100 Year Anniversary and Visiting Grandparents

This past weekend Nate, the kiddos and I headed south to Nate's hometown, Keokuk, IA.  Keokuk celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the Keokuk Dam.  It was a great experience for us all.  I know Nate really appreciated all the history behind it growing up there, seeing floods go through it and taking part in other year anniversaries.  My favorite part was by far riding the antique trolley across the dam.

 

Besides visiting the dam, we spent our time playing, getting fancy, and doing something that was the highlight of Caleb's weekend and deserves a post all on its own.

Special thanks to Mike and Kathy for your hospitality and we look forward to seeing you again next month! :)

Caleb Plays Dress Up

99% of the time when Elyse dresses up as a princess or fairy, Caleb dressing up as Woody from Toy Story.

However, 1% of the time, I catch him dressing up like this on his own.  Love him and his confidence!  (He will HATE me for posting this when he's older.)

Content

The kiddos just finished breakfast (Kallen not unbuckled from his chair yet) and I had to run Caleb to the bathroom.  After I got him all washed up, I came out to find this, two of my loves contently looking out the window at nothing talking to one another.  LOVE!

Speckman Family Visit

Starting last Wednesday, my brother and his family came to visit us for a few days.  It was so great to see them.  Even though there were the occasional rain showers, it still was sunny everyday so we could play outside.  My favorite part of their stay was being able to see our niece again and meet our adorable little nephew.  Overall, the time went way too fast and I miss them all already.

 

 

 

 

 

By far my favorite picture, so many fun captions I could come up with!

 

Special thank you to Steven, Kim, Chloe and Silas for making the drive to come see us.  Love you lots and hope it isn't another year till we see you again.

Water Slide at Home

On Sunday it was 85 and sunny, so of course the kiddos wanted to play in the sprinkler.  Well after a few minutes of that, Nate decided to bring out the pool.  The water was ice cold but that did not stop Elyse and Caleb from some water fun.  Nate hooked the hose up to the slide and down they went into the water.  They LOVED it.  Unfortunately the video was taken at the end when the kids had enough, were shaking because they were so cold, and a rain storm came in to dramatically drop temps too.  I have a feeling this activity will be occurring again this summer and I will try to catch all three sliding.


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Happy Father's Day

Letter directly from Elyse:

Dad,

I am a little princess, I love you so much and I want to hug you.  Caleb and Kallen love you too as much as Lightning McQueen and Mama.  Thank you for all you do for us. You are the best Dad in the world!  Have a Happy Father's Day.

Love,
Elyse, Caleb and Kallen

 

I would like to wish all dads, especially Nate, my dad and father-in-law a

Happy Father's Day! 

May your day be memorable, enjoyable and great.

 

 

"I Love Him"

Conversation I had with Elyse a few days ago...

E: "Mom, I love Tanner." (Tanner is our neighbor that is Elyse's age.)
M: "You don't love Tanner, you like him."
E: "No, I love him."
M: "Do you know what love feels like?"
E: "No, what does it feel like?"
M: "Butterflies, or like riding that ride with dad a few days ago at MOA where you dropped straight down and your stomach went funny."
E: "Yes, I have that with Tanner so see I love him."
M: "Ok, if you love him you need to get Dad's permission."
E: "Why?"
M: "Because when you love someone or begin dating someone you need to make sure dad approves and says he is a good guy for dating his daughter."
E: "Ok then, I like Tanner."  :)

So I find this conversation to be really funny, but scary too.  The reason is because Elyse is wanting to know about dating and love already, she is FOUR!!!