Meet Grace and Ruby!

Here is a picture of the newest members of our family. Sydney told me she is having a hard time remembering which one is which by just looking at them. I told her that once she gets to know their personalities it will be easier :)

Two Wheels!

Cousins!

One of the best parts of WI is COUSINS! Sydney told me the other day that her friends Matthew and Haley have cousins that live in New York like them and wouldn't it be cool if we lived in WI or our cousins lived in NY with us?

Taylee and Saul bonding. Saul loves babies and loved every minute of all the attention Taylee gave him....who wouldn't love a Taylee kiss?



Scout tolerates Saul for a pic




The Van Horn-Brainerd Cousins -


The meeting of the minds -


Scout taking a bath. After I took a few pics - she was taking a bath in a wash bin - I realized it may not be kosher to take a naked baby pic of someone else's baby.... o well she's too cute!


Try #2 for the Brainerd/Van Horn cousins - (This is smile you get when you ask Keith to smile)







This cracks me up...one big happy family!


The Manion/ Van Horn Cousins - all we are missing is Luke and he was surely missed!

Post for Julie!

We are home from our two week vacation to WI. We visited family, met up with some friends and even had some fun of our own. We canoed down the Brule, picked agates in the gravel pit, 4-wheeled, the kids rode Great grandpa's bulldozer, and even celebrated Sydney's birthday! It was a great trip. One of the highlights was our visit with our friends Matt and Julie. The guys took off for 3 days in the boundary waters and the gals stayed home and managed the home front. I was able to introduce Julie to some WI treasures. We played on the beach of Lake Superior, ate Shammrock pizza and Top the Tater, and even used a friends bounce house. She saw a bear run across the road less than a mile away from Matt's parents house and saw the Packer Pride in peoples lawns. One thing I didn't get to show her was this....








Matt mowed my Mom's lawn the last afternoon we were there, I'm pretty sure it's safe to say, "only in WI do you drive your John Deere lawn mower with Packer pride!"