6-1-12 Calvin, Mrs. Arendt & Clayton on their last day of 4K for this year!
6-2-12 First it was off to Cousin Isiah's 5th Birthday and Isiah's 7th Birthday party but I must have been to busy playing because I took no pictures there. Then Kenzie had her cousin Emma staying over night for her first sleepover so we added to our kid count and took them all to Cousin Kaylee for her birthday party. What a fun day. Kaylee turned 4 and has a balloon party in her room!!!
Best Birthday EVER according to Kaylee - No surprise - there was cake, ice cream and Dilly bars. Seriously Great Party.
Top it off with some dress up. How fun!
Calvin, Lauren, Kenzie, Emma, Kaylee, Elsa, & Clayton
Kenzie~Cowgirl
Calvin~Race car driver kitty.
Clayton~Fireman
Kenzie and Emma's sleepover.
Kenzie read books to Emma - I think they were still up chatting when I feel asleep.
And let the party continue with dancing and dress up in the AM
Rock star Emma
Renaissance Kenzie
This year Ben has not been busy enough so he took on coaching 4 year old T-ball. It is a mini Rettler team with Clayton, Cousin Kaylee, Calvin, and Cousin Lauren all on the team together.
Clayton ~ big number 5 ~ batting
Calvin ~ number 1 ~ batting
See brother Cameron in the background helping out!!!
Cameron had his 5th grade graduation from St. Peters this year as well. Here he is reading at the mass.
The whole class of three with all 7 of their teachers and Father Rick.
The graduates (Kolten, Cali, & Cameron) with their gift from Father Rick - 2 liter bottles of mountain dew and huge Hersey's candy bars. SUGAR!!!!
Their cake!
After graduation we took the graduates to Country Springs water park and had a blast -
again I am not sure why I have no good photos of this but it was a blast.
The next day we took the graduates to Madison to tour the capital, go to the Frank Loyd Wright building and the museum. Again a wonderful day with these three amazing kids.
Cameron, Cali and Kolten all enjoyed taking photos in the capital.
Cute picture of Cameron
Cameron, Cali and Kolten ~ What a wonderful day!
Super cute picture of Calvin doing some fish lips.
June 9th we took our first ever Lake Michigan fishing trip. The trip was for Ben's dad Gerald for father's day last year but it never worked out for us all to take him last year so we booked it for this year. The plan was fool proof. Ben's Mom and Dad, his brother Andy and his wife Sue, his sister Melissa and her husband Ricky and Ben, Cameron and I. Turns out the fool proof plan of booking the trip in June and coordinating so that all 9 of us could go with two different boats that would go together was great until Melissa got put on bed rest 7 weeks before the baby was due. So Melissa and Ricky were not able to make it and we will be doing this again with everyone!!!! It was a great time but bummed that not all of us were able to make it. This was the boat Ben, Cameron and I were on.
Not sure what our captain was thinking but he even let Ben steer for a while.
First fish on and Cameron is on the pole. Fish spit the hook! Bummer.
Ben on the pole. Worked hard ~ reeled in a big one, right up to the boat ~ fish outsmarts us and dives under another line. LOST IT. Bummer again.
Cameron on the pole again. Another spit hook. Man these big fish are tricky. Definitely outsmarting us. Ok ~ we gotta get a fish in this boat. URGG. Beautiful day though and wonderful trip.
After a couple more attempts Mom reels in this MONSTER. A 10 pound rainbow trout!! There was a lot of high fives and excitement. What a thrill.
The boys were good sports even though mom was the only one who got a catch this time!!!
Back at the docks. Grandpa Gerald and his big
King, Grandma and her Coho, Me and my Rainbow, Cameron and an little Coho that was caught on the other boat. Not a big catch on either boat but a great experience and we all had a great time. I would love to do it again!!!!!!
More June to come soon.
