Laura's Birthday Party

Because we moved two days after Laura's birthday we postponed her party for a week. But we did have one, and it was great. 2 of Laura's girlfriends, Lucy and Mary Alice came along with cousin Allie and Kylie. There were a lot of girls! They played in the sprinklers, made bead necklaces, and ate a delicious 'Dora' chocolate cake.

More backyard

I just love it. And so does my little artist

Ahhh, a backyard of our very own

Now this is what home ownership feels like. A fenced in little yard just big enough for two energetic, oh make that three, energetic kids to run around in. We are loving our backyard, and have lots of little ideas for making it even better next year.

Tautphus Park Zoo

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Attack of the cement stairs

So two days ago I was in the kitchen making a gourmet dinner of waffles and Brent was in the backyard playing with the girls when disaster struck. Laura went to run up our back steps and missed the first stair. She went face first into the other stairs and cut her mouth and scraped her face up as you can see from the picture. After we got her mouth to stop bleeding and got her calmed down with a popsicle and bandaids on other non-injured body parts she's been ok. We're keeping it covered with neosporin but it keeps looking worse each day. Hopefully tomorrow she'll stop looking like and abused child! Also tonight Eden has been sick with a nasty stomach bug, interupting Brent and my date. It's been a rough couple of days, and speaking of which has anyone noticed that Ellen is the only one without some sort of familial injury? Or does she still get covered with Mom and Dad?

Morgan County Fair

So today we loaded our little girls up and took them to the county fair to see the Four H animals. When we told Laura we were going, she somehow translated into an outing to the Fair-y Castle. It took a little bit of explaining and even then she decided to call it a 'Care'. But eventually we made to the actual 'fair' and we saw the cute chickens, the very big pigs, Laura is perfecting her oink, the smelly cows and, of course, the fuzzy sheep. The girls loved that they could actually pet them. Eden was bouncing all around and squealing at them. I think they were a little annoyed. Anyway, we didn't stay for the whole day, but we had a great time.