Our Garden

Here is our garden for this summer for those of you wondering if I could be a green thumb!! :) We've been really impressed with the outcome of our crops. We have zucchini out of our ears (as you can see with the picture of the girls with one of the zucchini we grew) and lots of other plants. It's been fun! These pictures were actually taken about a month ago so our corn is about twice that high and has corn on it now!! :) Yeah! So, if you ever come to see us, we'll send you home with some goodies!!

Cute swimming pictures

I had to blog these pictures as I just think they are so cute!! I'm a sucker for babies in swimming suits!! I usually always keep my camera handing when we go to the pool...so just fyi...there may be more swimming pictures later throughout the blog!! :) Kayley always loves to help me get ready for the pool..she is such a grown up now. She always helps me round up Cora to get her sunblock on, etc. It sure is cute! More pics to come on the blog too!!

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

What is a summer without baseball?!?! Well, we were lucky enough to watch Judson and Edward's baseball games a couple of times this summer. They are both great players and we enjoyed watching them play! In these pictures, Judson is in the orange jersey and Edward is in the blue jersey. And of course the girls loved playing in the dirt! I got some cute pics of Katrina and Cora, but Kayley and Olivia also had just as much fun in the dirt!

Helmets?

This is a clarification post. In the pictures I posted earlier about our trip to Arkansas, Nick is shown riding John's motorcycle. Well, Stephanie (my sister-in-law) made a comment about him not wearing a hemet...which is what I was thinking too Steph! However, luckily Nick really wasn't very good at shifting from 1st to 2nd on the motorcycle, so he never went very fast. But, even if he had gone fast, he wouldn't have been pulled over as we learned that Arkansas has no law on wearing helmets while on a motorcycle. So, even though it's a beautiful part of our country...it's full of idiots who don't wear helmets! Don't worry in case you were wondering John is NOT one of them!! :) He does wear his! Plus, if Nick had fallen off the bike...he was going so slow it would have just been like falling off of a bike!! :)

Our Trip to Arkansas #1

Pictures from our trip to Arkansas....
Driving range....Daddy gave Kayley a few tips and then John gave Nick a few tips!! :)

John was nice enough to let Nick ride his motorcycle and Kayley had fun with Shannon and Brady!

Our Trip to Arkansas #2

Ok..I know that these pics are a little late in coming on here. I had them all ready to go a week ago and the computer did something funky...so here are the pics from about 3 weeks ago when we went to go visit Shannon and John in Arkansas. I had been to Arkansas once before when I was in high school for a basketball camp and it was pretty hick-town and so we were expecting about the same for our visit. We were corrected. It's actually a really beautiful part of the United States. We had a great visit. We went to Abuello's to eat (a highly recommended Mexican Restaurant!!) It was yummy! Then we saw where Shannon and John both work...I guess they do have to work sometime! Then Saturday we did a bucket of golf balls at the driving range and it was really cute to watch Kayley hit the golf balls and to help us pick them up when she hit them. Then we took the girls to the pool while John & Nick did guy stuff and went to the shooting range. Then we had a fun barbeque with some of their friends (indoors as it started pouring down rain right when we were ready to walk out the door.) We had lots of fun and we have the pictures to prove it!! J See below!

The Love of Sisters

Here are a collection of photos of the girls. They are now learning how to play together now that Cora is more mobile. It sure is cute to watch them...at least when they aren't fighting. Kayley likes to take things away from Cora and as soon as she does, she immediately turns to Nick or I and spits at us to sort of tattle on her. It's cute, but can be annoying at times too! One of their favorite things to do is play in Kayley's room. Kayley likes to run to her room and yell for Cora to come running after her. Cora has to crawl pretty quickly, but eventually gets there...then when she gets there Kayley runs into the living room and calls for her to come get her again...it's pretty cute! They are growing so fast, but we are loving every minute of it!!

Cora is growing up...

Cora loves her headband!! She loves trying to be a big girl and put it on herself...

Our Little Cora is growing up so fast. She is already 9 1/2 months...almost 10 months. She is learning and growing everyday and showing us new things everyday! She can now say "ow" or wow, she plays hide and go seek with her hands, she waves "hi" and "bye", she blows kisses (still working to perfect that one), does the motion for "big girl", she puts a phone up to her ear now as if she's talking on the phone, and she pulls up on furniture to her feet...last night she ventured out into moving from one piece of furniture to the other. She is so smart and such a quick learner. We are so lucky to have her. She loves her big sister and wants to do anything and everything she is doing. One of her favorite things to do is go into Kayley's room to play with her toys while Kayley's in the other room. I think she knows that now anytime she plays with one of Kayley's toys, it's all of a sudden a new found toy that is Kayley's favorite and she always ends up taking it away from Cora, hence why Cora loves to go into Kayley's room by herself!! We just love this little girl...oh and on the slide show, you can put the cursor on the picture to stop it and see the caption. Have fun looking at the pics!

Memorial Day 2008

I realize that Memorial Day is come and gone almost by a month now. However, I'm just now getting around to getting some pics updated. Here are some fun pics of our fun weekend. We had the Carles over for a barbeque that Judson and Nick cooked for us. Then we headed to Union Station for the "Celebration at the Station." We met the Walkers there and enjoyed the music from the St. Louis Symphony and fireworks afterwards. I unfortunately did not get the best pictures as our hands were tied up between holding Kayley and Cora's ears. They had cannons there that they set off during the last song and that sent Cora into a tizzy! She basically screamed throughout the whole fireworks show. I tried nursing her after I thought the cannons were finished, but luckily Jessica saw that they were lighting up the cannons again so I took her off before I lost a body part from teeth. Anyway, other than that, it was a lot of fun and the weather was great!!

Mary & Tyson's Wedding

Tyson joined our family on May 17th and it was a great day for a wedding as you can tell from the pictures. It was so fun to see all the nieces and nephews in matching outfits. It made for great pictures even though they may not have all been looking/smiling at the same time! Thanks Stephanie for making all the cute sashes!! Here are pictures of the wedding party at the temple as well as the lucky couple!

Then later that night was the reception in Columbia at the Tiger Hotel. It was lots of fun and lots of dancing! Everyone immediately took their shoes off, including all the kids...they all had a blast!!

That weekend sure was fun as it had been a while since everyone had gotten together. Here we all are at Andrew and Sarah's house playing woofle ball together. Thanks to Andrew and Sarah for letting us bombard their house the whole weekend! It was great fun...the whole weekend!