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Summer Vacation

We had a nice visit with Ryan's family. Isabel loved meeting her cousin Ava, she called her my girl. They had fun prancing around in their princess dresses. And Liza got her fair share of attention. Aunt Joan had her belly laughing one night and grandma Bear almost didn't give her back to us when it was time to leave. The girls miss all of the attention already.

Summer vacation

We just spent a week with Grandma Bear in North Dakota. One of the things we always try to do is drive through the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Isabel really liked the Prairie Dogs. We ran into more of that slow moving North Dakota traffic.

Fire it up

Goober and Justin....Get that bug ready to roll. I'm looking forward to my annual ride.

Keeping busy

I have been trying to keep Isabel busy this past week. She goes from 0-100 and doesn't stop all day long. We had painters here for 3 days last week so we were stuck at home. When we did finally escape the house we had to find somewhere cool to hang out so we spent the day at the mall. Isabel did Build-a-Bear and gave her bear her favorite name of Sarah. She sleeps with her every night now. She loved the playground and the carousel too.


Bathing her bear


Justin could do some damage on this crane machine, we didn't win anything


Riding the carousel



Baby birds

Yum, Yum

Since Liza seems to eat all day long we broke out the high chair and rice cereal this week. She was so excited, kicking her little feet and cooing. Then she got a taste of the grub and decided it wasn't so spectacular. Isabel thought the whole thing was hilarious, especially how the food kept falling out of Liza's mouth. Not too much cereal actually made it down the hatch.


So excited


wait a minute, where's the beef?

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Isabel loves to go swimming at night so the other night she comes running inside and asks if she can go swimming under the stars with Ryan. (Dad told me to ask you.) Well Isabel goes outside with her swimsuit on and tells Ryan that mom said to pick out a swimsuit and go swimming but I would stay in the house. Turns out what I actually had said was not tonight, its your bedtime. Funny how that message got jumbled.

Cookie Monster

This is how Isabel feels about vegetables.

Yardwork

Issi loves to gather food for the creatures she finds in the backyard



Bet he can't wait for his food



Time for a break

A little drama.....

Our week started out with just a little drama. Ryan was at work and the girls and I were taking it easy, hanging out in our PJ's and getting a late start to the day. All of a sudden I felt terrible pain. After what seemed like forever I got a hold of Ryan and he took me to the ER. Turns out I had a kidney stone, it was worse pain than childbirth. But somehow on that ride to the hospital I still managed to be a backseat driver. So we didn't end up doing too much this week.

playing house


Look who's 3 months old!


Some art projects Issi and I made


more art projects


The installation of our new appliances