Summer fun

Nik riding his bike, he has become much better just has a little trouble stopping.

Rachel and our neighbor Brittany they have become very close friends, she is the same age as Rachel.

Rachel

This are some miscellaneous pictures I found of Rachel. She went to the dr. last week for a check up she is 66lbs and 4'6", she will be passing me up shortly, her dr. said she will probably go through a big growth spurt in the next year. Nik's 7th Birthday is on Friday! He is so excited we are having 2 celebrations and on Friday he pick TGIFridays for his birthday dinner.

More shower pics

The Comer girls, Brandi, Hallie, Kim, Aunt Diane, Janine, and Grandma.

The Burkey Girls Rachel, Me, Kim, and Mom.

More shower pics

Kim and I

Kim with our Aunt and cousins

The proud dad to be.

More shower pics

Kimmy

The Burkey side of the family

The Comer side of the family

Kims friends

Kims Baby shower

The diaper cake my mom made for her.

This was the place we had it at Concord Community Center.

This is the cake it was a casada cake very yummy!

Everything went really well at the shower, the food was good, everyone had a good time and Kim and Jay got lots of nice things for the little man.

Nik's karate performance

Here is Nik's karate performance from karate camp this week. He had lots of fun and really enjoyed it. On the last day they put on a performance of the things they learned that week. Nik is the one on the far right. There is no sound in case you are wondering. Tomorrow is Kims shower. I am sure it will be really nice.

Nik and art work

Nik before his karate test.

This is Rachel's ball she made in art class that she is taking at the Fine Arts Association. It is a bowling ball that she put jewels on and they grouted in between. We put it in the garden by the front porch.

This are the hand print plaques the kids did with me. Their hand prints are in the middle and they each painted their own. Can u guess whos is Rachel and Nik's? These are also displayed in our front garden.

Nik standing on a rock showing off his muscles.

Nik purple belt test

Sorry these pictures are not the best my battery died on my regular camera and these were taken with my cell phone camera. Nik did really well he is now a purple striped belt. He is half way to his black belt now. Its been a hot last couple of days reaching near the 90s.

Tennis

This is Nik's attempt at his tennis pose. He smiled so big I caught him with his eyes closed. Tomorrow Nik has his karate test so more pictures to come.

Rachel & Kimmy

Here is Kim near fourth of July. I saw her this weekend and she is getting big. Her belly looks like a basketball. Her baby shower is next weekend.

Here is Rachel in Hocking Hills with her dads family they went during fourth of July. We are going the week before school starts.

This is Rachel and her other brother Christian. He will be one August 2nd.

Uncle Mike's party

Devyn, Ethan and Nik though he is hiding his face, this was at Uncle Mike's house.

Here is Nik being a crazy boy!

Jason, Curt and Collin.
It was a nice time. Tonight we are going to see Chardons fireworks that got rained out on Thursday so we are seeing them tonight because we did not get to see any yet. Rachel is in Hocking Hills with her dad this weekend. The kids like their art classes. Rachel missed her first one because she was sick so she went this past Thursday for the 1st time. Nik starts his karate camp in 2 weeks and in a week on the 16th he has his karate test for his purple striped belt. When he turns 7 he moves up to Karate kids which is for kids 7-12 and they have to memorize the forms now for their test. Nik shouldn't have a problem because he usually pretty much knows them by heart, he will just need to try a little harder.

Video of the pugs

I tried to get a video of Izzy and Noodles.

Noodles and Izzy

Cute little Noodles she is doing really good, she is a mommas girl she whines and cries if she is not by my side.

Izzy's close up. He is a freak about fireworks so we took him to the vet to get some chill pills. He barks and barks and goes crazy for ever and he wont stop when fireworks go off. They seem to kinda of work though I found I need to give him 1/2 more and then he clams down enough.