Dino pics

He are a few from our walk with the dinosaurs...

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Walking with Dinosaurs

This was oh so cool! We went on Saturday afternoon (which is why we came home from Nashville right after breakfast.) with grandma and grandpa, Uncle Alvin, Aunt Shannon and Ray. The kids LOVED it! Jess and Brandon covered their ears a few times, but stayed glued to what was happening. Jess sat inbetween grandma and grandpa while Brandon sat between daddy and Aunt Shannon. Apparently both of the kiddos asked all sorts of questions about what happened, how come this, why is that... It was really a great time had by all, grown ups included. We finished off with dinner at Red Robin. Brandon managed to pop the balloon he got at Red Robin on the way home. Major trauma ensued. Crisis averted by daddy when we got home; the blow-up dinosaur saved the day.
Daddy manned the camera for the show. (good thing too! i am terrible at dark/low light pictures) We have 300 pictures. I will work on getting a slideshow together. Surprise!
Here are a few of us going in.




Oh, and the clerk (or whatever) at the Will Call window seemed to think he was a comedian. Scans my credit card to retreive my tickets and says "there seems to be a problem. Your tickets were given to someone else." I don't think so!!!.... dude, don't quit your day job, ok?

Going on a date

My sweet hubby asked me on a date. He had made all these "secret" arrangements- plans for the kids, the dog and a night out for us. How could a girl say no? He had been working out of town and was able to take Friday off. Friday morning after the kiddos had breakfast, they packed a bag to go to grandma and grandpa's house. (and grandma and grandpa were nice enough to come by to take care of the dog.) We headed down to Nashville, Indiana. Lunch at the Nashville House and dinner at Holy Cow Steakhouse; we checked out all the shops in between. We stayed at the Abbey Inn. So charming!
Saturday morning, we headed home after breakfast. What a great getaway. Just the two of us.

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*i did not fill in all the pages in this photo book, just so ya know...

Look-a-like

I had to post these. It has just been driving me crazy to try and find a really good close up picture of Brandon to try and "match" the pictures of Maxx. But I think that these will just have to do. They even have the same little curl over their ear. Or is it just me?

Brandon 1yr-

15mos


Maxx

Family Reunion

We had a family reunion in Kentucky to go to on Saturday. While I know that everyone was looking forward to it, we got a bit of a head start on Friday. All four of my brothers and I met at our mom's house. (insert chaos now)This is the first time in 10 and 1/2 years that I've seen one of my brothers, I think over a year for another, and even though the other two were "just" at my house in May; it has been too far in between visits.
I didn't take as many pictures as I probably should have. Instead busy with visiting... Guess that I can say this for both Friday and Saturday. Ok, that's not entirely true. I did not want to go chasing after kids in the rain to take pictures AND busy with long overdue catching up.
But here are some pictures from both days.
I especially like the one with my mom, my great aunt, Jess and me. And the picture of sweet little Maxx (I was ready to just pack him up and bring him home with us!), tell me how much he looks like Brandon when he was a little guy!

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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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