BUSY Summer!

Well, a busy summer it has been... and one big 11 day trip ended up being canceled, so I can only imagine how I'd be describing it if we had gone to New York. Our busyness started back in June with trips to Granbury (the new home of Grana and Papa) and

then to our first Grace family reunion.

Logan in the lake... he really just liked reaching down for rocks and throwing them back in.
This is how he bathed at the family reunion. The campsite only had showers and this was just much easier... and less of a fight with him than a stand-up shower would have been!
SO TIRED. For a kid that only likes to sleep in his bed, this was his way of telling us that the weekend at the lake had worn him out! He slept here for a good 45 minutes before we were all done eating lunch and packing up the cars. What a trooper!

Following that, Logan spent a week with Grana and Papa at the lake house in Graham and Jeff and I went to get him 4th of July weekend. We even had a two night getaway for just the two of us, which was a very nice break! Logan went fishing with Papa, learned how to jump on a trampoline, spent lots of time swimming, enjoyed looking for and chasing frogs, and was always found eating "pockles" (popsicles)!It was a great vacation and a break from things here, but that's when the traveling really started to kick into high gear!

The naked cowboy playing with his fridge radio...
singing "Old McDougal" (That's what he calls Old McDonald)
The only one of us that really had a 4th of July outfit... and he was at home in bed during the fireworks show! Probably would have scared him anyway! :-)

After Graham we spent some time in McKinney visiting our good friends and Logan loved seeing "baby Jordan" What he doesn't understand is that Jordan is only 6 months younger than him, but to him he is still "baby" Here are some pics from our visit there...

They really did enjoy each other's company and played very well together.

Their faces are saying "seriously?" At least I have this for later when they are teenagers!

This is the cutest thing... the face Jordan makes when you ask him to "smile" for the camera.

Logan practicing his kicking at the beach club. It was so fun to take him to a
pool that I grew up going to. We really had to fight to get him out of the water to eat,
except when it was time for CAKE!

The end of the party... he was pooped! He wanted to lay down on the cement picnic table and was there long enough for me to get my camera! Now that's tired!

On the visit to North Texas we also stopped in to see "Humble Mike" Logan says "Uncle" very well until you ask him to say it with the word "Mike" Then it suddenly changes to "humble"
Anyway, here are some pics from them spending some quality time together...
High fives all around!
On the dizzy toy at the park... Logan really liked this one,
but I think Uncle Mike liked it just as much, if not more!
Oh, now isn't that just adorable!
Playing basketball and showing off his throwing skills!

Another great thing this summer was having Aunt Rachel come to visit us. Logan just adores her and was very happy to show her everything he knew how to do. We took her to his new favorite place... the "moose-eeem" (museum- the Woodlands Children's museum)
Showing her the fish tank, and he LOVES fish (all animals actually)
Digging for dinosaur bones in the excavating area.
Brushing the teeth together in the dentist's office
Putting on a puppet show with mommy!

So, after Aunt Rachel's visit we headed to San Antonio
for four days to visit The Curries and see new baby Camdyn.
Logan was such a good traveler, having his own seat on the plane for the first time.
It was a good practice for our NY trip this fall, though that one will be quite a bit longer!
Logan LOVED baby Camdyn... seriously couldn't get enough of her. He and Brynn also played very well together and we all had a great time at Sea World.
Hopefully how happy he was with that baby is a tell-tale sign of how good of a
big brother he will be (though that won't be anytime soon!)
These pics are on a chip that is not currently in my possession, but I promise to post as soon as I get it...




BACK TO NORMAL?
So now we have been home for a few weeks and things are starting to get settled. We had our friends Dave and Mary in town this past Saturday and they brought Logan a bean bag that he is absolutely thrilled with. He loves climbing on it and we are sure it will be worn in nice and quickly, like everything else he owns!
Here he is sitting in it, but as you can see by the look on his face, he obviously was annoyed with me interrupting his watching tv to take a picture... so no smile here! haha!

This is a video taken today of him playing in the box.
Shows how little it really takes to entertain an almost two year old.

Sorry for the longest post in the history of the Grace family blog, but as you can hopefully see, we have been a busy family this summer. We are planning on staying home through Logan's birthday weekend and then I'm sure things will get busy again with our trip to NY scheduled in October... Oh my, and then the holidays will be here before we know it!