Aug thru Labor Day

The Girls-

Kynz getting used to her new digs.

She gets this sleepy style from her mom. :)

Mylee Jo has started really getting into her babies. She feeds with a spoon, her booby, rocks baby, and puts her to sleep. It's cute, however when she actually tries to take care of Mckynzee, she covers her head with the blanket. She shows interest which is nice to see and tries to say "KYNzee".

Another thing Mylee really got into as her little sister was born was books. She has become a reading queen. It's cute because Maddy never really was all that interested in books until she got older. Mylee has shown interest in the puzzles just like her sister and is getting her nose, ears, and eyes down, as well as some farm animal noises.

As you can see, Maddy has taken her big sister role even more seriously now with 2! :) She is very loving with Kynz and very playful with Mylee. It is a joy to see.

You can see the pride in her eyes can't you!

Camping and Up North




We spent a weekend at the Drayton's cottage with the entire family when Benny was in town. This is the only picture we seemed to take. So bad about that sometimes, but we had a great time seeing Benny, Amy, Jackson and the rest of the Drayton crew.

The next weekend we headed up to our campground in Mancelona and met Papa Jack, Gramma Simone and Jordyn. We had a great time, with great weather to enjoy the pool, horseshoes(thanks for the beating Jack), playground behind the girls in the pic, and of course s'mores!

After camping, Jaclynn headed north with her folks with the girls as I had some deadlines for a work project that was taking me out of town the following week. So the girls took a vacation up north without Daddy. I don't think they missed me much as they had all the cousins to play with since it was still summer vacation. Dad missed them like crazy!!! I hope I never have to go that long again without seeing my girls, but knew they were having a great time. I had to laugh cause it was like pulling teeth to get Mads or Jojo to speak to me on the phone as all they wanted to do was play.

How big am I at 1 month. Wow! I'll have to add her stats later. Kynz has had some digestive issues, so we've been battling that some, not just spitting up, but pain. So it's been a little difficult as her high pitched squeals are tough to hear. But only getting up 2 times a night pretty consistently at this point and still a good eater (as you can see)!

Skiing


Jaclynn still not able to ski (Dr's orders), but you can see that Maddy is getting the hang of it, even though we still need to bribe/beg/force her to just try it. :)

Look at my big skier!!!


Jojo loving the water as we were able to take the girls to the lake a bunch this summer. She's just a fish now, scary at times cause there's no fear, but nice to see her get acclamated to it.
This was when the Spindler's came up. It was nice getting them out on the water as we lucked out and the weather cooperated.

How cute is Mckynzee in her rash guard!

Labor Day weekend-
Cousing Michael and Jamie got married over Labor Day over in Minnesota. So we took some time and made a vacation from it. Started out with a trip to Ludington on Wednesday night. We boarded the SS Badger at 8am the next day and headed across Lake Michigan to Manitowac and then drove down to Fondy to see the Coons.

All Aboard! The girls as we headed out of port.

Friday morning we woke up and headed for Minnesota. It was another 5-6 hour trip. The kids were great though as we car pooled with the Coons. The hotel was PERFECT as it had a nice water park attached. Perfect for the cousins as you can see, it was hard getting them out of there.

Jojo floating on her back. She's getting pretty comfortable and went down the slides with dad and loved it. Mads was nonstop with the cousins and was tough to get her to hang out with me at times.

The girls in our room.

Jordyn, Mads, Jaelyn, and Lexi at rehearsal dinner. Michael and Jamie got the kids there own pizza especially for them for the dinner. How neat is that? Thanks guys, you really thought of your guests when planning for this very special event. What a great weekend!!!

Jordyn, Maddy, Brooke, and Jaelyn

Izzy, Brooke, Jaelyn, John V, Mads, and Jordyn. Good looking crew eh?

How cute are these two? We got a baby picture out of Jaclynn and I couldn't believe how much Mylee Jo resembled her. I don't see it that much as I just see them as themselves, however seeing that picture was neat to see how similar they truly are.

Out on the dance floor. Maddy lasted pretty late and fell asleep in dad's arms dancing. It is extremely heart warming to have your little girl just keep wanting to dance with you until she just crashes in your arms.

Here are the two responsible for these beautiful 12 grandkids (yes, only 2 boys, 10 girls). Not bad to have them all pretty much cooperate eh?

One of our first official pictures of our family of 5. You can see I got sick of my hair and buzzed it. It was nice, however as you can tell, the thinning of my hair is much more noticeable when you shave it short!!! :) Pretty lucky guy eh??? :)

We headed back to the Coons on Sunday, then back across the lake Monday (labor day). The trip back was rough as the wind was bad. We'll just say we all thought we were going to loose it towards the end and were all glad when we got to dry land. Amazing what a little rocking motion will do to you as the trip over was awesome!!! We'll have to see how often we do this again as it is convenient, but more expensive and no time savings. We only made it to my mom's that night as it was 11 when we got in. What a great weekend though. :)