Papa Buck and Ally’s Birthday Party (August 28th, 2010)

We spent the day visiting Papa Buck and hitting the Piñata at Cousin Ally’s birthday party. It is always fun to see my grandpa and he gets really excited to see the girls! He gets a kick out of Emma and is always measuring her up to see how big she is. He has always been pretty blunt about our looks; commenting on whether or not he likes how I am wearing my hair and how my weight is going as well! He is delighted because Emma is “starting to slim down” and says that Audrey “sure is a BIG healthy thing”! It makes me laugh to think that he would even notice such a thing at his age!

We celebrated Ally’s third birthday party complete with swimming, cake, and a Piñata. Emma was in heaven and crashed on the way home from her major sugar high!

We also got to meet our new cousin, little Eli, who was born on July 23rd. He is a little cutie!

Cute Baby Girl

Some photos of Audrey right before she peed all over our bed! Good thing she is so cute!

Stephanie's Baby Shower

The girls from my work got together to have a shower for my friend Stephanie who is expecting her first baby, little Ryan, in late September. The shower was tons of fun and the food was delicious. I brought Audrey along because I thought now I can tell her that she was at her husband’s baby shower. Won’t that be sweet? I can’t wait for Halloween 2011 when I plan on dressing them up as a prince and princess! Those will be priceless photos at their wedding!

Sisters Who Play Together

Lately the girls have been very interested in each other. Today I vacuumed the entire house while Audrey was in the Johnny Jumper and Emma was playing underneath her! They both thought it was very funny. Every day they spend a good 30 minutes rolling around on the floor together but it usually ends with Audrey pulling Emma’s hair! It is so nice that they are starting to entertain each other and that their closeness in age is starting to pay off. Can’t wait till they can go downstairs and play and I can catch up on my soaps! Just kidding (kind of)!

Emma has a headband on her head....

I don’t know if you are familiar with them or not but one of Emma’s favorite DVD’s is the Laurie Berkner Band. They sing all kinds of silly songs one of them being “My mom has an alligator on her head” and then it goes on to naming all the family members and all of the silly items on their head. Today Emma walked downstairs with this blue headband on singing “Emma’s got a headband on her head, Emma’s got a headband on her head!” You have to know the song to appreciate this but I am sure all of us who have suffered through watching it with Emma can get a chuckle from this! So here she is in her blue headband!

Michigan

I have been putting off this post because I have an overwhelming amount of pictures to sort through but it is important that I document it so I will try!

Every August, we spend a week on Lake Michigan with Adam’s IL family. This year there were around 44 people of the 72+ family there! It was crazy but tons of fun. We spent the mornings at the beach, followed by some pre lunch swimming, then headed into a lovely Chalet for lunch. After lunch we swam, napped, and ate some more. Every night ended in our cabin with a large group of people playing “Mafia”. We have decided that the family has a sick addiction to the game. Ali and her family were in for the weekend so it was nice to spend some time with them before Baby Andy arrives. Here is my best attempt to capture with week without an overload of pictures. I promise I am only using a small amount of the 300 I took!

First, the pool photos….

Then the beach photos….



Hanging around photos…

Lana and Audrey (looking forward to next year when these too little buddies can play together!)

Mafia…

And sunset photos (a tradition!)…

That’s it! Hope you made it through!

Belated Birthdays

We missed both my mom and dad’s birthdays so last Friday we had a belated birthday celebration complete with Apple Pie. Emma and Catherine had fun decorating for the party and when they were done, Emma looked at the table and said “cool man!”