August has been just as active as the rest of our summer and we are continuing to love every minute of it.
On the first Saturday of every month Home Depot has a kids workshop. Trevor and Taylor have been going to this together the past year and a half. The last two months we have been brave enough to bring the whole family. (The little ones are just watching and learning right now, not doing the projects, but it is fun for all of us to get out and see Taylor build.) As you can see from the apron Taylor is wearing he is quite the expert. He receives a pin for each project he completes. I think he has eighteen pins now. He is so proud!
One Monday Morning my friend Carrie and I decided to take our seven kids to the Kandiyohi County Museum. We drive past it all the time on the way into Willmar and Taylor has always wanted to see the Train that is there. Why not just take seven kids to a museum? One six-year-old, one 4 1/2 year-old, and five 2 year-olds, sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Hey, it was free, got us out of the house, and educational. The kids had a great time!
We celebrated Trevor’s Birthday in Grand Forks this year and had a wonderful time visiting family and friends. The day we arrived we went to the Shriners Parade. It was over two hours long and the kids sat the entire time. They really liked it. Ask them about the dragon at the parade. They will tell you a great story. It is still the topic of conversation almost everyday.
Micah saw Taylor take off his hat at the beginning of the parade when the flags were coming down the street and so he did the same. It was so sweet and he sat like this for several minutes.
To the right is a picture of the infamous dragon.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!
Being August has been about Adventures I decided why not take all the kids to St. Cloud by myself for the morning? I needed to bring something to a friend and we were able to meet my brother-in-law, nieces, and future sister-in-law at Quiznos for lunch. My mother-in-law was with on her way back to Grand Forks, so knowing I had extra hands to help with kids I was more willing to give it a try. The kids did AWESOME while we were eating. The employees at Quiznos thought it was so cool to have a set of twins and quadruplets from the same family. While we were eating the manager even brought a cookie out for each of the kids! A very fun day!
After we came in, there wasn’t much room for anyone else to sit and eat.
Check out this bunch! Saturday we helped our friends celebrate their twins 2nd birthday and one of their older daughters 12th birthday. Nineteen kids ages 14, 12, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 1/2, 5months, 5 months, and 4 months. I can’t really believe we even got all 19 kids to pose for a pictures.
This Sunday afternoon Taylor finally decided it was a great day to learn to ride a bike without training wheels. He hopped on an little smaller bike with out training wheels and took off. He hasn’t stopped riding since. You can tell he feels like such a big boy and thinks he is much more independent now. I guess he is ready for kindergarten now that he can ride a two wheel bike!
Sunflower!
I always love planting sunflowers at the end of my rows of vegetables in the garden. This year my sunflowers are doing really well. Taylor loves seeing how tall he is compared to something/someone else, so this was the perfect thing to compare himself to. He is pretty amazed by the height of the sunflower. “It is even taller than Uncle!” (Uncle Casey is the measurement of tall for Taylor being Casey is over 6 feet tall. He tells everyone that his Uncle can touch the ceiling without standing on his tiptoes. This is a very big deal in our house according to Taylor!)
Enjoy the rest of your August and I hope you have had some of your own adventures this month!
