Dress Up Time!

Today was a rainy day and we stayed home and played dress up in the basement. We had so much fun!!! We even dressed mommy up too:)
Power Ranger Colin

Ms. Tinkerbell
Officer Willis...thanks to my cousins Reid and Jay for sending me home with some really neat dress up stuff!!!
Minnie Mouse
Colin the Fireman
Grandma Young, Auntie KK and our cousin Quintin came for dinner. They always come over once a week for pasta night. Its alot of fun!! Grandma was reading Kaitlyn a book.
The 3 kiddos in their pj's and ready for bed. After all of the playing they did we think they will sleep pretty well tonight!

Goldfish Pond

We went to a yummy BBQ at our neighbors house on Monday. Beth took some pictures of us checking out the goldfish in their pond.

They even let us feed the fish!
Daddy was talking to us about the goldfish. We thought it was pretty neat!!! We love goldfish and say hello to them every week at Meijer when mommy is grocery shopping. Our new thing is that everything we see we say "I want that for my birthday mommy"......now they are requesting a pond for their birthday:) Thanks Tom and Beth for a great time!!

Labor Day Weekend!

This weekend we went to our Uncle Craig, Auntie Jill, Reid and Jays house! Most of the Willis family was there and we had a great time!!! They have a beautiful new house and pool! We spent all day Saturday swimming and mommy and daddy are SO proud of how far we have come in the water. We were swimming with just water wings and sometimes wearing a donut floatie too. Here we are waiting to go in the water:) Fishy #1
Fishy #2
Look at how silly these monkeys were....Daddy has Reid and Jay on his shoulders....they could join the circus:)
Colin was jumping in the pool! This was a huge accomplishment for both Kaitlyn and Colin who used to be very afraid of the water!

Kaitlyn really surprised us this weekend. She went down the water slide about 30 times!!! She even let her head go under! The next two are videos so make sure to press play to see Kaitlyn go down the water slide.

Kaitlyn kept saying that she was "waiting for Everett" her cousin. She wanted Everett to watch her go down the slide so he would then go too.

Kaitlyn jumping off the diving board!

Daddy and Colin trying to spray everyone in the pool:) Taking a swim break. Kaitlyn and Everett were relaxing on a raft.
Papa and Colin
Grandma and Kaitlyn
Mommy and her little Nemo's!! The hosts for the weekend. Thanks so much Auntie Jill and Uncle Craig.....you really know how to throw a party:) We cant wait to come back again next summer!!

More Water Park Fun!

We went back to Woodstock today to the water park. This time our Auntie KK and cousin Quintin came with along with Auntie Kristina, Madi and Makenna. They close this weekend so we had to sneak one more visit in even though we were just there a few days ago. Plus we are gearing up for our weekend at Auntie Jill and Uncle Craig's house and swimming in their new in ground pool!!!

All 5 kiddos posing for a pic:)

Here's Auntie KK warming up to the water with Kaitlyn and Quintin.

Kaitlyn was showing Quintin the way to the baby pool:)

Kaitlyn going down the pirate ship slide......

Colin went too!

We were sad that Auntie KK and Quintin had to leave for his nap. Here's the rest of the gang enjoying a picnic lunch!

Kaitlyn was very brave and went down this slide all by herself!
Big Splash!!!

So Proud!

Mommy and Daddy are so proud of us for how well we are doing wearing undies!!!

They took us to Dairy Queen tonight for a special summer treat.

Our Weekend!!

We had a busy but fun weekend! Saturday we had 2 parties to attend. One was a reception for mommy's good friend Alivia who was back celebrating her wedding in the Virgin Islands. The other was our friend Makenna's 1st Birthday Luau Bash. Then on Sunday we went to the water park with mommy and daddy's friends. Busy, Busy! Here is Colin with the Tiki statue at Makenna's party....notice Kaitlyn is MIA....she was afraid of him:) Kaitlyn and Colin dancing with the professional hula dancer that they hired to come perform.
At the water park with Amanda, Bella and Tyler.
We had so much fun that we plan to go back again this Wednesday with our Auntie KK and Auntie Kristina. Stay tuned for more pics:)

A Fun Week!

We have had a fun week as usual! Tuesday night was our last gymnastics class. Believe it or not...mommy did not have her camera with so thanks Auntie Kristina for taking some pics for her! Here are Kaitlyn, Colin and Madi doing their warm up stretches. Daddy and Uncle Brandon participating in the gallop race:)
Go Kaitlyn and Madi....they love the scooters!
Wednesday we stayed at home and swam in our kiddie pool and Madi came over. Here we are enjoying the water!
Kaitlyn loves to pour water on herself...here Colin was "assisting" in getting her soaked!!!! Thats what brothers are for right:)

We love Lego's!

We really enjoy our Lego table! Today we went to Woodfield Mall with Grandma Young and visited the Lego store. Here we are playing with our Lego city that mommy and daddy helped build for us. Colin was playing with his police station....just like he Uncle Randy he said. Kaitlyn was playing with her grocery store that scans groceries and makes noise. She was so funny and saying "Thank you, have a nice day" every time she would scan a food item. She must have picked that up from our weekly grocery trips:) You should have seen the Lego table after they were done playing....not one building was still standing:) Cam and I worked so hard to put their little city together and they destroyed it:) Guess thats an indication of how much fun they had!!

"Hide and Sleep"

As seen in previous posts most of you know that Colin loves to do somersaults and headstands in his room during nap time. Just this week we had to remove his wood guardrail on his toddler bed because during nap time he was climbing on top of it and jumping off. All I would hear during nap time was the huge thumps of him jumping off of his guardrail into the pile of blankets and his pillow on his floor. Today was a new one......I couldn't see him on the video monitor and it was quiet so I assumed he fell asleep on the floor. I peeked in his room and couldn't find him.....well here he was fast asleep UNDER his bed!

I couldn't pass up this photo opportunity:)

Weekend Fun!

We celebrated our Papa Young's 60th birthday on Saturday night. We think he looks pretty good for 60!!!! Here we are with him at dinner in Biaggi's Wine Room...our favorite place!! Papa and his 3 grandchildren. Look how focused Colin is on that cake:)
Colin helping Papa blow out his candles..we decided not to torture him with 60 candles:)
As part of Papas birthday gift we surprised him with getting a family picture taken on Sunday. All 10 of us went to Grandma and Papas house and had a photographer come to take an updated immediate family picture. The weather was beautiful and the trees and flowers at their house made a perfect backdrop! We will get the proofs in a week so lets hope after a 1 hour photo shoot she was able to get at least one picture with all 10 of us smiling. Here are K & C before we left this morning. We will post the professional ones once we receive them.