The Rusks: July 2009

Friday, July 24, 2009

Greg's Deer

We have a new addition to the family. All four of us went to pick up Greg's deer head today. It looks really good on the IL plaque, and compliments the deer head we already have on the state of IN.

Finger Painting

We let the girls finger paint... outside, of course. It was messy and somewhat difficult, but they enjoyed it. We painted on canvas so they can keep their first masterpiece forever!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The girls came home from vacation to "big girl beds". They are actually bunk beds, but we probably won't use them as bunks any time soon. They were very excited to be done with the toddler beds and have new beds to sleep in!

Hannah is pretending to sleep.....

Vacation - Dale Hollow Lake

Mark and Bridget have a houseboat on Dale Hollow Lake, so we took the girls for a family vacation! I was nervous about being on the water with 2 - 2 year olds, but it went great. The girls loved it and were very good listeners about the "rules" on the water. We had planned to take them tubing on Saturday (our last day), but the hi temp was only about 74 degrees and there was not much sun, so we decided to save that for next year! Zion and Isaiah were there with Grandma and Papaw. Eli, Casey, Dallas, and Laney went down too, but Laney wasn't feeling well, so they cut their trip short. We overlapped with Scott and Danielle on the first day, but I didn't get any pictures with them in it!

The Marina

The boat... Bridget, Mark, Isaiah (I think..), Taylor, Hannah, and Greg

Cousins. They had a lot of fun with Zion and Isaiah!

They really are best friends!

Searching for shells along the shore.

They found a handful and played in the water some more!

The kiddie pool was on top of the boat, more for Laney, but the girls enjoyed it too!

Swimming behind the boat.

Hannah, Zion, Taylor, and Isaiah in the speed boat.

Love you Sis!

Sitting on the front of the houseboat.

Looking for fish with Daddy.

Taylor driving the boat with Papaw Mark.

Hannah driving the boat with Papaw Mark.

We had a great trip and plan to go back next year!

Chillicothe Pool

We went with friends to Chillicothe (where our last house was - about 30 minutes away), to swim at the new pool. It was a lot of fun and a really nice pool. We even swam with our old neighbors, Megan, Drew, and Ali.