Friends

Summer is always a time for friends to come play for the day (if only cuz I"m babysitting).

Look how little she looks!  E baby!

Funny story with this pix: we delivered flowers to a friend (ding-dong ditch) but after I posted this pix on FB she figured out it was us cuz she had seen a flash of orange run by her window 

Trying to crawl.  Now she's running around every where.

She is such a funny child!

Not sure who this person is.

Iron man in a too small suit.

Can you find the two "soldiers" ?   This was at a friend's house.

At the pool with friends.  

See?  Funny child!

My boy made it on Twitter!  The Pastor of the other church that went to Junior Camp with our church.  

A busy day of children.

Such a pretty, easy-going baby.

See walking!  And funny! and so much bigger!

Olive Garden

It's where Kalei always picked to go for her birthday dinner.  Especially for the tomatoes and croutons on the salad.  A few friends (actually 20 counting kids) met us at OG for dinner.  It was so nice to sit and chat with friends that loved my girl.  We have been blessed with amazing friends.  I think we will try to make this a yearly tradition.

Some beautiful, huge flowers some sweet friends brought us to celebrate her birthday.

Indianapolis Zoo

For VBS this year, the boy and the girl that brought the most visitors got a year long family pass to the zoo.  C won!  So the day of Kalei's birthday, the 3 of us went to the zoo.  It was nice to spend that day together.  (that night we went out to eat with a bunch of friends; see next post)

I am fascinated by flamingos!  No idea why.  I just think they are so pretty.

There was a fight going on.  It was so funny to sit and watch them.

Not quite so fascinated by this guy.

We all agreed, he reminded us of Hoss.

Indiana State Fair

2012 Indiana State Fair

August 17, 2012

I have a few nieces that would have been jealous.

Cracked me up.

And my dog stands up only about 43.5 minutes a day.

One of the 5 cars he wants when he grows up.

Good lookin' dude!

Children's Museum

For the past few years, I had bought a Children's Museum membership.  This is the first year I din't buy one. For a few reasons: when I would take both kids it made the cost of a membership worth it.  With it just C and I, it was almost cheaper to just buy tickets.  But then I found out that the kids "Indiana grandparents" had bought a grandparent membership and included C as a grandkid and had added "2 guests" Which meant that both C and I could get in free if one of the member holders got us in!  Awesome!

One day this summer, my friend F (a card member) asked if C and I wanted to go with her and her siblings (she has much younger siblings).  So off we went.  Her brothers are C's age (there is another C too) and her sister is a little older.  But they are super sweet kids.

Here are some pictures to show our day in pictures: