Labor Day Camping Trip

We had a fun weekend camping down at Chain o' Lakes State Park in Spring Grove, IL this weekend! However, for some reason blogger is taking 100 years to load each picture... so click this link to check out the photos on facebook today!

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Thanks everyone for the fun weekend!

Let's try posting them again...

Taylor borrowed Megan's fishing pole for awhile, forgot the girls poles at home.

Uncle Tim brought the kids squirt guns so they had fun on the hot days with them! Hailey & Tyler were a hoot in the water bucket with the animals too.

This little girl was so dirty, but that's what campingi s all about! Her shirt says,"Dirt makes me cuter!" lol

We took a break and headed to Gurnee Mills to escape the heat for awhile

The girls were all so cute in their rain coats

Papa and Grandma hanging out with Aiden in the food tent :)

We had some great food

the weather turned cooler so we snuggled in our sweatshirts

Sleeping baby with Grandma at the park

Taylor's First Day of Kindergarten!

My hello kitty girls getting ready to head off to drop Taylor at school for her first day of Kindergarten!

On the way home I said,"I miss Taylor" and Hailey said,"I miss her toooo!" :(

Big school, little girl :)

Taylor did great and was very excited to go! Mommy didn't hold up so well, and I saw tears in Daddy's eyes too :)  Good thing I have extra kids to snuggle :)

Standing in line before the bell rings in front of her classroom.

Glad to see Taylor is listening here.. she looks so sweet :)

Hailey Swinging, Aiden 5 months, & Taylor met her teacher!

Hailey learned how to pump her legs last week, so she's pretty proud and doesn't need Mommy to push her all day long some days anymore :) I love Taylor in this picture too.. she's really into it!

This big boy is 5 months old today!  Dr said we could start food so we've been testing different veggies and fruit. He's had peas, pears, squash & sweet potatoes! He'll eat about half a #1 jar around lunchtime so far. Not too keen on rice cereal anymore.

He wants to stand by this learning table by himself so badly! He will for about 10-15 seconds then topple over with excitement. The girls were taking turns catching him..lol..they wanted to anyway, but I was there too.. except for this picture :)

Taylor & Grace were "in disguise"

Taylor got to go to her school Tuesday night to bring her supplies and meet her teacher Mrs. Schumaker!  She was very excited to see all the neat learning stations and has one awesome teacher.

One excited girl carrying her stuff into school! She starts school tomorrow! Check back for another post!

He's getting there :)

a little more each day :)

We're gonna have a crawler soon...

Aiden decided last night that he's going to try to get up on his hands and knees.. he was working so hard at it! Of course he was pretty pooped by the time it occurred to me to try to get it on video!  But, thought he was still pretty cute.

So, then his sisters were trying to show him how to do it :)

Swimming

We played at the pool at Ben's aunt and uncle's yesterday for a little while. It was refreshing and the kids had a blast as always! 

Taylor had fun swimming around in her life jacket and Ben even threw her off the diving board a couple times.. she loved it!

Aiden was splashing the whole time and soaking himself. He thought Cuddles was pretty neat too.

Hailey had a ton of fun with Britney, boating around and playing with toys.

Summer's Almost Over!

I cannot believe how fast this summer has gone! It has been so busy and filled with fun that it has gone in record time this year!  School starts next week Thursday already, and I'm in shock that August has almost come and gone in the blink of an eye.

This crazy looking dragon fly greeted me in the morning glories the other day. Yikes!

Did I mention that Aiden will be 5 months old next week already? He has recently discovered that his thumb tastes very good. So, we've been pushing the pacifier more.. and he takes it pretty well now, until he figures out how to push it out and get his thumb back in there! 

We celebrated Grandma P's 60th birthday this weekend. The girls had their first sleepover at their house Friday night and it went pretty well. Then, about 20 of us got together Sunday to celebrate with dinner then cake at a park in Waupaca.  The girls love to play in the water there and it was chilly but felt great!

It's always a nice spot for pictures!

The Papendorf girls

Grandma and Grandpa P

Jr was watching some kids swimming in the river and enjoying the shade I think

Auntie Shelley and the kids

the Papendorf family

Our family

Our kiddos

Aiden likes the swing now :) Tiny pushes anyways

The park had a cool new jungle gym so that was fun

We also spent Saturday celebrating Ben's cousin Jordan Topinka's wedding to Jaimie Herrick

Aiden got lots of snuggles from all his cousins and great aunts

The girls had fun playing as always

It was a nice weekend but gone in a whirlwind!