Silly Emily

A few pictures of Emily being silly!!! She has gotten so funny lately...she really keeps me laughing!!

Natural History Museum

A few weekends ago we went to the Natural History Museum so Brady could see the dinosaurs! He LOVED it!! Unfortunately, it was super crowded, which was kind of annoying, but I guess that's what happens when you live/go to a museum in a tourist destination!! LOL. We'll have to figure out a time to go back when it won't be so crowded!

Brady checking out the different textures on the shells.

one of the butterflies in the butterfly exhibit....pretty cool!

4th of July

Our good friends, Mark and Margi and their 2 boys spent a week on L@ke Ann@ and invited several families to spend the day with them and also help celebrate Mark's 40th birthday (his actual b-day was in Feb but all of our snow ruined that celebration). We had never been to the lake so I wasn't sure what to expect, but we sure did have fun and the kids had a blast too!! We had so much fun, we're thinking of renting a place there next year!!

Emily looking cute in her 4th of July outfit!

Brady looking for shells on "the beach". (this little beach area was on their rental property)

Brady loved the crabs!

a little fun while having lunch

naptime for Emily

Dad and Emily getting ready for a boat ride

Brady on the boat with lots of the other kids!

Emily being silly

Time for another boat ride!

Dad and Brady on the boat

the beautiful sunset

the perfect end to a wonderful day...smores!!! :-)

Family Outing

Alan took an extra day off over the 4th of July weekend so we decided to take the kids to the Rest@n Z@@. We've been here several times before but it's a really great little zoo, not too far from our house so it's perfect! The kids had a great time and as I recall it was too hot that day either, so we lucked out there! Here's what we saw:

the monkey's on monkey island

Emily and I on the wagon ride.....she's definitely checking something out!!

"King Julius" from Madagascar!

we got to touch this big guy's horns on the wagon ride....it's kind of scary!!! LOL

Brady feeding the goats

Emily checking out the pig

Brady giving his best "ROAR"

Brady with his Rhino friend

Emily checking out the goats

Brady on a pony ride. This is his first ride, all by himself!!!

He LOVED it!!!

walking to the car after dinner! A great day was had by all!!!

T@y St@ry!!

I took Brady to see T@y St@ry 3 several weeks ago. It went well, other than having to take him to the bathroom THREE times!!! LOL. I think he liked the movie because he's still talking about it. I think I liked the first 2 movies better, but this one was still good....except for all the crying I did at the end!!!

Brady, Buzz and Woody waiting for the movie to start!

Enjoying his popcorn!!

Way Behind

Somehow, I've gotten WAY behind on the blog...again. I am going to do my best to get as caught up as possible this week. It's amazing how quickly the time gets away from you, guess that has something to do with having 2 kids though!!! LOL

Nature Center

Last week I took the kids to a local nature center and we had a really nice time, just the 3 of us! We saw, turtles, snakes, frogs, deer and many other critters. The kids also got to touch lots of different things like a turtle shell, a giant coconut, bones, tree trunks and many other cool nature things. The nature center isn't very big, but there was enough to keep us occupied for about 1 1/2 hours, which was plenty. After checking things out inside the center, we went for a walk through the woods. Brady is very into to collecting things on walks so he really enjoyed this!

Brady sitting on a cool butterfly bench

Emily checking out the huge coconut

Emily trying to touch the frog (it's the blob in the middle/back

Brady really liked this giant panda in the play area!

Emily touching the earth worm

Emily was mesmerized by this tornado thingy

on our walk

Brady checking out the stream

on our walk, we were lucky enough to see 3 deer VERY close to us

Brady LOVED playing with the dinosaurs

Emily checking out something in the touch area

Brady deciding what to investigate

This is the best I could get with both of them!!! :-)