Saturday, August 18, 2012

Birthday Princess

 I can't believe it's been 3 years with this sweet baby girl.
 She seems to have had a fabulous day.  This is her in the birthday hat she picked out for herself.
 Grandpa dressed Giggles in her ballerina outfit and bows so everyone could see how pretty she was.
 Grace has definitely mastered opening gifts.  She was very excited about it all, and then promptly threw it to the side and moved on to the next gift.
 She is obsessed with Doc Mcstuffins currently, so she got a Doc Mcstuffins doctors kit, and a lab coat.  Definitely a hit.
 She also got this new bike and basket, and the bunny slippers she's wearing.  It isn't every day that you have a girl in a lab coat flying down the street on a bike.  Making a a house call I guess.

 Happy Birthday Gracie Girl!  

Friday, August 17, 2012

Birthday Date

 Grace got to go out on her birthday date with my parents tonight.  She went to Build-A-Bear and then Red Robin for dinner.
 This is Grace showing us "Giggles" when she got home. Her report on the evening was "Mom, that was awesome."  My parents' report was that Grace was "good, but bossy."  Nothing we didn't already know there.
She loves Giggles, just watched some of her favorite cartoon cuddled up with her, and is now taking her up to meet her other toys and go to bed.  Such a fun birthday date for our sweet girl.  Now to get ready for her party tomorrow.

Hot Hot Heat

Time to play catch up again.
 Evan just finished up another baseball season.
  I have learned it is really hard for me to watch my children try to learn a sport.  He had a blast though, and I learned a little more patience.  By the time all 3 of them are in sports I will either be very patient, or down right crazy.
 We went camping.  We headed out for 4 fun days in "the jungle" as Grace declared it.
 Day 1 we had a fun little hike.  The kids did awesome.  The boys walked the whole 2 miles, and Grace only wanted to be carried for a little while.
 We asked them to go stand by this tree with all of its moss for a picture, to which Kyle responded "I'm not too sure about this." His cautious nature is kind of fun.
 On the way back they got a bit concerned we were lost and they were very excited when they figured out we weren't and came running to tell us they knew where we were.  Go figure since we were on a trail the whole time.
 
 The next morning while we cleaned up camp to head to the next campsite Grace decided it was a good time to puke.  With her you never know if she is sick or just puking for no reason, so we headed home.  Turns out she wasn't sick, just cold, but Kyle got carsick on our way out, which ran us out of clean sweatshirts, so its good we decided to head home.  It was a fun 24 hour camping trip til the last hour.
  Evan is working on wakeboarding.  He is getting so close to getting up.  Hopefully soon.
 Kyle, the master flagger (if he hasn't fallen asleep in the boat again).
Last but not least, our crazy garden.  We were under the impression our 4 ft tall tomato cages would be sufficient, but after last year, and now these 6-7 ft tall beasts, I'm not so convinced.  Luckily Brandon was able to improvise.