Waverly Heritage Days

Saturday morning (7/18/09) Mommy and Jordan headed to Waverly for Heritage Days and to be on Grandma & Papa's float for the parade. We also were going to be seeing Aunt Emily, Jenna, Megan, Madison, Peter, and Sara. It was going to be a VERY busy weekend.

Jordan was really excited because he was going to be riding his little fire truck on the float for the parade. Not to mention the fact he was looking forward to playing with the cousins.

When we got to the house the trailer was covered and Jordan was curious as to what was under all the tarps.

Jordan's reaction to what he saw as the tarps were removed.

Checking out his fire truck for the parade.

The whole crew, minus two mommies - Jeni & Emily - that got to walk the route to hand out candy.

 

 

After a short night due to watching fireworks at a wonderful friends house, we loaded up all the kids again and went to the airport for a pancake breakfast then a chance to watch some skydiving and checking out planes.



It was a busy weekend but I think we all COMPLETELY enjoyed being together! Can't wait to do it again next year........maybe.

by Jeni

Daddy Jordan Day

Well, another daddy Jordan day is coming to a close. I am so lucky to have these days. Today we worked on repainting the fire department sign. Jordan is getting to be a big help.

First we had to take the letters off and repaint them. Jordan took them off.

Jordan Showing off the finished product. After we were done with that it was time for some lunch

All the hard work makes us a bit tired so we took a little nap after lunch. After our nap we took the sign back into town and hung it up then it was time for a Root Beer so we stopped at the bait shop for a while. It was a good day.

Jason.

PS. The photos were from my phone so they aren't very clear.

Random Things

Saturday at the Parade

Today we started with a parade in Plainfield where we took the fire truck. Jordan was the co-pilot and did very good at throwing candy to all the kids. He even learned how to blow the air horn. We made it back home for lunch and a quick nap and then went to the swimming pool for a couple of hours.




The discovery of the tiny Frogs

The other night, Jordan was playing in the yard and found some frogs. These frogs were very, very small. He played with them for a while then we had to take photos.



Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

The Scanlans

A busy weekend outside.

Finally a nice weekend and the Scanlan family took advantage of every minute of it.

Fridays have become "Daddy-Jordan" days since Jason doesn't work on Fridays at this time. The boys plan on Friday was to get the motor on the boat working and maybe even take it out for a cruise. It took a long time but the motor was finally working and the boys ventured to the river.


Jason says Jordan was VERY VERY nervous while in the boat but they both had a great day.


Saturday was then "Mommy-Jordan" day. Daddy had to work at the CedarFalls Raceway so Mommy and Jordan took a trip to Waverly to visit with Grandma and Aunt Emily was coming up to visit also. We spent the day doing garage sales, and Grandma and Aunt Emily did their part of spoiling Jordan. Grandma found a play house and Jordan thinks it is his personal home.


One of our new favorite family activities is going swimming. Sunday was a great day to be outside and in a swimming pool so we ventured to Sumner. There were actually two purposes for this trip, one was to just have a great day as a family and the second was to familiarize Jordan with the pool because Amber will be taking him to this pool for swimming lessons in a couple of weeks. We had a GREAT day. The pool had a bunch of the "swim noodles" and Jordan was even swimming from Mommy to Daddy using just the noodle. Within about 20 minutes of being home after swimming, Jordan was sleeping on the couch while I made supper.


Our TIRED swimming angel!

Hope everyone had as great of a weekend as the Scanlan Family did!

by Jeni

Raising a Redneck

Alright, you know that you are raising a redneck boy when his newest favorite thing to do is........

drive the OLD mower around the lawn.

Jason & Jordan worked on this mower Friday so that Jason could spray the weeds around the yard but Jordan has decided that it is HIS mower and he loves to drive it around the lawn. He doesn't really care where he is going just that he is able to go on his own.

For all of those people that are worried that Jordan will just go out and start it by himself, don't worry! The gas leaks out so not very often will it have much gas in it and the starter doesn't work so you have to "hop" it as Jordan calls it. For those of you that don't talk 4 year old, adults would say you have to jump it to get it started.

by Jeni