creative play at its finest

I'm loving the kiddos recent Lego addiction.  They are enjoying creating fun things and then taking them into the yard to create dirt piles for their machinery.  I'm thankful that they aren't playing video games!!  They even got the Barbies out the other day!  Layla had Hayden dressing up one of her Barbies.   Summer fun at it's finest y'all!  The cold front has cooled down the pool water, so they decided to do other things since they can't swim!  I'm good with it!

amazing art

I took this picture when storm clouds were rolling away from our house last night.

I just love it! God is so good and he is an amazing artist! 

puppy dog twister

These silly dogs were just standing there like this staring at me, and of course I snapped a picture while laughing!  

#singlesentenceSunday

heading on down the river

Yesterday during our bike ride we decided to ride down to the dam near our home.

Once we got there we saw a boat, The ValleyGem, heading to the lock area of the dam.  It was going to pass through and we have never seen this happen before.

I have always been curious about how this works, so it was a great learning experience for all three of us!

We got to see the boat enter the lock area.

Then we saw the gates close and the water raising the boat up to exit the locking area.

This is the front of the boat as the water is rising to help the boat pass through to the other side of the dam.

Now the gate is opening to let the boat pass.

Bye Bye ValleyGem! 

Layla was excited to see the ValleyGem because she got to tour the boat during a 3rd grade field trip.  She got to drive the boat!

I was excited because I've always been curious about the whole, locking dam idea.  I never really understood how it worked.  It was really cool!

What a fun afternoon adventure here in Ohio!

Hayden is 6!!

This little man is 6 today!

He chose blue cake and blue frosting for his cake this year!  And of course we had cake for breakfast!

6!!

Love my guys!

The kids had a fun morning playing drawing and playing cars on the driveway.

Hayden picked The Boathouse for his birthday dinner.  We had wonderful weather for a dinner outside!

I love my little family!

The kiddos ended their evening with an almond milk toast to Hayden!

we found a fun lake!

Gary was off today and so we decided to explore a new lake.

The kids loved playing in the sand and rolling in the waves.

Looks like a cool yoga pose, huh?!

The inflatable floating island was pretty fun too.

Hayden always takes monster trucks to play in the sand.  They roll and splash in the trails he makes for them and of course Layla builds castles for them to drive into.

Getting buried in the sand is the best part. We had a super fun beach day!