Our Summer

This summer has been very eventful for us. Jared's Parents came out for Uncle Arron's graduation and we all went out to the Rolling Ridge Ranch 

Then we went for a trip to Utah to visit friends and family. We went to a wedding, the zoo, out to dinner multiple times, to a splash pad, fed the sheep... and much much more. And of course I can't find the pictures I took so we're forced to only use the ones Kelsey, my sister-in-law, took.

Poor Kelsey was getting pretty dizzy on this ride. That's why she looks like she's about to fall over...

When we came back to Ohio we had Memorial day at the lake with some of our friends.

Jared started school again in June. The end of July however we started another break! We stayed here for a week and played with friends then we went to Wisconsin for a week and played with my family! We had lot's of fun dinner's, walked around the lake, had a lot of relax time, and went to a family pool in Watertown. (I'll have to wait to post these pictures because I don't have them from my sister yet)

Over all summer was fantastic! I'm glad to have these times together as a family to enjoy the ages of our kids and to play!

Just Kelsey

I know I've been bad about putting up pictures of our sweet little Kelsey. So here is a small sampling of what we've been up to with this little girl.

What pretty eyes, I love the deep blue!

She also get's some pretty sweet hair days!

I actually think Kelsey looks a lot like my sister Jessie in this picture(Jessie doesn't usually have red eyes though...)

This is her in therapy. She's doing an awesome job, but there's still a lot to do.

The past couple days I've loved looking at all the crazy positions this girl can sleep in.

Kelsey and Bailey love to sit in the doorway between the kitchen and the dinning room and watch me cook.

Awww... flower courtesy of Aunt Hilde

I love this picture! What a beautiful little girl!

Some of our favorite toys are the tools. We also love our visit's from Aunt Julie and Uncle Aaron

Yummy Lemon Cake

Not only was it conference weekend but it was also our friends Birthday this past Sunday, so I made her a cake and we had them and a few other friends over to celebrate!

You can tell just by these few ingredients it's going to be good!

The made from scratch lemon cake cooling along side the from scratch lemon curd!!!

And of course it all went nicely with the from scratch lemon cream cheese frosting...

Hmmm... it was good...

Poor Bailey :(

Bailey made one of her typical Bailey messes and tripped walking between the front room and the dining room strait into the corner of the wall. She wouldn't let us hold ice on it so Jared had her pinned in his arms while I held the ice pack. Eventually she calmed down and looked like this...

FYI, she doesn't have a fat lip, we gave her m&m's to try and calm her down. It's probably not so Kosher, but it worked!

GO PACK GO!!!!

We luckily had the Packers make it to the Super Bowl this year. In all of our excitement we had our friends buy us some packer get-up!

Jared also taught Bailey some new football tricks, sadly I can't get the video to upload, so next time you see us ask to see ... off sides, false start, touchdown, and "oh no... interception"

The Christensen Visit!!!

Oh the long awaited visit of the Christensen family... How we love and enjoy them all... We're so happy you were finally able to make it!

After a fun evening of enjoying each others company we went, the next morning, to the science museum...

What an action packed day that was as the entire city of Cleveland was there as well! We finished off the day with a dinner at B Spot Burgers, which was pretty good, and sent them back off to Columbus with a promise to see them again soon.

Christmas

Christmas was a blast... we went to Lake Farm Park and took a carriage ride to see Christmas lights with Aunt Julie and Uncle Aaron, and the VanYperen's. 

We then went to the horse barn to watch a show. It was pretty cool and the girls loved going right up to the action...

and of course being the mean mom I am I made Bailey ride the pony

There are other pictures of us on Santa's lap and at Santa's workshop building a toy but they'll have to get added later as they are on a different computer. As well as the pictures from our trip to Wisconsin that we have to get from Jessie(my sister) because our camera was dead and she had to take all the pictures with her camera.