Welcome Home!

After being away for 45 days, mom finally got to come home. She was more than ready! The care at Pineview was wonderful, but nothing is more healing than being around the ones you love!

We had a big family BBQ to celebrate her return. Everyone was there including her 4 kids, 3 kid-in-laws, and 9 grandchildren (soon to be 11!) We enjoyed hamburgers, hot dogs, fruit, veggies, ice cream, chips, and more! Needless to say no one went home hungry.
We got out the slip-and-slide to help burn off some of those calories that we put on with all of that delicious food.

And some even did a few laps around the pool! (ha)
Did I mention we had chips....
... and yet some more chips!
We all had a great time, especially mom! It's good to have her home :)

Tender Moments

It's moments like these when I love being a mom! Kids can be soooo sweet sometimes. It almost makes us forget about ALL those other times when they aren't so sweet. :)

Finally...Nice Weather!

Well, it only took us until June 14th to get some decent weather, so we decided to take full advantage of the sunshine! We took the kids to Toad's. Toad's has a hodge-podge of things: golf, mini-golf, go-carts, rock wall, batting cages, arcade, lazer tag.... enough to keep a family busy... and broke! We all had a great time, but the best part was just being out in the sunshine!
Erin was grumpy in this picture because she was having a hard time getting her ball to go in the hole! Ivy's solution was pick the ball up and put it in :)

Wow! I didn't realize how large I looked... Nothing like a picture to tell ya how things really are. (Sad thing is, I am only 22 weeks along...I still have 18 more weeks to grow!)

The Go-carts were among the kids favorites. Unfortunately, Ivy and I did not get to go (Ivy being too small and me being pregnant.) So Dave got to take the other 2 on the track.

Here we are enjoying the race. Dave gave some poor kid whiplash when the kid suddenly slammed on his breaks and Dave could not stop in time.... ran into the back of him... Oops! I sure hope all of you are enjoying your summers!

Batters up!

Baseball season has come.... and is almost gone. Austin loves playing baseball and is actually pretty good at it. His Coach this year was awesome and really worked hard with the boys. It is just too bad that our June has been more like March and most of his games were played in cold weather! We only have 2 games left which Austin is very sad about, but there is always basketball to look forward too!

Dinner with Grandma

Earlier this week we were able to take mom out of her "Prison" (as she calls it) and go to dinner for a couple of hours. She really enjoyed the break and the time she was able to spend with her grandchildren. Mom has made great progress at the rehabilitation center. They are projecting that she will be ready to come home on the 26th!