Nicoley-isms

My sweet Nicoley brings us so much joy and she is so sweet and oh my goodness is she ever funny!  I need to record some of her latest comments (most learned from her siblings and then used in her own way)  When she wants some thing from the kids or us she asks then says "I'll give you a hundred dollars and buy you some candy"

Yesterday she was looking at Mark and asked "Are you finkin' what I'm finkin'?"

At the lake this summer our friends teen aged daughter Amber was wear a cute plaid shirt with jeans and Coley was staring at her with her "figuring it out" eyes.  Jayme asked her why she was staring at Amber and Nicole answered with much gusto: "Yee Haw"

It is rather embarrassing that my 2 year old LOUDLY sings things like "Every body dance now...bah, bah, bah bah " or then the same tune "Party with your pants down".  (Punishments were given out to siblings who taught 2 year olds that fabulous verse to the song)  She also often sings "I like em big, I like em chunky, I like em round, I like em funky"  

She sang for the camera a sweet song that her Daddy sings to her, it's at the bottom of this post!

Although I am sad that the kids are going back to school soon and will be gone from me all day long, I am looking forward to all the time I will get to spend with Coley this fall.  She is great company and great fun.

Lake Holidays - Part 5 - Hanging Out

We had such an amazing time just relaxing and sleeping in each day, staying up late each night running on absolutely no schedule.  It was such a great break from "real life".  We had no agenda each day and we made sure we spent lots of time with our good friends from BC as we only get to see them in the summer.  We sat around in their garage drinking coffee in the mornings, sat around the lake in the afternoons and sat around campfires in the evenings.  

The kids had great times hanging out too, there was never a lack of friends to play with.  We are so blessed to have our trailer at the lake where we can feel safe letting the kids go off and play.  They are making some of their "friends for life" already and it's so fun!

Lake Holidays - Part 4 - Boating

We had a great time going for boat rides with our good friends the Janzs, mostly we just went for rides in the boat and looked at the beautiful sights around our lake.  One afternoon it was warm enough to go in the water and Jayme was the only brave one to jump in.  Janz's have an old windsurf board without the sail that they attach behind the boat and Jayme went on it.  She FREAKED me out by deciding to stand and surf on it!  I didn't know she had this adventurous side in her.  Crazy girl!  She was actually upset when we told her she was done!

Lake Holidays - part 3 - Pool Fun

Thankfully the pool at the lake is heated so even though the weather wasn't killer hot, we managed to have a couple of pool days.  The kids enjoyed jumping off the diving board and were really into me taking "action shots" of them.  Her are the best 2 shots.  

 And here is Colie with her Dora Floatie with a big "Cheese" for the camera!

Our Lake Holiday - Part 2 - Sports

Mark would take the kids to the field and play soccer, baseball and football.  What a great Daddy he is!  Colie would do whatever she could to try and keep up with the kids!

So proud of himself for climbing up there by himself!

Our Lake Holidays - Part One- Quadding

We enjoyed quadding a lot during our holidays, the weather dictated that for us.  It was quite a bit cooler than normal for July, but we still had an amazing family time.  I think it's soon going to be time for us to invest in another quad, we only went on one whole family ride and I don't think we were very comfortable on our "Kodi".  Mostly it was Daddy and the kids going for rides.

Mark couldn't leave the yard without Colie on the quad with him.

And of course after riding, Daddy had to teach the kids his good habit of cleaning up... of course with a mischievous little 6 year old, it wasn't only the quad getting wet at the end of the ride!