Summer Fun

Girls Weekend

Another fun weekend in Viroqua has come and gone. We had a great time at the farmer's market and 'Crazy Days' and even had a FABULOUS Mexican dinner at a new restaurant.

We also had some fun at the house. The girls were 'bathing beauties'.

Of course, they had their special yogurt breakfast

Mighty was banished to, I mean escaped to, the deck for most of the weekend.

We did join her for some relaxation. I managed to get one picture of Sandy smiling. I don't think she knew I was taking a picture.

If she knew I was coming with the camera, she would have done something like this:

Gram had time for a smile and so did the girls

Lots of fun, but way to short. Next summer, we need a week!

4th of July 2010

I had dreams of taking the greatest pictures of my girls on the 4th of July, in their newly created t-shirts, with awesome fireworks behind them. Of course I had dreams of 'the perfect family picture' of all of us with red, white & blue on. I had dreams of me posting a video of Lucy reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Here is what I have in real life:

"Mom, I have something on my head."

"Mom, Ellen has something on her head."

"Hey mom, my friends came over to watch fireworks. We want to pose for a picture."

"Sure hon, Lucy and I will be in a fireworks picture."

We are still working on the Pledge of Allegiance too.

4 ways we are getting ready for the 4th

Lucy and I are getting festive nails
We are going to a friends birthday party
Red, White, and delicious!

We're getting a little creative

Happy Fathers, Shabby Mamas & Buz Lightyear

Well, not in that order, but that pretty much sums up our weekend. We started on Saturday going to the 'junk market' with the Shabby Mamas. The Shabby Mamas are a group my friends who are amazingly talented and have taken old furniture and home decorations and refurbished and recreated them into beautiful new pieces. I was just delighted to be able to display some of my shirts in the Shabby Mama booth. The ladies sold many of their items and I even sold two shirts! Here is a peek at some of the things in the booth.

The Shabby Mamas

Later that afternoon, Jeremy and I met his cousin Kathy and two of her kids to see Toy Story 3. Here are Lucy and I with Kathy and Mary.

Lucy and Mary

Here is the group getting ready for the show to begin.

For Father's Day, we made our yearly trip to the strawberry field. This year we went with our friends, the Carters. Here are some pictures of our gorgeous girls picking and sampling some of the berries.

Ellen

Elizabeth

Bella

Lucille

Lucy

The girls picking in their own spot.

When we were done picking, Jer and Ellen went to order us some ice cream with strawberries, Yum!

Good to the last drop!

Got ice cream?

The whole group.

Happy Father's Day guys!

The Cabin

This post could also be titled 'Better Late than Never'. A few weeks ago, we were able to get up to the cabin for the day. I forgot my camera, but Grandma K. snapped a few cute pics for me.

It was a little chilly to swim, but Lucy still tried on Davids spiderman goggles and fins.

The two of them also played ping-pong on the new table.

Hey - Can I go out there?
O.k. I'll just stay in here and snuggle with Papa.

We have a few big things coming up this weekend. I'm charging the camera battery as I'm writing this. I WILL take pictures!

These Days. . .

It has been a while since our last post. You may be wondering what we are up to these days. We have been doing a lot and Mommy has been bad at bringing the camera. We did manage to catch a few things with the phone, so please forgive the photo quality. Here is what we have been doing:

Lucy had a friend over to watch a movie

She has been hanging out with her playgroup buddies
Every once in a while, she even smiles for the camera

Ellen is now driving. She is very serious about it, as you can tell from the expression on her face. She has mastered 'reverse'. We will keep working on going forward.

She has been playing in her new playhouse with her big sis

She has also started to feed herself with a spoon

So, there are a few snaps of our life from the past few weeks. We'll try to be better at keeping you all updated over the summer.