Yeatman Adventures

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Picnic!

Over Labor Day weekend we found some time to meet up with the Heinzerling extended family for a picnic at a park in Kettering. Mom, dad, Jess, Sam, Ben Heinzerling and his lovely wife Gaby, their mutual children Anny and Dany, Sherry, Sallie, Ann, Kristen, Tom, Maia, dogs Lola and Lily, Erin, Jack and I all had a wonderful feast and fun playing. We celebrated the birthdays of my dad and Jessica with yummy cake. The boys played frisbee, the kids enjoyed the playground equipment, and even the dogs took a turn going down the slides.

A few of my favorite pictures below include Jack having a grand time playing in the dirt...such a BOY. He even tried to eat a little...yum! Also, some classic attempts to take pictures of the group of children. First Maia was trying to get up, then Jack continuously tried to escape....Sallie, Sherry and Ann made all sorts of noises and entertainment to get the kids attention (see last picture), yet instead Jack just looked at them all like they were absolutely crazy. The picture of Dany holding onto Jack's shoulder while he has a 'what the heck' look on his face just cracks me up! Oh....and absolute favorite is Sherry doing a 'Pole dance' ...whoohooo!

From family picnic

Sunday, September 20, 2009

15th reunion!

We were all home over Labor Day weekend to celebrate my 15th high school reunion! Goodness...where did the time go!?! It was an action packed weekend and LOTS of fun. I was in charge of planning some activities to help entertain the many kids present at the picnic we held on Saturday afternoon. We had a "Sparky" egg hunt, a water balloon toss, and sack races as the highlights. It all went really well and was so fun to see our offspring playing and running around! Here are a bunch of pictures from the event....

I do have to give some shout outs here too. A big special thanks to Jess and Sam for REALLY helping me SO much at the picnic. Sam was the body inside the Sparky costume (which was smelly!) and Jess was key in helping to corral all of those kids! I couldn't have made it through the day without them! Also...thanks to Kristen who was the master planner in charge of the reunion...it was wonderful and she did so much work! Finally, to my dear husband who also helped laboring over the grill to help Tom make all of the food, as was also just generally kind to put up with our reunionizing.

From Reunion Picnic

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Random Park Pics

Ok...still trying to get through posting all of the pictures stored on the computer. These aren't anything exceptional, but show Jack happily exploring a park which is in Anderson. He really loved crawling through all of the tunnels...such an adventurous little man!

From Anderson Park

Thursday, September 10, 2009

New Outfit

Jack's daycare teachers were VERY generous to him for both his birthday and his 'going away' gifts. They bought him all sorts of things!! One of his teachers got him this cute outfit with hat included. I figured it was a good excuse to take some pictures of him....so put him in the outfit and played outside for awhile. He wouldn't leave the hat on for longer than about 2 minutes at a time...but here are some of the pictures that I caught of him. He spent quite a bit of time carrying around the basketball and watching it bounce down the driveway. If he will be involved in any sport in his future, I would have to guess basketball...he is kind of obsessed with it currently. These pictures were all taken pretty close to nap time...you can tell by the last photo where he is sitting inside his 'house/fort' and looks like he is in la la land.

From new outfit

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Take my picture

I am super behind in blog posts. I hope to catch up over the next few weeks. I just emptied 270 pictures from the camera memory card onto the computer, so now just need to organize them and get them up here...

This blog is a few pictures of Jack when he was asking to be photographed. He is starting to catch on to the concept of the camera. He loves to see the 'baby' on the screen of the camera. He has come to expect the flash or snap of the camera and often squishes his face, starts to close his eyes, or opens his mouth with a big grin. Here are some close ups of him that I took when he was asking to see the baby on the camera screen... He is too funny.