Sunday, September 28, 2014

4th of July in Fulton

We headed to Fulton to celebrate the Fourth of July and to attend a family reunion for one of Jeff's dad's sides of the family. It was a great weekend with Jeff's family!



Out at the lake on the farm!


Boone got to take his first ride in the paddle boat! 


Fourth of July morning and first up is putting out the flag. We hadn't celebrated 4th of July in the U.S. for the last two years, so this was Boone's first time with the fireworks, parades and grilling!


Saluting the flag with grandpa.


@nd parade pf the week... Fulton 4th of July parade


Later in the day, my friend Kelly, who lives in Jefferson City, came to the farm with her family. She has a little boy named Cooper who is only a few weeks older than Boone and 
they had a blast playing together.


Checking out the tractor with Dad. Boone is obsessed with anything truck, tractor or construction-related. He talks about any kind of motorized vehicle he sees as we drive down the road, so getting to climb up in a tractor was a huge deal.


Here's a close up! Love these two so much.


The Barb family. Kelly had just delivered little Hudson about a month before this! He was so tiny. And the next three pictures show Cooper and Boone hamming it up! Boone loves being around people his own size. I think if we lived closer Cooper and Boone would be best friends!






Jeff loves to throw Boone around and for the most part, Boone let's him! Not sure how much longer that will go on!


Thankfully no one was injured in all of that! 

I didn't really get any pictures of the family reunion, or from meeting up with some friends from college, the Partingtons, but we had such a fun time in Missouri! Summer is always a great time to be there and we love seeing our family and friends no matter what season it is!




Thursday, September 18, 2014

Summer St. Louis Visit

We headed back to Missouri for my cousin's wedding and Jeff's family reunion. Jeff wasn't going to be able to come back for the whole time, so I decided to drive our car back. Carol offered to fly up and drive back with us since it is a long drive! I was very thankful to have her with us!

I didn't have anywhere else to put this picture! Boone and I made Jeff a little breakfast for father's day!


Once Carol got to Denver, we decided to go check out the Hammonds candy factory tour. It is a fun place and the tour is free! Hammonds is sold all over the country in places like Sur La Table and William Sonoma. Their specialty is those big candy canes that you see in fancy stores.


Grandma and Boone in front of a truck outside of the factory.


These next pictures jump to our first couple days in Missouri. On Saturday morning, we went pick blueberries outside of St. Louis. We grew up going blueberry picking on the 4th of July each year, so it was fun to go this year around the same time of year.


Boone "helping" pick berries with Sybil. Really, he just ate a lot of the berries (and he didn't car what color they were... lots of green berries were eaten that morning!)


It was a HOT morning, 


Mom with our blueberry bounty.


Playing at the playground after we were done picking!


Later that night, we went to my cousin's wedding at a beautiful country club in St. Louis. The weather was perfect and the wedding was beautiful. I was glad Boone and I could come back and be with my mom's side of the family.



On Sunday after church, we grabbed some food and went to a local park and played.


Boone loved getting to show Nana and Papa how he rules a playground.



After the park, we went to the Creve Coeur Days parade. Growing up, we always went to the parade and I marched in it in high school with the band. It has gotten quite a bit smaller, but Boone loved all the freebies they handed out.


And of course, we had to hit the zoo once while we where in St. Louis.


Boone looks upset, but we were in line for the train, which is his favorite part of the zoo.


So loved by all his grandparents


Before we left, we had the opportunity to get together with my aunt and uncle and cousin and her kids. Boone loved playing with the bigger boys.

Next stop: Fulton!