Party Girl...

Kinley had so much fun celebrating Logan and Audrey's 1st birthdays this past weekend! With only a short nap in between parties she was such a good little party girl. I think the highlight of her day was sharing Audrey's cake! This girl knows how to eat!! :) It will be fun to see what she does with her own cake here in about a month. I can't believe it! :)

Kinley also learned how to go from crawling to sitting this weekend and how to play peek-a-boo! :) She was quite the busy girl the past few days!

Here Audrey, let me show you.....

Fun at the Lake...

We had a great vacation at the lake last week.... Definitely did not want to come back to work. :) The weather was great and Riley and Kinley both loved the water and boating. Kinley wasn't real crazy about her life jacket the first couple times in the boat...but once the boat started moving she was fine....and usually asleep soon after. :) She loved to be on the raft floating in the lake and was quite the fish in the swimming pool. The last day she splashed while I held her for over 30 minutes...she drenched us both. I sat her on the top stair of the pool so only her legs were in and she would push off and "jump" to me and would laugh and laugh. It was too cute. :) Riley decided to tube all by himself this year and thought he was pretty big stuff. He also got in a lot of fishing and wanted to catch a "whopper"....thinking it was a type of fish....not just a big fish. :) The Hainlines and Kindreds joined us again this year....so it was great to have everyone back together again. Riley especially enjoyed being around the big boys and always wanted to sit at the "kids" (who are in high school) table whenever we went out to eat. Warning....lots of pictures to follow..... :)

No...she is not a Cardinal fan.....mean Uncle Blake did this to her...

Riley wasn't real impressed with Dad's version of the Blue's Clues theme song.....Kinley sure loved it! :)

2nd annual go kart picture.....one of these days....

Can Jack come over??

We have heard this question a million times this summer.... :) Riley finally got his wish.....his cousin Jack came and spent the night a few weeks ago. Riley loved having Jack around and was so happy to have someone to play with. We took in a little putt putt, bumper boats and batting cages while he was here....so much fun!

Circus comes to town...

The Circus came to Minier on Thursday July 29th. It was right across the street from our house...so cool! I took the day off work to finish packing for the Ozarks and to watch the Circus being built. It was so neat. Riley, Kinley and I walked over and watched all of the animals and trailers roll into town around 11:00 in the morning....and by around 1:00 the big top was up!! Riley loved the funny clown, Alex, and Kinley really watched and loved to clap when everyone else was clapping....so cute!