Some Summer Stuff

Some random shots.

We blew up Ivory soap in the microwave and then added food dye to make....a mess. This was a semi-fun craft that was basically a fail, but I got a few fun pictures.

And then a few pictures on a day when the kiddos begged me to get out my camera just because.



He just doesn't run out of silly faces.

Guenther-Deaver-Palooza, the Summer Edition

Katie and Paul brought down their kiddos to play at our Golf Classic to raise money for our school. Friday night, we got a sitter and went for a dinner and auction.

This picture was me documenting everything awesome about the night. While Luke walked away, we messed up the table and pretended like we spilled his drink. Yea. We are super cool. And we thought it was way hilarious. Perhaps we'd all had a few drinks at that point.

It was such a great night. Highlights included winning an All Saints enscribed stone in the raffle and winning (bidding and winning, that is) a party bus to the Axtel Street Days with 9 other couples. Luke and I also got the dance floor rocking.

It was great to spend some adult time with two of our favorite adults.



The next morning, the guys went to golf and we took the kiddos to Kearney to the sprinkler park.

I could NOT get enough of this little's chubby cheeks. I had to squeeze them all weekend long.



Here's a few pictures of our fun at the park.

Luckily, our day was more fun than the guys. They had less than ideal golf conditions (read: blowing dust so strong they couldn't open their snacks for fear of eating sand the rest of the day). Thanks for visiting--next time, we'll come to you and you can get a full night's sleep :)

He's 5!

Five short years ago, I woke up at 3am and sat with contractions for six hours before we headed of to the hospital. At noon, the Doctor broke my water and by around 2, I was pushing. About 45 minutes later, Dominic Thomas arrived on the Solemnity of the Ascension. I did the whole labor completly unmedicated. How and why did I do that?!? At any rate, little D was such a joy to have. For us, having baby number one meant tons of stress, lots of sleepless nights and, frankly, I was a complete basketcase for about six weeks.

Dominic, though, has always been a good child. He is so quick to follow directions, so polite, plays well with his brothers (usually), loves to talk about God, and is very curious. He loves anything that resembles a project. I can't believe the things he comes up with. When in his room for rest ime recently, he wrote every letter of every name of everyone in our family on seperate pieces of paper and laid them all out on the floor of his room. He's just beginning to read--I'm guessing he'll pick it up pretty fast as he loves to learn.

For his day, we did a small party. We went swimming at the Y with the littles from our family and Nick and Jessica.

After, we went to Pizza Hut for lunch. We were quite the crew and attracted lots of attention. Dad joined us, too.

Dominic opening his super sweet water gun.

I really never get to see him around kids other than his brothers, so it was fun to see him interact with his friends.

And after Pizza Hut, we went home for cupcakes.



D's friend, Nick

Sweet Messy Jessie

Aunt Lizzy bought this super sweet Spiderman goggles and flippers set. He wore that mask around for 3 days!



Happy 5th, D! We love you so much!

Field Trip

D's preschool class took a trip to the Kearney Children's museum for the end of the year. I took the other three kiddos, too. It was a zoo! I think there were 3 or 4 school groups there. I was glad to have Aunt Lizzy, because I definately would have lost a child, or my mind or both without her.

The superhero phase is not going out of style with these little people any time soon.

Jackson played on this track for probably 30 mins.

Here's D's friend, Nick, again. He is so, so great with Leo and he pushed him around for quite a while, giving this momma a break.

Yep--no shirt. He was occupied with the water exhibit for a while and he ended up soaked. Luckily, the museum had a dryer in the back.

We had a pizza party in the party room after with Little Caesars (reminded me of our NP days, Katie :))