Quarters Anyone?

My dear sweet (slightly weird) husband drove almost all the way to Moscow like this before I realized something was "off" about him!!! Take a looksy....

btw - this is for me and you to laugh at (dont tell him these pictures are on here!!!)

Sweet Home Alabama

We were very excited to spend 10 wonderful days with my grandparents and cousin visiting from Alabama! As always, they spoiled us with good meals, happy birthday cards, and lots and lots of love! I would have liked to have spent more time with them - if only we lived closer to where they were staying! But, we got several good visits in and lots of quality time! One day we will get our act together and go visit them in Alabama (one of my favorite places to visit ever!) Anywho, just wanted to share some pictures - these were taken at my parents house! xo

Grandma and Grandpa Zerbe + BBQ

On the way home from camping, we decided it would be nice to go see Kaleb's Grandma and Grandpa Zerbe! The weather was great, it was fairly early in the day, so we stopped by - only to find that they were having a get together and a BBQ! How could we pass that up (especially since Sindy is an amazing cook!) From the moment we got there Kaleb was attached to Grandpa Greg's leg! They ran around in circles, playing with the dogs, eating snacks, meeting people, and being silly! Kaleb had a great time! Everyone doted on Cameron and her red hair and fair skin, saying she was just adorable! Joe and I met and mingled with everyone and just enjoyed being outside and eating amazingly good food (especially these little "poppers" - peppers with cream cheese and sausage filling!!! AWESOME) I was able to finally get some good photos of them with Kaleb, and quite a few of them! Long overdue! Here are a few...

Kaleb sitting with Grandpa

Silly faces with Grandpa!

"Smile!" with Grandma

Daddy with Grandpa's sunglasses on - "Musical Glasses!" Although, Kaleb held on to these for a long while!

Slapping game with Grandpa, YIKES!! Kaleb was excited to be there and VERY wound up! Luckily Greg and Sindy have the energy to keep up!! Espeecially Greg, he is a big kid himself!!

Silly Faces! (Kaleb took these pictures!)

Kaleb helping in the kitchen

Grandma and Kaleb racing to the creek to throw the ball in for the dogs!

Kaleb outside by the grill (and Grandpa!)

1st of Many!

Well we have officially started off our summer of camping! As always our annual summer kickoff camping trip was a blast! We headed up to Sprague Lake for a fun weekend of camping, fishing, smores, tanning (burning), and good old fashioned fun! It was a blast! Me, Joe, Kaleb, Cameron, Katie, Dad, Mom, Grandpa Smith, Uncle Russ, Aunt Lori and Riley all made it up to spend time together and play games (we even got Grandpa to play pickle ball!!) Although the fishing was slow, we spent many hours on the boat trolling and managed to catch a few very nice sized rainbow trout! Both kids had a blast, Cameron ate lots of goodies and Kaleb enjoyed fishing, Grandma, treats, Grandma, the sunshine, Grandma, no naps, and GRANDMA!!! hehe...here are some pictures... (I will get more up later but its late and I gotta get to bed!)

OH! And Kaleb learned the joy of painting rocks this weekend! I have an awesome selection of ladybug rocks he painted for me!! Aunt Lori brought all the stuff and showed him how to do it! I remember when I was a kid and she would let me paint rocks with her!!! It was great!

Thunderstorms!!

Monday night we had an incredible thunderstorm come through Troy! Joe and I loaded the kids up in the car to watch "God's fireworks"! We took the opportunity to explain the lightning and thunder to Kaleb. To teach him of the beauty as well as the dangers of lightning. We ended up seeing one of the most amazing lightning shows I have ever seen! I had my digital camera (so the photos arent spectacular) and we were able to record some footage that I was able to extract some photos from! Here they are...