Summer recap

We had quite a summer.  The weather was lovely and the boys were much easier this summer than last.  Nap times don't exist for Owen anymore and Grayson is much more flexible so we took advantage of this and had a lot of fun!

To start off the first weekend of summer, the neighborhood had a movie night...

 The next morning we headed out for the neighborhood bike parade, led by a fire truck...

 Owen and his buddies Lucas, Lily and Stella...

Owen joined the neighborhood swim team...

 Grayson was too young to join but he still loves to swim as long as he is wearing his floaties...

We took lots of bike rides around town...

 We rode to to dinner, breakfast and lunch.  One morning I woke Owen and Max up early to ride down to the donut shop ...

 Two happy boys..

We often see neighbors and friends when we ride downtown and end up riding our bikes home together in a caravan...

Max taught Owen to fish this summer....

The boys got to go on their first hot air balloon ride...

Mommy was a little scared and sat on the ground the entire time.  My palms were sweaty and my stomach was in knots, but I was trying very hard not to let the kids know just how frightened I was...

We stayed up late at the neighborhood playground, playing in our jammies...

The boys joined a summer soccer class...

Brad taught Owen the sport of golf...

We spent a lot of time with our cousins...

Owen had his last t-ball game...

We spent time with our friends, going to parks, playgrounds and splash pads...

We ate a lot of ice cream...

We loved on our grandparents...

We took lots of naps...

We celebrated Daddy's 35th birthday with a Ninja Turtle cake...

My high school friends came to visit and we had our first mommy biker gang outing...

We spent more time at our favorite spot, Connor Prairie...

We rode our bikes most Saturday mornings to the Carmel farmer's market...

We spent a ton of time swimming at the neighborhood pool...

And at the Monon Center...

We enjoyed the annual neighborhood summerfest party...

We spent a lot of time boating this summer.  It was the boys first time riding in a boat and they loved it each and every time.  First we went on a day trip to Kentucky Lake with the Drapp family...

 Then we went to Martinsville and went out on my Aunt Dorena and Uncle Rick's boat...

After that boat trip we went to our neighbor Allie's parent's lake house on Sweetwater Lake.  It is the clearest lake I have ever seen.  You can literally see to the bottom of the lake.  We had so much fun!

To end the summer, we had some visitors from Scottsdale.  My sister Nicole and her three kiddos came to stay with us for 5 nights.  I was a little worried about how the kids would get along for that period of time, but much to our surprise the older kids had so much fun together and were the best of buddies.  The younger two on the other hand, did not get along so well.
First we went to the Martinsville fair...

And of course we made a trip to the Inside Scoop...

We took them to the farmers market...

 And to some of our favorite parks...

To the children's museum of course...

But most of all the kids just loved spending time together...

 It was sad to say goodbye...

Although it is always sad to say goodbye to summer, we are ready for cooler weather, Halloween and school to begin.