headlands beach

A couple weeks ago, we made a trip up to Headlands Beach State Park.  This is a wonderful beach destination in Mentor, Ohio and it's beautiful. You literally feel like you're at the ocean (minus the salt water!) and the kids absolutely love it!  Here are several pictures from our day:

 

 

 

 

 

preston's hope park

 

A few weeks ago we made a day-trip up to Beechwood with (Aunt) Darby and the Smith cousins to Preston's Hope Park.  This is our favorite park and you may remember us visiting last year.  The park is great because it's huge and is made to look like a little town.  It was great and the kids had a blast playing together! 

CLICK HERE to see some of our pictures from the park!  

 

too long...

It's been far too long since the last update!  We've been so busy lately, have tons of things to share, not to mention many, many photographs, but it seems no time to get it all together.  We'll try and update soon with some of our latest happenings!  So for now, here are a few pics of the boys from when we went up to the Lodi Station Outlets.  We made a special trip up to ride the infamous train, only to buy tickets, wait in line for 30 minutes and then find out that we couldn't ride it after all due to some kind of "technical difficulty".  Oh well, we had fun anyways and made a trip out of it and it turned out being a great day after all!   

 

 

fun in a field...

 

 

 

welcome

A week ago today, we welcomed a new niece into our family.  Her name is Elizabeth.  Isn't she precious!?!

 

Unfortunately, the boys were not allowed to go into the room to meet her so they had to wait outside.  They were totally bummed, but had fun in the waiting room with Mimi and Papa.  

 

As we were leaving the hospital, we took advantage of the beautiful courtyard outside and snapped a few pics of the boys.  

 

 

safety fest

about a week ago we attended a safety fest at clay's park resort.  it was great for the boys to see all the things they love...firetrucks, police cars, tractors, and helicopters!  they loved watching the helicopters fly in and land in the field and for the chance to hang out with uncle nick, who is a firemedic for one of the local crews represented there.  here are just a few pics from the event:

  

 

 

 

 

silly bandz

okay, are anybody else's kids obsessed with these animal silly bandz bracelets!?!  they are pretty cool (if you've never seen them before).  hudson absolutely loves these things and doesn't go anywhere without them!  kinda fun! :-)

  

take a ride

we had a really fun afternoon at an event at clay's park resort yesterday (more on that to come later!) and when we saw this old, piece of playground equipment, we had to jump right on and take a ride (and take a few pictures of it too!).  do you remember these things!? the boys loved spinning around and around.  they sure don't make playground equipment like this anymore...