Check this out! (Part II)

Henry learned to ride without training wheels too!

Check this out!

No training wheels!

No teeth!



Happy Fourth of July!

Anna and James especially liked the parade - plus there was a ton of candy thrown at them!

We spent a very hot morning watching the Fourth of July parade in our town and as soon as the twins wake up from their nap we are off to the pool to cool off! Later we are bringing this cake to Eileen's house where we'll have dinner and watch fireworks.

Emma and Henry did the decorating!

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Man of the Year

Dan recently spent ten weeks competing with 5 other people to be "Man of the Year" for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In the end - he won! Obviously this organization is near and dear to our hearts and Dan worked very hard to do all he could for this fundraiser. Even so, we were truly amazed at the generosity of everyone around us. In all, over 220 people contributed to Dan's campaign - I didn't think we even knew that many people!

What has made all of this even more special is that Emma is the Girl of the Year for 2012 for LLS. This means she has been able to come with us to events and she has been very involved in this whole process. Dan and I have really enjoyed spending some extra time with just Emma - she is growing into a little lady and it's fun to have real conversations with her about all sorts of things.

There was a Grand Final Gala a few weeks ago where the winners were annonced (there was also a Woman of the Year) We invited a few friends and had a really fun night. Emma also got to bring a friend and to watch them dancing all by themselves on the dance floor to Justin Bieber (who they personally went up and requested from the DJ) was priceless! After dinner the girls were joined by more dancers and then they danced the night away :)

"Baby, baby, baby, oooh"

We won!

Acceptance speech

The girls

Mamma and daughter



Happy girl!

Ten Years

Father's Day

Happy belated Father's Day to Pappa, Steve, and especially to Dan. It's not an easy job but all three of these fathers are just amazing!

Our children are lucky to have Dan as their daddy and we all love you very much.

Father's Day was a very busy Sunday around here. We started the day with spending a few hours at the brand new country club pool. The kids loved it and we were all pretty worn out and had various degrees of sun burn when we left. As soon as we got home the twins went down for their naps and Dan took Emma and Henry to see Madagascar 3 (Henry saw it for the second time in 3 days...) When the movie was over it was time to go to Grandma and Grandpa's house for some playing and a barbeque. There was lots of fishing, a bit of croquet, bubbles and plenty of running around. Dinner was delicious, as always, and the perfect end to a very fun family day.

Fishing in party dresses? But of course!

James getting the hang of it all.

Anna touched it!

Henry would rather play croquet than fish.

Anna on her daddy's lap.

LEGO!

Henry loves LEGOs so when we found out there was a LEGO Expo at the Convention Center we were so excited to go. It was a fun morning for the whole family!

How cool is this life size Lighting McQueen entirely made out of LEGOs?

More fun characters

This was taken a few seconds before James managed to dump this entire bin of LEGOs all over the place...we were assured this was a common occurence and the nice girls who worked the booth sat down and picked it all up for us!

How many pieces do you think there are in this pile??

Comfy?

Check out what James found! They were (conveniently) selling Bissell mini-vacs at the show. It was really hard to drag James away from this activity!