Showing posts with label August 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label August 2011. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Girls Day at the Zoo!

With Daddy a work one gorgeous Sunday, the girls and I decided to head over to the Blank Park Zoo in town.  Here are the girls as we headed in. 
(I swear I fed Ella before we left, I'm not sure why she is eating Livy's foot!)
Since the zoo takes about 30 minutes to go through, (I am glad we have it, but it is certainly no comparison to Omaha's fantastic Henry Doorly Zoo) we decided to get Ella's face painted.  Ella being Ella, she didn't pick the cute little butterfly face, she picked the tiger.  That's my girl!  But, adding a touch of girly flare, she requested a pink tiger face. 
She loved the end result and proudly strutted around the zoo with her new makeup!
As I tucked Ella in for her nap, she gave me this adorable little tiger smile.  
What a fun day with my girls!

Ozarks!

These Momma's came ready to party! 

Megan and I took advantage of our kid free vacation with our hubbies.  We did all of the important vacation activities: drank, shopped, drank, ate junk food, drank, went swimming, drank, went on the wave runners, drank, went on the boat, drank, played sand volleyball, drank...  We had a great time!  I love ya sister!

Not to mention, we scored some awesome new jewelry and super cool "perfect for anything and anywhere recycled newspaper" baskets from our new favorite Ozarks store Artsy Fartsy!
Happy hubbies, they were able to get in their 18 holes of golf! 
Do they look sober...um, not really!
The Swanson's!
The Grier's!
We were so happy to be able to go down once again for our annual Lake of the Ozarks vacation at Point Randall Resort http://www.pointrandallresort.com/ - the BEST PLACE TO STAY IN THE OZARKS!!!   It was awesome to have Ben and Megan join us this year! 

As always, our dear friends Michael and Paulette Spriggs who own Point Randall spoiled us rotten, by hooking us up with the wave runners and taking us out on their boat.  They are an awesome couple, with awesome children.  We were glad to be able to spend time with their kids Brody and Kathleen, it helped give us a "kid fix" when we were there!  Unfortunately I don't have any pictures that turned out this year of the Spriggs family - Ugh!  (Hmmm, the lack of quality pictures could be due to the fact that for once I was not pregnant in the Ozarks so I was drinking!) 
Thank you Michael and Paulette for everything - we love you!   

Our last day there, Spriggs's took us out
to a great pool bar with Rum Runner drinks that knock you off your feet!  Then later that night, we went to Bump's Barefoot Bar, a tradition we started last year, for dinner, drinks, karaoke and dancing!  So much fun to be on boat at night!  Needless to say the drive home the next day was a little rough, after the previous days mixture of beer, tequila, rum and whiskey! 

A HUGE thank you to Bamma for watching the girls, and Nana and Papa for watching the boys while we enjoyed our kid free getaway!  We appreciate you helping us out and the kiddos love spending time with you.  We love you all! 

Iowa State Fair 1st Timers!

Smooch baby sissy!
These girls are excited to meet Uncle Ben, Aunt Megs, cousins Carson, Brady,
 and the whole Grier family at the Iowa State Fair!
Getting the troops ready at the Grier campsite.  Carson and Brady joined us for the photo op. 
I love this picture, it is the visual aide I use to convince Bob how great it would be for us to have at least 4 kids!  
Ella and Carson - too cool for the fair?...
...nah, just pacing themselves!
The chubby babies! 
 Brady and Olivia, full of smiles, ready to explore the fair...
...and after the fair, full of sleepies!  
Don't ya just want to crawl in there and snuggle with them!?!? 
Ella seeing the baby pigs.
Ella visiting the kids "farm" at the fair.
Can she rock the Pioneer hat or what!
C'mon daddy, we have some farming to attend to!
Collecting eggs from the chicken coop.
Visiting with Sally the sheep.
Dad, you have to pick up the pace, we are soooooo busy!
Time to milk the cow.
Mmmm, styrofoam carrots!  Yummy!
Time to feed the goats at the petting zoo.

More Summer Pictures!

Ella and Livy swinging when Bamma stayed with them while Mommy and Daddy were in the Ozarks.

Bamma figured out how to get Ella to hold still to do her hair - give her a barbie! 
 Genius Bamma! 

OMG!  Is Ella 2 or 22?  She looks so grown up!
S'MORES anyone???  We had a naughty little addiction to s'mores for a while in our house. 
We had to put the kibosh on that after about a week!
As Bamma would say, Ella you are a "sticky mess"!

Birthday Girls!

August 13th, 2011 - Happy Birthday Girls!
How can it be that our little girls are 8 months and 28 months old today?!?! 
 If only there were a pause button for this precious time. 
We love you Ellie Bean and LuLu!
We stopped to do an impromptu photo shoot on our way home from church Saturday night. Turns out, it ended up only being Livy and Momma, as Daddy was the photographer and Ella had other plans!
Thanks for indulging me Livy, you are my cheesy little ham ball!