Friday, August 29, 2008

Elli's Joy School Opening Social!

So for Ellinor's Joy School Opening Social we went to Danes Farm(Petting Zoo) They learned about the animals and then they got to feed them...a great time was had by all..Gwyn even got to feed a horse..and got her first horse bite! No worries it was just a graze!

The after birthday cake time...

the opening of presents...
So bear with me I'm just trying to figure out stuff... so now I know I need to select more pics for the collage...love me!

The Big Celebration!

Happy Happy Birthday Gwyneth Dear...
We like to call it the "Moo Moo" cake
The candle got blown out by big sister Abbi despite all of
our practice...

She loved the cake as is evident by the frosting on the face...she even offered mom some
Needless to say we had to take a post cake eating bath!
Happy 1st birthday our little Gwyneth Maxine


Back Track with me... Preparing for Gwyn's birthday

Elli and I got to make Gwyn's birthday cake...I think that Elli at as much batter as we put in the pans!
We had some extra batter so we made cupcakes that we could decorate...We've got
some pretty creative girls~
Elli and Gwyneth giving each other a kiss...how Sweet!

Mom Elli and Gwyneth eating otter pops on the porch
The fruits of our labor to be revealed...soon:)

Who Needs a Tub...When you can just wash the Car!

So we dropped Abbi off at school this morning and Elli Gwyn and I decided to surprise Daddy and vacuum and wash the car...
Or maybe just take an early bath :)
Elli was going for the Santa Clause look here...
Gwyn was just going to town bubbles everywhere ...then no car wash is complete with out a little water fight. Or better said the hose in the hands of a 3 year old! (She looks wet but you should have seen me)

You can never be too clean right?@#$%^&**!

Friday, August 22, 2008

Happy Happy Birthday Gwyneth Dear...

So a year ago yesterday Gwyneth Maxine was born... hard to believe that a year has come and gone so fast! We are going to celebrate saturday when Daddy can be home and awake but in the mean time I thought I'd post some cute pics taken
of her when she was 5 days old.
(pics taken by Rachel Eng...thanks I've loved them)



Happy Birthday Gwyn...We love you so much!

First Day of Kindergarten

So Abbi was up at 6am sharp and ready to go to school by 6:30...so to kill some time before the other little ones arose we took some pics of the soon to be kindergartner
Highlights of the first day include:
3 recesses
new friend Paul
Math game
the rest was "pretty boring" she said

this is the before and after pics up is before and below is after!

(total side note we got rid of our old slightly falling apart couches!)

So to end the day in real style...and to see our Daddy to tell him all about the first day we grabbed our dad during his hour break and went to the park for a pizza picnic!

Tooth number 2 a divine accident!



Abbi lost her second tooth this past Sunday...it was very wiggly but she
wasn't brave enough to just pull it out by her self...
while playing with Dad on the couch
she accidently hit his elbow with her mouth
and well you guessed it her tooth popped out!
She was hoping to have it lost by her first day
of school so it all worked out great.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Fun Filled Weekend

So this weekend we had a get together with some friends new and old..
I love having a park (literally)in our back yard. It makes gatherings of
lots of people fun!

James our new friend was just baptized.. what an
amazing guy!

After our lunch party we had a work pool party and Dan and the girls got some good swiming in.

It was a perfect day to be outside.



Gwyn got her share of rays...and forigen objects in the mouth!

Friday, August 15, 2008

Abbi's Day in Paradise

O.K. so Abbi starts school on Monday...not half day full day kindergarten...I'm not ready for this day to come and I'm feeling a little old! So for her last day of "Freedom" I asked her what she wanted to do...Her list was as follows
1. Go to my School
2. Get snacks for Lunches
3. Go to the Movie store
4. Play with my friend Isabelle
5. Go to the Museum of Natural History
6. Eat Ice Cream
7. Watch a Movie

So we did a drive by Horn Elementary at 8:40ish, went to walmart & Fareway got lunch snacks, swung by the movie store(she picked a Wallace and Gromit movie),stopped by Isabelle's and she just happened to be available so we brought her home to play, ate lunch , went to the museum and had a blast...made it a two for one and hit the Old Capitol museum too, hit DQ on our way home shared a small blizzard, after arriving home she watched wallace and gromit while I made dinner...Whew now if that isn't a day to be remembered I don't know what is!


Pics from the Museum of Natural History and Old State Capitol



I love you Abigail Rose!




Sunday, August 10, 2008

How could I not...



Just had to post these pics of Gwyneth...she is so hilarious and cute even with

food all over her face and a temp of 103 degrees!

Cookies for Daddy

Today to cheer our papa we made him is favorite cookies...to be delivered to the hospital in person!
Dan the man in his surgery hat...it even has his name on it!

The girls had to try on daddy's hats which made for a perfect picture taking opportunity!
They ran around his office pretending to be sick then "healing"each other. (After all it is the sabbath right :) )

Even Gwyneth got her turn!

It is always a special treat to visit Daddy at work...especially when he is on call, it breaks up the days so much better, the girls miss him even when he's only gone 2days. Thanks for all your hard work Dan you're the best!

(shoot I miss him even when he's only gone for 12 hours!)

Temple trip and Corn Festival

So we are about to head over the Mississippi river to Illinois and we have each placed a guess as to whether the bridge will be opened or closed ...Elli and mommy guessed open, Daddy and Abbi guessed closed...just as we arrive on the bridge the siren sounds and we are one car away from making it across...so we got stuck on the bridge on our way to the temple! The girls loved it because they got to leave their car seats and watch the big barge go through the bridge!
After the temple we headed to West Point IA for the annual corn festival ! We missed our usual group of friends...as we ventured their alone for the first time! The corn was great as well as the Hot Wheel races!
Abbi was having a hard time because of her missing tooth and her other loose tooth, but she managed to eat her fair share!
Gwyn went to town:)

I can't recall how many cobs were eaten between the 5 of us but we got our moneys worth ...oh wait it was free even better! I promise next year I won't forget the floss.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Testing Testing ...

So we made some delicious banana bread and well the girls had to test the batter to make sure it was good...and well I think they thought it was pretty decent!

What do you think?

So we have also been doing some Test runs for kindergarten... we have to be out of the house by 8am to walk to kindergarten(Abbi rides her bike) and be there by 8:20... Abbi is so excited...I on the other hand don't know if I'm ready to give her up, or give up more sleep to get myself and everyone else up, and ready to be seen in public. Actually I'm excited for her she can't wait for school to start!