There's no place like home...

Fancy Nancy dress
Abbi naked of course
At the mall playing.

We love Kaelyn .
Bounce...

Bounce.... Goofy
Happy Birthday Lilli (early)

The girls hanging out. Abbi falling asleep while eating gold fish---classic.
Grampie is silly
Caroline and Nora
Our friend Nolan

Wee!
Crazy Uncle Nate!
The family...Our cousins Katie and Joey came too!
Kaelyn is so darn cute!

After camping we headed on a plane to Indiana to see my family. It was also a great time. We went to an amusement park for a day---Lilli and Abbi got to go on their first rollercoaster ride! We got to spend lots of time with cousin Kaelyn. We jumped on Trev's trampoline. We went to the zoo. Mommy and Abbi even spent the night at the hospital!! So much excitement packed into two weeks...

Summer continued...

We went on some fun adventures this past summer. Here are some pics from our camping trip with Josh's family. We had so much fun going out on the boat, sailing, fishing, and eating lots of yummy food...We even got to take Grandpa and Grandma go tubing. Grandma was screaming SO loud, while Grandpa kept saying "Faster!"

Summer time...

Ahh...isn't summer great!

Olympic Trials Eugene 08

Our town is hosting the Track and Field Olympic Trials this year. There is a lot of craziness going on down by the University of Oregon, so we thought we'd check it out. Our town's track club hosted an "All Comers Meet" for young children. Each child would run with their age group a short distance and get a ribbon to celebrate. The girls also got t-shirt's from the Nike tent for participating. All in all it was really neat to experience the exciting atmosphere of the trials. Lilli and Abbi had a good time too!

Olympic Trials Eugene 08

Here's a clip from Lilli's race...Abbi had already run and came in third:) She cried the whole way...a little too much for her, but it was still fun. Lilli begged to go again, so she ran it twice. It was so neat running on their track...historical!!

Olympic Trials Eugene 08

Here is Lilli's warm up run...

Color Wheel...

We used food coloring to color salt....red, yellow, blue. We drew (w. chalk) a large circle with six sections. Every other spot you put the colors you made....as you combine two together you will fill in the remaining 3 places with orange, green, and purple! The girls loved mixing the colors...even the neighbor cat had fun.

Ouch Abbi!

Poor Abbi! She gets about 10 accidents a day! She takes after her uncle Trev...

My girl is getting so big! VBS 2008

Here is a small clip of Lilli with her class at VBS. She has been going from 9-1pm all week and has enjoyed her time. It's so crazy seeing all the things she's learned. The day before she started we went to Target and got her a special "Hello Kitty" lunch box. That evening I went to the store to get her juice boxes and I stood there in the aisle for 15 min contemplating which ones would be the easiest for her to open so she didn't have to worry about it...After a while I just thought to myself, "Hannah, get a grip she's just going to VBS for goodness sakes." I now know how my parents have felt with my brothers and I. I never want my kids to struggle, even if it's just having to figure out how to open a juice box! I guess just thinking about my girls being on their own makes feel so protective...sniff sniff...

Honey

Here are some pics of our newest addition..."Honey"--aka. "Lisa" or "Snuggle bunny Ray"--Lilli has a new name everyday! We got her about a week ago. I told Josh my childhood dream of having a bunny has finally come true. All we had as kids were hamsters! (Thanks mom and dad...) The girls love having a little pet. She is very sweet. Notice the cage built from scratch by Josh:)