Nationals T-Ball

Jacob had a great last year of T-Ball!  Josh coached, and his brother Jordan helped.  It's fun to have cousins on our team!  

We love spending our nights at the ball diamonds!

Jacob is a good hitter!  He has a really nice swing, and he hit the ball pretty hard this year, oftentimes directly at his dad.  Almost knocked his hat off once!

Everybody wins in T-Ball!

Grandpa and Grandma Reeves were in town for a game which was a special treat!

I hope the kids always remember how much time their dad spent with them on the ball field.  He loves doing it with them.  It's a big commitment and a lot of work to coach them, but he loves it.  He is a great dad!  

Kickapoo Park

We had a fun family night at Kickpoo one night this summer.  We had a picnic of pizza and played catch and played on the playground.  Of course I had to snap a few pictures of my favorite kiddos:

Father's Day

My kids are so blessed to have such a great dad!  We are all so thankful for him.

For Father's Day this year, we got Josh some beach gear for Michigan (chairs and an umbrella)... AND his big gift was Cubs Tickets for Josh, Steve, Jordan, Landon, and Jacob!  Courtney and I had fun surprising the guys with this gift!  We joked that the rule was that your middle name had to be "Michael" to go on this trip, which was 5 of the Downing boys!

We had dinner at Jordan and Courtney's to surprise Steve with his Father's Day gift!

Unstaged cuddle time on Father's Day.  They love their daddy!

Jacob had a BLAST on his first trip to Wrigley!  He was giddy about it for days afterwards!  Love how much he is loving sports!

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Methodist VBS

The kids had a fun week attending the Methodist church VBS.  Emma Lawler joined us as her mom was out of town on a mission trip that week.  If you couldn't tell, there was a color theme each day:

Jacob Kindergarten Update

I was thankful to get to be fairly involved in Jacob's Kindergarten year.  My mom helped with Aleah and Lucas so I could attend several events.

Here he is dressed as Abraham Lincoln:

Skating Party for Colby's b-day:

I got to go to the planetarium with him:

We went to the mother son game night:

Josh and I both got to go to the Orpheum Children's Museum:

He graduated from my department at church, which is super weird after six years of having him with me:

FuNd Walk:

I also got to go to Forest Glen with him!  So many fun Kindergarten field trips:

And one final trip to the Catlin Park:

There are no words for how much we love this boy.  He is a GREAT kid!  We could not be more proud of him!