Alysha had a great volleyball season this year. She loved everything about it, even practice.
The team did really well, I think there record so far is 17-7. Not bad. She improved so much too, it was great to see the team pull together and have fun.

photo compliments of her father :)

Road Trip!

Last Friday the boys and I took a road trip to Sugarcreek, OH to pickup a set of drums. We had a great time, slept in a medieval themed motel room (it was a bit scary), got stuck in a traffic jam but had fun together. Drew just about went nuts on the way home cause he had to wait to play the drums!

Here is Drew playing the new set

camping

On Friday evening we packed the vintage motor home and headed to Bo woods for a weekend of camping. We had a great time, the weather was gorgeous the kids had fun and we were able to relax.

at the boat ramp"Karate Kid's"

On Friday there was a stray dog that Darrell found at Okaw, nobody knew where his home was so we gave him a home. Of course the kids were thrilled. However, they knew that we needed to find out whose dog it was before we could claim him as our own, and unfortunately we did :( Alysha loved this little dog, he was so gentle and pretty well trained.

playing down by the lake, they made there own fishing pole.

and she thinks I don't have any fashion sense

the boys made a mud slide, what fun! There swim trunks are trashed.

camping '09

We went on our annual camping trip with my family this weekend. And as always had a great time. The weather was great, had a few sprinkles, got a little warm on Sunday but was so good to reconnect and just relax and read my book. Darrell and the kids got to spend some time on the lake too.

Love this boys curls

Trevor got a toy airplane stuck on top of the camper

They play this race track game every year - they love it!

Playing cards in the rain

Cousins = good friends!
Luke and Drew

snap shot of summer

putting together an erector set

playing in the rain

watermelon seed spitting contest

Holiday World, so fun!

enjoying an evening by the fire

Drew's Party

It's like they say "better late than never". We had Adam and Drew's party together this year, they both wanted to have an air soft gun war party, so we invited their friends down and they had such a good time. We had green b-b's all over the yard and patio, no big deal they had fun!

Darrell had to draw the gun

happy birthday trevor

Sigh, my baby is 9 years old. :( I can't believe how fast time has gone. Seems like not so long ago he was just a little guy (i like to think he still is). He had a couple of friends over and they ran thru the sprinkler, played legos, rode bike and had a dart gun war.

Sean, Isaiah and Trevor

his new BMX bike

his b-day cake, Alysha made most of it, Drew and I helped a little,
they did a great job.