Eric's brother Brad and his family came down from Wisconsin to visit for the weekend. It's been way too long since we have seen them. The kids are having a blast together and now there is an extra hand for the deck building... it was a good thing.
Aidan and Elise playing dress-up... he's going to love this photo some day...
Lauren and Ethan on the tire swing at Dewey Park in Johnston.
Aidan's smile here is hilarious... he's like "please stop taking my picture".
Riley, Lauren, Ethan and Elise building statues with clay.
Watching a movie.. a little quiet time... for a brief moment.
Roger and Eric chopping down the bushes to make room for the post holes for the deck.
I scream, you scream... we all scream for ice-cream.
Sweet little Addison enjoys some ice-cream too.
Getting everything square for the next phase of the deck. I think the guys were enjoying being together again and building things!
Eric and Roger made saw-horses out of scrap wood and they were testing them out!
Good-bye Altheas.... guess I am not going to transplant them....
With these three working... I guarantee you it is square! Eric's brother Brad and family came to visit... well he got put to work, the rest of us got to chill out together.
This job ended up being a LOT harder than expected. We have a lot of clay in the soil and the auger would just stop... they would have to break it up with a shovel and then try again.
Addison watching her Daddy at work.. she loved it!
3 of the 5 holes are done! And they are 4 feet deep as required by code!
Well, I am sure most of you are getting bored with more water pictures but it's been such a long HOT summer that this is pretty much what we do... swim!
Lauren's buddy Kennedy comes to play for the day.
Natlie takes a dive
Our first trip to the Aquatic Center of the summer. This one is over by Hoover High School and it's bit smaller than the others but it was perfect because Lauren could go on the slide (and can't at the others, she's too short) AND it's really cheap. It cost us $8 for the 3 of us to go for the day.
