Hamilton Happenings

Isaac will be turning 3 years old in a few weeks.  This child is entertaining, friendly, funny, stubborn, sneaky, demanding, curious, silly, feisty, and talkative. He reminds me of my grandpa, Papa K.  Before Papa K's stroke he would constantly find random people to talk to.  I remember on a trip to Europe with Papa K, Dede, my mom, and Carrie we met lots of new people.  And at every possible opportunity Papa K would try and talk to these people.  Isaac seems to have inherited this liking for talking to complete strangers. Today on a walk around the pond Isaac spotted kids/teenagers fishing.  Naturally he rode his strider bike right up to them, hopped off his bike, and got right into a conversation.  He rambled on and on about who knows what until we had to make him keep riding. He also likes to yell, "stop! Hey stop!" at random strangers to get them to talk to him.  Today he stopped a couple who was walking holding a new looking baby an...

July came and went.  In the month of July we went camping with the Crawfords, celebrated Mckenzie's 3rd birthday, Channing did two weeks of swim lessons, went to roaring springs, kids got hair cuts, and we went on a Kenney family reunion to McCall.  Busy, fun month!   We spend lots of time playing outside.  Mostly filling up the water toy or the kiddy pool.  Isaac looooves water.  He could splash himself in the face over and over again. Channing fell asleep wearing a cape and mask, his light on full blast, and Jett asleep on his floor.  We had a family birthday party for Mckenzie.  Butterfly cake, pinata, mac n cheese for dinner (the adults had hawaiian chicken and cilantro lime rice), and lots of presents.  Mckenzie is so precious.  Some of the looks she gives me are hysterical.  She's always up for playing with play doh, painting, collecting rocks, going grocery shipping with me, reading, gett...

I could stare at her perfectly soft cheeks and blue eyes all day! Mckenzie turned 3 years old on Tuesday July 10th.  We put her to bed the night before and she was a bit excited about the next day.  We could hear her singing "Happy Birthday" to herself in her bedroom.  And she kept coming out of her room to ask something about the next day.  One random thing she said was that she wanted to go to a dance class after her birthday party.  I don't know where that came from.  She finally fell asleep.  Only to wake up at 2am.  And then at 6:45am.  Who needs sleep?  I woke up to her right in front of my face whispering, "is it time to go down stairs?"  July 9th is Evie's birthday (Mckenzie's friend from church who passed away a month ago).  To celebrate Evie's bday we brought some balloons and released them at the cemetery.   I'm thankful for the reminder that life is so precious. For Mckenzie's birthday breakfast w...