TONS of pics mostly from July

I thought it was about time I cleaned off my camera. These date back as far as July 5th. Kinzie's birthday party. Vacation Bible School. Random pics of the kids. A bunch of new ones of Nicholas. He has changed so much already! Hope you enjoy!

The 2 pics Mike has sent me, in the month+ he's been gone.

The kids playing at the 'playground' at Nana and Papa's house.


Charlie doing 'chores'

On July 5th, we had a joint birthday party for Kinzie and my neice Mayah. There were tons of people and the kids all had a great time. After the party, my brother-in-law shot of fireworks, it was a wonderful ending to a great day. Beautiful weather!

Kinz got her 1st 'bike' she walked it around going vrooom vroom!


The boys waiting for the fireworks
Giving Kinzie a birthday hug!

This summer Charlie got to go to Vacation Bible School (VBS) for the 1st time. It was something I attended every year until I was too old, then I helped or taught every year until we moved to Germany. So this year he was able to go (along with some of his cousins) and I helped out just so I would be there if he needed me. One of their crafts was painting the trash cans from the local ball park. Charlie had a blast, but unlike the other kids who did just a section. Charlie thought his whole SIDE needed to be painted (and the spots around his where the kids didn't 'finish' lol) He had a blast!

VBS finale! The kids sing all the songs they've learned.

My neice Mayah Charlie is the little boy with no hat on.
My nephew Eli
Mayah again
My neice Hannah

Nana decided she was tired of seeing Kinz push her hair out of her eyes, so she cut her some bangs!! Already her hair has gotten so much longer since then, this was ON her 2nd birthday July 14th!


Charlie was rough-housing around with his Uncle Justin and got these lovely carpet burns on his forehead. Of course this is THREE days before I am taking the kids in to get pictures done! I may have to cancel now.

The mall in Topeka has an awesome kids playing area. My sister and I wanted to go hit some sales, but 1st stop was to the play area (so I could feed the baby) and the kids could let loose! They had a blast!

Group shot taken for Daddy/Uncle Mike! Isn't it so great!

My cousin was twisting his hair while he slept. He was all sweaty so it stuck that way. Made me think of how Mike looked when we 1st started dating.