Since Griff is obsessed with diggers, scoopers and trash trucks, he had a construction site party. It was really cute.

Construction site...watch out!! Men (and ladies) at work!
Opening presents
Green scooper!!
The cute cake Shell madeHappy 3rd Birthday Griff!!
Then Bub and I got to have a little fun in the Gator...

Here are some pictures from when we watched the boys. Shell and Dan went to Florida for their anniversary, so we watched them from Sunday through Wednesday. We had a lot of fun and they were SOOO good for us! They went to bed when they were supposed to, they played well and Griff went pee in the potty for me!!! We didn't actually take too many pictures...but we did have fun playing and drawing with chalk and reading and watching trash truck videos. Griff LOVES his uncle Josh! They read before bed every night which made it very nice for me!YUMMY!! Uncle Josh makes GOOODD lasagna!!

Bathtime!

Check this out...Griff's got talent!

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More Father's Day Fun

Let's just say that Josh and Danny had some fun with the vajunka that Josh gave all his groomsmen. They made Shell and I take a 1/2 shot and they took, oh, six, seven, eight maybe....

Still chugging along...
Needless to say, with the many beers consumed, neither of them felt too well the next morning...

Linc's birthday

Here are some pics from when we celebrated Linc's birthday on Father's Day. He's sooo adorable!

Look at how cute he is!
Okay, so maybe Griff was a little more into his present than he was...

Seriously, how cute is this dog?!

Really. Seriously, she's sassy and cute.
That's all...just a routine cute-Kowe post.

Festivals Galore

Here's a pic of the Vintage Indiana Wine Fest that I went to with my friend Trish. It was sooo much fun!! Hot, but fun! We tasted loads and loads of wine and listened to some really good music. Oh, and we also tried winearitas, the wine version of a margarita, and they were pretty snazzy!! Then this past weekend, we went to the Strawberry Festival with Josh's parents and Kowe. Josh was frustrated that he couldn't find his Italian sausages and because everything is paid for by tickets, but it was REALLY nice out and the strawberry shortcake with ice cream was sooo very good!! They didn't let dogs inside the actual festival, so we hung out and took turns going in, but it was really fun.

The Taste of Tippecanoe is coming up and we haven't decided whether we'll be able to make it or not. Josh might not be the biggest fan...we'll see. I REALLY REALLY want to go to the Taste of Chicago, so we'll see how my powers of persuasion turn out...

Happy Birthday Josh!!!

Josh turned 29 on June 4th...here is a pic of him giving a big cheese with his new Merrells!!! As for us, I didn't get any good pics, but I took Josh to see Spiderman 3 and to dinner, and I renewed his favorite magazine subscription!

On Saturday, Happy Birthday to Lisa!

Happy Birthday Lisa!! Nothing better than a weekend in Vegas with your sister and husband to celebrate your big 3-0! We hope you had a great time. (Despite the end of the trip.)

Happy Birthday Linc!!!

We missed Linc's First Birthday on Saturday when we were gone. But we want to wish him a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY and we'll get to see him this weekend so I'll be sure to post some pictures when I get a chance.

Can you believe this was just a year ago?!?! Time sure flies!

More pics of the cutie soon...

WHALE WATCHING!!!!!!

So on Friday, we went whale watching and it was absolutely amazing. Truly, we (or at least I) were dumbfounded! I am so in love with these big gentle creatures!!

Here's Josh and Jeremy...so excited to be posing for a picture in public. :) So we left from Boston Harbor and it was like 90-something and HOT! But once the boat got going it was perfect! We weren't sure what we would see. Or if we would see anything, but we got lucky! The guide said that our watch was one of the best that they've had in a really long time. We saw three different types of whales, and possibly even four. We know that we saw humpbacks (and even a momma and her calf!), some miki whales (which are smaller) and some fin whales (which don't tend to put their tails out of the water...they're the longer looking ones that keep their fins out most of the time...hence the name!) But the guide said something about Wright whales as well, but it was never clear as to whether any of the ones we saw were that. (We'll pretend that we did since it's our last name...just because.) But she did say that we saw over 12 different whales which is just unheard of!! We got really lucky!

You can see two here...aaaahhmazing!

and two here too... Here's a fin whaleanother one up close and here are some tail pics......and then HERE is where we hit the mother load!!! we saw so many of them eating. It's crazy! The seagulls know they're coming up, so they flock around and land right on their heads.

Me using my mad camera skills...
And to top it all off, we met Lisa for dinner. (She had to work, so she didn't go whale watching with us, but she's lucky enough to work RIGHT in the middle of all of these buildings downtown...I SO envy her in that respect!) Anyway, we at at THIS place, and I ate an entire meal of seafood for the first time ever!! We had crab claws, some tasty spicy shrimp, and lobster rolls, crab cake burgers, the entire works! It was fantastic. Yum.

Then we headed home and relaxed. We had seriously such a great (or, should I say...LEGENDARY) time the entire weekend. It sucks to be so far away from these guys, but it's great when we get to see them. I know Josh and Jeremy had fun beating eachother in football and it was just a great weekend. We won't say who won at football. But again, we want to thank you guys for having us and for all of the thought and planning that you put into making it such a great weekend for us. HAVE FUN IN VEGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! We love you guys!