Monday, August 20, 2012

4th of July

Fourth of July was busy as usual. On July 3 the West Des Moines parade goes right in front of our house.  So we had friends come over and we watched the parade.  It was extremely hot out, but it was still fun. 
Kellan watching with our friend Erin

Braydon and Reid


The whole crew watching

Claire!

 The next day was 4th of July and we got up early and headed to Perry to watch the Perry parade.  Grandpa Wink was crowned the king so he had a prime seat in the parade!
Grandpa Wink with his crown on


B picking up candy

All the Winkelmans watching on the other side of the street

Kellan and Grandma Pat watching
 After the parade we headed out to Grandma Wink's place to grill out and play outside.  Some of the Alaska family was back, so it was really fun to meet some of them and just hang out

Ryan on the water slide

Braydon on the slide


Braydon dumping some water on Callie


Kellan and Grandma Marcia

Kellan's 4th of July shirt!

Braydon having some yogurt with Great Grandpa Wink!

Ryan and the kids even put on their own parade!



Great grandpa Wink with some of his grandkids and great grandkids

We had a great 4th of July.  Busy, but fun. Braydon loved the fireworks and the parades.  He picked up all the candy and didn't even eat one piece!!

Kansas Trip

After spending Friday, June 29 putting an offer in on our house we headed to Kansas for the weekend.  The offer was countered back and forth and finally accepted on Saturday!  So my timeliness has an excuse - we have been moving!  But I will get caught up on the month of July and August.  So let's start from the beginning.  Kansas.  Kellan had a great time cuddling with everyone. 
Saturday & Sunday we had hung out at the house, did some boating, played basketball, went for bike rides, and had lots of water balloons!   

Tyson loves holding Kellan
First cuddles with Papa

Charlie kind of likes his cousin too!

Charlie dunking with an assist from Uncle Ryan

Braydon "playing" defense on Ryan

Charlie and Braydon

This was too funny not to include (I don't think Charlie meant to)!

Kristen filling up one of the many water balloons.

sparklers!!


ready for some fireworks

Tyson riding his bike

Grandma Pat taking Braydon for a ride

Charlie can ride too!

water balloon launcher






On Monday Tyson had a baseball game.  We all got front row seats and Tyson did not disappoint.  First time up he had a single, he runs to first and gets a hi from Joel, his coach.  Next time up...same thing.  He was doing awesome.  His third time up, he hit an awesome hit down the first baseline and somehow the 1st basemen got it and got him out.  Well just because Tyson was out, didn't mean he was done.  He proceeded to run all the bases in slide into home.  The best part is both teams' fans cheered for him as he ran all the way around!!  It was great to see Tyson play and have so much fun.  We are pretty proud of him. 









scoring celebration!

Kellan loves baseball!




After the game we headed to these light fountains and the boys had a lot of fun playing in them. 

My view from the backseat on the road trip!

Kellans first trip to Manhattan!