CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCKS

last day at lizzie's and the drive to cissna park.

monday, june 28, 2010. aunt mic came to eureka to take lizzie and elle to lizzie's sonogram appointment. brian had a conference call for work and jack napped. joshua and i were going to try to get the boys to nap with us, but levi wasn't tired. he wanted to watch a movie. he picked out toy story 2. none of us block's had seen it, so we watched it instead. then it was off the cissna park, fishys and all.

joshua snapped a pick of me being DOMESTIC. basically making fun of me because you don't see this very often at home.

aunt mic and all the kids PILED into the tent!

a good look, huh?

excited to be watching TOY STORY 2.

couch potatoes:)

lizzie and brian's gorgeous home.

chit chatting about their future landscape plans.

love the OLD cemeteries.

moody skies...out the window of the car.

HUGE tree.

the fish rode in the back with me and the boys. yes i brought my favorite shoes!

sleeper.

blurry, but levi is just singing his heart out. some made up song.

looking stormish.

a huge fluffy SHEEP cloud. quite fitting while driving through farm country.

tried to get a close up shot.

more gorgeous moodiness.

levi finally CRASHED. he wanted to stay up to see g'ma erm, but i promised i'd wake him when we got there. it's about an hour and a half drive.

this is on the way. aunt mic stopped to show joshua. he loved it of course.

huge FARM EQUIPMENT on the left!!! that thing could straddle a car.

seriously, how cute is this. all 7 BIKES have lights around the wheels that make them look like they are spinning at night. the man who lives there will fix your bike for free.

mr. independent.

not only has abe decided to potty in the potty all the time, but now he doesn't want me to go with him. he says, "NO, I GO BY MYSELF.", or "NO YOU COME WITH ME."! i let him go alone, but listen just outside the door to make sure he isn't messing with the toilet water or toilet paper.

also on the ride to aunt mic's from lizzie's he told us he had to go pee pee. this was the 1ST TIME he ever told us in the car. we were pretty close to our destination, so he was able to hold it though.

our 1st full day and a lightening bug night.

sunday, june 27, 2010. we wanted to go to church with the blunier fam, but we didn't wake up until 10:00, which is when church started:( we are still on AZ time and still so darn tired! however, it was good to be in illinois hanging out with family we don't get to see, but once a year. we love having the time to catch up, and watch our children play together. lizzie's and brian's neighborhood is about as kick a$$ as ours. tons of neighborhood kids. the older one's come over and ask for elle and jack to come out and play on a daily basis. today was no exception. they were very kind and welcoming to our kiddos and that's basically what the kids did all day...play.

papa still dragging. so unlike him.

resting.

abe kept sticking his head over waiting for the ball to pop out at him.

elle and jack got home from church and got right to playing with the boys.

climbing.

they all wanted to see the fish.

abe kept trying to get his hand in the water.

fish gazing.

squirt gun fight.

vegging.

anybody seen elle?

oh, here she is in the air mattress bag.

levi kept telling me to go to sleep so he could be santa...

then he'd wake me up to show me all the presents.

elle took this of me.

she took this of the presents. i thought it was cute.

she took this one of her super sweet neighbor/friend, grayson.

sheriff levi. i was put in jail several times. he literally took me the the neighbors yard and would hook one hand in cuffs and the other to their fence post.