Jacob Jo

Yes it is true...one of the Field girls has finally birthed a little boy! My poor dad...it only took him 3 daughters and 2 grand daughters to get one. : ) My sister Callie had a little baby boy, Jacob Jo, last Saturday. He is a perfect little peanut and I am so sad that he is half way across the country and I can't hold him RIGHT NOW! So, I am having to settle for looking at gobs of pictures and waiting in anticipation for about 3 weeks from now when the girls and I fly to Seattle and we get to hold him. If you'd like to gush over him too, go to, www.thejensons.org.

Road trip!

Last weekend, my neighbor Becky and I took the 4 girls, Maggie, Maya, Megan, and Lily, on a little 4 1/2 hour road trip to Milwaukee where Becky's parents live. We left at bedtime, hoping they would all sleep the time away...well, it took 2 hours and 1 potty stop, but all 4 of them finally fell asleep around 10pm. Not too shabby.

This is their house.

This is the view from their house! It was absolutely beautiful. I can't remember the name of the lake, but there were several of these little bays that were no wake zones, so it was very peaceful. As you can tell, almost everyone had a pontoon boat and many had speed boats as well. The lake was mostly less than 10 feet deep and was covered with weeds, the only bad part seeing as I am terrified of sea weeds. Yuck!!!!

The neighbors had this swing tied way up high in a tree and the kids had a blast doing really big swings!

Here are the kids "feeding" the fish with none other than goldfish crackers. : )

Here fishy, fishy...

The other favorite passtime was playing in the pea gravel that was the "beach". I think grandma and grandpa need a new load to replace all that the kids threw into the water!

Sitting on the dock.

Watching the fish again.

Here they are in the front of grandpa's speed boat. We were headed out to go tubing!

Maggie and I went really fast! Too fast over a few waves and she got freaked out and was done with that. : )

Maya wasn't sold on this whole tubing thing either. She layed down cuz she was scared, holding on for dear life, and we hadn't even started moving yet.

Once she realized she wasn't going to fall off, she relaxed a bit and had a good time.

Lily on the other hand is a dare devil and her and I went really fast!!!

We stopped on a sandbar in the middle of the lake (weed free of course), and we got out and swam around a little bit.

The gang's all here!

One night grandpa got out his guitar and had a sing-a-long with girls. On the playlist were such classics as Old MacDonald, Wheels on the Bus and You Are My Sunshine.

Finally, after a long, fun, busy weekend, we set out for home. NONE of them slept a wink, and Maya talked the ENTIRE way home - a total of about 6 hours, which included 4 potty stops and a dinner stop. Needless to say Becky and I were more than ready to get out of there!!!!!

We had an awesome time though. Becky's parents were wonderful hosts and we all had a chance to chill and unwind...Becky and I were even treated to a pedicure!!! My toes are sparkling. We'll have to do it again next year.

Fandango

Fandango, our streets annual block party was, gee, I guess about 2 weeks ago now. We had a great time as always, even though we had morning rain, and it ended up being one of the hottest, and definitely the most humid day of the year.

We started out the day with our annual breakfast at Brian and Beckys house. This year we changed it up a bit and decided to forgo the pancakes, and do egg bakes and coffee cakes instead. It was delicious.

From there, we had a kiddie bike parade. The night before all the kids got together and decorated their bikes with crepe paper and balloons, and whatever else people pulled out of their garages to decorate with, and all the Cove kids rode their bikes or scooters down the block a couple of times. They were really excited and really cute!

From there we turned on the upgraded version of the bounce house. This year we went for the gold and got the "combo unit" which included an obstacle course and a slide.

Despite the fact that it got soaking wet in the rain, the kids bounced until they could bounce no more. And in the afternoon when it was really humid and hot, they started taking buckets and cups of water from the little pools we had set up, and made the slide into a water slide. They entertained themselves for hours!

Next the face painter showed up. All the kids got their faced painted. This year there were lots of butterflies...

And puppies...

And balloon animals!

Then the Woodbury Fire Dept. arrived with a big ladder truck.

They showed us the big ladder...

And let the kids climb in and out of the truck (note Maya's very stylish Fandango 09 t-shirt!)

Everyone tried on all the fire gear...

This is our neighbor Brian. He put the ENTIRE outfit on.

After the fire truck left, we ate food from Buffalo Wild Wings which was delish, dipped into the chocolate fountain, and the adults played a Bean Bag Toss tournament. Yours truly was the women's winner, although I came in 2nd overall. Derek was the king of the Bean Bags. As the night was winding down, we shot off a few fireworks and got the kids cleaned up and put to bed. Usually we do a bonfire in the cul de sac, but the rain returned, so we all hung out in a neighbors house and talked and snacked until midnight. It was fun, but exhausting day.

Here's a little video of the bike parade. (ok, I just watched it and it isn't really very exciting...I think I must have deleted the "good" video. oh well, you get the idea!)

Maggie funny

We were at Eddie Bauer this morning and we were in the dressing room...I was trying on a pair of shorts and was looking at myself in a full length mirror.

Maggie: Wow mom, there's really A LOT of you!

Thanks Mags.