Happy Fourth of July

Happy Fourth everyone! As hard as D tried he did not stay up past nine. I'm going to post a video of his epic struggle. Sorry it is sideways for some reason I can't fix that!

Spent the Holiday north with more Meerpohls and had a good time eating and sharing and laughing. We even popped off about $2.50 worth of fireworks and the old adage is true. You get what you pay for :-). I hope everyone wakes up tomorrow with the same amount of fingers and toes they had on the 3rd of July.

Love you all. Oh yes and Daryl is not getting eaten by a hippo. That is his baby pool !

D's First Swim

Last weekend for Father's day the whole family headed north to celebrate with family. Courtesy of Aunt Nik and Uncle Bri we had a barbecue and watched a lot of the US open. After all it was father's choice on their special day! :-)

Once we had all waited an hour after we ate J/K we hit the pool. It was Daryl's first time in the pool and the water was so nice we did not get much of a reaction out of him. He looked very serious about the whole thing. But I think that he had a lot of fun!

Good times had by all.

Update!!

It has been awhile since my last snapshot of the manor. That is really only due to one reason...We haven't been here!!! :-)

I just love how laid back D is in our waterfall picture. He is thinking, "500 ft. waterfall, whatever..." :-)

We spent a lovely vacation in Oregon. It was a great time and we got to see the cutest wedding ever! Daryl also put his little paw in the Ocean for the very first time. But it was just his hand because it was a very chilly ocean! D is pulling himself up to everything and laughing and talking to us. We don't k now what he is saying but he is definitely expressing himself. Loudly!

Kelly and I have been keeping busy ourselves. Kelly is loving his new job and just comes home and can't stop talking about all the new stuff he is learning. He is also golfing almost weekly again and I know that helps him balance his work and family. I as always have knitting to balance me, and I have a lot of things on the needles. I'm really working hard to get Bec's top done and I also need to pound out a sweater for D.

Another thing I keep working on is going thru the house and trying to pare down some of our stuff. We will probably have a yard sale some time this summer. It has been a couple of years since we have had one so it is probably time!

With all of this fun stuff going on I will try and stay on top of my updates!

Baseball and Sunburns

On Saturday the whole family went to Mr. Brandon's first birthday party. He did so good just diving into his cake. He had both hands in and was not stopping for anything! Daryl looked on with envy but all he got was frozen fruit.

Saturday evening Kelly and I went to Holton to visit with family and spend the night. We had a good time just visiting and laughing at stories till we had tears in our eyes. We got to see Meerpohl's from near and far!

Then Sunday we left baby D with Grandpa and Grandma Meerpohl and Uncle Zack and Aunt Jen. He has a great day eating sweet stuff and playing while mom and dad went to the Royals game. The whole knitting gang was their to see the Royals' glorious defeat. With Zack Greinke pitching and everything they still lost it in the ninth.

It was a nice sunny day and Kelly and I both got a little too much sun (him more than me :-)

It was a good weekend and our family can't wait to head to the West coast this weekend to see some more extended family!!

First Haircut!

This is Kelly filling in for Candi. She's knitting on a deadline (8 days and counting) and didn't have time to post tonight!

This Memorial Day weekend was relaxing, but we also found time to fit many things in. We walked around the Farmer's Market Saturday morning and found some yummy jalepeno bread and a gnome to watch over the orange garden. After I got the yard mowed, Daryl and I went to Gage Park while mommy knitted. Then cousin Caysen came over for the evening until his mom got back from the lake.

Sunday after church Daryl went to Caysen's house to play while mommy and daddy went golfing. What an experience. Candi just thinks I like to drive golf carts. We had a really fast cart and every time she drove I had to tell her to step on it! We decided to play a scramble, and we even got to use one of Candi's drives, on the hole that I had my best drive no less. We ended up shooting even par, so we're ready to take on the Meerpohl's from the north anytime they think they're up to it!

Today I helped Tony hang a little drywall first thing in the morning, then mommy met some ladies at the coffee shop for some knitting. Then came the biggest event of the weekend. Daryl's first haircut! He did so well that grandma was able to get everything cut except a little piece on the front right at the end. It looks so cute and he looks grown up and handsome. As his great-grandpa Greg would say, he'll have to carry his stick around with him to keep away all the girls.

Well, it's off to a short, but busy week. Only one week until we head for the Northwest. Mommy and daddy are looking forward to three straight short work weeks.

Summer Daze

This weekend we went to cousin Alan's graduation party. It was a lot of fun and it was fun to celebrate a graduation! D had a lot of fun being passed around and eating baked beans.



Then we spent some time at Grandpa's and Grandma's. It was so nice outside we sat outside and visited. I dropped off the pieces for my dress to Momma Meerpohl, I sure she will zip right thru it!



Kelly planted the Orange garden tonight while D and I supervised!! It looks great. I hope all of the flowers grow big and tall so you can see them from the street. Really I just hope that I don't kill them all! I'm going to try and water them every morning before I go to work. OK I have to go knit now. I'm knitting on a deadline!! :-)