Elly, July

The first two pictures are of Ellys new smile, with a scrunched nose. Note how close the top teeth are from breaking through, the top left did break through about a week ago. Cutie Pies

7 months old

Dempsey, July

Here is Dempsey painting his first bird house. It was a gift from the Luke's for his 2nd birthday.

Dempsey wanted his tent up in his room so I agreed. He slept in it 3 nights.

an attempt

I know I should be better at posting, but I'm not. No excuses except laziness. So here's an attempt.
The children are doing Great. Elly is working really hard on crawling. She can get around so much faster doing the army crawl that being on all 4's is a little less effective. Dempsey is definitely in his "terrible 2's" through a fit every time he doesn't get his way. It's quiet tiring at times but we just let his cry it out; or in his words, "me cryin" and will stand there and cry for 5-10 minutes. Although he has his times he's a wonderful Big Brother and a very good boy. We have been potty training for the last 2 weeks and have only had a few accidents, most of them poops rather then pee. It sure is amazing to see how many diapers we were using, how much cheaper it is to potty train and why it couldn't have happened earlier.
I'll try to post pictures Sunday since we have a few events coming up. I'm going to wait to download the pictures then. 2 birthday parties and Elly was in a cute baby contest Thursday, won Most Dazzling Eyes.
Stay tuned...

our little laugher

This is from June 19th, it's a little long but cute as hell.

Summer Fun

Here are some pictures of the kids from the summer so far.

Elly Flying with Daddy

All Hugs

Still wishing he was a the lake, swimming

This one is a little out of order but; this was our first night back form camping. It was about 7:30 and Dempsey just couldn't hold out any longer.

4th of July

We headed to the cabin on Church Pine for the 4th. It didn't goes as well as planned. Elly loved being outside all day but hated sleeping in the heat. Two out of the four night I drove home so that Elly would sleep. Aaron got to drunk and dehydrated one of the days and was basically worthless the rest of the weekend, and didn't feel like himself for a good week. On the good side, the weather was great! We swam everyday. We could hardly keep Dempsey out of the water. My cousin Jake and his wife Dawn and son Aadin came home to visit. It was great to see them again. And the highest point for David(Heathers Husband) were the fireworks. Everyone pitched in some money so that we could have a great fireworks show and we did. With about $900 of fireworks we had the best show on the lake. It was awesome!

Class Reunion

The last week of June, Amanda and I hosted our 10 year class reunion. I was quite worried about the turn out or if it would be any fun. Things went great. more people then those who had RSVP'ed, showed up. We had about 60 people; there was plenty of food and everyone had lots of fun. David and Aaron made some new friends and really enjoyed our classmate. Just a few pictures of the night.

George W and his wife