Football time!

Yesterday was a perfect day for a football game. We didn't have tickets for the game, but that didn't stop us from hanging out with friends at the tailgate. Here's Rufus the Ohio bobcat. 

and here's the real Rufus!

First day of school!

And...they are off to school again! They are both living their new school :-)

Big puppy

This crazy dog is not allowed on the couch, so here's how she improvises!

She's still a thief...

But, she's cute, so she gets away with a thing of two ;-)

County fair

We checked out the Athens county fair last month and had fun checking out all the animals.

We especially loved the goats. All the 4h kids were inviting S and G into the pens to meet their goats. In fact, we tried to play a joke on Adam and told him that we bought 2 goats at the livestock auction.

Well, he not only believed us, he was 

Super excited and told everyone he was with at a conference. The story went viral, so now everyone (including the dean of the college) believes that we have goats! Ha!

Kitchen sink pedicures :-)

Savannah wanted to do pedicures one day, but pepper kept trying to drink our foot-soaking water. So...we sat on the counter - each of us with our feet in the sink :-) 

Gage, however, wanted to get in on the foot-soaking action. So, First they tried not sharing a sink. But, ultimately I gave up my sink for him.

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!

Summer in CT - 4

We also watched fireworks...

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

Summer in CT - 3

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..

Summer in CT - 2

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!

Summer in CT - 1

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!