A Day in the Life of the Turners: October 2015

July wasn't terribly busy.. but busy enough.

We started off the month with Quentin's birthday. There is a separate post just for him - go check it out.

Happy 4th of July, and Happy Birthday Dad - We played outside much of the day on the forth. One of the neighbor kids actually had a birthday party that Quentin was invited to.

Quentin loves slip-n-slides

Q's tricks on his scooter

Sparkler fun!

We headed to mom and dads the following day to celebrate Dad, Annette and Quentin's birthdays

Grandma Nancy gave Quentin some roller skates for his birthday.. He was so excited..

Until he fell.. Then he was done with them.

I planted a garden back in May - Green peppers, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, watermelon, regular tomatoes and cucumbers... It was a lot for my little 4x4 box.. but I didn't really care. And, I had little expectations that anything would really grow. But it was exciting when something did.

Happy Birthday, Anniversary and Merry Christmas for several years, Jeremy. He picked up this nice truck that he's been dreaming about for awhile now.

Dylan and Bobbie came to visit for Quentin's birthday party and a mud run that Bobbie and I had signed up for. Jeremy did a great job holding down the fort and all 4 kids while we were gone.

A hot day calls for mint chocolate chip ice cream cones

I can't remember what they built.

dinner outside.

This thing is filled with cold water. Thankfully
we were one of the first in it. I have a feeling
it wasn't water by the end.

master hoola-hooper

Dad and I did the Father-Daughter golf tournament with Herb and Bobbie. We had a great time and am already looking forward to next year.

Touch a Truck was back in town. Cameron is obsessed with tractors, so he LOVED this!

He got to honk the horn.

More slip-n-slide fun.

It wouldn't be a complete month without Ben going to the doctor. He didn't sleep well the night before, so I thought for sure he had another ear infection. But, nope.. it was just his molars coming in super early.

We had my company outing at the Iowa Cubs game. The kids did great.

Cousins Camp - The kids had a great day with Aunt Penny, Uncle Fred, Grandma Nancy, Alex, Paul, and Max. They went to the zoo and hung out at Aunt Penny and Uncle Fred's house, where the backyard was filled with lots of things to do- basketball, pool, baseball, even a little sand pit. After work, Jeremy, Ben and I headed over to pick them up and eat dinner. Thanks for the pizza! We all had a great time, and kids crashed in the car on the way home.

This cicada was hatching.

We were back to the doctor with Ben again towards the end of the month - Turns out, he broke his foot this time. The break was so new/fresh that the X-ray didn't even show anything. It didn't help that he didn't love the X-ray process and they couldn't get the best picture either. Turns out baby bones are so tiny, it's hard to even see the fracture, and they basically do a re-check in a few weeks to see if they can see it healing.

Happy Birthday, Grandma Nancy - We went to Outback for her birthday. I only got a couple pictures that didn't turn out very well. We clearly don't go out to eat often enough. The kids just wanted to run and see what the place was about. So containing them was a full time for for the hour we were there. And I didn't even get a picture of Nancy.

Other pictures from the month -

Jeremy loves when I make him do our family picture. We
set up the tripod, and he has the camera just keep taking
pictures for like 20 seconds. We thought they were all
done.. but we were wrong.