Only in Cleveland

Today I bowled on my bowling league.  While waiting for my turn I was talking to another lady who was telling me about a Captains game she just went to (The Captains are our minor league baseball team).  I haven't been to one so she was telling me that there is more than just watching the game such as the fireworks, and things for the kids to play on.  Then she got really excited and said that they gave out some free things such as "one guy won a free funeral".  Only in Cleveland...

Kiwi

We received this awesome little guy today from New Zealand.  I can't tell you how excited I was for Lincoln to get this, I'm kinda jealous.  Lincoln loves to chew on his beak.  Thank you New Zealand Ellsworths for the super cool gift.

The Ice-cream Truck Pays A Visit

Our house is right down the street from a park, so the ice-cream truck comes by our house often.  So we can't escape the summer without getting ice-cream once.  So here's what they picked a Dora ice-cream, watermelon popsicle, and a Sponge Bob ice-cream.  

Ice-cream = 3 happy kids.

Do You Ever feel Like This?

This last week has been kind crazy!  Our lawn mower decided to break in the middle of mowing the lawn.  The next day I decided to do a load of wash and our washer was making the worst sound imaginable.  Then no joke, the next day I took the kids to the library and couldn't get the car to start until the twenty something time of trying.  

The washer was fixed today!!!  We had to have the transmission replaced in it.  Luckily the part was under warranty we just had to pay for service and labor.  The car was fixed yesterday after they worked on it for two days and did a number of mechanical things to it which I can't even pretend to understand.  We are still working on the mower thing.  Ryan knows some about mowers since he worked on them as a teenager.  But it looks like it is something he can't fix.  

All you can do is just laugh and wonder how they all have such great timing to break at the same time!

Fishing

Last night we went fishing as a family,we try to go a couple of times each summer.  In Mentor there is an awesome park which has tons of fish.  You can see all the fish swimming in the water right next to the dock.  You'd think that they'd learn their lesson but each of the kids were able to catch at least five fish.  We used hot dog pieces and bread as bait. Mmmmm!  Really, though the kids each ate a piece of the bread we brought for the fish, it must have been good bread.  It was such a fun and relaxing night!

Kaitlyn was not all that fond of getting close to the fish.  Can  you tell?

Look hard and you can see a fish off to the right.

We are going to miss the Thompson's

Last night was a sad night!  We had to say goodbye to our friends the Thompson's.  They are on their way to North Carolina.  I am really sad to see Michal go!  She has been such a good friend! 

Reuben ended up crying himself to bed last night because he doesn't want Dylan to move.  It was heartbreaking!  Here are some pictures of the kids all together.

Lincoln and Corbin taking a nap at the pool.

Reuben and Dylan

A week ago or so Reuben said "Dylan can't move I'll have no one to be crazy with"

The gang.  Dylan, Ashlyn, Kaitlyn, Reuben, Evie

This is our biggest tree in our yard.  The boys are constantly climbing up it.

We'll miss you guys!

Trip to the Zoo

On Friday we went to the zoo.  It was super hot!  The kids loved the black bear, rhino's, and butterflies. Here are lots of photos of our trip.

Since it was so hot we broke down and bought some slurpee's.