Swimming in the big pool

The yellow boats are still a big hit with Brendan and this year Katelyn's really in on the action too! Bumper boats!

A little snack...

More swimming time!

Katelyn's funny about her swimming suit. She LOVES to get it on, and wears it into the pool, but once she gets out once and her suit is wet, she wants it off, now! And does not want it back on. :)

Swimming on the Deck

We recently upgraded our "baby pool". The kids have been enjoying some water time on the deck. :)

Strawberry Picking at Spencer's

We met up with some friends at Spencer's today to pick some strawberries. We probably should've had to weigh the kids before we began picking and again afterwards and pay for their weight difference...they wouldn't stop eating them straight from the plants! :)

Happy Mother's Day 2012

We drove back from Brown County today after a wonderful mini-vacation. After some naptime, we were invited to the Barbato's house for a poolside dinner. :) The three cousins had a great time playing together.

Brendan's Collection

Brendan on one of the porches with some of his trains...he wanted to bring them all, but luckily we were able to convince him to only bring part of them. Somehow they all made it home too. :)

The road to the cabin...

Our cabin was out in the middle of no where - really.  :)   The road that we took to get out there literally was gravel at some points.  There was also a huge hill to get to the cabin. 

Chris and the kids enjoyed playing on it. 


There apparently was an incident of Brendan pushing one of the strollers down the hill...luckily Katelyn was not in it. :)

Metamora, Indiana

On Saturday, we made the trip south to Metamora, Indiana.  I hadn't been here in years - probably since elementary school.  There was a restored steam engine in town that we had tickets to ride.  We had a very excited little boy on our hands.

Downtown Metamora

The restored engine

Brendan got to go into the engine to look around with Grampy

The steam engine getting ready to depart



The caboose train along the canal

Clutching their tickets!





All of the volunteers out for the day were so kind to us and our train loving little man.  They gave him a lump of coal out of the tender to hold onto and keep.  :)

Watching the scenery...

Katelyn mimicing her big brother...

Refilling the coal tender



Brendan with his engineer's cap

This is the owner of the steam engine - he had a little talk with Brendan and then took him up in the steam engine again to look around. 







Katelyn modeling the engineer's cap

Enjoying some post-train ride ice cream.

Smores!

Since we had the fire pit in the back yard, we figured we had to make smores with the kids!

Brendan actually did a pretty good job!

They both loved to eat the marshmellows.  :)  And the chocolate too!