Indians Game!

 Every year Smuckers gives us 4 tickets (however they always let all 6 of us in) to attend a game. It's a fun event we always look forward to!

 Our kids were determined to catch a ball! 

 It started raining so they covered the field and we had to wait for about 20 minutes 

 Luckily we found some covered seats for the remainder of the rain

 We had heard about this "Kids Club" that was new and decided to go check it out! They LOVED it!

 They got to throw pitches 

  Run to first base

The following week Nate was offered tickets that weren't being used. We were about 10 rows from home plate. It was pretty cool. It was a gated off section and there was only one other family there with a kid, yes one kid! We stood out ha! It's okay we had fun anyways!

Mommy and Reid

 Reid and I have had a lot of alone time this summer. He often gets left behind when the girls go to play with the neighborhood kids and Ryan naps. Also, now that the girls are in school it's a lot of me and him.

 I love eating on our back patio. It makes me laugh because the kids will be at the table eating lunch or breakfast and I will go outside to eat and within seconds my little litter will follow me. 

 The last month of school the girls planted a sunflower seed in a cup. One of them survived and we replanted it into the ground. It has been growing like CRAZY!!

 Good ol' buddies

 Once again, breakfast on the patio!

Job Change!

Nate has been wanting to switch brands at work for a LONG time. If he had his choice it would be Jiff. He was networking etc and the timing of things was never right. Then a position opened up and Nate tried to apply, but his boss told him that they were hiring externally for the position because since the company is growing so much they needed more employees. Months went by and the position was never filled so Nate asked about it again and same story. Then, a few weeks ago they came to Nate and offered him the job! He has no idea it was coming! For FHE he decided to surprise us and handed out Jiff bars! Now he will be marketing All Jiff snacks and Smucker Natural Peanut Butter and a few other things. So happy for him!

Right about this time there was a "Bring your family to work day" which consists of dinner, dessert, and tours of the facility. We went with our good friends the Ellers and Adams

 The men

The women

End of July

 The neighbor kids are always at our house and the popular thing is hoover boards......Hallie is obsessed and I don't care for them because they can be so dangerous! Right after this picture was taken Nate fell REALLY hard! Yikes! Luckily only a bad scrape on his elbow.

 I love this boy. He was so serious here waiting just like this for Nate to take his picture. 

 We had some pull ups laying around and the kids thought it would be fun to all wear them....

 Nate and I were inside one afternoon and we decided to be good parents and go look for our children who hadn't been inside for some time. We looked out and found these two moments. I love these big sisters and so do their brothers! 

 One Saturday night I went to go check on our kids as I was going to bed. I found that Reid had laid out his clothes. It was so sweet. 

These boys LOVE to be mischievous together!

Public

So I have kept this blog private for a few reasons, one being I have wanted to write some things I wasn't wanting to share with the world since they were fresh, but I am willing to give it a go again......so here we go!