Carson's Graduation Party

 Carson has graduated from IU.  I can't believe it went so fast! He had another party boat party... on a boat... it was a party. :)

Look at this dude! All grown up and headed off to Berkley!!

 We went to the dinner the night before the big party. We asked out waiter if he would take our picture.

 He said, "Yes but only if I can be in a one."  Both pictures turned out pretty great. :)

 After dinner, we had to visit the Blue Bird!!

 The next day was party boat time!

The weather was a little bit chilly but we made the most of it.  There was no rain so it was sign that  party-boating was a must. :)

The kids weren't happy about wearing life jackets but safety first! :)

 We had lots of tubes and things to play with.

It was a super fun time, as always!
Congrats, Carson, on this next big step! We are so proud of you!

Weekend in Enemy Territory II: Anchors Aweigh!

So we tried to take the boat out again for Carson's graduation celebration.


Tommy got a little stir crazy on the way down. Yes, he said, "I don't want to smile" at the end there.

 He brought his brand new surf hat from Target to wear on the boat!

He got to be co-captain of the boat with Grandpa.

What a beautiful day it was! 

Party yacht selfie!

 We spent most of our time swimming and playing in the water.

We also went down the slide.  Yes, Tommy went down this huge slide off the top level... with Dada of course.  He didn't know what he was getting into.  When he went underwater, that was the end of the slide.  He refused to go down it again.  I should have known and taken a picture the first time.  Oh well. I'll always have the look on his face when he came out of the water ingrained in my memory! He was PISSED! 

But Brandon, Lilli, Isabel, Desi, Andrew, and Carson went down the slide without any fear.  Am I missing anyone? 

Especially Brandon!

Brandon decided to get REALLY brave and tried to jump off the end of the slide.  I will preface this video by saying it never worked out for him.  In fact, this video should be titled "Hey Y'all, Watch Dis!" I can only post this video after finding out he was fine!

He was a little sore but no official injuries.  Yikes.  BRUTAL.

More party yacht selfies! I've learned that if I don't take pics of myself, I won't be in any pictures.  So get used to selfies, folks. :-)

Tommy didn't take a nap that day so he was a bit tired.  Grandma had him totally set up and almost convinced to go to sleep.  Didn't happen though.  Imagine that.  

Watch out! Tommy's taking over the captain's chair! 

Notice Tommy is without his hat? Yep, he threw it in the water when we were headed back to the dock.  It quickly sunk and was never to be seen again.  Tommy was pretty upset to lose his hat (when he so joyously discarded it into the water).  Oh well, we *might* go back to Target one day to pick out another one. We shall see! 

Random story: We pulled up to the dock when we were done for the day.  While we were cleaning up the boat, Lilli did some quick fishing with the fishing pole that someone brought.  It was not 3 minutes and she had caught a fish! What the heck? How awesome! She was so excited!

The Party Yacht was a huge success! We had a wonderful time.  Thanks Bickleys for planning such a fun day. Happy Graduation Carson!

Weekend in Enemy Territory

Over the weekend, we traveled to Bloomington for my cousin's graduation party.  My cousin Carson and his family not only live in Bloomington but he is going to Indiana University now that he has graduated high school.  Let me just say, it was a rough weekend for us. :-)

We started the weekend off with a little swimming.  What this picture caught in their faces just cracks me up.  I guess they're blowing bubbles above water.

Most of the pictures turned out more like this.  Action shot!

 I took this picture the next morning to send to my mom to tell her to hurry up and come down and eat breakfast with us.  She wrote back, "ARE YOU GIVING HIM EGGS???"  I almost wrote back, "Yes, Mom, we gave him eggs drenched in MILK!" In her defense, that is what it looks like.  Actually those are corn pops.  Breakfast of champions!

 Then we packed up our suitcase and checked out of the hotel for a fun day in the sun of a graduation party on a party yacht!!!

Waahh waaahhhhhhhh.  It was raining.  :-( We did not get to take the boat out.  Don't worry, we're rescheduling the party for July.  But this picture also cracks me up.  Two-thumb-Sally is dorking it out.  Shiela is blocking Carson's face possibly on purpose. Tommy is terrified and it looks like Isabel must be hurting Dad.  How is the middle finger flashing, stinkface-making Andrew the most normal looking person in the shot? That never happens! 

This picture has more people and is a bit more normal looking.  It still doesn't show all the people that were ready for the party yacht! 

 I don't think Tommy is quite ready though.

Since it was storming, we headed back to Carson's house for food and fun.  

 Even Tommy had good food.  Aunt Shiela and Uncle Paul bought Tommy a vegan chocolate cake! No eggs, no dairy, ALL DELICIOUS! He housed that piece of cake.

Tommy also had fun. He played with Carson's old train set (Lilli did most of the work).  Wow, was he impressed by the massive amount of tracks, trains, pieces, and accessories galore!! 

Tommy didn't get a nap that day.  He still fought taking a nap all the way home that evening. Man, he is good! I'm sure the iPad was a big help keeping him awake.

Even though we didn't get to take the party yacht out, we still had lots of fun! We WILL get to take it out soon! And we will have to visit the Bloomingfoods Bakery for more delicious vegan treats!! Way less likely for us to have a vegan bakery in West Lafayette but we'll keep looking.  Maybe Bloomingfoods will ship!