Food & Fun!

Andrew's first time eating sweet corn. This was one method he employed.

Aaron and I got a little hoop for the boys and he rigged it up this morning.

Good grief my boys LOVED eating Grape Nuts with Gramps!

My child that hardly eats vegetables ate 3 ears of corn....

Swimming with Gramps & Syd

After a supper of chicken and Iowa sweet corn we went to the pool for about an hour.

Syd jumping off the diving board.

Coming down the slide, this is a great picture!

Splashing Gramps

Gramps and his little boys playing at the pool....

Haircuts by Dad!

The boys were in need of haircuts and dad volunteered for the job. We bribed Gabe by telling him he would look like Hudsen and that he could have a sucker. Andrew was bribed with the sucker alone.

Afterwards. He wasn't having too much fun during but still enjoyed his sucker. Even after it was dropped on the ground and licked by the dog. We're good parents.

He WANTED to be hosed off. Honest!

Ready for bed after a bath.

Another little man, pleased with his hair!

These boys have the BEST dad! Thanks Aaron for giving our boys a trim. :-)

Fishing with Mikey & Laura

When we were at the farm in May for Rhett's baptism Mike & Laura took the boys fishing in their boat. Gabe and Andrew loved it and they both caught some fish.

Andrew driving the boat. I don't know who is happier to be on the water?

Gabe had a turn driving too.

The catches of the day.

A very happy Gabe. He was so proud of his fish!

Rhett's Baptism Weekend in May

These pics will be in no particular order primarily because I find it very annoying to try to arrange pictures in blogger, especially with this many.

Gabe holding Rhett

Rhett all ready to head home.

Laura, Gabe and the dog Rusty playing ball.

our Rowdy dog

Drew playing in Grandma's rock garden, Rusty looking on in the background.

Rhett telling Dan all about his crazy hairdo. Rhett's crazy hairdo, not Dans!

More baseball with the always-willing auntie Laura.

Godparents Auntie Laura and Uncle Mike

I love this photo of the Walter family... it's so good and I really like how we caught Bauer throwing his shoe up in the air, kinda aimed at the altar.

Andrew enjoying his ice cream after Grandpa made him WAIT!

The "other" set of Godparents!

All 4 Godparents. Man, he is one lucky kid! :-)

Andrew and Bauer shoveling in auntie Holly's delicious cake after the baptism.

Here is the cake before we proceeded to down the whole thing.

Sisters!

Brother's Mike and Dan

Andrew and Gabe WAITING for their ice cream cones.

It was a fun weekend spent with family!

Archery

If you don't already know this, Aaron is very into archery. More the primitive type... stickbows, wood arrows. I guess "traditional" archery is a more accurate term. We have shot a lot of bow and arrow in our time together and Aaron has passed his interest on to our kiddos.

So we happened to find a traditional bow at Jax in Ames, Iowa for Gabe to try out. He loves it and wants to shoot all the time.

Here Grandpa and uncle Jon were watching Gabe and Aaron shoot at a hay bale on the farm.

He has his own quiver and arrows. The following 3 pics are a series of him pulling an arrow, pulling back, and shooting.

Andrew always want in on the action..

Uncle Dan (also an archery enthusiast) and Gabe talking strategy and safety.

And not to be outdone Andrew shot a few rounds.

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