The Kunkel Bunch Goes to the Park

These are the few pix I got at the park the other day ... I like the one where Lydia's pulling Robbie's hand.

Kunkel Bunch Goes to the Lake

Warning: there are a TON of pictures in this post. :)

Last week we spent the evening with some friends, and after dinner, we headed to the lake out back of their place. They keep it well-stocked, so it makes a fun place to fish. This picture of Benny and Dad is one of my new favorites:

Lydia getting tickled. :)
Matt showing Lydia a cricket.
Joey
Matt fell in ... somehow. :P
This is such a 'Joey' expression. :)
Matthew kissing his fish ... it's kind of a family tradition?
LOL ... Joey trying to race the quad.
Lydia throwing a fish back.


Robbie taking Lydia for a quad ride.

Emily convinced me I should at least catch one fish. :)
Emily caught quite a few ... she takes 'em off the hook herself - she even knows how to use the pliers, and has opinions on which color worm works the best. :)
Ben ... relaxing. :)
Dad dangled this fish in front of my camera ... and I think the picture's silly. :)
Matt
Joey
Ben
Ben and Lydia
Joey
Daniel and Lydia
Daniel had a method of putting them back in the water "so that they would splash!"
Lydia ... upset about something!
Dad and Benny
Lydia, again. :)

Lydia Faith

Or, as she says it, "Lilya Fafe". Same difference. :P No matter how you say it, she's one cute li'l girl.

We were riding to WalMart last night, and Lydia just started talking:

"I used to be a little baby, and I tied (cried), and tied, and tied, and tied, and tied, and tied, and tied, and Mommy used to yuv (love) me, and yuv me, and yuv me, and I would go to seep (sleep) every time," she finished in a very matter-of-fact tone. I'm not kidding, she said 'cried' seven times. :)

"Does Mommy still love you?" Mom asked her, pretending to be offended.

"Yes," Lydia replied.

"Oh good," Mom said, with an exaggerated relieved tone. :)


"Whoa! That's not how mommy doos it!"

"Joey, are you my husband?"

"Yeah, I promise! Serious!"

Happenings

This is Mom and Dad, getting ready to leave for Mom's 25th class reunion.


Daniel came downstairs to sleep in the guest room, since it was hot upstairs. Then he fell asleep while reading his book and his mom and sister snuck in to take a picture of him. :P


These pictures are of Dad's new invention, 'fish-immin'. It happened like this: Dad told the kids they were going fishing. They get to the lake, and Dad wades out in the water with his fishing pole. All of the kids happily follow suit. And eventually half of us were actually fishin' and the other half were just swimmin'. So we've gone fish-immin' a couple of times in the last week or so ... though I don't have any pix of the swimmin' part. :)

This is Emily's hair done in a five-strand braid ... Emily and Lydia love to have their hair braided.

Lydia playing hide-and-seek ... she's hiding from Robbie ... who, of course, pretended to be completely mystified as to her whereabouts. :)

Friday, July 16, 2010

Independence Day & MOMS birthday

4th of July weekend.

On the 4th of July, we walked in the parade at 1:30, Sunday afternoon, in the 90 degree weather handing out flags and candy. (FUN) So instead of doing fireworks Saturday night, before church at 10 and parade at 1:30, we did fireworks friday night over Coldwater lake. On Saturday we went to the air show in Battle Creek.
For Mom's birthday, (July 5th) we just stayed home and did nothing and had fun!

-Daniel