Angove family reunion 2012

The Angove family reunion was a couple of weeks ago, once again held at Hungry Mother State Park.  We got to see lots of family, spend some time at the "beach" playing in the sand and swimming in the lake, go jump on inflatables (new this year), and Addie even got to sleep on the top bunk of bunk beds!  Thanks to Aunt Emily for the pics-we somehow never even got ours out of the camera bag the entire time we were there.  At least it's easy to share pics these days!  Here are some pics from our time there. 

Our Angove boys

 Us girls

 Austin was very generous, sharing his fun toys with Addie and Levi

 Addie with cousin Julianne

 Ring Around the Rosie

 Celebrating several birthday's

 I think he liked the cupcake!

 Making dog food out of the sand, as Addie put it

 Trying out his new float-it was a hit!

 Bob loves to rough house with the boys

 Levi had no fear and would have loved to go much deeper by himself

 Gotta love that Uncle Corey is jumping in the jump house also...

 Levi loved that slide!

 Stopping for a quick sip of water!

 Putt-putt time!

 Got it!

 They had lots and lots of fun!

 All 6 of the Angove cousins.  It'll be 7 next summer when Austin has a baby brother or sister!

Olympics

The Olympics are beginning this Friday, so we decided to have a little Olympics of our own.  The kids made Olympic flags, then marched in a circle holding them while singing "Jesus Loves Me" for our opening ceremonies. 

 Then, the games began.  One game was to try to balance a plastic egg on a spoon while walking across the room and back. 

 Next, was snack time (they have that in the Olympics, right?)

 Miss Tiffany brought cookies decorated as Olympic rings.  I apparently forgot to take a picture of all the rings, but here is one of them:

 Lastly, the kids got their medals.  I took each of their individual pictures for them to remember their first Olympics.  It's hard to believe none of these kids were alive when the last summer Olympics were going on!

 Summer

 Addisyn

 Levi's ended up looking more like a mug shot

The rest of June

I have been a little preoccupied with other things in our life recently and have really put the blog on the back burner.  However, I am ready to play some catch up.  So, here are pics to summarize the rest of June that I never got to.

 Fun with friends at our house.  These two girls, Addisyn and Summer, are 2 of Addie's best friends.  They play incredibly well together...and it really works out that their moms are great friends also!  For now, Levi is the tag-along brother with them, but it won't be long before Levi is teaching Zane and Dylan (the baby brothers) how to play like a boy!

 The Snead cousins came for a quick overnight visit.  No, they did not all sleep in the same bed!  For anyone wondering, pictured from left to right with ages: Vera-6, Eden-5, Levi-22 months, Addie-3, Kai-4, Tobey-4

 Addie went to VBS at our church for the first time and had a blast.  I kept on getting bits and pieces of things she would do throughout the day, but never got the full story.  That was a little weird for me since I am generally with her all day every day and know exactly what she is doing all the time.  But, it was a great week for all of us and we are already looking forward to doing it again next year!

 On the last day of VBS, we came back at night for the "finale."  We got to hear the songs the kids had been singing-Addie was into it!  So much so that we bought the cd of VBS music and Addie wants to listen to it every day!

 Levi absolutely loves to help unload the dishwasher.  He's actually pretty good at it-I just always have to rush to try to get all the breakable dishes out before he grabs them!

 Daddy has been wanting to take Addie camping for quite some time.  He finally set a date and did it...despite the heat.  They set up the tent in our backyard since it was their first time (wanted the option of coming inside to their beds if things went downhill during the night).  Addie was so excited! 

 Ready for bed.  Addie's bedtime is 8:00.  She was up well past 10:00 that night because she wanted to "see the dark."  She got to see it!

 The night went well and both Daddy and Addie were still asleep when I went to check on them in the morning.  Too bad taking this picture woke Addie up.  After this successful camping experience, I'm pretty sure Daddy wants to take us all camping sometime soon!

Happy Cow Appreciation Day!

Dress up like a cow and go get some free Chick-fil-a today...we did!

Father's Day

We had a fun time celebrating Father's Day last Sunday.  We had a campfire the night before where we cooked out dinner over the fire (hot dogs), then had s'mores.  And, got a pic of Daddy with the kiddos!

 On Sunday morning, we brought breakfast to Daddy in bed as well as his cards and gift.

 Sunday afternoon, Daddy wanted to try fishing in the pond across from our house for the first time.  The kids and myself came to cheer him on, and had fun watching him.  He had great success....caught 5 different fish in about 30 minutes!

 The kids were supposedly feeding the fish some stale bread we had, but I think they actually ate most of it.

Quick potty training update: I started potty training with Levi on Tuesday of last week.  The first couple of days were rough and I was wondering if he was really capable of potty training, or if I had jumped the gun.  However, I was committed through the weekend, which I am so glad I was now!  On Friday, Levi didn't have any accidents!  Since last Friday (a week ago) he has had 2 accidents-one of which I take the fault for.  That includes going to church-we took him to his class in pull-ups so his teachers wouldn't have to deal with clean-up, buy he kept his pull-up dry and peed in the potty while in class 3 different times.  He doesn't fully have the poop thing down yet-mostly he just poops in his diaper at nap time (he wears a diapers whenever he sleeps) or doesn't poop at all.  But, we are so proud of our Levi.  He's such a big boy now!

Hiking with friends

It has been a little while since I last posted a hike we went on.  A few weekends ago, we went hiking with friends-a first for us.  It was different than when we have gone just as a family, but we all had a blast.  Hopefully there will be more hikes with friends in the future!

All the dads with most of the kids

 Daddy and Levi

 The girls: Addie, Addisyn, and Summer

 Levi was MUCH more difficult on this hike than in the past.  He did not want to stay in the backpack-he just wanted to play in the water!  Unfortunately, it was cold outside and the water was not safe for him to play in.  We'll have to keep him in mind when we plan our next hike.

 The girls wanted to hold hands as they hiked

 Addie and Addisyn

New beds!

Last weekend, our neighborhood had a yard sale.  Although we did not plan to buy any major items, we ended up buying a new bed for Addie!  The price was right and we figured although she still had a couple of years where she would still fit in the toddler bed, she could go ahead and transition into a twin bed.  Addie was (and still is) SO excited about this bed.  As you can see, it is more than a bed:it has bookshelves and a cabinet that we use as her dresser now.  So, we moved quite a bit of furniture around this weekend...

 We decided to try Levi out in Addie's toddler bed.  We kept the crib up since we didn't know what he would do.  But, he slept great the first night without ever getting out of bed before it was morning.  The following day, he tried getting up when it was time to nap, but Daddy put the fear in him and he hasn't left his bed since then...even when he's finished sleeping!  Who knew he would be so obedient for Daddy?  So, now the crib has been taken apart and put in storage.  I'm a little sad that we no longer have a baby in the house.

 And in the spirit of growing up, I decided to start the potty training process with Levi today.  So far, he has used 6 pairs of underwear and made it to the potty once.  He's napping now-we'll see what the rest of the day holds.