Friday Evening Swimming!

Tonight after work we went over to Aunt Erin's house for a dip in the pool. Ollie and Tyler were already there when I got there.

Kathryn and Becky came with me!

Tyler was being silly and got stuck in Ollie's little blue ring!

Becky and Kathryn

Six Flags!!!

On Monday we went to Six Flags! Aunt Erin and Allison have season passes and they could bring a friend for free before the 30th and Ollie was free so all we had to pay for was parking!

Ollie rode all the rides in the kiddie area!

Bugs Bunny!! See that turtle Ollie is holding? He won that all by himself! I'm not kidding. While Tyler and I went to ride something Erin, Allison & Ollie stopped to play some games. Ollie really wanted to throw the darts at the balloons so Aunt Erin bought him two turns because she didn't think he would do very well. He threw 5 darts and 2 of them popped balloons so he got to pick out a medium prize!!! I asked if his name was turtle turtle and he said "no, one-eyed jack". Remember the turtle he saw at Papa's house last week that only had one eye?

After lunch we went to Hurricane Harbor. Ollie was not going to stick his head in this shark's mouth - no way!

But Tyler did!

It was so hot but we all had a good time! We didn't leave until 4:00 - it was a long day but we got our money's worth!

Father's Day

Ollie was really excited about the presents he got for Daddy! A new tool box!

We went to Papa's house and took our slip n' slide. Ollie is not real good at it and Mommy is not good and running and sliding but we tried! He would always get off in the middle because the cold water was hitting him.

But he liked playing in the pool of water at the bottom!

Of course he had to help Papa open his presents too!

Time for pie & icecream!

Hope all you Dad's out there had a great Father's Day!!!

Olde Tyme Picnic!!!

After the parade, we went to Aunt Erin's house and we swam all afternoon. Daddy brought Garcia's pizza from Champaign, IL to surprise Papa with dinner and we all ate it in the pool! Chris is a good cabana boy!

After swimming we went up to the picnic. It was soooo muddy! All of our shoes were gross! Even Ollie thought it was too muddy. But, he still wanted to ride rides of course. He liked the Circus train.

And the flying doggie ride.

He thought the cars would be fun but he had this look on his face like, this isn't as much fun as I thought it would be. Oh well, you can't like all the rides.

The swings, he loved! He had a big grin on his face the whole time! It was actually a little scary for me to put him on there by himself. The seats are so big and the belts are just chains in the front that are not tight at all.

Tyler and Ollie rode the ferris wheel together.

We all wore are Olde Tyme Picnic t-shirts. They don't make them small enough for Ollie so Aunt Erin bought a 3T plain white t-shirt and cut the front of a picnic shirt out and pasted it onto the smaller one. She also cut hers so it was cuter than just a t-shirt. It was really cute in the back it had ties up the whole back. She is going to be just as creative as Mom - I can see it already! Good thing because I am NOT.

We stayed to watch the fireworks and then got back on the shuttle (school bus) to go back to our car. Ollie loved riding the school bus!

Parade!!!

Batman & Bella!

This morning we got up and went to the Olde Tyme Picnic Parade. Aunt Erin brought dreamcicle popcicles. We had to take Ollie's shirt off because he only has one Olde Tyme Picnic T-shirt and it is white!

Jay's family came and sat with us. Mr. Cool drinking his kool-aid!

Chris liked the parade too - he is getting so big!!!

Mid Week Pool Party

Aunt Erin and Uncle Kevin had a pool party on Wednesday evening. It was so hot that day and their heater made the water 91 degrees. I thought it was great but Erin thought it was too hot - is there such a thing???

Ollie is really getting good in the pool. Just put a pair of floaties on him and away he goes!

Stay tuned this is going to be a busy weekend. Saturday is the Olde Tyme Picnic, Sunday is Father's Day and Monday we may be going to 6 Flags. Thank goodness I have three day weekends!!!

Sunday

After we took Tyler and his friend Nick home we spent the rest of the afternoon at my dad's house.

Ollie is waiting patiently to ride "The Mule".

Papa found a turtle on Saturday and kept it in a box just for Ollie to see.

This turtle only had one eye. They named it One Eyed Jack.

Then Ollie and Papa put the turtle in the mule to take it back to it's mommy. Ollie decided the turtle's name should be "Turtle Turtle" instead of One Eyed Jack.

Later we walked to see their neighbors. I did not have my camera with me but I didn't know we were going to get to see their horse and get to pet him! Next time I will have to take my camera with me!

Parks & Car Hop

Saturday evening Ollie, Bella & I went on a walk down to the park. Ollie is Mr. Social. Everytime we go to the park he finds someone to play with!

On our way back home we saw, Maggie, Samantha & Paige walking up to the park behind our house. So we stopped to play too.

It was a short playtime because they all started throwing sand with their shovels and it was getting close to bath time for the girls.

After the parks Ollie and I walked up to Fritz. They were having a Car Hop Night. Ollie took his Wall-E flashlight with him and was saying that he could see monsters with his "noculars" (binoculars).

Mmmmm....baby cone!!

Fritz had a DJ set up for their car hop night and Ollie had a great time dancing.

Cute story....One of my best friends from high school, T, was at Fritz too. Ollie looks at me while he's dancing and says that he has to go potty. Since we go up there all the time Ollie knows just where the potty is, only bad thing is you have to get a key to get in. So, Ollie takes off towards the bathroom behind the store and I was trying to get the key. T says to hold her icecream and she will go get him. So once we are done going potty we went to sit with them and Ollie is running all over. I asked him to come back and T said that she would go get him but he would yell at her again. I asked why he yelled at her and she said when she went to go get him and picked him up he yelled "YOU'RE NOT MY MOMMY!!!" and she said I know Ollie but I'm taking you back to your Mommy. Good job Buddy!!! He did just what he was supposed to do but he should have kept yelling it until he was back with me.

Friday Evening

After work today we took a walk to the park. There were a lot of little boys there and Ollie fit right in. They were all playing with sticks.

Ollie stole a big stick from the big boys and was getting away with it! They had a great time!

Just a side note, while we were at the park I noticed someone using the water fountain. They must have gotten a new one because on the back side of it is a little fawcet to replace the old big orange one they used to have to dogs to get a drink so Mom didn't need to take Bella down to the creek last time to get a drink after all. I'm sure you don't find that funny yet but maybe someday you will! Sorry Mom, I should have looked better!

Ollie wanted to wear his Batman jammies tonight.

We even had Bella dress up as Bat dog! I don't think she liked the cape all that much but she was a good sport!

Dog House, Electric Fence & Maggie!

This weekend Daddy and Tyler built a very nice dog house for Bella. It even has shingles on the roof! I think Ollie likes it better than Bella!

Daddy & Tyler also put in an electric underground fence to keep Bella in the yard. We will see how well it works!

Maggie came up to see Bella and her and Ollie had a good time riding his truck!