HaHo Family Reunion

For our second year, we were able to partake in the annual Hamra-Homra(Ha-Ho) Famiky Reunion in Hot Springs Arkansas. Family members from far and wide travel for swimming, golf, dancing and lots of reminiscing. There wre so many little ones this year, Sawyer had the best time. He latched on to a few in particular. Josiah "Si", one of John's distant cousins, looks exactly like Sawyer's favorite character in Sandlot "ya-ya". So, he followed him around all weekend, calling him that. Si was a very good sport and entertained him. He was very sad to leave but we are very excited for next year because we are stating in a brand new resort!

Here are my tons of pics!!!

On the road!

We're here!

Family dinner

John & Jon

Kid sandwich!

Hadley & Sawyer

Raleigh & Sawyer

Lots of kiddos!

Young love!

Saturday Pool Day

Kaiden and me

Kaiden's first time in a pool

Loves jumping off the side!

Swimming all by himself 

More kisses from Hadley 

Watermelons by the pool

Sawyer and YaYa

Lounging before dinner

Saturday dinner and dancing 

Breakfast before heading home

Telling everyone bye

Stop by the alligator farm on the way home

He thought feeding the lions was funny!

Weekend in Pictures: Megan's St. Louis 30th celebration!!

Last weekend we were able to join Megan, Tim, Elliot and their family and a few friends to help her celebrate her 30th with a St.louis cardinals game. It was a blast!! Here is a video Megan shared: http://flipagram.com/f/DxdhZv8STC

And the pics....

A little wine tasting on the way up

Birthday girl with her little lady

Sleeping beauty

MEANWHILE....back in Springfield, Sawyer was having a blast with my parents.

Kissing fishies 

Springfield Cards game!

And he loved the blanket we got at the game!!

Sprinkler!!!

Sawyer's grandparents Donnetta & Derrick did good! The new sprinkler they surprised Sawyer with was a huge hit! I have very fond childhood memories playing in the sprinkler with my sister in the summers so it was endearing to see Sawyer love it too! He was not a happy camper when we had to go in!! Thanks Grandma & Campaw!!

Home Updates // Round 1

Moving with a two-year-old has proven to be more challenging than we could've anticipated. We are only able to do our unpacking after Sawyer goes to bed but despite those hurdles we're about 90% unpacked. We have also been able to make some updates to the home to make it more Hamra-fied. 

Our first project was getting Sawyer's room painted. Darlene and Katrina Appelquist were kind enough to spend a couple days with me painting his room. It took a good 3 1/2 days but I couldn't be more pleased with the results... Gray with white and navy stripes. Thank you ladies for all your hard work!!

Darlene working her magic!

This was not on purpose, I swear!

Loves his new room and big boy bed!!

My second project was painting our front door yellow. I had picked out a more pale yellow but John picked out a bright yellow. We decided to let Sawyer make the decision for us and he picked the bright yellow. I have to admit after that first coat I was a little apprehensive. Holy cow was it bright. But in the words of my husband..."if you're going to go Yellow, got to go all out". And after eight or so coats (not kidding) I love the color! 

Just need a wreath!!

We also were able to do some yardwork Sunday (thanks to my mom and dad for hanging with Sawyer). I potted some new plants, we hung a new plant holder and we just spend time cleaning up the yard. 

Had to use Sawyer's wagon for assistance. 

We have a few more big projects we are working on, I'll share as we complete. We are excited for our new living room furniture to arrive as well as our new patio furniture my wonderful in-laws got us as a housewarming gift.  We also got a new dining room table for the formal dining room, just waiting on the chairs.