"Super Surprise Fun Day"

I took this past Monday off of work to enjoy some summer fun with the girls. When they woke up I told them to get dressed for "Super Surprise Fun Day"All through breakfast there was speculation as to what we were going to do as the surprise. A few of the guesses were: Go to the shops? Go to the Mall? Pick our noses?
We started out with a trip to the Sioux Falls Zoo http://www.gpzoo.org/. The girls favorite parts of the zoo were the carrousel and the petting zoo.

After the zoo we went to McDonalds for lunch (oooh- so nice! Sorry there isn't a picture of that) and then headed over to Falls Park in Sioux Falls. The girls had a great time climbing around on all of the rocks.

Crusing

So how is it that they go from baby to almost toddler so fast? Addy is only 8 months old and is already pulling herself up to stand at things. Of course this as caused quite a few bruises on her noggin. (And still with the squinting thing? Darn the flash!)

Hayley's gymnastics friends

Aren't these some CUTE kids! These are a few of Hayley's friends from her gymnastics class this summer.

Addy is 8 months old

Where has the time gone?
Addy turned 8 months old on July 21st. She is crawling like crazy. She is also eating just about anything you put in front of her, but her favorite thing is blueberries. (And dOg's rawhide bone- YUCK!)

I had to include this crying picture to prove that she isn't all smiles ALL of the time. (Just most of the time.) At this point she was tired of mommy trying to take pictures. She wanted to crawl!

Swim with the Fishes

Sydney is away with Jeremy's parents this week but Hayley & Addyson had some fun pool time with their friends. (Ok really- mommy needed a break with her friend Libby and it just happens that Libby's kids are Hayley & Addy's friends!)

The Bummer of the Summer

Our little monkey broke her arm on June 21, 2007.


She was in this soft splint for almost 3 weeks.

























Then she got this hard cast on July 10th. This was just a few hours after getting it and it already was FILLED with names- which is OF COURSE the privledge of having a cast. ;)

4th of July

We had a party at our house on the 4th of July. There were about 40 of our friends there (including about 20 kids). Here are a few pictures of the fun:

Sydney LOVED the sparklers




















Hayley preferred observing.























Some of our friends' kids watching the cannon race.



















Peyton enjoying the sparklers



















There were some adults there. ;)

The kids waiting for the fireworks to start.