Labor Day weekend and Dawson with the kittens

I like to swing with my eyes closed

I won't swing with my arms any lower than this either

The Tigers Fans....Go Mizzou! We beat Illini!

Grandma, Abby, and the cheeseball

Great Grandma and Grandpa with Dawson and his obsession with the pool balls

Great Uncle Phil and Dawson....dunce caps? the new Devo?

The family

Kitten #1 (who had just had a bath)

Kitten #2

My favorite D and kitty picture :)

First Day of First Grade

The Peoria zoo and a few other things

Colton and Ashlyn come to visit Peoria

The water balloon fight-we had a ton of kids and moms over for a water play date.

At the Peoria Chiefs baseball game...
when we got there Ashlyn asked me, "so, are we watching football or baseball or something?"....she's so funny!

Pretty smile

Pretty Hair

My favorite picture of all...the 3 stooges on the slide together

Big boy climbing high

The Alphabet Garden at the farm park we went to....

Saddle up cowgirls!

The Donnelli's let us try out their go kart!

Sprinkler Fun at home

Uncle Jay helping the kiddos with the ball skills

Our catcher

Our batter

The can crushing party after we had lots over the weekend who drank lots of soda!

We also were able to squeeze in bowling, lots of reading, coloring Star Wars pages, and of course some good TV watching was had by our 3 resident TV junkies ;) Not too much though...

Spencer will be so sad when they leave tomorrow. He loves his cousins.

Wisconsin Dells/Clearwater Lake House 2009

The Raw's (minus Randy, Kathy, and kids)

Papa, Keatyn, and Ashlyn swimming at the clubhouse

Colton playing some hoops at the clubhouse

The awesome pool

The kiddie pool

Foozball

John (Caleb's friend), Chris Raw, Michelle Bonderer, and Caleb Bonderer
(Tim couldn't make it due to work)

Jason, Autumn, Spencer, and Dawson (who didn't want his pic taken)

Nanny and Papa with all the little fritters

Colton, Brandon, Keatyn, Melissa, and Ashlyn Hough

Front of house

Dawson loves Colton

Hanging out at the beach by the lake

want some sand to drink?

Busy boys at work

Keatyn is practicing for her next modeling experience

The 3 kids on the big boulders making silly faces

The 5 kids all piled on the rock

They loved the paddleboat!

Throwing sand....his favorite part!

Keatyn throwing sand!

Papa, Keatyn, Autumn, and Dawson on the lazy river at Noah's Ark Waterpark

Weeeeee

Weeeee!

John and Caleb take the 3 little kids out on the canoe

Brothers

Lovin' those rocks

My favorite pose...Nanny and Dawson

Melissa with the kiddos on the paddle boat

The babies...aren't they sweet ;)

View from the lake

View from the deck

Spencer in his bunk

Ashlyn in her bunk

Colton in his bunk

The babies having a snack