August is full of family birthdays!

There are now 5 birthdays is August on the Stevens side (and that's just keeping it to grandparents and cousins) So we did it up right last week

dinner outdoors

cousins

mummi serves the boys

sparring 

Levi the eldest

Pappa prepares the lobster

The newest baby boy was content to nap through the eating 

lobster and steak. Yes please

The happy birthday bunch

Mummi and her August birthday boys!

Last day of dance

Gillian had her last dance class of the season yesterday. Mummi came to see it and we were treated to a close up show of her recital pieces.

clearly he's thrilled to be here.....he transferred from sleeping in the van 

warming up

one of her favorite parts of class

she was having a wee bit of trouble finding 5th position.

leaping lily

Miss Maria lining them up for their tap number

the sound of sunshine. and the look of it as well

one of her favorite parts of the dance

end of the year party treats!

did I miss anything?

A brief tour through winter

Clearly I wasn't keeping up through winter.

But it snowed:

playing in our driveway

see how high the banks are 

hard to move,,,,

loving it!

We went to Maine

trying out daddy's old skis

Mummi helps out

tunnels cousin Levi built

much easier to make a basket!!

Mummi helps out

brother bonding!

so warm you can run around without a jacket!

hanging with pappa

puzzle time!

Maine Friends!

it's very entertaining

Lunch with family

cousins!

cousins!

and...clearly we had so much fun I'll have to split this up ;)

Visiting Maine

We took a trip to Maine to have a celebration of Life in honor of Luke's grandmother who passed away several weeks ago. For the kids, who were not much connected to her (she had Alzheimer's the last bunch of years) the weekend was more about seeing their cousins and being in the great outdoors since there was SUNSHINE!

 The Maine Stevens boys

the ipad entertains

Lily and Ollie doing artwork

Eliot really enjoys laying around on the floor now...alot

TA DA

finally asleep, in his Mummi's arms (cause he wore mama;s arms out)

Easter in Maine part 2

Lunch time with ham and lamb and so much delicious food was followed by good old fashioned playing around outside, including wiffle ball with grandparents!

decked out table

The Bubbles were a HUGE hit!