Cookies...

I made the Simple Kindness Cookies again. This time using strawberry flavored cake mix.



Pretty yummy this way as well. Wonder what the next ones will be?

Zoo Pictures

We love going to the zoo! We started going when Jess had just turned one. (That just happened right?)And while we go throughout the year, we make special effort to get there at birthday time. It has become something of a tradition to get a picture of the kiddos in front of the "measuring hands" in the petting zoo area.
about 8 hands high


Brandon slightly taller than Jess at one year.


Jess and Gabe (one yr and 1 1/2yrs)- since this pic, I call this "our rock"


pictures of Jess and Brandon on our rock are in the slide show.

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Pictures posted

Here is a slide show from when we visited daddy, daddy's pics from a sight seeing excursion (without us), a few from home, AND Rib Fest. All this complete with fireworks at the end!

Hopefully, you can make it that long. I had 100 pictures before I realized it! Figuring that would be enough for one slide show, I will save the trip to the zoo for another time.

Enjoy!

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A week in review...

Somehow I don't get the posts in as I hope to. It seems to be getting longer and longer in between. It has been a busy week. The camera was loaded with tons and tons of pictures. I just uploaded them late last night and quickly breezed thru them. Lots to share! Along with gymnastics classes, there was a play date, a day trip to where daddy had worked last week, swimming, Rib Fest, and the zoo.

Did I mention that there are lots and lots of pictures? I will leave you with a few. Three of them are from Rib Fest Saturday evening and one of Brandon at the zoo on Sunday(sporting daddy's shades.)





And this super cute smile from Jess... She was a little put off that she was not included in the picture of the boys standing by the fence. But she thought it was the funniest thing that we were getting their picture while Brandon's underwear was showing.

lightening

Check out this cool shot that Daddy captured. This is from the storms that rolled thru last Friday, the 19th.

hats and a haircut

That pretty much sums it up.

Birthday Recap

Oh yeah.The blog.Long time.No post.Really?

So belated. But the birthday girl had a good time. She was a little bummed out that more kids wouldn't be there. But was super excited when she found out that Megan would be there. Her best buddy since WAAAAAY back in kindergarten.

I took the easy way out. I had ordered pizza from Papa Murphy's. (Printed coupons from online.) Good stuff.

I think that she is getting at "that" age where it is sorta difficult to shop for her. That tween stage. We had gotten her an assortment of stuff. Books, a game, a couple Littlest Pet Shop animals. And a few other small items. But I think the thing that she liked the best (from us. She loves all her gifts! Thanks everyone!!) was the $2.00 LPS playset that we found at a garage sale. And to think, all this time we have been buying NEW STUFF for her birthdays. What were we thinking?!?
And Brandon likes it too. Later after everyone had left, the kiddos were playing with the LPS, and when one of the animals was put on the top of the playset, the canopy starting going around! Apparently, you wind it and the magnet on the pet shop animal makes it go. They thought it was the funniest thing.

And now the slideshow... surprised?

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To backtrack a bit, we did have cupcakes on Jess' actual birthday. She and her brother took a turn at the "pinata" that she had made in school. Just in case you're keeping track, it has been nearly a month since school let out. She has had this sitting on her desk just waiting for her birthday to roll around.




PS. She has already read the whole book from Great Rachel. (as opposed to Aunt Rachel)