Grandpa Kuiper with Lanae and Cassidy

Kuipers cousins with their decorated cupcake tree. This is at Jason & Lois' house while we were visiting during the teachers convention

Braden working hard on getting his cupcake decorated just right

Lanae would rather eat a cupcake than decorate. Andrew is busy too decorating

Laura helping with the icing of the cupcakes

Braden wearing the shirt he got for his birthday from Grandpa & Grandma Kuiper

Lanae just chillin outside

Lanae is up to something!

Jacob playing in the dirt with his favorite toys

Braden and his soccer team. Rock Valley Fall Soccer. Braden is in the back row third from the left

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The steps we made using wall blocks and will fill the rest in with rock

The new patio area which will have patio pavers put over the dirt

The Kuipers kids once again on the skid loader

The dirt pile quickly disappeared much to the dismay of the kids.

The Kuiper kids on the skid loader we used to move dirt around our yard.

Jacob playing with his trucks in the dirt that will eventually become a patio

Dumping more dirt atop of existing dirt that settled.

The two walls are now completed

We used the wall blocks to create steps and will fill in with rock

The Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines

Jacob in an old working telephone booth

Braden talking to someone telling them what a great day he had.

Andrew wondering how much it cost to make a phone call.

Mom and Lanae aboard the zoo train

Jacob feeding the giraffe

Dad and Jacob aboard the zoo train

Dad and Jacob riding a camel at the Blank Park Zoo

Braden feeding a giraffe

Braden and Andrew aboard the zoo train

Braden and Andrew riding the camel

Andrew feeding the giraffe

Jacob found this table and played with the trains for quite a while!

How big can you make a bubble, Andrew

What do you see, Braden and Andrew? This is inside the Iowa Science Center in Des Moines

Here are a few pictures of the kids in a tree at the campground we are at during our summer vacation .

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Here is the happy bunch of Kuiper kids excited to finally be at the campground. This was taken in a tree by our camp site. We had a great time visiting Des Moines and surrounding area from July 6 - July 11.

The trench we dug to hold the retaining wall block and the granite dust.

The kids have a new play ground. The dirt does tend to find its way into the house.

We will round of this corner with wall blocks instead of making it a 90 degree angle

The block on the left is the wall cap for the top, the one in the middle is the wall block and the one on the right is the inter loc edger we will use to go around the house.

The wall blocks and caps waiting to be installed

These pics are of the stakes we had to put in the ground to make sure the trench we need will be straight. The trench will hold 2" of granite dust and 2" of the retaining wall block.