Sunday, July 17, 2022

Summertime busy!



Last Sunday morning we celebrated baby Elsie’s baptism! It was a fun event!! We also had cookie cake to celebrate Kieryn’s 11th birthday!





That evening Kieryn had her birthday party! Pizza at the park…



Tye-dye scrunchies…



Twilight swim… and later a movie night. She wanted to keep it quaint. It was such a fun party with wonderful friends!



The week was crazy busy with camps! Kieryn had volleyball camp each day 10:00-1:30pm in Wamego and Ronan had basketball camp in Manhattan from 3-5pm. After Ronan’s camp on Monday we got to watch him play baseball! The team got beat but the boys still had a good time. 





Dabbing at dinner… couldn’t resist taking a picture. This kid is a sponge! He knows just what to do to be silly with the big kids, love this guy!





Tyson helped Dad fix the bubble guns to take to Kieryn’s Wednesday swim meet. 





Being 11 now, she was bumped up to the next age group in all her events which we were not expecting to happen until next season… but Kieryn handled the surprise well and swam her hardest against the older kids. 





Luckily she had some extra support cheering her on!





Camps finished up on Thursday… we had fun at the park and splash pad with friends to end the week…





Then Kieryn and Steven left at 5:15am on Saturday to drive to Ottawa for Kieryn’s league meet. 



We supported her from Manhattan by wearing all our team gear! She got first place in 4/5 events even though she was swimming in the next age group!! We are so proud of her hard work!



While she was at the meet, the younger three kids had fun at a neighborhood birthday party…







On Sunday we attended a Wamego Waves Swim team party! They handed out awards and the whole family got to swim at the Wamego pool! So much fun!!







What a great end to a fun week!!

Sunday, July 10, 2022

What a busy week!

We started the week with the 4th of July holiday on Monday. We visited Seneca for fireworks and lunch…







And hung out with Baby Elsie!















Then we enjoyed dinner and fireworks with a family in a next door neighborhood! 







No baseball game for Ronan this week, but we traveled to Baldwin for Kieryn’s swim meet on Wednesday…
 





She took first in the 100m freestyle!







We (Kieryn and I) were struck by a deer on our way home… Toby was trying to figure it all out the next day. Still not sure if the van is totaled yet or not…



Kevin flew in from Maryland for a few days of golf. I didn’t get any picks of the brothers together, but I know they had fun and it was great having Kevin here for a few days! He had some pretty serious Nerf gun wars with the kids! What a fun Uncle!



Ronan and his buddy Lawson were proud of their “job well done” as they spent a morning pulling weeds for Steven and earning a bit of extra money!



We celebrated Kieryn on Saturday! She turned 11 years old! Her friend Caitlin spent the night on Friday while Ronan had a sleepover at Lawson’s.  We had donuts and eggs before attending another birthday party at an indoor inflatable play place! 



Maren, one of the kids I babysit, and Alexis are such sweet friends! It was Maren’s 5th birthday party! 







Kieryn loves her new birthday gift!







We have her friends birthday party tonight! Pizza, sand volleyball, swimming, and a movie… so grown up!  Hard to believe she is already 11!! 

Until next time!