Our Family Life

Sunday, June 28, 2009

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Dublin Ohio...

6.27.09

The annual Dublin Frog Jumping Contest was today! We finally made it there. It's been a very busy weekend with Comfest, baseball, birthday parties, cleaning, fixing the mower and the dryer, a funeral, Uncle Todd visiting, etc., but we squeezed in a few rounds of leaping amphibians!

Here is Lu with his first frog.

On your mark...

Go frog, go!!!!!

Mac with his first frog.

Go frog, GO!!!

And there it GOES!!!!!!!

Froggie, taking a break!

J u s t a l i t t l e f a r t h e r . . .

AND we have a WINNER!!!!!!!!

Brother frog whisperers.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

A Summer Ball Game

6.22.09

Lucas's Cardinals play on a beautiful summer evening. It was so relaxing to sit and watch.

Do little boys ever really grow up? Mac will be 11 in a week and he played for almost an hour here with his transformers- all by himself. So cute!!!

There's my little slowpoke. I LOVE my boys, but they are THE slowest runners EVER!! It's more like a trot.

Lu and Dad (coaching third base.)

Summer Swimming in the Sun...

6.24.09

Cooling Off at the pool!

Lu-off the high dive...

Monday, June 22, 2009

Father's Day 2009

The boys with Dad.

Three generations of Arndt boys...

Lucas "driving" Papa's Corvette...

Friday, June 19, 2009

All in a Day's Work... for a Boy

6.19.08

The boys play baseball...

(take a good look atMac's face! What do you think that conversation as about?)

And the boys play in the mud!!...

Then the boys break appendages...

While Greg was coaching first base at Mac's game above, a line drive was hit directly at him (Greg that is)and his thumb got in the way. Instead of going to the emergency room, we went to see our friendly neighborhood trauma surgeon and he said splint it and take some ibruprofen. So he did. After 4 days, it is still swollen and is now a shade of green instead of purple. He can move it, so we think it is healing!!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Baseball Player or HAM?

5.28.09

An interesting day I would call it. Greg was woking all night and the boys had games at the same time. So I dropped Mac off with his team and coach, but as I was walking away from the field, the lightning detection system went off. Apparently it detects lightning 30 miles away. When this happens, the games are delayed 30 minutes to wait to see what happens with the weather. But it wasn't raining and it looked like it would blow over. So I left Mac with the coach and a reliable parent friend and went to see about Lu's game.

Lu's game didn't have the lightning detection system. So their game began as planned. However, about 10 minutes in, it began to sprinkle. Then about 5 minutes after that a downpour swept in from the west. Everyone made a mad sprint for cover. We waited in the car. Less than 10 minutes later, the game resumed. Now the boys were loving sitting on the bench waiting for their turn at bat because underneath their feet were puddles and they could make MUD!

Well Mac's game was called after 2 innings of play due to the same rain we got -just a mile away. But because we were not on the " special fields" our game (Lu's) was allowed to resume and Mac's game was not. So I got the phone call and left to pick up Mac and bring him over to Lu's game.

Lu became a complete HAM when he went into the outfield late in the game. You will see what I mean as you look through the photos below.