Family

We were excited to have Mat, Marbree and Peter come visit us at the end of the summer!  We hadn't seen them since the boys birthdays in February and they were all pumped to play with cousin Peter.  We visited the Magic House, did some school shopping, and went to the pool.  Mat and Nate saw 2 movies on Saturday (Spiderman and the Avengers, I think?) and we hung out here.  Mike, Dorothy, and Emily came over for dinner on Saturday and to celebrate Nate's birthday (Andy was out of town for work).  It is always fun to have family over and the boys love having grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins around to play with. 
Mike and Dorothy are moving up to Kirksville this fall (actually, they close tomorrow) where Mat and Marbree live, so with both of them up there we will have more of an opportunity to visit and see them all at the same time.  Kind of exciting!

 Marbree is helping our collector (L) as he puts all the blues together...I could leave him at this spot ALL DAY LONG and he would be on cloud nine. 

 Z and C are decked out in Jack (from the Magic Treehouse series) glasses, blue shirt, and backpack.  N is in Annie's red shirt and has her camera ;)

 Boys.  Lets run a hot wheels track from one bunk bed to another!  Um, ok.  Have fun with that...

Not entirely sure what Z is sooo grumpy about here but he REFUSED to take a picture.  This was Sunday morning before church and we asked him to smile and he wouldn't.  We threatened (and did) take away his Baby Blues books for the morning but he still wouldn't cooperate.  Seeing as how few pictures we get of all 5 boys, this one is a keeper.  It will be good blackmail later ;)  And it's too bad, too, because everyone else looks great!!