Fun with Glow Sticks

We had a very busy weekend. Friday night we visited Danielle and Rich's church, Life Bridge, for a kid's event that was going on. The set-up was pretty awesome on the stage and the games were very fun and exciting. Our boys were wild and crazy as usual. Savannah got to participate in a toilet paper game. She loved it.

Saturday we had a Stiver reunion at my Grandma's apartment complex. There is a large community building that we meet at with a huge yard out back. It turned out to be a really nice day. We usually have a euchre tournamet, but since all my cousins have little ones now, its kind of hard to be able to play a game without getting interruped. So my Uncle John was the host this year and decided that bingo would be a fun game that all the kids could get in on, complete with some fun prizes. Amongst those prizes was a container full of glow sticks. Carter chose those, I don't know why. But we had fun with them last night, as you can see in the pics. And might I add, it was my idea to form earrings around their ears. ;)

Sunday after church we met at Lakeside Park with my parents and Lance's family as well a the Elden extended clan. The food was great and it was nice to get some tennis and corn hole in too!

I am really tired today. ;)

Savannah, Isaiah (cousin), and Jordan playing a game at the reunion.

My 2nd cousin Parker and my nephew Graham playing Star Wars Stratego.

I thought this pic turned out pretty cool.

This pic turned out blurry, but I thought it was cute.

Totally random video.

Three Rivers Festival

Last night we took the boys over to the Three Rivers Festival at Headwaters Park. I must say, I think the carny people get scarier every year. They were pretty rough looking. The boys enjoyed three rides together and we all had a little bit of food from junk food alley. But by the time we paid for parking, a few rides, and the food, we had spent a whopping $50! Next year, I think we will just get a snack there and watch the fireworks at the end. Those rides are way too expensive and they sat on each one for maybe 2 mintues. Pretty ridiculous! But the boys had fun. And I was able to get some cute pictures.

Jordan made that face almost every time he went by us. So cute! I don't know who the little girl is behind them. I felt bad that the Carny guy made her sit back there. There were plenty of other helicopters and such.

The boys loved the motorcycle ride!!

This fun house was pretty pathetic. They were out in about 1 minute. I was a little hesitant to let them venture through there by themselves, but the scary carny guy assured us that they would be fine and couldn't get lost. This picture is actually pretty high up from where we were standing. It was at the top of a slide. They loved it and wanted to go through again, but of course, that would have been 6 more tickets. No way!!! :)

The 4th and a Birthday Girl

We had a heck of a weekend this year for the 4th of July! We headed to Toledo, Ohio on Friday morning and spent a lot of time at the Holiday Inn French Quarter Hotel. Nik has memories of staying there as a kid and couldn't wait to go. They had a very awesome indoor/outdoor pool and a gigantic hot tub. And the hot tub allowed kids over the age of 3 to get in, so the kids loved going back and forth from the pool to the hot tub. After we swam for a while, we headed over to our good friends Abbie and Dan Stever's new house. They have only been in it for a week. So it was awesome to get to see it so soon. We also celebrated Abbie's birthday on Saturday. She is a 4th of July baby. :) Oh, and by the way, she took a lot of the pictures I added on this post. Thanks Abb!

We had lots of good laughs with them and our kids kept cracking them up. Abbie offered to steal Jordan away from us for a week, and Savannah said, "Only if we can have Clare." Clare is almost 1 and she is the cutest thing! She is a speed demon at crawling right now, but she will be walking any day. She zooms around the furniture. I tried to hold her a couple times, but she LOVES her momma. :)

Saturday night we headed over to Zia's restaurant (a birthday tradition for Abbie) and had some good eatin. Afterwards we watched the fireworks outside the restaurant near the docks. I have to say, Toledo does put on a good show, and the finale almost made me jump out of my pants. Jordan wasn't a fan of the fireworks this year, so he sat in the car with his big sister. She kept him safe, as you can see in one of the pics.

The Hot Tub

Walking to Zia's

Carter being goofy.

Jordan eating some yummy spaghetti and wearing my coat cuz he was cold.

The birthday girl and her hubby.

Family pic outside of Zia's Restaurant

Abb and Me

Abbie and her favorite buddy.

I love this pic except for the flash. It perfectly captures the moment during the fireworks of Jordan's fear comforted by his big sis.

Just a cute pic I wanted to add of the boys at home before we left for the weekend.