CAR WASH!

Something that Daddy and Who like to do together is wash Mommy's car. He was unsure about it the first week...but as you will see, he is ALL about helping now. Here is a picture and a video for you to laugh with.





When mommy asked him about how he was helping...this was his response:



Obviously, you don't want to interupt Who when he is working.

Jeremy and his Fish

Jeremy loves to fish. Not only fish...but fish with Grandpa. Here are some GREAT pictures of them fishing.


When Jeremy isn't fishing, he HAS to be watching fish. Right now...all he wants to watch is Finding Nemo. At the lake this weekend, he watched it EVERY time he was inside. Here he is watching it with Grandma.

Summer Vacation Week 1

This was our first week of vacation where we went to Ohio for Uncle Jon's wedding and to see everyone from Matt's side of the family for the first time in a LONG time. Here were the highlights of the week...mostly the pictures we took from the Great Wolf Lodge.


Jeremy took a nap after sleeping at the water park at the Great Wolf Lodge and was a little groggy. He woke up to Uncle Andy holding him...and Jeremy was looking for milk. It made all of us ROFL!


After Jeremy was done swimming, we all went back to our rooms to shower before dinner...or in Who's case BATHE IN THE SINK!!!


In the game room, Jeremy found a Sesame Street car!! He loved it...for about a minute and then was screaming for mommy.



Here is all the cousin's together after a long day of swimming. In this picture you will see everyone smiling except for Who. He really does love his family...he was just tired.



When you get all the Hartke's together, WIFFLEBALL must be played. This was Jeremy's first experience with Wiffleball, and he picked up a bat and was swinging like a pro on his own. He made daddy smile BIG.

Summer Vacation Week 2

This was summer vacation week 2 with our soul mate family from Texas. This week was a BLAST and here are some of the highlights:


This is Julie corrupting my son with Micah's favorite drink, the ICEE:


This is all of us at the Miami 4H fair. Let me just say, Jay and Misty don't sweat. Matt and Julie were sweating in places that cannot be mentioned here. I don't know how they do it, but it makes me mad.



On the night that we didn't want to give Jeremy a bath in the lake, we made do with what we had and Jeremy had a bath in the cooler. YES...we are that ghetto.



This was Jay in his CALMEST moment on the wave runner. I have to say...every DROP of gas that we had at the lake was consumed by Jay's thirst for pulling off tricks on the wave runner. I think the wave runner has now officially been broken in.




This is Jay in the water with Micah and Makenna during the times that Jay couldn't be contributing to the hoax of global warming. It was so crazy hot the majority of the time we were there that week that this is what we all did.



This is our Indiana family picture. This is Pat and Carl (Misty's parents) with Matt, Misty and Who.



This is Jay and Juju (we REALLY miss you guys...i mean ya'll).



AND THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK...this is Micah giving in to what it REALLY means to be a lake kid and taking a bath in the lake. BUT, he didn't stop there...HE HELPED GIVE MISTY A BATH!!!



See you all next year...we are counting down the days.

Our new FAVORITE Jeremy pic

We were at the Ski Club here in Kokomo for the Summer Lake Retreat the first weekend of June. While we were there, THIS became our favorite picture of Jeremy this year.




This was a first for Jeremy too...Kayaking with mommy! And yes...he really was enjoying it.