Father's Day Picnic

Mar had a Father's Day Picnic at their place
to celebrate Father's Day with Grandpa

The food was excellent...
I thought it might be a good idea to capture some generational pics with Grandpa

Grandpa with Uncle Joe and Aunt Tammy

Uncle Frank and Grandpa

The Grycza Generational Pic
Grandpa with
My Uncle Steve and Aunt Barb with
my cousin Amy and her girls
Emily, Hailey and Kennedy

Aunt Barb (my mom's oldest sister)

Dylan

Grandma has been adopted in to my side of the family too...
She had a good time visiting and of course eating (her favorite :D)

My sweet Kyle

Luke looking like he is up to no good

The Dynamic Duo :D

My cousin Krisi...we are sisters at heart

Grandpa's Favorite Grandchild :D

Nicholas posing with Great Grandpa Newbold and Mar
I like Grandpa's face here...that's his ornery look :D

I love this girl :D

Maria and Krisi...too cute!

Rob Newbold Generational Pic
my cousin Rob
his two children...Sebastian and Andromeda
and Grandpa

Newbold's
Krisi, Rob and Shauna are siblings (Matt wasn't there)
Shauna is holding her daughter Divya
Sebastian and Andromeda sit with Grandpa

Bob (Rocky) Newbold Generational Pic
Krisi, Andromeda, Rob and Shauna
Sebastian, Grandpa, Rocky and Divya

4 Generations of Newbolds
Robert Newbold... father of
Bob Newbold...father of
Rob Newbold...father of
Sebastian Newbold

"Shuna"

Surrounded by such beauty!

Grandpa's Kiddos (that were there)
Bob, Frank, Kris
Leslie, Grandpa, and Barb

Silly Newbolds!

Carly encircled in her Daddy's arms

Grandpa wanted to make sure he got a picture with Jeff and Denise

Jeff Lake Generational Pic
Denise, Parker, Jeff
Mar, Grandpa, Samantha and Carly

Silly Lakes!

Silly Simons!

I was pretty frustrated to not get a good pic of our family together

What else is new?

The kids' favorite pasttime

Nicholas was playing in his old booster seat

Emily, Hailey and Kennedy playing in Mar's tree

Sammy-Sam

The Armitage's
my cousin Karen, her hubby Barry and li'l Mason

Father's Day Card for my Dad

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Pearson Park

We were at a 1st Birthday Party for Melissa's Grandson and I spotted these trees...
I thought it would be a great photo op...
Except for one thing...
We had children who wouldn't cooperate :s...

Preventing us from getting that "perfect picture" I was looking for.
Here's the halfway decent ones...
Oh well! It was worth a shot :D

Daddy, Mommy and Nicholas

Dylan

My sweet boy Kyle :D

Cedar Point trip with Youth to Youth 2009

Arbor Hills Junior High Youth to Youth Cedar Point Trip
June 11th, 2009

First ride the two boys rode was the Power Tower.
Kyle liked the ride...Dylan wasn't so fond of it.

Kyle really liked the rides that would spin you, but he didn't like the roller coasters.

Riding the Matterhorn

Once again, Dylan was asked to take a picture with young girls because of his likeness to Nick Jonas :D

Dylan's first roller coaster of the day...the Corkscrew.
The Corkscrew was a favorite from years past...that is of course, until he tried some of the others.

The Corkscrew

One of the few roller coasters I enjoy is The Iron Dragon.
I had started seeing spots, took my meds, and hoped it would pass while waiting in line.
By the time we got to the platform...I was feeling worse.
We decided it would be more prudent for me not to ride the coaster.
Dylan liked the view from the Iron Dragon.

Dylan spent a good portion of his spending money on this Ape Challenge.
The Challenge? Climb up the ladder and hit the buzzer without falling off.
Sounds easy enough.

He tried again...

And again...but was never able to win the giant stuffed ape.

Rainy, gloomy days = frizzy curly hair

There were crane flies everywhere.
They don't bite, but they get everywhere.
As Dylan went to take this picture, one flew in my mouth.
Yech!

One of the few times of the day that I wasn't in my hoodie.
It was mainly cool and damp for the most part of the day.

Kyle and Dylan waiting in line to ride the Monster

This was a favorite ride...so they went on it again...

The Monster was definitely Kyle's favorite ride.

Dylan liked it too!

I bet Kyle rode this ride at least 10 times.

Dylan and Kyle on the train.
If you ever want to know how good your kids really are...go to Cedar Point.
I couldn't believe some of the offensive things I heard kids saying or doing.
I'll take my boys any day :D

Dylan and Kyle on the bumper cars.

All in all it was a GREAT day! I enjoyed the quality time I was able to have with Dylan and Kyle. Dylan and I were able to have quite a few meaningful conversations. We all had loads of fun together.
Kyle only had one meltdown...and he came out of it pretty quickly.
We walked and walked and walked!
My feet were killing me by the end of the day.
Dylan end up becoming a roller coaster enthusiast!
His favorite ride was The Millenium Force!
I loved seeing his excitement when he got off of that ride.
I ended up losing Kyle at the end of the day...not thrilling me by any stretch of the imagination. He knew to go to one of the staff and they took him to "Lost Persons."
So, we had to do even more walking...but it was worth it :D