Klay Family: Busy Beavers

Earlier last week, Jondrea took our pictures at a retired barn near Mommy's school. Jondrea works with Mommy and had some connections to the farm. She posted a small sneak peek album for us and will have the rest of our photos in the next week or two. Here is a glimpse of our photo shoot!

It was just one week ago that I updated the blog and with the number of photos posted this week, you will know how crazy busy we have been! Last weekend, we went to Grammy's house to finally get some of our toys out on the lake. I was dying to use my motorized jet-boat that replaced my jet-ski from last summer. It doesn't go fast at all, but is fun to drive around!

Grammy gave Cooper this non-motorized croc that has an annoying squirt gun attached.

Mom and Dad gave us this huge blow-up ball that we can sit inside of and hurl ourselves down a hill. We think it will be a lot more fun on the snow but still wanted to give it a try.

It is hard to believe that our first ski outing was on June 22nd. Typically, we are skiing in May and Daddy starts in April (can you say, "fanatic?!?!") Cooper was feeling brave to hit the trainer on his own this year. He made it up very quickly and kept a smile on his face until he looked behind himself, lost his balance, and landed in the middle of the lake. He screamed for a minute until we got him back into the boat. He wanted to ski again within a few minutes, so we don't think he was traumatized too terribly.

I have decided that the trainer is for babies, so I was ready for the boom and "real" wooden skiis. Daddy wanted to talk me through my first attempt, so here is the footage from my first REAL skiing debut! Daddy has two skiis on and I have two kid skiis. He helped cradle me up and from there, I was able to do it myself :)

A proud Daddy

And a very happy waterskiier (see me peeking and smiling at the paparazzi?!)

Instructional t-ball is every Tuesday night. I am getting better with throwing and catching, my best skill is hitting off the tee. Here are this week's pictures...

Daddy had a hospital association convention in the Dells at the Kalahari and he asked if we wanted to join him... um, YES! Mom knew this wouldn't be easy as both Cooper and I are daredevils on the waterslides and from 8:00-4:30, she would be alone with us. Nonetheless, she was very proud of her management skills and we all had a blast!

We mostly went into the indoor waterslide park during the day along with an outdoor pool that was quiet. The craziness was outside at their outdoor waterpark which we only ventured out to a few times. The good news is that Kalahari requires kids under 48 inches to wear a life jacket, so it was just another way we had a built in mini babysitter while there.

Free edema

At night, we went to their indoor amusement park (hello, money suck!) and had to try the kiddie bumper boats. These were our favorite. The lady let us drive them for 15 minutes just because we were so darn cute on them. As you can tell, we only had each other to slam into.

Kalahari jungle carousel

A huge indoor ferris wheel to cap our night

Before we left the Dells, we went on the army duck boats. We thought it was amazing and SO fun to go from land into water in these huge things.

Amazed.....

We arrived home late on Friday night and the next day, we ventured to the Twin Cities for an adult only baseball outing. Mom and Dad along with Mommy's siblings gave Papa tickets to the Twins game for Father's Day. They sat in right field, 1st row... super cool seats. The day was beautiful and they had a great time with everyone. The Twins beat the Royals too :) While they were at the game, we were with Grandma Carla, all 5 of the littles and yes, she survived with no problems at all!

Our friends Arlyn, Jennifer, Jacob and Aiden came from Tampa, FL to visit family and friends. We were able to sneak church and brunch in with them on Sunday. It has been over a year since we saw them last, so it was wonderful to see them and the growing twins.

Right after brunch, we zoomed to Finley's 5th birthday party at his grandparent's house who live on the lake. It was a pontoon/tubing/water-fun party. It was probably one of the most awesome parties we have ever been invited too. They had a waterslide for kids to zoom down.

A wide sprinkler slip n' slide with mats for extra sliding power :)

Check out this birthday cake! You will be seeing it at our party next year for sure! It was amazing!

Next up, pontooning and tubing, our first tubing experience! The birthday boy, Finley, gave us a quick orientation and off we went!

We were ALL smiles and cheers!

There were many kids at the party, so we worked on being patient for our next turn.

Cooper, Easton and I on our 2nd tube run!

I ended up having 3 turns because I promised I wanted to join the big boys on a fast run. I was laughing while bouncing and zooming across the waves. I am fearless.

We had popsicles to cap off the awesome day. Thanks Finley for inviting us to your party! It was SO fun!

This morning, we went to our 1st movie at a REAL theater. Our community has 25 cent kid movies during the summer and today was the movie Smurfs. We were invited by Lucy, Lily and Laurie Jo. The best part (besides being surrounded by these cuties), were the buttery and salty popcorn, candy galore and Sprite. We actually sat through the movie really well. Cooper only needed to use the bathroom twice during the show and Lily and I sat next to each other (first date) and cracked up laughing. It was music to Mommy's ears.