Here is Ava showing off Grandma's pretty flowers!
In the picture below, she is getting ready for a kayak
trip that she wasn't going on!

Livi's Purple Swing

Posing in front of Grandma's new garage door

Great grandma Maureen found this old bike for
Ava to ride when we visit!

We made some big rope swings in our tree for
the girls. They are each of their favorite colors,
blue for Ava and purple for Liv! (photo coming soon)

New skating tippies! Ava wore her old ones out

"skating" around the kitchen so Grandma got

her some nice new ones....thank you Gram!

Is it Little Bear?? yikes!

The Zoo

Because we had to cancel our Chicago vacation due to my injury,
we took the girls to the John Ball Zoo to try and make up for it
(there is no comparison). Unfortunetly, my camera batteries
died so I only got a couple of pictures.
Ava riding the "horse", and Ava feeding the budgies. Of course we
missed the good ones like, petting the sting rays and Olivia and
Daddy on the zip cord! I guess we'll have to go again!!

Let me tell a story.....................................


of a young wife and mother, who, full of the zest of life, is running
up the stairs that lead into her home where her children await her.

her shoe catches the top step, and then................crash!!! her hand,
while trying to stop her fall, is smashed into the door frame.
There is screaming, there is crying, it's mass hysteria.

Alas, the young lady goes to prime care where a simple x-ray seals
her fate. A broken hand.

She tries now to go on with life, for her children and husband.


Scroll down for more heartwrenching pictures.

Fishing with Daddy

Mike took the girls fishing and Olivia caught a perch!!
maybe she should go along with her Daddy when he goes,
she seems to have better luck!!

Busy weekend

Ava has become an avid rollerblader, following in the
footsteps of big sister Liv!

In the pictures below, we took the girls blueberry picking and
made blueberry pancackes for breakfast!! (the girls ate
most of them before we even got home! )

Future Mechanic??

Olivia and I came home from the store to find
Ava working on her car, which I guess had
broken down while we were gone. She was very
serious about getting the job done so she could
get to the park!




Art Show


Olivia had an art show at Kollen Park.
There was a ton of stuff to look at and even
a dance routine! We got a couple of good photos
by the fountain.

Beach Bunnies!


We took the boat to the beach where Mike and the
girls made sand castles and swam out to a sand bar,
while I sat in the sun and got burned to a crisp!!
Thank goodness the girls' sunscreen worked better then
mine did! On the way back to the dock they rode behind
the boat in the tube! It was the first time for Ava, and
she loved it!!

Golfing


We tried miniature golf this weekend, and it was quite
fun! Ava gets the concept, but doesn't want to wait for
everyone to take turns, so she just keeps going until she
gets her ball in the hole (which takes about 25 tries!)
and then she yells "I won!" every time. :-)