It's Only A Game......

We have all been pretty bummed about the Cubs......Bruce and Tiffany and kids arrived on Thurs. night just in time to watch the Cubs.......lose.
But on Friday happier times prevailed. Uncle Scott took the boys to the lake to fish. Wow...were they excited. We all joined up with them a little later. There will be more pictures posted later as I get them.

We enjoyed pizza and kids.

Remember the turtle eggs that the kids found buried in the sand around the 4th of July. Well Scott and Jeff "saved" them and took them home and they hatched about a month ago. He has been taking care of them so that when Devon and Carter came back to visit they could see the turtles that hatched.....about 10 of them.

Here are all the kids gathered around to see the turtles.

We had a "launching party".....they all had a turtle and let them all go "back to their family" in the lake. They were soft shell water turtles (I think that is what Scott told me).

Here's the "launch"....go turtles go!

We made a nice fire to roast marshmellows and make s'mores....and keep warm. The nights are chilly.

We celebrated the October birthdays....Lauren (6), Brooke (3) and Dayna.

Anniversary/Go Cubs Go

Today we celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary. Brian and Heather treated us to lunch at Petterini's (same restaurant we celebrated with Annie and Steve's wedding reception). We loved it so much we wanted to go back. Then we went to see Wicked. It was sooooo good. We went to the Saturday afternoon show.
That evening we went over to Debbie and Ryan's and make peanut butter popcorn balls. But the only pictures I got were of Drew in a Cubs cap.

Friday Night Lights

We went with Dayna and kids to Randy's football game where he is a varisty coach. It was their school's homecoming game. We only stayed until half-time. But Brooke was so happy to see her daddy. During football season she doesn't get to see him fridays.

Brooke especially enjoyed the special "treat" she got at daddy's football game.

I had to include this picture of Drew and Blake. Blake is holding up his head so well (5 weeks old).

Brooke's Cricket Friend

We were out for a walk recently and we stopped by to see what Brooke was doing. She was trying to catch a cricket. She got one and really bonded with it. Here is a video of her new found friend. It is kinda long....be patient. She talks about wanting to take it on the trampoline and about letting him go to his family.

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A Visit to Uncle Scott's

We stopped by Uncle Scott's house tonight to visit the turtles. Back in July when we were at the lake and the kids were digging in the sand they came upon some turtle eggs. So the kids buried them again and left them alone. Well Scott and Jeff went back to get the eggs and made a little sand/water incubator for them and they hatched. So we took Brooke over to see them. She was so excited. She held them for a brief minute. (Then washed her hands really good.)

She also loves Scott's rats and he got out a baby one for her to hold.

We put as many as we could on a lid but they kept running away. That is Kobe's nose in the right of the picture.

Sisters and Cousins

Just hanging out together on a nice (last day of summer) Sunday evening with the newest little boys.

Going for a walk

Debbie and I have been walking (almost) every night for over a year. Well now Blake comes along with us......and

tonight Brooke came too.