Blue Tip Parade!

Tuesday night was the big Blue Tip Parade!  It was the first time I had to been to the parade in years and it was Crewsie's first time to the parade (technically his second parade).  We went with Yaya and my friend Deb and her kids (Larken and Lachlan) and Aunt Casey and her neices (Natalia and Olivia).  It was hot and muggy, but we had a great time!  The kids absolutely loved it...especially the candy...not so much the LOUD fire trucks!  haha!  Crew came home and kept telling Daddy that the "Trucks were LOUD!"

Above:  Crewsie and his buddy Lach!           Below:  4 of the 5 kiddos!

Olivia aka:  Livi!

The highschool band!

Crewsie kept saying "I hug Livi!"

Loved the monkeys!

Some of the cars were even throwing out ice cream and popsicles!  The kids thought it was awesome!

Lachlan and Larken waiting for more candy!

Natalia loving her popsicle!

Some of the antique fire engines!

Natalia, Crewsie and Aunt Casey

I love these pics of all of the kids!  They were all so good when we put them in a line to get a picture and they even all looked!

Funny fact: 

Olivia (1 yr.), Crew (2 yr.), Natalia (3 yr.), Lach (almost 4) and Larken (almost 5)!

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5!  Cracks me up!

Olivia and Crew high-fiving!

Lolly the Trolley...very funny family story about this trolley!  You know what I mean family!?!?! hahahaha!

This is Greg in about 5 years with Crew's boy scout group!  hahaha!  I would pay a lot of money to see that! hahahaha!

Josh the Juggler was quite disappointed with himself when he dropped his prop!

These little girls were so cute!

Crew's favorite...the motorcycles!

Happy Daddy's Day!

 Or as Crew would say...Happy Dadly's Day!  Crew is such a lucky little guy to have a Daddy like you!  We hope you have a wonderful day :)  Love you bunches! 

Daddy's little buddy!

And a very Happy Father's Day to my Daddy and Crew's Popa!  You are a wonderful father and I love you so much!!! 

Happy Father's Day to Popsie!  Love you bunches Pops! 

And a very Happy Father's Day to Grandpa!

I hope all of the men in Crewsie's life have a wonderful Daddy's Day!  Each one of them is special to him!

Bye, bye boat...

Before we even used our boat...we sold it!  We bought this little boat back in March and today we sold it!  We bought the boat for a very good price because quite frankly it needed some work.  But, since Daddy has LOTS of experience refinishing boats he knew he could make it look like new again (like our wooden folkboat we sold last year).  Popa and Yaya ended up buying my grandparents boat around the same time and we have been using that boat a lot, so we weren't sure how much we were really going to end up using this sailboat....so just for the heck of it Greg listed it on Craigslist and sure enough he started getting lots of emails about it.  We actually ended up selling it to a guy that lives less then five minutes away!  Below are some before and after pictures...

The boat is a 17 foot O'Day

Greggy sanded the boat down, did some epoxy work and little fix ups and then painted it.  He also painted the boom, mast and trailer.  The end result was fabulous!  He painted it brown because the sails were brown and yellow.

These pics were from this morning right before the guy came and picked the boat up!  It looked so good and I was a little sad to see it go, but I can't get too sentimental because we never even sailed it!

I think Greg should become a professional "boat flipper!"

The guy who bought it was sooooooooo excited!  He wanted it because he has a cabin on Atwood Lake and wanted something he could sail with his son.

Crewsie playing in the boat one last time.