Happy birthday gage!

The The big number six!!! This year was all about mine craft! We had creepers, pigs, cows, and all the other mine craft accoutrements!

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We also watched fireworks...

Gage laughed himself silly when Grammy took him for a ride on her "hot rod" carp!

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We also visited the cows every day..

We Moved Savannah up to the big bike...and painted the old my little pony bike a nice blue color for gage!

Here's savannah testing out the big bike in the basement!

We drove Grandpas diggers..

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Here's more of a quick recap..

We went to ikea, and savannah desperately wanted this runway.

We went to jimmies for lunch...

We hung out with our cousins...at the movies...

I'm the pool...

At the beach again

And for cookouts, more pool time, lake time, sparklers, etc!

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We had a short trip this year, but managed to pack it full nonetheless!

We went to our favorite pizza place - Frank Pepe's. Their pizza is so good that Frank Sinatra used to have it brought in when he played in NYC or Boston, the saying goes...

Savannah - who doesn't drink soda EVER - tried both birch beer (my fave) and cream soda (Gage's fave) and was a huge fan. I still don't want her drinking soda regularly...but a few times a year at Pepe's is okay ;-)

We also made several trips to the beach. First, just the three of us..on a gorgeous day. We buried Gage

Walked the rocks

We went snail hunting, which is their favorite thing to do there..

We ate everything we brought plus ice cream 

And topped it off with a visit to the Meig's point nature center and a drive through the beautiful marshes. So so pretty.

Summer visit to PA

I know, this post is late. We have been so busy the blog has been slipping by. I will catch everyone up, though!

Our first stop was to Grandma and Grandpa Rapp's house. It was a quick trip, but the kids had time to ride on the golf cart with Grandpa..

They also drove the cart by themselves. Savannah MAY have driven the golf cart into the bushes ;-). Although she didn't want to tell Gramdpa, I explained why it was the right thing to do. Turns out, he knew before we told him...because there were hosted stuck under the front of the golf cart!! Hahahhaha!

We also caught crayfish in "the crik"

...they played in the always-fascinating basement, ate all sorts of goodies like delicious coconut cake, and we ended the night with savannah sleeping in Daddy's old room - by herself! She is growing up, that little bugger!

Pool time!

Grandma and Grandpa Rapp came to visit this weekend and brought pool goodies! Savannah has spent hours lounging on the flip flop float already!

Gage has loved hanging in his new tube.

Hard to believe our pool looked like a swamp a few months ago!

Science experiments

The kiddos have been somewhat neglected this summer because we are engrossed in house projects. Like the pool fence - which is almost done!

But, we have taken some time to do some fun kid things. Like science experiments.  We made clouds and rain.

We also made exploding bags.  They didn't really explode, they just filled up with air. 

Savannah was a little disappointed (read: pissed off) that her bag was a dud.

We also made a "naked egg" - we made the shell disappear completely. It looks like Gage was not very excited about this- but he was!

It took a week, but it was super cool!

boogie on the bricks

Athens is big on festivals. June's festival was Boogie on the Bricks. The whole "uptown" of Athens has brick roads. It's very cool. 

The kids discovered that there are coins stuck between the bricks everywhere. So, they started searching and digging them out.  We even found an old old key stuck between the bricks!

We got some snow cones...

There wasn't much boogy-ing going on because it rained - hard. So, we hunkered down under a tent for some face painting.

Smurftastic!

Pepper got into a blue pen a while ago. We think she looks "smurfy".  For the record, hairspray works wonders getting ink out of carpet!