Happy Anniversary!

Dave and I celebrated our 9 year anniversary on Wednesday. We promised not to exchange gifts but I got this beautiful rose bouquet from him. I kept my promise so he got nothing!

JT's Baptism

This was a few weeks back but the photos are so cute I still have to share them. Dave and I were honored to stand up with Tom's sister, Tammy, as god parents for JT. This was the whole gang after the ceremony with Calla being quite shy. Proud sister Hope and Taylor are holding JT below.

We are still here!

Well, I know its been awhile but we are still here winding up the summer. We have been busy doing lots of odds and ends but no real photos to share. We have been spending our last few days of summer, before school starts, playing at the park, riding our bikes(Taylor is practicing with NO training wheels), swimming and hanging out with friends.
We will have lots of photos to share this week with the first day of school starting and Mimi will be home for a quick visit. Check back soon!

Niabi Zoo

Ella hanging out with her monkey friends.

The girls only wanted to watch in the bird house. Taylor wouldn't even come in. You got nectar cups to feed the birds with. Many of them would land on your arm at once. That was a little to close for comfort for me.

Feeding the GIANT goldfish!

Pool Party

We had a great day of swimming at Aunt Becky's on Sunday. The weather was perfect for us all week. Low 80s and sunny during the day and cool in the 50s at night. Taylor was too scared to go down the slide at first and then I couldn't get her off. She even wanted to stay an extra day just to swim and do the slide. Ella was a fish, as always, and I'm sure Emma was off sun bathing or socializing with someone.

Grandma B's

We had so much visit during our visit to Illinois this year! Each year gets easier to travel with the girls and easier to do more fun things. We first met, 18 of us, at a great waterpark in Rockford, IL. There were many waterslides which Taylor went down with me on a double raft but didn't care for it. We'll try again next year. There was a lazy river, wave pool and lots of shallow pools for the kids to have fun in which are the photos above.

My girls looking AAHH so cute :)