Well, gone are the days of my lengthy, wordy blog posts. Just a bunch of pictures with brief explanations will have to do, life gets so busy! But since its September I NEED to get our summer fun posted!
Lots and lots of swimming! We have a great neighborhood pool, plus our friends have a new pool -complete with a slide! We got to go enjoy their backyard pool a few times and we loved it!
Brock is now a "Bear" in Cub scouts. He had a blast at Day Camp and the weather was great!
Brock and Allie both went to a Wichita State Basketball camp. Lots of great coaching and making friends. They each got a Shocker basketball to keep - Allie was thrilled that hers is pink! Brock's camp was all day long and they served the kids a catered lunch. He is looking forward to next summer camp for sure!
More fun in the hot Kansas sun!
We enjoyed yummy (but way over priced) frozen yogurt with pretty much any toppings you can think of! Brock realized this summer that maaaaybe sour gummy worms and gum balls don't go with chocolate yogurt - I'm so proud!
Brock turned 9. *sniffle*
We found out Niederer baby 4 is a boy! So excited for this little stinker! I have been so sick since March. I'm now in month 8 and functioning a bit better, but this has been a hard pregnancy! But, most wonderful things require hard work, right?
I turned 31. (*double sniffle!*)
Jenna um...used her imagination. Love this quirky little sweetheart!
We taught the kids important life skills...like pool hustling. (This is actually at one of our favorite pizza joints in Wichita, its fun to play while your pizza bakes.)
The girls have been busy making sure all of our baby stuff is in working order as we await our little guy coming this fall.
Because we took a couple out of state trips and the weather here was pretty hot, we only made it to the zoo once. But it was fun.
I let the kids feed the giraffes, we just happened to be walking by when the zoo keeper was passing out lettuce (well, for a "small" fee) but I thought we should seize the moment.
This silverback gorilla was being very active and pushing a barrel all around, it was pretty cool!
The kids played in the inflatable ball - it takes forever to blow up, so when it was finally ready, i told them they had better play in for more than 5 minutes! They did. About 5 nights in a row I believe.
Brock went to Kids College and built the champion racing Lego builder. If only he had had this much luck at pinewood derby! He and his friend were trilled to be the champs...even though the "special prize" they were promised was a Blow Pop. Oh well, he had fun and didn't really care. Allie's class was
Ooey Gooey Science. I could never find her class for a photo...they changed rooms and went outside quite a bit. Jenna did
Bubble Fun. They made all types of bubbles and made art projects with colored bubbles. Pretty fun stuff!