Summer Weekends!

We've been busy enjoying our time together as a family on the weekends when we don't have visitors!!  Here are our past couple of weekends in pictures!

 We've spent a lot of time at the pool!  Both kids love it!!

 Alex is using swimmies now!  We've been trying to convince him for a while, and he finally did it and was THRILLED to be able to swim "all by himself"!  He's gotten pretty brave (for him) and is even using a kickboard now!

 One of our Friday night family traditions (or sometimes Thursdays if Gary is off on Friday) is movie night!  Alex absolutely LOVES movie night... he gets pretty excited!  We almost always have pizza, eat on the couch, and make popcorn after dinner!  The past few times we've been making our own pizzas, which has been really fun!  I haven't gotten to the point of making our own dough yet, but we have fun personalizing our own with toppings just the way we like it :)

 Excited!!!

 Last weekend we went mini-golfing!  We've taken the boys once before when we were in Gatlinburg but found a place here where kids 4 and under are free!  The boys both had a BLAST!  And so did mommy and daddy ;) 

 Nathan held tight to his ball most of the night, but did try swinging at it a few times!

 Having fun!!

 Then this past weekend we went to the Prince William County Fair!  Alex was really excited and kept talking about going on the Ferris Wheel when we told him we were going there.  We weren't sure how he'd do with rides... he's always been pretty timid!  But he LOVED the rides!  He went on everything he was tall enough to do by himeslf and we let him do the Ferris Wheel with daddy!  He kept eyeing the roller coaster (pretty sure he would have HATED that... but he really wanted to do it... we said maybe next year haha)

 Poor Nathan just watched most of the day... he actually didn't mind too much, except for the train... he tried really hard to sneak in and take his own ride on the train!  He didn't cry or anything, just "asked" in his own way many times if he could go too... but it really wasn't worth the money, you could spend a fortune at the fair!

 Nathan loved the animals though!!  He started out saying "ruff ruff" to EVERY animal, but started to make some of the other sounds by the end :) 

 Petting a goat!! These goats loved Alex :)

 And Nathan had no fear!  You had to watch him pretty closely ;)

 Loving all the tractors!

 Petting area :)

 Loving it!

 Brave boy! 

 Nathan thought he was going on a ride here... he LOVED sitting in this!  haha

 Alex's favorite ride!  He rode this 3 times in a row! 

And he loved the ferris wheel with daddy!