Ice Cream

Yes yes I just posted about how we ate ice cream almost every night for a week on vacation but none the less it was a hot evening here and we thought -- let's take Mason for some ice cream.  We went to DQ and got Mason a small cone.  Hooooly cow that kid wouldn't let us 1. hold the cone, 2. come near the cone, 3. help in ANY way!  I mean seriously, it was hilarious so we just let him hold it.  When it was finally down to the cone we let him in the car ... what a mess!  He certainly enjoyed himself though.  And in case you are interested we eventually had to pry the mushed up cone from his hands to put him in the tub as he had officially splattered ice cream all over our house :)

Happy Birthday Daddy!

This year we celebrated Daddy's Birthday in South Haven! We celebrated with a steak dinner and of course, birthday cake!  Mason must have known it was Daddy's birthday, he wouldn't leave his side all day!  Happy Birthday Jordan, hope you enjoyed your day, we love you!

South Haven, Michigan

We just got home from our 1st family vacation.  We went to South Haven with the whole Freed/Toll crew.   Mason had a blast being with his Bubbe, Grandpa, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins!  We started every morning with a bakery/coffee walk into town, then went to the beach and finished the day with a nice dinner on the patio.  With 5 kids under 3 it could have been chaos but everyone was good and had a great time.  I took well over 100 photos but here is my best attempt to give you the highlights :)  We are looking forward to next summer already!

The bakery for breakfast and ice cream after dinner, now that's a vacation!

Ahhh, the beach, we had perfect weather!

Besides basking in the sun at the beach, we fed the ducks, walked out to the pier and walked around town.

Staying up late to enjoy the sunset.  Yup that's right 9:30 bed time on vacation!

Family photo 

Fun with Bubbe & Grandpa

If you haven't gotten the gist by now, we had a exhausting great trip.  Lost of work traveling with little ones but so much fun.  Getting to watch Mason experience the beach and the water was a priceless memory. Jordan and I weren't the only ones worn out from this trip....

Until next year.....

Grillin Like Daddy

We popped for this Little Tikes BBQ set and boy... what a good buy!  Since it has been assembled Mason has been non stop grilling.  He watches me cook and Daddy grill and then goes to his area tosses around the hot dogs and burgers, while opening and closing the doors and grill top.  Maybe I have a mini sous chef on my hands? Next on my sewing list should be a Mason sized apron!

Enjoying the fruits of his labor... ha!

Independence Day 2011

Nothing says the middle of summer like the 4th of July and swimming!  That's exactly what we did.  This was the first time all summer that the 3 of us got to be at the pool together and just have fun.  We stayed and played for quite a while, enjoying the lazy river, the sand pit and the big pool!  Mason was getting a kick out of us dunking our own head under water.  I sort of thing he must have been wondering where we went, then when we came shooting back up, he would scream and laugh so hard.  It truly was hilarious!

I did try to get a nice holiday photo of Mason for the books but...someone had other plans :)

Happy 4th of July!

Ralph's World

On the July 3rd we went to Ravinia to see the kids show, Ralph's World.  We didn't know much about this kids rock style band but we had a great time.  The other kids there were dancing up a storm, it looked like a kiddie mosh pit in the lawn!  We went with our friends the Pawlowskis and it sure seems baby Cole had a blast too!

Looking like a big man hanging out on the blanket!

Cole enjoying the tunes

Dancing!

The water fountain.  If the main attraction at Ravinia is the band, then the second main attraction is the water fountain!  Kids of all ages, and I mean all... gathered here to touch the dirty stuff on the ground drink water!

All this fun = exhausted

Craft Blog

I have many pictures and fun times to blog about from this weekend but I still have to go through all our pics and I am sure we will have more today!

I did want to take a sec to let you know that I started a second blog.  Lately I have been on a crafting kick and thought that I could keep this blog exclusively to share our family fun and create another blog exclusively to share my crafting fun!

Please go ahead and "follow me"  (I know y'all are out there but don't follow!) or just check back from time to time if you are curious!

http://naptimecraftadventures.blogspot.com/