Centerville Activity Park

Well, almost 5 yrs old and through most of summer and Bradley decided he now likes the unexpectedness of water spraying everywhere – finally! I told him it would be fun and once he realized it, he didn’t want to play at the slides/bridges that day!

Cohen’s 4th birthday

Our neighbors across the street had a birthday for their son who just turned 4 – he is one of Bradley’s buddies!  It was so cute and all dinosaur-themed and the kids had a great time!

Nicki’s Birthday Party

Another good friend has another special birthday so we all got together at the best private pool ever!  We were at our friend, Janel’s dad’s house – it is an awesome pool and we had a great relaxed night with friends.  The adults even had some lap races that involved some beer drinking during the race – do you see the awesome background of the pool?  It even has a concession stand for the kids to sell snacks!  

Aunt Jenny’s visit with her TWO kids!

Aunt Jenny came up for a visit with her 2 children!  Baby Sloane met her cousins for the 1st time (she actually met Ryan very briefly at the hospital when she was born but she may not remember that – she had so many visitors!)  She was almost 3 weeks old when they came and she was perfectly polite and well-behaved!  The kids loved her and Ryan thought she needed a blanket on outside when it was about 92 degrees!  Thanks for the visit!

Kirk’s 20 year reunion

Kirk had his reunion in Newark Ohio so we went there for the weekend.  It was a lot of fun to see some of his buddies that were actually in our wedding and my good friend, Mary, who was my college roommate for 2 years went to high school with him too so I knew a few people there.  They graduated with 500 or so but the turn-out was about 75 so not very big gathering.  We went to dinner with some of Kirk’s buddies and significant others, and then headed on to the reunion. 

Amy, Kirk and Mary (met Kirk at Amy’s party – we all went to Ohio University) Mary and Dave Duane and Amy Rob and Cindy Kirk and I The whole gang before the reunion Mary and I

Amy’s Birthday

A very good friend had a special birthday recently (mum’s the word on age!) so several of us went out to dinner at Brio’s and got pedicures afterward.  The area we were in also had a Cheesecake Factory, and after we learned that Amy had NEVER had cheesecake from there we decided we had to go there and split a piece for dessert – dulce de leche caramel cheesecake –yum!

 

Boy attacked by hair pretties

I think it happens to all boys who have a big sister at some point in their early years – they become a hair challenge – Have to say, Ryan only said “ow” a few times and looks like he was due for a haircut to get the sie of pony’s going on in his head (which he got about 3 days later).  I must say, he wears it well!