Kids are so smart

Last night I was babysitting Katie. I gave her a bath, fed her, brushed her hair, and wanted to get her to bed. We layed on the bed and read like 10 books. When I was on the last one, I said, "now, Katie, this is the last book we're going to read, and then we're gonna go to sleep, okay". She looked at me and I wasn't sure what she understood. We read The Very Busy Spider, and then, about 3 minutes later, as I turned to the last page, her eyes got wide and she shook her head and tried to run off. I was so surprised that she understood exactly what I had said. That made me laugh. I put her to bed anyway, and told her a somewhat thrown together story of Alice in Wonderland, as I remembered it. By the time Alice fell into the rabbit hole, she was sound asleep.

Drytown at Night

Drytown is open on Friday nights, free for passholders and $3 for non-pass holders. We took the kids tonight, just to get them out. It was still warm when we got there at 6:30, and the kids had a blast. Next year I'm going to get me a water camera.

Mary and David in the river. David can float all by himself when he's wearing a vest
Katie had a lot of fun

Katie in the river
with my mom

Just starting to get in

She liked it

Heather's Wedding - July 19, 2009

Heather & David, after the ceremony

Katie with her lollipop
Hannah & Katie, dropping petals
Karli, Hannah & Katie

The money tree

David's family and ours (the girls)

Heatehr and David with the minister. Karli & Desiree in back

Desiree getting David ready

Karli, Heather & David

My cousin, Michelle and her daughter Sarah, and husband, Jayson

Desiree, signing the marriage license.

Heather and David

Anthony, Katie, Me, Hannah & Ashleigh, Blake in the back

Karli dancing with her grandpa

Me & Anna, my friend from work. Those are not our drinks. LOL

The wedding topper. I never got it back. I'm not sure what happened to it.

Before the reception

The cake

David, the ring bearer
Walking down the aisle

Heather, Mary, Hannah, Desiree, me, Katie, Ashley, my mom, Becky, Madison, Lauryn, Ashley, Debbie, Melissa

Amanda caught the bouquet
Heather & David

Heather & David

Blake, Heahter, David, Anthony & Boo

I think Anthony was more nervous than Heather

Katie & Hannah. They were so adorable.

Heather & Katie, the best man, Adam's wife

Heather & David

Heather getting ready
Heather, with her bouquet
The same picture, colorized

David & Heather

Katie, Hannah & Karli, spreading flowers

The 3 flower girls. Karli in front, Katie & Hannah behind her. They did so good. I was shocked. They did exactly what they were supposed to do.
Heather & Katie when we were getting ready. It was so hard to get pictures, get ready, and everything. It was so rushed towards the end!

Mary and I and the grandbabies, minus Madison, who was asleep. My eyes are closed in this one

and Mary's are closed in this one

David and his best man, Adam, at the front

Katie & Karli. This picture almost looks like Katie is looking in a mirror. LOL

Karli & David. David was in love

Becky, Debbie, Mary & I. I had to photoshop my mom out of this one.

Becky, Debbie, Mary, Me and my mom.

Drytown

I took Katie to Drytown today, for about an hour or so. She went in the river and said hi to random people. She liked seeing the kids in the water. I took her to the playground and she played for a bit in there, but they wouldn't let me go down the slide WITH her so she wouldn't go down at all.

Katie didn't like the water splashing in her face so we had to go back into the river. She really liked floating around. She wanted to wear a green life jacket, so she did.

Afterwards, I took her to eat at McDonald's.

I had a good, relaxing time with her today, even though I didn't get as much done in the house as I had wanted to. I enjoyed spending time with her.

Father's Day 2009

We went to have a barbecue at the park. Anthony tried flying a kite with Hannah but it never really took off
She still had fun
Then pranced on over to everyone else
With Katie following

Madison just hung out

Katie brought along her little electric ATV that she got for her birthday. Hannah didn't want any part of it, until Katie got on it, then they had to fight.

Katie rode it a bit, but it was hard on the grass

Hannah got tired of watching Katie ride, I guess

Afterwards, we came home to eat because I forgot the meat at home (DUH). We had to come home to eat it. The girls played while we ate

Katie eating her hamburger. Her and Hannah shared one

Then Hannh fed Katie strawberries

Hannah eating her burger

Afterwards, they ate ring pops

It was a nice day