Luke is driving the gator. Andrew is shot gun with

Olivia and Zane in the back. The humidity

has made Olivia's hair so curly!

TADA!! It's stained..finally. Mark worked really hard

and we had lots of help.

Olivia rubbing the lion cub's belly at the Toledo Zoo.
We celebrated the house being done by going
to the zoo this past weekend.

We were cleaning up the yard and piling up pieces of

leftover wood on the firewood pile. The gator came in

really handy. The boys worked really hard.

We went to the Toledo Zoo and had lots of fun.

This picture is for Grandma Joan who hates snakes.

Luke and Zane helping to push the Gator and Andrew

up a little hill. Team work. Team work.

Playing Grocery Store is so much fun! Zane asked me if they could

use real food from the pantry to put in the shopping cart. I agreed and later

heard Luke say, "Is this on sale?" Zane's reply was, "It's on my list."

The flashlight Zane is hanging up was the 'beeper' and Luke was the Beeper Lady!

Olivia was handing Luke the groceries and Andrew was the bag boy.

The past weeks we have been busy staining the exterior of the house.

No, Zane is not really staining! He's only in training to help in another 4-5 years.

He wanted to be on scaffolding like Daddy and

he even paints with this tongue sticking out-like Mark.

Zane and Andrew liked putting water in buckets and using a little brush to help 'stain.'

Photo taken at Hocking Hills-Old Man's Cave. Luke got his hands in the water

every chance he had. Here, he climbed out on a limb so he could splash around.