Family Day Trip

Well the past few weeks have been pretty busy for us all. Caleb has been participating in a few different programs offered through the Portage Parks Department and also started taking swimming classes. He is really enjoying swimming which is great! Last week he participated in an art camp and came home with different projects each day (see the pictures below). This week he is participating in cooking camp (I will post pictures at a later date).

Art Camp Masterpieces

By: Caleb Thornberry

Cloud Mobile

Paper Mache Bowl

C.T. Collage

Shooting Star

We went out to eat at a wonderful restaurant last week in Cedar Lake, IN called The Lighthouse with Jim's mom and step dad. We all love spending time together.

Kara before dinner (35 weeks 2 days)

Caleb and Kara @ dinner



The Restaurant

Kara, Caleb and Jim

Brent and Annette

Kara, Caleb, Jim in front of Cedar Lake

Caleb


One day after art camp Jim, Caleb an I decided to head south a little ways and visit Fair Oaks Dairy Farm. The boys had both been there before but this was my 1st visit. We had a wonderful time...check out some of the pictures below from our little day trip. Many of these pictures were taken by Caleb on his new camera that he got from Grandma Annette and Grandpa Brent. He loves taking pictures of anything an everything!

Got Milk?

Thumbs Up!

The Cows Crossing

Milking of the cows

Mother Cow with her calf that was just born

Kara (35 weeks) and Jim

Happy 4th of July!

Where did June go? Oh well...time flies but we had a wonderful holiday weekend and hope that all of you who read our blog did as well.

Caleb was really looking forward to July 4th because he knew that meant we could set off the fireworks that we had! On Saturday we started our day out by going to the Portage Parade with our friends the Carver's. The parade was a lot of fun...very long and hot...but we all enjoyed the time we got to spend together.

Caleb took a little time before the parade started to draw some art work on the road. See his orange bow and arrow!

Caleb making a funny face for the camera!

Scrambling for some C-A-N-D-Y!

This is our neighbor, Antonio, riding with his dad in the tanker truck from one of the local fire departments.

Caleb posing with his flag and lei!

Kenzie, Maddie and Caleb

Jim, Kara, Deb and Tom enjoying the parade from our seats!

Under the umbrella...Caleb, Maddie, and Kenzie

This was a float done by a local youth group....what looks like a statue is really members of the youth group! Very cool!

Kara, Jim and Caleb

After the parade we spent the rest of the day/evening at home!! Jim had promised Caleb that he would set up our tent one night soon and he picked Saturday night to do this. We told Caleb that he and his friend could sleep out in the tent that night. We did a few fireworks & sparklers then headed to the back yard for a fire and camp out. Caleb and his friend Antonio roasted marshmallows and made smores...then head to the tent for their sleep over. They only stay out in the tent for about an hour...because all of the loud fireworks that were going off till the wee hours of the morning...but they still had a blast!

Jim setting off a rocket of some sort...and Caleb watching!

Antonio and Caleb

Caleb roasting his marshmallow over the fire!

Caleb enjoying his Smore!

Enjoy the rest of the summer...we will have more posts to come with all the fun things we still have planned for the next few months before we head back to school and welcome our new addition to our family!

Summer Fun!

This past week we were able to take a day trip to Indiana Beach as a family. It was a wonderfully pleasant day weather wise and we had a lot of fun spending time together as a family. Jim and Caleb have been going to Indiana Beach for a very long time...for those who are not from Indiana and read the Blog Indiana Beach is about 1 hour from our house...I would say it is a lot like Kennywood back home in Pennsylvania. They have some wooden coasters, a newer steel coaster and all the old time rides and games. The boys enjoyed all the riding since baby and I were not allowed to ride almost all of the rides. But that is alright...I enjoyed seeing Jim and Caleb have fun!

Ride #1 Jim and Caleb on the Log Ride

Ride #2 Caleb on the Airplanes

One of Caleb's favorite rides...the Antique Cars...he rode this several times throughout the day. Oh and this was the only ride that I was allowed to ride :)

Jim and Caleb

Jim and Caleb getting ready to go ride the Corn Ball Express!

Jim and Caleb on the Raft water ride!

Caleb wanted to ride many of the rides by himself!

Jim and Caleb flying high on the Skyride!

Feeding the fish...look closely...there are tons of fish down there waiting for food!

Fun times on the Bumper Cars!

Caleb and Jim getting ready to go shoot some Aliens in the "Den of the Lost Thieves"!

Glinski Graduation Golf Outing June 18th-20th

Last weekend we had the chance to travel to Ohio to spend some time with both our Hetrick and Glinski relatives. Our trip started out in Cincinnati visiting my grandma which was so nice! Then we got to spend some time with my aunts/uncles and cousins on my birthday. Later that evening we headed towards Dayton to meet up with our Glinski family. Jim's cousin Eli graduated from high school in May an it was the weekend for his graduation party. Uncle Mike an Aunt Lisa planned a golf outing for anyone who wanted to golf on Saturday. Jim, Caleb an I all have our own clubs (but that is not saying that we are that good) so we signed up to golf. Below you will see some of our snap shots. It was a wonderful day and just added to a wonderful weekend with both of our families!


Caleb taking a swing!



Our little graduate...Eli!


Eli taking a swing!


Jim taking a swing!


Kara (and the baby) taking a swing!


Jim teeing off!


All the boys taking a little break. From front left: Jim (in cart), cousin Tim (standing by cart), Uncle Mike (in cart), Caleb (standing in front of the cart)


Noah and Grandpa Tom


Uncle Mike teeing off!

Thanks again for a wonderful weekend...we love spending time with our families...just doesn't happen as often as we would all like!

Indy 500

Thanks to Jim's wonderful Uncle Mike, we were able to attend the Indianapolis 500 again this year...we had the opportunity to invite some of our friends. We thought we were staying at the same hotel we stayed at last year which was VERY nice...but somehow well...our hotel was on the shabby side. Let's just say it was a place to sleep and get ready for the race and it did it's job! We had dinner out with all of our friends the night before the race a Buco de Beppo!

From left: Chris, Nathan, Jim, Kara, Deb, Tom, Vince, Sara



They made an extra dessert...so we all got to share in the fun of eating it!! Yum!



Race day started out great! We enjoyed the many festivities in an around the speedway. Then we all enjoyed the race from our AWESOME seats!!!!

We all took a short pause from our trek to our seats for a picture!
From left: Vince, Deb, Sara, Tom, Chris, Nathan, and Jim



Here is a picture of the double seat Indy car that Michael Andretti and Mark Wahlberg drove to begin the race.



One final group shot!
Top row from left: Brad, Craig, Deb, Tom, Kara, Jim
Bottom row from left: Chris, Nathan, Sara, Vince



Thanks again Uncle Mike!!!!