Just Us

It used to be that I always felt so lonely when we would do things because I am so used to having so much family around, and I still really miss that, but it has been really fun lately to do stuff just us. The girls are getting older and really starting to understand and enjoy stuff and we have had a freaking blast doing stuff with just our little family.

For Labor day we took the girls to the zoo, it has been a while since we had been to the zoo and the girls had a blast.

Nellie is such an animal lover, Lizzy was as a baby but then she started to get scared of them, Nellie can't get enough of them and just wants to hug and kiss them all. We got the girls some animal juice bottles and they thought they were so cool. Oh the simple things that little kids think are so neat. We were able to feed the giraffes that day, it was really cool, Lizzy totally chickened out at the last minute and dropped the hay right as the giraffe was going to eat it, but Nellie didn't have a hard time and she loved it.


We got Lizzy some training wheels to put on a old bike that someone gave us. Lizzy thought she was pretty cool riding around She has no idea that the bike is really a piece of junk, to her it is great.
Nellie loves riding her tricycle that she got for her birthday. I love that cheesy grin.

One Saturday we were going to go to the State Fair but it was rainy so we couldn't go, the girls were pretty disappointed, so we decided to go to the local bowling alley that was just reopened. It was only us there but the girls had so much fun and it was so cute to watch them.
Nellie was so cute, she would push her ball down the little thing, and every single time she would say "Go Ball!"
Now every time we drive past the bowling alley Lizzy asks me if we can "go bolding today?"

The girlies love doing activities and love to be on the counter helping me. One day we decided to make salt dough ghosts and they loved it. Helping me mix stuff up is one of their favorite things to do.

Man, my belly looks big in this picture. It must be the angle :)

Our town has a little fall festival every year and Lizzy was dying to ride the preschool float with all of her "buddies" She loves the boys, she doesn't really have many friends that are girls, most of her friends are boys, but that is also because most of the kids her age here are boys. It is hilarious though because the boys are all in love with her. I guess that really isn't a surprise, she has always had such an outgoing and bubbly personality, everybody loves Lizzy. It was funny because one day one of the Moms of one of the boys that she had just met and played with for the first time told me that her son told her "I really like Lizzy, isn't she beautiful?"

I just know we are in for it when she is a teenager.

Nellie loved the parade and of course all of the candy that she got, she really got into the running after the candy, and didn't let anyone get in the way of her and her candy.

Lizzy's little dance company performed in the street later that afternoon, she did such a good job. They performed to "born to be wild" she sings the song all the time and does the little dance around the house.
There were also free rides for the kids and things for them to do. The girls love riding bikes. And Lizzy of couse had to ride the pink tractor.

We have had so much fun together as a little family, it is so neat to watch the girls grow and start to enjoy things and understand. We just can't wait for little Jane to come and join the family so that we can start some more fun memories with her.