Happy Monday!

Wedding

We headed to Chicago over the Labor Day weekend for Stephen's cousin Laura's wedding. Grady and Ella had the honor of being flower girl and ring bearer. I can't think of a cuter duo to cover the job! (I'm not biased of course) It was a beautiful wedding, and we really had a great time. If you don't count the fact that Grady got ahold of a razor type object and cut his mouth, resulting in gushing blood everywhere about 15 minutes before we needed to be at the wedding site for pictures, everything went pretty smoothly :) We did manage to get the blood out of his white shirt and the bleeding stopped about 10 minutes before the wedding. It would have been WAY too easy if something like that didn't happen - keeps life exciting :)



Congratulations Laura and Kevin! We had a lot of fun being a part of your special day!

We were waaay too exhausted to get a good picture with the beautiful bride and groom! :(

The handsome little man...

The pretty little girl...

Reading with daddy while waiting to go down the isle...

Cousin Lili pulling them down

Don't forget about me!

Daddy and his girls :)

Vacation Fun

A couple weeks ago, we went on our annual trip to Table Rock Lake in Missouri with my family. We had a fun and relaxing time mostly spent by the pool and on the lake. My kind of vacation :) Stephen and I had our annual date night to our favorite restaurant in town (Danna's Smokehouse) followed by a competitive mini-golf game at Pirate's Cove! No need to brag about who won......... :) We were a little bummed that we had to leave the day my brother's family got there. Hopefully next year we'll all be there at the same time!

Enjoying a morning boat ride

Ella loves driving the boat with Grandpa

Grady's turn!

We even rode on the tube for the first time...

Ok, maybe we didn't like it! (Don't worry, they were basically just on the platform in the back and we were only idling!)

Mommy and Mikah

Pool time!

Grandma and Mikah hanging out at the pool


Happy girl!

I love the tummy.....

and the ruffles on the bottom!

Home!

We have a home again! We had an offer accepted yesterday, and we're super excited. We close in about 30 days..........then the work begins! It's a home we'll be completely remodeling, but are pretty excited about the end result. We won't be moving in until we are done, which we are fortunate to be able to do! It's just down a couple houses and over a street from where we are now. We can't wait to get posession and start working :)

2 Months?

I can't believe Mikah turned two months the other day! Wow, do babies grow ever-so-fast. She's a great baby and is sure a smiley little sweet pea! We had Ashley Schrage take some pictures of her a few weeks ago. (I highly recommend her :-) We have some pics of the twins as well, but here are a few of our baby girl for now! We just love her to pieces:)

While Daddy's Away...

...we've been perfect little angels...



loved on our little sister...


gone to visit family... (cousins: Mikah, Teagen, & Lexi)



pet some baby animals at the fair...


(Ella and friend Isabelle...who does a great job entertaining the twins!)


eaten some fair food...


taken only one bath...... (oops, we'll try to get another one in tonight!)


slept like a baby.... (well, some nights)

and of course have been a little goofy!

**Stephen's been on a mission trip to the Hands & Feet Project in Haiti since last Friday. Although I was unable to go this time, I'm glad he had this opportunity to return to this place that we hold so near and dear to our hearts (along with my mom and sister-in-law)! I will say that I am more than ready for him to return home on Sunday! I have realized even more how much I appreciate all he does as a husband and dad over this 10-day 'single mom' experience. Come home safely -we miss you!

Daddy

We have the Best Daddy in the whole world!
Happy Father's Day - we love you, Dad :)

-Grady, Ella, and Mikah