New Priest

Liam is now Fr. Liam! He’s one of Logan’s old disciples and we enjoy his family a lot. Logan went to his ordination, and we all went to his first Mass and dinner. He was so happy and we had a lot of fun celebrating with him! 

Jumping Right In

We didn’t waste any time getting to the zoo once school was out because Lewis and I don’t do hear well. We have to go as much as we can before the summer weather holds us back. 



The splash stream is open again!!!







It was Levi’s first time experiencing the splash stream. He loved it and definitely fell in the deepest part of it, which is only a foot deep or less. 



Cousin Nick was in town, and Grandpa Mike has been wanting to walk the zoo with us, so we invited them both along. Dad hadn’t been to the zoo in over 20 years!

Levi has to see the turtles and the penguins, his favorites. 





I think he was trying to pose like Nicholas. 





The gibbon really liked Nicholas. We can hear them when we sit on our front deck. 

Ready or not…

Summer is here. My kids are notorious for playing school on the last day of school. 


Random, but this succulents arrangement is so pretty. It went to Lewis’ teacher. 

Nature Preschool Graduation

He did it! And he loved the experience. 

Mrs. I was a fabulous teacher and Elias likes her a lot. She’s a very creative, thoughtful teacher. 

The best friend. 

Elias at Nature Preschool

This may be my new favorite picture of Elias. 

His teacher reports that this is a grave they were beautifully decorating. 

And this art came home after the art show. It’s so good! He titled it “A Drink”. Aunt Pat bought it immediately. 

Nature preschool has been a great experience for Elias. He loved every minute of it!

Relaxing at Home

After a fun graduation weekend, we did some relaxing. 

My friend found this hot wheels gem at a garage sale and it’s been played with constantly the past week by all four boys. 

They made up some sort of vending machine game with it too. 

We beat the heat with some water balloons, and now the past few days have been absolutely perfect. Sunny with a cool breeze all day long. Elias broke out his new chalk. 

Lewis used it as a fence to keep his bugs wrangled. 



I made an outline but then Elias filled it in making a beautiful mandala!

Graduation of the Nephew

He did it!!!! Congrats Samuel!

Beth considered wearing the good ol’ pizza costume to graduation. I was for it. 

We had a good time at Sam’s graduation party the next day. It was a BIG party! A lot of people and fun. I contributed a platter of appetizers…and they’re my new go-to.

We grabbed Runza for dinner after the party and stopped in Ceresco at their amazing park. It’s been on our park list for years and we finally stopped to play. It did not disappoint.