Lazy Days of Summer

Our days have been anything but lazy. Here is just a brief synaposis in pictures (lack of time to write much). We built a swingset for Addison and Olivia, finally and took on the task of covering up the purple walls in out living room. Which then went on to include updating the kitchen, and now we are anticipating the hall and steps leading to the basement. We have spent much time outside, playing at the park, in the pool and going to the water park. Enjoy the pictures and know that when we return from our vacation we will spend some tie updating this site and adding some pictures.






The next few pictures are really for Kevin and Jenny who want to see the living room with no purple walls!! These were the best I could get! Notice the light fixture in the kitchen, that is new as well. Kevin you would be proud of Tony, and I with the awesome help of mom putting that darn thing up!




We are headed to Branson this week for Kristin and Brian and Tyler and Latish, all childless!! Addison and Olivia will be enjoying some time with Grammy and Bubba (Aunt Cassie) on their "special vacation".

Shriners Circus

We have so many pictures of the girls lately that we would like to share, but I know some of you are patiently waiting for the circus pictures!! So I will post those today and the others soon. Tony and I took Addison out for a "date". We went out to dinner; let her pick where, and then went to the circus. She loved it all, and did not want to go home. She actually started crying when the circus was over and we told her it was time to go home. Addison enjoyed her 2nd circus much more than her 1st, she got to ride a pony, took an elephant ride and enjoyed watching the animals perform.

The look on her face when she climbed up on the pony was priceless. She wasn't even a tiny bit scared. We thought for sure she would want to get off right away, but not our fearless little one!!

After the pony ride, she saw people on the elephant and asked if she could ride the elephant too. We were much more hesitant about this, knowing that we did not want to have to pay for us to ride it with her; thinking she would never go up there without us. Well, she proved us wrong again. Addison climbed right up those steps, never looking back and climbed right on to the elephant. (You know as I type this, it appears a little scary to me. What else would she do without hesitating.....)

We tried VERY hard to get a picture of her with either Tony or I actually looking at the camera and smiling, but she wanted nothing to do with looking at us when trying to take a picture. So we have no pictures of us with her at the circus. We had a grea time and are looking forward to many more "dates" with Addison. It was fun for her to go out with just us and not Olivia. She just could not believe that Olivia was not going to come; she had to go to bed!

The rest of the pictures from the circus are ones we caught of the circus acts. Mom, the hula hoop one was for you. Addison remembered the story you told her about you doing the hula hoops. Enjoy!!

Check back soon for some more pictures of the lazy days of summer!!