Southern IL Fun!

We packed a lot into Friday afternoon and Saturday!  We headed south to visit our family and we were busy!  Friday afternoon, we went to Jared's parents for the evening and dinner.  We had a great time helping Grandpa out in the garden and enjoying each others company for dinner.  

It's a big watermelon!

Cantaloupe is easier to carry

Nora and the 'water-loupe"

Ethan, Amanda & Nora taking a stroll

Helping grandma pick the peppers

Digging in the dirt...boys will be boys! {Check out those giant sunflowers}

Nora, helping with the tomatoes

Thanks for all the produce and for the great evening, Grandma Karen and Grandpa!

Saturday included some fun garage sale-ing, tree chopping, gator riding and a lot of kids playing!

Waiting for the tree to fall!

Crazy boys riding on the gator

Uncle Mike, Ethan, Josiah and Scout

Water table= soaking wet kids!

Since most of my cousins/siblings {we were only missing 2 families} were in town, we had a get together at the Squibb's house...complete with a bounce house!!  It was so much fun, and kind of crazy with 13 kids {out of 17} running around, not to mention all the adults!

Bounce House fun!

Ethan sliding down

Paige and Nora bouncing

Nora and Paige, riding in style!

Nora's turn to drive :)

Pop and Tyler going for a ride on a more size appropriate vehicle 

The epitome of summer! Barefeet, sweaty, ice cream cone and Cardinal shirt.

Here they all are!  Sweaty, but happy!!

Finley {5}, Paige {7}, Nora {22 mo}, Tyler {14}, Josiah {5}, Ethan {4}, Haley {5}, Katie {2}, Scout {4}, Callum {3 1/2}, Hazel {5}, Caleb {3 1/2}, Grant {22 mo}

What an exhausting day and a half!  But so much fun, and so glad we were able to make these memories with our families!