Park and Play Dates

You know the trouble with having two cameras {again with the #first world problems ;)} is I completely forget to download my point and shoot in any sort of timely fashion. So when I finally did today this is what I found:

Park and Play Date pictures!

Swingin'

 Climbin'

 Lady Bug Ridin'

 Followed by more climbin'

With a friend's 40th Birthday Party Date Night thrown in.

 It was at a local air strip/diner. Small air crafts can just fly in for a burger...how crazy is that.

Some people even live in hangers out there. It was awesome.

Play date ridin' with a bestie

  4 wheelin' with another bestie

 clowin' around

jumpin'

 

 Big boy ridin'

 First Kisses.

 

Another playdate with Avery at a really cool local park. 

Chillin'

More swingin'

And now I am off to get Micah up since apparently napping isn't cool today...he flipped his morning nap the bird and now his afternoon nap is apparently not on his agenda. Never mind the fact that I could barely keep him awake the last two minutes of our drive home because he was so tired from this morning's park adventure...sigh. Early to bed tonight is all I can say!

Play Date

At the end of June we had our first "new" house play date. We invited over my bestie Jendy and her little boy Brody.

Here is Lo waiting patiently for them to arrive.


I promise the whole play date didn't take place in our bathroom, although if it were up to Brody and Lo it would have.


I love that the kids are emerging out of parallel play and starting to interact with each other more.

We had so much fun and can't wait for Jendy to have that baby girl to even out the bunch. MW is going to need a play mate soon.
Doesn't MW look like Benjamin Button? Such and old man trapped in a little baby boy's body.

The Very Long Miscellany Monday Catch-up Post

Since I have been so busy packing, moving and un-packing I fell behind blogging away our memories. Today I am set to get caught up.

During my hectic packing schedule Lo and I took a much needed break and headed over to our friends' Ginger and Avery's house to play! Lo needs a girl to play with since her cousin is so far away. Ginger and I have been friends since HS and it is so nice to always pick up right where we left off.

This is Avery's Stage, she invited Lo up to sing with her to some worship tunes. Loved it!

The girls played so well together, but were ready to eat. :)

Good-bye hugs. These girls are pretty sweet together, so glad they are friends and so thankful for the mommy time Ginger and I got to have while they played. Even though we never really finished too many thoughts because of our mommy brains.

This picture was of one of the many storms we had rolled through at the beginning of June. This honestly was one of the last nights we had in our home. Makes me a bit sad.

Most of you are aware of these latest craze of the frozen yogurt bars. Such as Orange Leaf and Cherry Berry. Well, we found one in my parent's town called Twisted Cow. This was our first experience and enjoyed it. It was a nice treat on a hot day. Lo even ate it and she normally hates ice cream...I know she is nuts.

We even "offered" MW a bite. He didn't seem to thrilled. HA! Takes after his sissy.

We celebrated my cousin's 5th birthday. It has been so awesome that all the great {second} cousins got to celebrate their birthdays together this year. I saw it as such a blessing. My cousin's family is military so they get moved around a lot, this year that got to be back home in KS. We were hoping for a longer stay, but sadly they left for Hawaii yesterday. So this was the last horah for our family before they left.

She had a Star Wars party. Lo sporting her mask. Hilarious.
This is Meg's boyfriend and let's just say she has some competition for Lo. She loves RJ!

The birthday boy and Lo hugging. Melt your heart sweet.

Well maybe this isn't as long as I thought. But I skipped plenty too. And have several more individual posts in the works as life keeps moving forward. Happy Monday!
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The Playdate We Have All Been Waiting For...

Sadly, it was missing two girls, but getting these four girls together was a feat all in itself! All of us went to High School AND cheered together. And all of us had our FIRST babies one right after the other. One of the girls' missing kicked it off with her son in Nov '08, followed by me and Jendy in Feb '09 (3 days apart!) and then my sister in April, Ginger in May, and our last cheer buddy in Aug. Making for a grand total of 3 boys and 3 girls, a nice even pairing if I do say so myself.

Anyway, from the time we learned we were all pregnant we all wanted to have a play date together, however, schedules, jobs and locations make that hard! My sister is home for a very short week, so we got as many of us together as we could.

We had fun, or at least I did. The kids took some time to 'warm' up to one another, but then they took off and had a blast, or at least so it appeared. :) Here are some pics from our morning! Here's hoping we can get together again, ALL of us sometime, since some of us are already on baby #2! :)

This picture makes me laugh, because it shows parallel play at it's best! :)

Avery and Lo.
Ginger and I were best friends in HS, maybe this is a start of a great friendship with our daughters!

Here are the 3 Girls: Avery, Landrey and Lo...Brody didn't want to sit with a bunch of girls and take his picture. Oh well, that is toddler's for you!

This is Brody running as fast as he can from those girls!
One day he may be chasing one of them. :)

I had tons of fun girls! Hope we can do it again soon!

Littlest Bat Girl and a Play date

We had a super busy Saturday, but it was also super fun.
We had a birthday party for a friend's little boy at 10am at our church. They do everything for you and it was in this super cool play place. Last year Lo was only 1 month old, so she didn't have too much fun. This year she had a blast! Another little girl took Lo all through the play place...uh, I crawled up there, but it wasn't pretty, it was really nice to have a 11 year old go through the tunnels and down the slide with Lo!
It was Batman themed and his mommy did a super fabulous job! She made capes and masks for all the kids...so cute! Lo was the littlest batgirl there.
Anyway, here is a little glimpse of batgirl!

The mask (and cape for that matter) didn't last long...but it sure was cute.

She was so excited!!

Leighton had such a blast, but was definitely worn out from all the excitement!

Next up after lunch we had 1 final play date with Jendy, Chelsey AND Melissa, before Melissa and Landrey head North. We met up at Jendy's parents house and had a blast. Jendy's mom had a fruit and cheese tray for us to snack on, but the babies ate more of it then we did. HA! They are such little piggies!

Greeting Brody with "love" pats...remember when I talked about the little ones?! :/

Playing some pool :)

Landrey loved the bird. Lo not so much. I have never seen her freak out so much over something before...it was pretty humorous.

The makings of a good mommy. She was trying to rock baby Kinsley.
I think she thought this was one of her babies.
Group shot...so much going on here, but I will just leave it to your imaginations ;)

It isn't going to be the same when Melissa is gone, but I suppose it will be that much more fun when she comes home. However, Brody is hoping more boys join! :)

Ah, and then after all that we LOST an hour of sleep...who hates this day as much as me!?!?
Oh well, it was all worth it and bunches of fun!
Hope you all had a great weekend!