Another fun weekend filled with my nephews!

Last weekend our nephews Peyton and Maddox came to Iowa for the week. Their mom and dad (Derrick and Katie) Came for the weekend but the boys stayed at grandpa and grandma's house! Of course Brent and I tried to spend as much time with them as we could! We hadn't seen them since Christmas! That was way too long to go without seeing them.


We played outside a lot since it was so nice out. The boys loved playing in puddles, riding their bikes or tractors, and playing in the hose! (Especially since I showed Peyton how to turn it on and squirt Grandpa Chuck).

Please ignore the naked pictures of Maddox. He enjoys being in little clothing
and living out in the country why not be naked!

Hard to get them to look in the same direction, guess this will work!

I know he's naked but I just can't help but laugh at the dimple or roll in his butt cheeks!

He loves being outside!

Peyton is almost ready to take the training wheels off his bike. Maybe a few more tries.
We didn't take them off since he was riding on gravel!

Uncle Brent and Uncle Curt got out their "farm" set for Peyton to play with!
Brent and Curt enjoyed remembering all the fun they had playing "farming"

While Peyton and Maddox were in town they went to the Omaha Zoo, the Shelby Co. Fair, Harlan girls Softball game, and Great Grandma Neva's birthday party. But, do you think I brought my camera to any of it. I need to be better about bringing my camera places.

During the week our nephews were here we had another special visitor. My cousin Trey came to stay with us for a couple days. We met him and his family in Adair, IA (kind of the halfway mark from Des Moines to our house). We were excited to have him finally come stay with us.

While Trey was here we did lots of things, he learned to not be afraid of dogs ( just kidding, that wasn't accomplished he was not a fan of Wrigley, but Wrigley sure was a fan of Trey), We went to the Omaha Zoo, and he drove the 4-wheeler, played games, and watched movies and of course made popcorn every night!

Here are a few pictures from the Zoo. I took about 50 pictures and most of them were of the Gorilla house, but I picked some of my favorites!


This guy almost looks fake in this picture!

It was SUPER hot but we had a blast!

This was swimming over our heads in the aquarium

Trey standing in the Aquarium tunnel! It was so neat!

Trey driving the 4-wheeler up our road into our lane way (Yes Brian, Brent is on the back and they are going SUPER slow)

Trey was pretty excited he was able to drive!

Game night! One of the many games we played

Brent and I enjoying game night with Trey!

 I took Trey home on Saturday morning and we met up with his family to go boating at Lake Red Rock, in Pella. Of course I didn't bring my camera on the boat! Oops! We had a lot of fun though! It was super hot and the water felt great!


Eli on the way home from Pella after Boating!

Brent and I are still getting through our super busy month of July. We are heading to Omaha after I get off work tomorrow to go to the Zac Brown Band concert with our friends David and Christi Hirte! I hope everyone is surviving the heat! Hopefully its cooler tomorrow because its an outdoor concert!