Sunday July 5th.

Well Sunday's are normally very uneventful. Well not this day. We normally get up and go to church and have a nice peaceful day. Not today. No pictures for this but Mom ended up taking Gavin to the ER. Here is how the story goes.



We slept in after a very late night out on the 4Th. Gavin was the first one up. The others were up not too long after. We took our baths and sat down to have some cereal. Not sure what and how and if he was dared to do it, but as Mom walked into the room to see how the kids were doing she hears "Tristan can you get this out of my ear?" It got moms attention and she watched Tristan pull a piece of cereal out of Gavin's right ear only to have him ask mom to get the piece out of his left ear. She did not see it at first. After inspection she sees it pushed in his ear. Still a whole piece. Mom calls Dad in for a consultation, and they see that they will not be able to use the tweezers to get it. So they decide to flush his ear with water and then were able to pull a small piece out. Dad left with Tristan and Allyson to church and mom continues to work at getting the cereal out. She tries to flush it out which is the only option and then calls Grandma for some help who tells her to throw in the towel and take him in for some help. Once there the nurses laughed but thought he was so cute. They gave him a coloring book and crayons to occupy him while they flush his ear. Well we finally get the rest of the cereal out. He looks at mom and says "I will not put cereal in my ear mom, I will eat it only". After an RX of antibiotic drops we were back home within 1 1/2 hours. Not bad!



This is not our first visit and by far not the last visit to the ER, but it will be the funniest.

Independence Day 2009

We had a great Day. We swam at Grandma/Aunt Vickie's house. Mom worked early in the day. Later we went to Aunt Lynne's made home made ice cream and watched Fireworks.

Makayla, Gavin and Mark in the pool.

Mark shooting water at Tristan.

Tristan got water in his eyes.

Tristan filling his gun to shoot Mark.

Tristan shooting at Mark.

Abby, Tristan, Makayla, Max holding Haily, Mark and Allyson at Vickie's house.

Tristan, Gavin & Daniel.

Allyson not liking the loud planes flying over head.

Tristan, Uncle Max and Daniel in the back.

Gavin helping with the ice cream.

July 3rd

Well the start of our 4Th of July weekend started with the 3rd. Mom and Dad both had the day off. Daycare was closed. We washed the cars (moms and dads) and swam almost the hole day away. What fun. We took Gavin's floaties off and started to teach him to swim. We are hoping that this won't take long. Cousins Garrett and Daniel came over to swim for a while with us as well.

Washing Dads truck. We already washed moms.

Mom when can we go swimming?

You don't need to clean in there buddy!

Allyson is our little fish.

She loves to jump in.

From all sides of the pool.

Tristan just falls in.

At least we did not have to throw him in this time.

He even made it across the pool.

No more floaties!!

He did very well. We started with him swimming from dad to mom then moved onto this.

This was the second time.

Garrett, Tristan & Daniel.

This was the only time Tristan jumped in with them. After this he went back to the shallow end by him self.

Reafsnyder Family Reunion 2009

The Reafsnyder family is on Mom's, mom's side of the family. We get together with them a few times a year. Here are some pictures of the Reunion we had in June with then. Everyone had a great time.

Within the first 30 minutes of getting to the park Tristan had already hurt himself. He is holding ice on his head. This is Great Grandpa Reafsnyder (Kami's Grandfather) with Mark and Tristan.

Little Grandma and Grandpa. She is maybe 4'11" on a good day.

Mark, Tristan, Allyson hugging Great Grandpa Reafsnyder and Great Aunt Leatha.

Gavin just running through the park. It was an awsome day.

Gavin, Allyson & Tristan (our Twins) with Aaron with Garrett & Gianna (Shannon's twins). We did Twins plus one she did One plus Twins. Shannon is Kami's cousin.

Tristan and Allyson with more extended family.

The kids playing Simon Says.

Aunt Margaret, Aunt Leatha, Grandma Sue, Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Reafsnyder.

Kami and cousin Rhonda. She was always like a big sister along with Shannon who had already left when we took this picture.

Fathers Day 2009

On fathers day weekend we spent the day with Grandpa Collins at his house. We took our jumper and the kids had a blast. We were hoping to swim but it was way too cold. On Sunday morning we made Dad home made cards which the kids love to do and made him breakfast in bed. He got his nap which made him feel so rested.

Grandpa Collins (Kami's dad), Allyson, Gavin & Mark just hagning out.

Grandpa Collins & Mark

Although not my favorate picture of me, I do love my Dad!

Tristan sparing with Mark.

Pictures of the kids

Here are some pictures of the kids, in case you have not seen enough, at one of my nephew's (Cody) 2ND birthday party. My brother Chad was the face painter.

Pizza Party

Although the pizza party was for Tristan's team party. We all went and had a great time. The kids got to play games and won some prizes. They played on dance dance revolution, the race cars, tried to win some candy and ski ball. Well mom and dad had to finish most of the games. They had these machines that you could put your coin in and depending on the number or hole you could just win tickets. One game Tristan put his coin in and it drops a ball and if it drops into the hole for the jackpot you win what ever the pot is at that time. Well this time the pot was 450 or something like that. Well he got the jackpot. We ended up with like 700 tickets and all the kids got some little prizes that I think are gone already. Oh well they had a great time.