More Summer Fun

Every year we go to a picnic put on by the adoption agency we used: Heart and Soul Adoptions. It is so fun to see all the families they have helped and to see all the kids.  They provide dinner and a bunch of blow up toys to jump and slide on. The kids loved them, but it's hard to get a good picture on them. So we played on the playground, too.

This year I had made a bunch of fabric flowers and was proud of myself that I made the girls wear them, probably more flowers than they needed at any given time, but, like I said, I was so proud that I actually made them! haha

Kai learned how to do monkey bars this year!

So of course Natalie wanted to try, but she got stuck. She can hang for a long time though.

Nicole loved the slide.

And one random image from my cousin's wedding we attended. My mom came out for the weekend to come too.

Family Reunion Fun

Jeremy and I were in charge of planning the Nelson reunion this year. We decided to go up into the woods for a day and eat lots of good food, go for a hike, and do a craft with the kids. We collected rocks on a walk and then painted them.

Here are our finished happy rock people. Natalie's is the skinny blue one, Nicole's is next to hers with lots of color spots (maybe he has chicken pox), Kai's is above hers with a chin piercing. Mine is the black woman. I don't know if Jeremy's ended up in this picture?

We had a visitor.

The kids get a sweet trailer ride at Grandpa's house!

 They also got to go out and pick out their own pumpkins this year!

Kai - AKA Captain Underpants!

These are a few months old from a test shoot I did with Kai. I had this great concept in my head, but this was one that didn't turn out quite as great as planned. Mostly because Kai didn't have any plain white undies, so we improvised and used Natalie's panties instead, not so manly. I should have just thrown on his super hero ones, would have "made" the picture into a classic. But we still had fun and Kai is cute no matter what, so it's all good.