Memorial Day

Holidays are always hard because most of the time Kevin works them so it is just another day for me with the girls. I wanted to make it fun this year so I thought we could go on a picnic at a nice park in a nearby town, and then I thought we could go swimming. Well the forecast that day said it would be mid eighties with partly sunny skies with maybe a chance of rain. It reached 70 that day and we never saw the sun so if felt pretty cold, plus it was rainy the whole day. We didn't get to go swimming but we did decide to go to the park.

Nellie LOVES to swing, on the big swings, and pretty high too. It kind of scares me but she holds on really tight and loves it. She looks so small but she thinks she is so big and if Lizzy is doing something you can bet that Nellie will do it too. She could swing for a half an hour and not get sick of it.

There was a little Amphitheater and of course little miss performer wanted me to introduce her, then she got up there and sang a bunch of songs and did some dances.


Of course if Lizzy does something Nellie has to too.The girls loved sliding too. There was a really big high slide that Lizzy was too scared to go on, but Nellie is fearless so she went on it, and Lizzy couldn't let Nellie be braver than her so she went too. I sense that this may be a sign of some competition later on when they are older, uh-oh!

I had to put this picture in because Nellie is really throwing some massive fits lately, so I thought I might as well have a few pictures of them to show her when she is older.

New Hairdo

Sunday I decided to see if Nellie had enough hair now to put it in a little ponytail. She did! It looked so cute too. It reminded me of Lizzy's hair when she was 10 months old because that is about when I could start putting her hair in little ponytails. Crazy it has taken until Nellie is almost two but hey at least it is now growing. When we got home from Hawaii I couldn't believe how much blonder her hair got in a week. They spent everyday outside, so this summer her hair will probably get almost white.


Lizzy couldn't understand why I would take a picture of just Nellie, so she of course had to have her picture taken too.

Hawaii

I will post about Hawaii and soon, but there is so much to tell and so many pictures I will finish catching up on the other things and then get back to that.

Rolling Hills Museum

I am going to be updating this blog with some older things so everyone might be bored, but I am doing it more just so I have it recorded.
The first weekend in May the schools were having a parents seminar down in Salina, so we stayed down at a hotel there. That Saturday while the men were at the seminar us womenfolk were going to take the kids to the Zoo, but wouldn't ya know it it was freezing and VERY windy, so instead we took them to the museum there. It was a really cool place and it sure was nice to be warm rather than out in the cold. There was also this little discovery place for kids, that we spend quite a while in that the kids loved.

Aunt Kelli reading to Lizzy, Lizzy sure loves to read and she sure loves her aunt Kelli. We really like having them in Kansas with us.

Lizzy enjoyed doing her puppet show

Nellie found the little toys to play with and had lots of fun

Yay! I was able to get a picture with Nellie smiling. She is getting so big!

The big kids put together this big giraffe puzzle and don't worry Braxton took charge.

Lizzy sure loves having her cousin Brinlee living close by. They have so much fun together.

Outside

I can count on one hand the days we have had this year that have been warm without 30 mph winds. So when we do have one we take advantage. The girls love investigating our backyard and picking all the weeds..I mean flowers for me. I absolutely love when they do, it is so sweet.

For some reason they thought carrying around these big stick they found was the coolest thing ever.



Taking a picture of the girls where they are both smiling and looking at the camera is impossible right now, I took about thirty here before I just gave up, Thirty and this was the best one I could get, that is pretty sad. I can't even get a good picture of Lizzy let alone Nellie.