catching up...

Hello out there! I typed an intro paragraph for this blog and somehow it ended up at the end. So, if you don't mind, start down at the bottom of this entry and read as you scroll up. I can't hack enough computer skills to figure out how to get it to come up here. Oh well.

Spork and I....wouldn't it be nice if we lived closer together?

The highlight of Rachel's vacation was definintely the blueberries. She ate several pounds of them in two days....

Throwing rocks! What kid doesn't love to do that?

Julia and Rachel in the stroller with baby Mary.

Free entertainment!!! Julia and Gabie feeding the sea gulls. They ambushed us. Spork, who hates birds, didn't want to throw any saltines....but the girls sure did.

Gabie holds baby Mary.

Julia, Rachel, and Eliya enjoying the brownie batter bowl. Sadly, a few seconds later, the child on the right with the green apron on who will remain nameless....BIT the cute little girl with the yellow shirt on. I think Spork got a picture of that. Us moms had to go to the other room to laugh it off without the girls seeing us do so.

Julia enjoys Cheetos from the hotel room (we spent one evening at the water park in town. I didn't dare bring the camera into the pool area....) Julia did discover an inner love for cheesy poofs that night. She ate them for twenty minutes straight....

Last week was an eventful one for the Sprengeler household. On Thursday, Allison (Spork) and Mark Moldenhauer, Mary's godparents, arrived with their three fantastic kids in tow: Ellie (4), Gabie(2 1/2), and Rachel (1). Combined with our two-year-old and baby, we were pretty busy. The kids played well and had a great time. Us adults spent lots of time chatting and wiping up messes off of the dining room floor to keep the ant invasion at bay. Saturday night, after the kids (well, most of the kids) went to bed, I had the chance to try out my new blender. (I bought one that can crush ice cubes in case we needed to make a margarita or something......) Well, the blender worked. I do not, however, have any pictures of that particular event. (Mike adds: "for good reason.")