Summer Time Play Time

Most of the time in the summer, if we are home we do pretty much the same things. We play outside, water the garden or plants, take a walk to the park in the neighborhood and ride the jeep. Levi and Maci have been playing really well together most days. They like playing house, doctor and camping outside. Levi loves riding his bike and playing with the neighborhood kids. He is coming out of his shell more talking to his "friends" and standing up for him self. The other day he was so proud when he talked to the icecream truck lady and ordered himself. He was beaming. Maci loves to play dress up and has quite the imagination. The other day she was playing with her new doll and named her " Word Up". Maci is potty trained and wearing big girl underwear now! She is still working on going poop on the toliet but I think that is going to be awhile. Luke loves being outside and cries when I bring him in. He says, go go and wants to ride anything with wheels especially the jeep. He loves walks and looking for doggies and going on the swings. He cries when the dogs pass because he wants to see them up close. He make a really good doggie noise and loves petting them.

 

 

 

Flowers from our yard.

Wanted to get married to Levi

Mini Golf- August 2013

Levi has been asking to try mini golf. He went with Grandpa and Grandma Roedema for his first time and want to go again. We all went on a Saturday morning..Levi was ready to play but was not as excited since the coarse didn't have waterfalls like before. Maci wanted to have a pink ball. Lets just say good thing it was cheap and no one else was there because Levi and Maci need some practice. Levi could actually hit the ball and made some good shots. He even scored a free game on the last hole. Maci decided at one hole she was going to try to throw her ball into the hole and it went over the fence almost on to Alpine. Then Ryan had to go get it. Luke just watched and was a good boy. It was an entertaining morning and we laughed a lot.

Crystal Mt 2013

We had a fun and busy time for the four days we were away at Crystal Mt this year. We went swimming, played outside, spent time as family, rode the chair lift and spent some time relaxing too. Here are some pictures.

Roedema Cousins



 On top of the mountain after riding chair lift games and music

 Free Face Painting Too..getting his blue beard. He was a little embarrassed.

 

 Sparkly Heart

 Playing after supper



 At the water park. Levi loved the Lilly pads. Learned to jump far!

 Daddy Chasing Maci at the pool..she loved the slide behind her

 Getting wood for the campfire. They worked hard at this

The Cabin where part of us stayed..very nice in the woods..peaceful

Chair Lift Ride, A little scary. Hold on Tight.

 Grandpa and Luke laughing hard

Campfire at the cabin

 Craft Time with Aunt Al.

 

Water Balloon Day

The other day it was so hot! The night before at dinner we proposed a water fight Daddy and Levi vs. Mommy and Maci, boys vs girls. Ryan filled up more than 50 water balloons and of course the fight was over in about 10 minutes. But the kids had a great time. They laughed so hard when Ryan hit me with a balloon. Then we all ganged up on him.

Allendale Splash Pad

This past Sunday afternoon we took a ride to Allendale and played at the park and went to the splash pad. We picked up a pizza for supper and had fun running the bases at the ball diamond, watching the kids at the splash pad and playing at a new big park with different toys.

Really Tall Slider

 Really Bad Picture..but here we are eating pizza

 Luke watching as we played run the bases

Love this picture of Ryan running "home" !

Random Pictures

Last day of Day Care for the Year at Sandy's. Levi, Maci, Claire and Ian 

The Brothers Hanging Out 

Go Tigers!

Boulder Ridge Safari Park

Last week we had an outing to Boulder Ridge Safari Park in Alto. It was ton of fun with all the Roedema cousins and Grandpa and Grandma. The kids saw and petted a lot of different animals. They had giraffe, peacocks, wildebeest, ostrich, antelope and zebra to name a few and whole lot of little reptile and spiders. We went on a safari bus ride and played in the sand box before a picnic lunch. We had a few seconds where we thought we lost Maci but just so happens that when the safari bus stopped she got off before the rest of us and was waiting for us by our strollers. Levi didn't want to get off the bus until Katelyn and Grandpa did. Luke tried to sound like a little monkey when he saw all the animals..he just takes it all in.