August Recap

Maya was away at art camp so I decided to take Josh and Cora to the park to feed the ducks. I remember doing this a lot when Maya was little and she really enjoyed it, but we didn't have a very positive experience. All I can remember is one minute Josh and Cora are feeding the ducks, being super cute, then these aggressive geese come out of nowhere and all hysteria breaks loose! Josh was stranded up on a table with a bag of bread while I grab Cora and run off yelling, "Josh! Run for it!" They were some mean geese, too. We made it safely to the van and Josh asked that we never do that again. Ha!



Afterwards we went to Culver's for lunch because Culver's makes everything better! Cora making crazy faces.



We only made it to one of our city's outdoor concerts this year. :( We will have to make more of an effort next summer.

Grandma Pat came out for a few days to take us clothes/shoe shopping for Aunt Jenna's wedding. It was so nice to have her here and to spend so much quality time together! The kids haven't seen her for awhile but they warmed up quickly and loved playing games, snuggling, and watching movies with her.



We took many, many trips to Spring Mill Pond! We love that place and usually spend a good 4 hours playing in the water and the sand. So fun - great memories were made!

The best little buddies. Josh would love a younger brother just like Carson.

Most of our summer time outings were planned around Sonic's 50% off happy hour! MMMMMMM, Vanilla Diet Coke. The kids had slushees.

We took the kids fishing at Spring Valley fishing pond in Dexter, MI. It was a lot of fun and a good trial run to see if the kids liked going before we invest in any expensive equipment to try the real thing out. Everyone had a good time, except Cora was done after about 15 minutes and was super impatient. Maya was able to catch the first one:



Nick caught fish #2 and it was tiny. Haha, he was a good sport about it.

Coco and I walked around and took pictures. I thought she looked especially pretty in this one.

Pretty place!

Josh caught a decent size trout!



The next night we cooked up some of the fish for dinner. Josh wasn't liking the idea of eating it and ate everything else on his plate first. We told him he needed to have one bite of the catfish, but he was really fighting it...finally he took a bite but was sent to his room for the way he was acting. I went in to check on him about 15 minutes later and his eyes were nearly swollen shut! I guess he's allergic to catfish in addition to milk. It was quite alarming to see him like this but, in the end, I'm glad we only forced him to eat one bite. It took a good 24 hours for the puffiness to go away.



We also went Geocaching as a family in August! It was so fun. I have never gone before so the kids loved telling me all about it.