Happy August

A week bookended with birthday cake for Amy and Addie, a birthday party with friends, and TWO kayak excursions in one week!  Ayson purchased another fish for the tank (and our massive goldfish has not eaten it...yet) and two snails.  It has been cute to see Ayson sitting and watching the fish tank looking for signs of the new fish, Tiger (a loach: bottom feeding fish).  Ayson wanted the loach so that Ayson would not have to clean the fish tank as often...hahaha.  We hope that our family and friends are doing well and enjoying summer!!!

Amy's birthday was on Monday and she decided to have her cake at lunch time - why wait?!  Happy BIRTH day to Grandma Pat :)

Blowing out the 46 Big Ones :)

The kiddos cleaned the fish tank on Monday and Blackie (the goldfish) and Shadow (the cat) loved it. 

Amy went on an early morning kayak with a friend on Tuesday to Labrador Unique Area.  

Gorgeous morning!

Very cool fog on the water.  The air temp was 56 degrees when we started...yikes!

Adam got Ayson a new shirt :)  Ayson LOVES ketchup and fries and he wanted a picture in his shirt.

Addie took this pic of the cats sitting pretty and requested that it get posted to the blog.

On Thursday, Amy went to Fillmore Glen State Park for work and there was a bat hanging out in the rafters of the pavilion!

Makes perfect sense to follow a picture of a bat with a picture of lounging cats :)

On Friday evening, Addie lost another tooth!  Yay!  She so wanted this tooth out before attending Leena's birthday party on Saturday!

Leena's mom, Ashley, is an awesome school teacher and she had the kiddos busy with painting rocks, outdoor games, a scavenger hunt, a water gun fight, and a piñata.  Everyone had a great afternoon.

Listening to the scavenger hunt rules.

Hahaha, Leena has the right idea of putting her bag right under the candy pouring out of the piñata.

Amy got her "birthday outing gift" on Sunday morning: an early morning kayak with the family on Tully Lake.  

Ayson enjoyed paddling on his own but near the end, he kept trying to connect his kayak to Amy or Adam's...hahaha.  No such luck, Big Guy.

Adam instructing Addie on how to get out of the lily pads

A gorgeous and still morning and the temps were MUCH warmer

On Sunday afternoon, Adam discovered a little snake in our front-side yard so we all went out to watch it. The snake climbed up our mulberry tree and curled up in a depression in the crotch of the tree. Too cool! Addie named the snake "Pine."