John's 1st Day of Kindergarten

Today John started Kindergarten! He will be going full day, Monday thru Friday. The bus picks him up at 7:31am in the morning and drops him of at 3:36pm in the afternoon. It's still hard for me to believe that our little boy is in school! He was SO excited to start. When he got off the bus, his first words were "Mom, I had a GREAT day"! I am so thankful for his joyous heart for school, I will pray he continues to have that throughout his entire school career!

Smells like rain....

This evening we had a burst of rain come out of the sky. We all were in the garage checking it out and Andy suggested to the boys the "run and play in the rain". It was God's sprinkler Park! The boys hesitated at first... but then jumped right in. Hey, what else are you to do on a hot summer night!

State Fair

Today kicked off the Indiana State Fair! Last year we sorta started a new tradition in the Stash Family, since Tricia's birthday is August 6th, the State fair opening was on her birthday last year, and this year the day before, we called it YaYa's birthday "kick off" weekend! Our friends Andy, Amy & Dylan joined us. We started off waiting for the shuttle the bus, then when we got to the fair... it was ALL ABOUT THE FOOD!! YaYa treated the boys to a few rides on the midway and we just had a great time. It was an awesome way to kick off YaYa's birthday!

William turns 4!

I can not believe our baby boy is four years old today!!
William wanted to have a "water" party and anted to invite friends from his classroom at school, friends from church and his cousins. William is completely fascinated with Captain America, so I tried to do a theme around that. It worked out great. We had a few baby pools set up in the yard, along with the slip n' slide. We had a light lunch and of course a cake from Costco. And William was blessed with all the generous gifts from his friends and family... He was such a lucky boy and had a great birthday!! Many blessing this year coming year for our sweet William.

Swimming in the Spa

When we purchased our home, we discovered it came with a spa! Absolutely wonderful to use in the winter....BUT kind of useless in the summer. When it's 90% humidity outside the last thing I want to do is get into a 104 degree spa. Andy and I had a awesome idea to drain the spa, clean it and fill it up with fresh water, turn off the heater and let the boys use it as a swimming pool... WE ARE BRILLIANT!!  The boys love using the spa as "their" swimming pool!

Ice Cream Truck, Puppy Baths & Slip & Slides

Today was a HOT July day! We have two wonderful dogs Shiloh and Missy, and let's face it, dogs get stinky! Today we decided to give the dogs a bath, since the water was finally warm enough outside and it just gave us something to do on a beautiful summer afternoon. As we were getting ready to get the dogs out and washed, were heard the whisper of the ice cream truck moving closer... the boys ear's followed the sounds and as the truck got closer we flagged them down and bought some ice cream off the truck, it was great! I personally felt like a kid! (Prices were a lot higher then when I was a kid....BUT to see the boys smile was worth it) The puppy washes commenced after the ice cream was consumed!  The boys were boiling hot after playing while dad washed the dogs, so we thought it was theperfect day to bring out the slip n' slide Opa bought them while he was visiting in May! They had a blast.... great way to end the day!

4th of July fun

This year we celebrated the 4th of July in Greenfield, at the Manship's home! Family living close by joined us for yummy hamburgers, potato salad & blueberry pie! (And LOTS, LOTS more to eat) Matt Terrell surprised the family by showing up in his naval attire. Garmie was especially  surprised to see him! Since, the family didn't have chance to have it's annual Easter Egg hunt this year, Aunt Mary decided to have it now! It was a fun way to help celebrate the 4th! Along with some water fun, fireworks and a new playground set, we all had a blast!