Sophie's Blessing

Yesterday we had the opportunity to bless our little Sophie Marie in church. Like all my others she did very well and didn't cry, which is always nice, so you can actually hear the blessing and not just her cries. We were lucky to have most of the family join us for the blessing and the yummy food following.

Since this was our first non-winter blessing we knew we couldn't serve our normal soup and rolls meal so instead it was a ton-o- yummy salads and sandwiches. Sophie, who is just a couple days younger than 3 mos and, is our most smiley baby & is the most amiable even when the rest of her siblings are running around screaming throwing fits.

Here is our very cute Sophie Marie at the end of a very long day right before bed, still smiling away.

Beaching it up with the Fergy Clan

On Saturday we met Fergy clan for a day fun beach fun at WILLARD BAY STATE PARK. We had never been here before, but I can tell you we will be going back! It was a lot of fun and much easier to watch all of our kiddos on a smaller beach. The water was warmer which was nice because as you can tell by the pics it wasn't a sunny day. The kids played and played almost non stop while Sophie concerted on her two favorite activities, eating & sleeping.

We only had once incident with josh as he was walking in the water he fell and couldn't get back up so we had to run in to get him face up again, after that it took him a while to warm back up to the idea of getting back in the water, but he eventually did.

We left a couple hours before the rest f the clan since we still had a ton of chores still left to do before Sophie's blessing the next day.  Right as we were leaving Dennis and the nieces were building a sand castle while Charisse was burying the kids to make them mermaid tails. We never saw the finished product, but I am sure they were both masterpieces. As for me I once again learned the hard way that even if it isn't sunny you can still get burnt, I am currently a lobster.

A Year Full of Fergy Froggy Fun

In the past year I have really gotten into buying some fun group deals like Groupn and several other sites.  It has enabled us to get to do many more things at much cheaper prices, so when I saw cheap Living Planet Aquarium Memberships I bought them.  In the end I got 2 adult and one child annual memberships for $18 bucks!  The kids love the aquarium but we rarely went because it was too over priced for how small it was.  No we will get to enjoy a full year of Fergy froggy fun.  Phoebe is so excited about the aquarium that we have been able to use it as incentives, such as get 10 good minding stickers and you will get to go on a special date alone to the aquarium with mommy or daddy.

For our first visit to the aquarium we went with Aunt Julie, Uncle Dennis & Afton on a the holiday Monday, which was a mistake, it was sooo busy, but it did make it possible so both Daddy and uncle Dennis could join us.

The aquarium is so small it only took us about an hours to make it all the way through so we got back right in time for naps.  After naps we went for a blessing dress photo shoot for Sophie, who wasn't as cooperative as I would have liked, & then to Grandma&pa Fergy's for a bbq.  There we had yummy food, which I didn't have to cook, always a plus. We also got to swing, play on the slide & chase a TON-o-bubbles. 

It was a pretty nice day full family fun & we even got grandma a bubble blower so next time her and uncle Davey don't have to nearly go faint from blowing bubble for nearly 45 minutes for my kids.

31 & Together Again

Last Sunday, on the 24th, Cory celebrated his 31st B-day. I always enjoy when it is his birthday because then for 6 mos we are once again the same age and I don' have to be the old lady. This year we didn't begin the party until the afternoon when we got home from visiting Grandma Wilkes. I decorated the entry way table so when Daddy came in this is what he was greeted with.  Immediately after unloading the car it was present time, which the girls I think were the most excited about.

After some short naps and baths we headed over to Grandma/pa Fergy's house to enjoy brauts and dutch oven potatoes. You can see the twinners loved them so much they are picking at the scraps left in the pan.

Once again I chose to do a doughnut cake for Cory, this year however it was all made out of jelly filled doughnuts, his favorite.

You can see Cory was really excited for his jelly doughnut cake, well at least I like to think that's why he made that crazy face. I really don't know why he was making that face, my sister-in-law Julie was the photographer while I was getting and bringing out the "cake"

It was a pretty nice a relaxing birthday celebration this year so thanks Daddy for growing one year older with me and giving us a reason to party.

Such a Ton-o-Fun for Such a Small Town

Last weekend we made our annual homage to the small town of Afton,Wy to visit Cory's Grandma Wilkes.  This is something we look forward to every year because it means lots of fun walks in the country to look at cow, horses, deer & ducks.

We also get to get out any enjoy fun time in the Burger King playland, which was great this time because it was mostly empty and the kiddos could play and do what they wanted without bigger kids running them over.

Since we went this year over Pioneers Day weekend, Afton was having their annual Crazy Days celebration which involves chili cook-offs, bull riding & a fish scramble. We participated in the fish scramble which included sandbagging off the Main street of the small town and flooding it then pouring in 200 9 inch tiger troaut for  kids if all ages to catch with plastic bags.  This turned out to be a bit of a disaster for us for many reasons.  1. it was at2pm, nap time 2. It was really hot and they were late getting going so we had to stand around and wait 3. Phoebe didn't want to catch a fish with her bare hand, but instead of a plastic sack and we left ours in the car 4. We had to walk a way s to get to the event and our kids have a very short stamina for walking  5. The water was cold and our kids have no tolerance for that. Other than that it was a fun event and maybe someday when he kids are older they would enjoy doing it more.

 

At night we made our traditional camp fire for our kids to roast mallows & be eaten by mosquitoes. I m not sure it is possible to go to grandmas and come home without someone having at least one bite.  Josh enjoyed his GIANT marshmallow, the girls were mostly into just he roasting part and eating the chocolate & graham crackers.  As you can see Josh got a bit messy and sticky with his treat and our kids do not enjoy being messy or sticky so they quickly bailed on the campfire and went inside wanting baths.

We weren't at grandma's long, but the kids still got to enjoy lots of fun and partying with their great grandma Wilkes & aunt Carolyn.

 

Thanks for another fun trip family!