August Vacation

This past week we headed on vacation to Ocean City. It was a great time of rest and fun as a family.
We stopped a the Choptank River along the way to take and break and stretch our legs.
The old highway that crossed the river had been turned into a fishing bridge. It was neat to walk around and take in the beautiful scenery!

We were very blessed to have beautiful weather the entire time we were at the beach. It was very relaxing and the Francis Scott Key where we stayed was absolutely perfect for our family to relax and enjoy some time together! Here are some highlights of our trip.

We enjoyed some ice cream for lunch on a hot day! (I have no idea why Pops is doing that????!!!)

Spent some time on the boardwalk

Kaden carried loads of water for his sand hole
Mr. Cool chilled at the beach

We enjoyed the amenities at the Hotel... Pirates Cove

Then off to the splash zone at the pirate ship..

After a long hard day of swimming the kids relaxed on the beach chairs!

The boys also enjoyed their free rounds of MINI-GOLF.....and I use that term very lightly!

They had a good time

Thank you Ocean City...we had a great time!

Lake Tobias

I feel like I keep writing 'blasts from the pasts'!! I am having a hard time keeping up my blog with actual 'real life' time. Oh well, better late than never!

This past saturday we headed to Lake Tobias Wildlife Park with Grama and Pops for a day of adventure.

All aboard the safari bus!

Pops and Kbud keeping a watchful eye for animals.

Grama is desperatley holding on to Ethan so that the Ostrich's don't eat him!

Nice tongue Mr. Buffalo...

Members of the safari.

The safari ride on the chopped off bus comes to an end

After we toured the rest of the park by foot, we headed to Melanie and Jason's for a major feast! As always they cooked up a storm for us! Thank you guys for feeding and fellowshipping with us.

After the delicious meal, the kids cruised around on the Cooters...as Kaden calls them. While Brian had a fiesta!
Aunt Melanie even got in on the action to show these boys some of her stunts!!

Then Crazy Dakota gave us some after supper entertainment as he swam around the pool. Here he is finished so he is getting out........

Oh, Wait a Second....he only got out to shake off and get us wet.......now he is jumping back in! Crazy, Crazy dog!!!

It was a very restful saturday!

Cascade Lake & Corn Harvest

What do Cascade Lake and a Corn Harvest have in common? They both make you exhausted at the end of the day! Last week we were able to enjoy the weather and spend some time at a local lake and spray zone! The kids had a blast.

The following day we headed to Grama and Pops' to help husk, cut and bag corn. Over 530 ears to be more specifc. Needless to say we were tired by the end of the day. We only did the cutting...Pops did most of the husking the day before, I think it took him around 8 hours!!!!

I think Ethan ate at least 3 ears of corn while we were cutting!

The 'production line'!!

The guys digging potatoes! Look at those fine Espenshade body's!!!! (before I took the picture I told them all to 'suck in'!)

So that's last weeks update. Saturday we enjoyed the day at Lake Tobias...I'll have some more pictures tonight.

Summer Days Drifting Away....

We have been enjoying being in the water over these hot days.

Finally my dreams came true....our very own rubber-dingy raft!
Ethan and I cruising the pool.

Sadee taking a dip..showing the boys how she can swim.

Kaden helping haul the load of mums.

Then of course back to our little pool of bubbles.

Cooling off.

Ethan hiding from his brother in the trees.