Silly boys

On Saturday night my cousin Cindy and her two boys came over for dinner. Trey and Isaac are almost the same age (Trey is 5 weeks older) - they figured out that if they push each other around on Isaac's airplane it is much more fun than playing with it alone. The second photo is when they got giggling so hard they could hardly stop!

Fishy

Here are some photos from our trip this weekend to the aquarium. Dad and Suzi were here for a visit and Isaac enjoyed showing us all the fish and turtles. He wanted everyone to see what he was excited about - even other kids at the aquarium and one of the aquarium guides. At one point he grabbed one of the guides hands to take him over and show him a certain fish. Luckily it was a very patient guide and he was very good with Isaac. Isaac even got to touch some very starfish in the petting tank. On Saturday night, Cindy, Trey and Brody came over for dinner - I'll try to post some cute photos of Isaac and Trey tomorrow.

Construction - end of week 3

More progress for week 3 of construction on the basement... This week we had the first inspection (which we passed with flying colors). Today they did the insulation and installed the shower base. On Monday they are going to stock the drywall and then the drywall will start going up on Tuesday. Our contractor told me today that he hopes to be done with the drywall by the end of next week, so the next round of photos should look quite different!

Bathroom (with the shower base)



One of the bedrooms



Family room (looking west)



Family room (looking east)

Labor Day weekend

On Friday we traveled to Illinois for the long weekend to stay with John's mom. John's sister Jean & brother-in-law Chuck came for a surprise visit as well, bringing with them John's niece Emily from Holland who is staying with them in Louisville (attending her senior year of high school there). It was great to see everyone and we were in for even more surprises on Saturday when John's mom Alice hosted a surprise baby shower. John's sister's Tina & Inez were there as well as some family friends. We had so much fun catching up with everyone! I'll post some more photos of the shower later, but here are a few from the weekend.

Isaac on his big boy bike that Oma picked up at a garage sale for him



John and his niece Emily at the park



Our family with Emily before church on Sunday