First day of school

Dunk tank

 Our neighbor's son graduated from high school this year.  Yesterday their family had a graduation party.  The favorite event of the party for my children was the dunk tank.  (That and the soda and cake.)  The kids had a great time dunking each other and Benjamin went to bed requesting a dunk tank for his next birthday.  (In December??? really???)

Monkey-en around

Tornado

Who would have thought that we would have a tornado here in Upstate NY.  We did -- last Tuesday and it took out our tree by the sandbox.  Here are a few pictures.  It also took out our some of our garden.  I'm hopeful that most of the potatoes survive.

Adirondack Animal Park

Alec had a dentist appointment in Albany this week.  Joseph took the day off work and we took all the kids to the zoo.  The kids had a ball.  Here were our favorite photos from the day's adventure.

The zoo had a safari ride and this was Liver Lips' friend approaching the kids on the ride.  They were hoping for a juicy kiss.

 The petting zoo portion was one of our favorites.

Ben's lost tooth

Benjamin lost his first tooth Sunday July 6th.  He was so excited and even got a visit from the tooth fairy.  The tooth fairy brought a gold one dollar coin which he was hoping for.  To celebrate he called all his grandparents and Grandpa Dave.  He's such a cutie!

Lily's bedroom

I've been working on Lily's bedroom.  We wall papered one wall with pink polka-dots and put up a boarder.  I still have some of the detailed painting to do but it is coming together nicely -  and she likes having a girly room.