy Boy swimming with Nana

Some cousin lovin' with his little cousin Rhyin. He refuses to call her anything but "Baby Rhyin" - that is kind of our fault as we referred to her as this for him early on.

Swimming with Daddy - it was a bright day out!

Getting tossed all over the place in the pool is a FUN FUN time!

Our fun times have revolved around water it seems!

July 10th was my Dad's 62nd birthday - as per usual my dad didn't want anything big and fancy - he never does. He even said he didn't want a get together as we have had a few recently. But being that I don't like to let a birthday go by uncelebrated we planned on going out there for breakfast. (It worked out well as we had commitments the rest of the day.) We ended up spending Saturday night so we could have a full morning together.

Dad had been mentioning a fish shaped cake my grandma used to make him when he was little. So I thought - OH - I should make him a fish shaped cake! So I searched high and low (about 6 hours before we were set to head out to my parents house) and called here and there looking for a fish shaped cake pan... alas I could not find one. My aunt had the great idea of buying a football shaped pan and then baking a separate regular cake and creating my own fish. That was the plan.

So out to my parents we went and I was planning on putting the cake together after Dad went to bed. Apparently I did not hear the WHOLE story about Grandma's fish cake... I missed the part where Dad said that they actually had the ACTUAL mold she used... I saw it as soon as we walked in the door and about lost it! I think my head was full of many of these %$&^&%*&#@ types of words. GRRRR! Oh well!

So I did put the cake together and wow did it have a lot of character.... it was pretty disastrous. Oh well - it is the thought that counts! I wrote him a nice note for him to find the next day and hopefully next year I'll actually get my act together and make him the ACTUAL fish cake. Thankfully - it still tasted good!

Logan and Grandma's cake:


Dad and his cake!

Logan helped Grandma feed the kitty

After breakfast we got dressed for church, but stopped for some breakfast dessert of fish cake!! ha!

It was a fun morning and the fish cake from hell will be a good memory! After church mom and dad headed out to go fishing. All in all it was a great day for my dad!! Happy Birthday Daddy!

Family Fun Day - July Edition

Back in June you might recall we had our first Family Fun Day. It was a fantastic day and we were so happy to have a day just focused on the three of us. Like I said then - it is so easy to forget to stop and enjoy time rather than just get things done and move on from there. Granted when we are doing chores and such with Logan it does end up being fun, but the focus is not on the fun. These days are focused ONLY on the fun. After June's fun day we quickly put the next one on the calendar! Once July 16th appeared we were excited to go.

It took us a little longer to get out the door than we planned, but once we were there is was FUN! We went up to Independence Park - a county park that has a lake, splash pad, lots of picnic areas, play ground, boat rentals and it only costs $5 to get in for the whole car! Awesomeness!

As soon as we got there we unloaded all our gear - which was A LOT as we planned on spending all day there - and then made our first round to the splash pad! Logan was slightly hesitant at first, but quickly got over that and was all over the place!


Then he asked to go in the "pool" - we explained it was a lake and as he was walking out to the water he was telling Nathan that the lake was yucky. He was happy once he got in though. I headed off to get lunch ready.


We had a yummy picnic lunch and then tried for nap time. I had blankets, pillows and a sheet for him. However, Logan inherited his parents' people watching gene and was far too interested in the groups around us. Thankfully Nathan had the idea to take him for a walk in the stroller. He was out pretty quick. He didn't take a LONG nap, but it was enough to recharge his battery for the afternoon of fun.

After nap time we headed up and rented a paddle boat! Logan of course insisted on sitting up front with Daddy to help push the peddles. He took breaks every so often, but generally he sat on the ledge so he could reach the peddles and peddled his little heart out! It was pretty sweet. We had a great time and Logan loved it which of course made it even better.

After how hot it was on the lake we headed to the concession stand for a sweet treat. Logan picked out the biggest popsicle the size of his head. The best part of being in a water park area is that I could just let the thing melt all over him and not worry about how sticky he was getting. It all washed off after our second go in the splash pad.

We had so much fun - Logan was all over the place. We even ran into one of his little friends from daycare and they were sprinting all over the place!

His favorite thing was to run through the double rings - he of course made us run through this a few times... it was SOAKING!!! A great time. He would run around and have gone through it again before Nathan or I would have gotten the water out of our eyes!

Showing off his muscles while he stomps out the fountain. Another favorite of the day...

After splash pad take two we headed back to our picnic spot for dinner. Nathan grilled up some hot dogs and I watched he and Logan play with the frisbee. My right hip has been really really bad with this pregnancy and after a day of running around I basically had to swing my right leg forward to get anywhere. Sitting and relaxing was a welcomed comfort for sure!

It was a fantastic day! Logan slept in until almost 10 the next morning! So did Nathan and I for that matter. It took me pretty much all of Sunday trying to recover from Saturday pain wise - but it was soooo worth it!

Can't wait until we have our next family fun day. We probably only have one - MAYBE two, but probably only 1 more until we are a family of four having our family fun days! Amazing!

BASEBALL CAMP!!

Logan had a pretty fantastic weekend!!! He went out to spend the weekend with my parent's house with his cousins for "Grandma and Grandpa Baseball Camp!" Logan headed out there Thursday night and was so dang excited! Grandma and Grandpa had hats, shirts and a big goody bag full of things for weekend fun. It was awesome! They really went all out.

The next morning Logan got all suited up and was ready to go. :) How adorable is he?!

Logan was so anxious for his cousins to arrive and was a forlorn little man watching for their car to arrive.

Here are all the shirts and hats waiting for the campers to arrive. (yes my pictures are a bit out of order.)

Saturday morning breakfast of pancakes and sausage courtesy of Grandpa. YUM!!

The kids are getting all ready for their day out. Grandma even had eye black stickers for the kids to put on! How awesome?

Team picture! :) Adorable group!

After some batting instruction from Grandpa Logan stepped up to the plate. According to him he, "hit da ball super far and ran to second second second base." Our little lefty.

The cheering section for Grandma running running the bases.

After baseball practice the kids all put on their bathing suits and ran around the little splash pad at the other end of the park in our hometown.

After some water play, Grandpa grilled up some hotdogs at the park for lunch and then some more water play. After going home for nap time everyone headed to the movie theater to see Cars 2! This was Logan's first movie experience - and while I was a little bummed we didn't take him to his first one - he had a great time! Logan ended up leaving with about 10 minutes to go as he was kind of over the whole experience. Can't wait to take him to a movie ourselves!

The next morning the kids enjoyed a cinnamon roll breakfast. YUM!

After breakfast they headed to church and were quite a hit on the cuteness factor.

After nap time the group headed to a local park for some play time.

One of the planned activities was rubber duck races in the river! Sadly the rubber ducks were no good and didn't make it. They switched from the ducks to pieces of wood... wood floats right?

Waiting for the wood - I'm not sure what happened, but none of the wood made it out of the river. Regardless the kids loved it!

The kids had a great great great time. We were so anxious to pick the kids up on the 4th and they told us all about the wonderful time they had. And here we are 3 days later and Logan is STILL talking about it. On Tuesday night he wanted to call my mom and said, "Grandma, I want baseball camp morrow peese." ha! So Grandma brought some of the stuff and then of course - he never mentioned it the entire time he was with my mom yesterday. HA! Silly Logan... The day before camp I bought Logan a new pair of tennis shoes and the first time he wore them was at my parents... so going forward he refers to them as his "baseball camp shoes."

I'm pretty sure that the summer Grandparent/Grandkids weekend will be an annual event and we love that the kids will have these great memories to share with their Grandparents. I know I treasure the memories I have with my grandparents and I pray the same for my children.

Little Abby Update

This morning we had a a growth ultrasound to check on Abby. We have an ultrasound every 4 weeks the rest of the pregnancy to make sure she isn't getting too big from the Gestational Diabetes. Bottom line is that Abby looks great! All her measurements were within a day or two either way of where I am (which is 25 weeks, 2 days) and she looks great! Given all her measurements they are estimating her weight to be 1 pound 14 ounces. Her heart rate was 149 and she was sleeping during the ultrasound with her hands by her head - Logan was the same way. She was head down at her 20 week ultrasound and at 25 weeks she still is head down and can stay that way as far as I'm concerned! :) We go back on August 3rd for our next growth ultrasound.

Here are a couple of the pictures they printed off for us. I think it is pretty obvious what the pictures are, but in case it isn't... the first is a face shot straight on and the second is a profile shot.