Sorry I am behind!

We've been super busy since Trina got to town!

We went up north for the 4th of July.  It was CRAZY hot, so we ended up spending a lot of time inside because of the babies.  Here are some pics from the trip:

Miss Thang is now crawling all around and pulling herself up on things.  This is her favorite place to be in the house:

She pulls herself up onto the step up into the kitchen, but still hasn't figured out how to get up there yet.  She's mastered the kitchen step at Grandma's, but it's a smaller step.  So, for the time being she is contained in the family room.  I think it's probably about time to get some baby gates tho!

I came downstairs last weekend and found this:

Last weekend, we went to Art in the Park.  Ryan was excited to get a brat from the Big Taste Grill.  We really only made it thru about half of the fair because it was SO hot.  We had a good time, but I think it will be more fun with M is walking and not confined to a hot stroller or in our hot arms :)

Yesterday, Grandma and Grandpa took us all out for ice cream at the Dairy-Go-Round:

 Afterward, we went to back to their house to hang out and we busted out one of M's new toys (don't worry, Trina got one too after spending 785943 hours at Toys R' Us trying to figure out what she wanted).  Since M has been pulling up on everything, we decided it was time for some standing toys. 

Fewf!  That's about it.  Trina got to have a sleepover with Grandma and Grandpa last night, so we have to head over there to pick her up soon!  Hopefully Grandpa didn't spoil her too much!

Happy Birthday J!

Happy Birthday to one of my dearest and closest friends!  I know we don't get to see each other nearly as often as we would like, but I am so blessed to have had you as my friend for the last 10 years.  Can you believe it's been 10 years in August?!?

I hope you have an absolutely wonderful day with your family! 

And the obligatory BFF post.  I'm sad this is the most recent photo we have, but we'll have some new ones soon!!!

I love you momma!  Happy Birthday!

Busy Busy Weekend!

We've been running around like crazy this weekend!

Saturday morning we headed over to my parents house so the boys could go pick up her new cutting table from the Quilt Shop.  After that, my dad decided last minute that he was going to turn his car in and get a new one.  He decided on an MKS and had the boys come with him to the dealership to pick out the color.  It ended up taking longer than anticipated, so my mom, Maddie & I had to go pick up Ryan's car from Discount Tire (he got new tires) while the boys all headed straight from the dealership to the airport to pick up Trina.

We did dinner at Texas Roadhouse with everyone and ended up sitting next to Nick Fairley of the Lions!!  Grandma and Grandpa wanted to take Trina for ice cream, but it was getting late and we had to get M to bed.  Sooo...we sent Trina with my parents and we headed home.

By 11 pm, I started to wonder what the heck happened to everyone.  Turns out, instead of getting ice cream they went to a carnival that was going on across the street from Texas Roadhouse.

Today was also super busy!  I woke Trina up around 9:30 and had her try on all of her clothes to see what still fit and what didn't.  Turns out...most of it didn't:

After getting everyone up and ready to go, we headed out for shopping.  Trina basically got a new wardrobe for the summer and some new kicks that she's pretty excited about:

After clothes shopping, which obviously had to include a trip to Justice, we grabbed some lunch at 5 Guys Burger & Fries and then off to Meijer for some grocery shopping.  The cart cover won again:

After all the shopping, we came home and put all of Trina's old clothes into storage.  Yeah, they took up two large storage bins:

Fewf!  Then it was time to do a bunch of laundry & cook diner (tacos! yum!).  The kids are both in bed now and Ryan and I are relaxing a bit in front of the TV.

In other news, Maddie started to crawl forward on Thursday!  I got a little video tonight of her crawling.  It's not at all graceful, but she's getting where she needs to go!

Tomorrow is Trina's first day of camp.  And, my first day trying to get two kids to two places and then to work all within an hour and all ways to work are under construction.  Awesome.  Wish me luck!!!

Happy 7 Months!

Madeleine is 7 months old today!  I can't believe how fast the time is going.  It seems like just yesterday she was born!  But, then in other ways, it seems like it's been so long.  I can't remember anymore how little she felt in my arms the first time I held her.

• She's 13lbs 7oz now.  
• She crawls, but only backwards.
• She loves to eat real food!  Her favorite is sweet potato!
• She's sleeping in her crib, and sleeping through the night.
• Her favorite toy is her stuffed Hungry Hungry Caterpillar.
• We read Goodnight Moon before bed every night.
• She's doing a pretty good job of going from a crawling position to sitting.
• She still only has those bottom two teeth, and that toothy grin melts my heart.
• She is honestly the happiest baby I have ever met.  

Happy 2nd Anniversary J & L

I can't believe it's already been two years!  And, you've added Mr. Blake to the mix!  It seems so long ago, and yet like it was just yesterday!

Your wedding is still one of the best I've ever been to!

I love you both so much and I wish you so very many more anniversaries to come!  <3

Fathers Day 2012

Ryan got his Father's Day gifts early this year so he could actually use on of them on Father's Day.

First up, the gift he's been wanting for several years now:

WEBER GRILL!  He's pretty excited, but we have to go get a new LP tank before he can actually use it, since we ran out of gas about a week ago!

Next up, Maddie's gifts for her daddy:

She made the cup at daycare.  It has a card in the shape of a tie inside :)  You can see view the photobook below if you'd like!

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