Unusual Landings

About 7:30 tonight this is what floated through our neighborhood. It was the highlight of the evening for all the kids. I'm not sure if they meant to land in our subdivision or not but they did and it was pretty amazing how quickly and easily they did it!! They brought the balloon really low to the ground and threw out a rope to some people that were following it in a support vehicle. They pulled the balloon down to the ground and squeezed it right in between 2 houses (in the picture below you can see that our houses are fairly close together and they just went right in between without touching anything!)

The people got out of the basket and then they let the air out.

From the time the balloon landed until they had it all loaded up was only about 15 minutes!! The people even handed out stickers for the kids and let us look in the basket and the kids could touch the balloon!! Not an everyday sight to have a hot air balloon in your front yard and you don't realize how big they are until you see one up close!

Papa & the boys

Last week Friday my sister and I took the boys up to Silver Lake to visit Papa & Grandma. It was a great day to hang out at the beach and boys had a blast in the sand...more like throwing sand, luckily we had the beach to ourselves!! I just had to throw in these pictures because everywhere Papa goes the boys follow right behind - Papa sits by the picnic table, so do the boys!

Papa walks down to the dock, so do the boys!

Last weekend was also Bradyn's first sleep over. I left him with Grandma and Grandpa all weekend!! I did just fine and our course Bradyn loved it so much that when they dropped him off on Sunday night he cried when they left! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for watching him!!

Birth and a Wedding!!

On Thursday, August 6 - Charlie Ryan Wolters finally arrived!!! We were unpatiently waiting and he's finally here! Congrats Dave, Sarah and big sister Abby!

On Saturday, August 8 - Flamboe finally got married!! It was a beautiful wedding and he had an awesome time at the reception! Congrats Dave & Heather Flamboe!