Sunday, August 28, 2016

Other June Activities

 Early June brought Vacation Bible School!
We love our church friends!

 

We collected food for the Coraville Food Pantry.




I was able to help in the nursery for the week.  Luckily, I had some amazing helpers!



Ruby and Jace took swimming lessons through Kennedy Swim School.  
They did great and learned a lot.


We had a couple of beach days at the Coraville Res.







Slumber Party with Sydney!


We hosted some of our good friends, Ryan and Leslie and their four kiddos, who were moving back to Minnesota from New Jersey.  Our mutual friends, Scott and Nicole and their three kids, also joined us for the day.  Such a fun day of busy play and catching up!



One full table...

 

...and one full couch ;) 10 under 6!


We went to Pella to help celebrate Papa John's birthday!  It was one of the hottest days of the summer, so it required popsicles and a water fight!






Uncle Joel and his girlfriend Amy came for a weekend!  We had SO much fun meeting Amy and wouldn't mind one bit if she stuck around for awhile... hint, hint ;)



June brought a lot of water play...






...and popsicles! 



Playdate with neighbor friend, Esther


One of our favorite parks where everyone can swing together!



Tunnel slide selfie ;)


Ruby played T-ball again this summer.  She did a great job and by the end of the season was hitting off the pitcher instead of the tee. 


Lots of chalk fun

  

Ruby and Jace met Dan Wardell from Iowa Public Television at the Iowa City Library.
  

Annie got her first black eye.  We had a minor stroller incident where she bumped the stroller tray. Poor thing.  It was my fault but she didn't realize that, so she still kinda likes me!  ;)  Thank goodness!



Ruby had her share of teeth issues.  Here she is getting a few cavaties filled.  


She may hate this picture some day but I think she's still just so darn cute!  And she did get some major giggles when she looked in the mirror!  The teeth issues continued throughout the summer so more on that later...


Adventureland

We made a trip to Adventureland in June.  It was a beautiful day and just warm enough to spend some time at the water park during the afternoon hours.  


Annie decided she was NOT a fan of the rides.  In her defense, we didn't start her out very calmly.  We all rode the hot air balloons which do go quite high and quite fast for a one year old.  She had a pretty tight grip on me the entire time.  Her second ride was much lower to the ground...this ladybug with Jace.  But she did not appreciate it any more than the previous ride.  She didn't cry or scream but took great comfort in her big brother next to her.  Jace was amazing and took great care of his baby sister until the ride was over.

 



Although we did manage to get Annie to ride the train with all of us...


 ...she was much more comfortable being held on solid ground...


...or eating snacks in her stroller...


...or watching from afar.  ;)


Her brother and sister proved to have no fear.  Ruby was tall enough to go on several of the roller coasters, including one that went upside down.  And Jace even managed to go on his first real roller coaster as long as dad went along too.  It was a great family day!