Favorite game

So, the boys' favorite game now is Star Wars. They run around with Hot Wheels tracks for light sabers and announce which episode they are in and what character they are playing.
This morning, Ben was sitting on the chair with a bunch of pillows and Noah, donning a black spider man mask and a black hot wheels track (the 'bad guys' light saber) started hitting the pillows and knocked one off the chair. Ben kept saying, "don't break my doll house." But Noah did anyway. Ben responded to that with, "I hate you Woah." Noah lifted up his mask and in a grizzly, bad guy voice said, "I'm not Noah, I'm Darth Vader." And Ben, without skipping a beat said, "well, I hate you Darth Vader!"
They are such good pretenders!
Now, Jakob and Noah are playing Tradewinds, a computer game about pirates and ships, but they are using legos and building tons of boats all over the floor.

Updated picture

This is now the most recent picture of the 'rents!! They took an anniversary trip to Sedona, AZ and finally used that time-share they've been paying for!

Bugs

Yesterday, we found the biggest butterfly I have ever seen in our breezeway. This morning, we found this giant camo colored bug (Steve says it's a tobacco bug) Noah and Ben are calling it the 'army bug'. The butterfly was on the floor of the breezeway this morning and Keely decided to step on it and bite it. I don't know if she killed it, but it's gone now.
Noah also spotted a tiny frog in the grass Friday so we put it in the garden. Hopefully, it will eat the little bugs in the garden.

5K Run/Walk

Apparently, for the last 12 years J-town has held a 4th of July race. We had heard that every year was unbearably hot and humid but people still ran it. This year, it was definitely humid, but not exactly hot due to the rain.
So the run was a 5k and the walk was supposed to be only 1 mile. We were never told where the walkers were supposed to turn off the course so we made our own course after going too far out of the way.
Anyway, it was pretty fun even though we had to carry Ben and Noah most of the way. We're pretty sure we went more than a mile, but it was a still good time. Jakob's new friend Drake came with us and tried to keep up with Jakob, but that's almost impossible at any speed running or walking!

4th of July

Rain Rain go away, Fireworks can't go off when it's raining!!!
We had a very rainy holiday today. It cleared up enough for one round of croquet and 3 boxes of snap-its - which Keely did not appreciate. It was a pretty good day, however. We had some friends over and had a good time.

front door

Here is our new front door. Well, it's the same front door just enhanced with decorative lettering from Uppercase Living. I love this stuff! The possibilities are endless. If any one needs info about Uppercase Living, email me or comment here, and I'll get back to you!

Basketball

Steve won the 3 on 3 tourney on Sunday at the company picnic. This is a great picture! His prize is a NBA jersey. He chose Miami Heat's Beasley, of course! Good thing they had the draft already!