Fun Times

So for those of you wondering where we have disappeared to, here is a little bit to help fill in the spaces. We had the chance to take a week and spend some time in Missouri with Eric's family and a very short day trip to see some of my family. We were gone for about a week there and since returning last week we have been go, go, go. Eric and I both came back and had to go back to work and then we spent this weekend at the lake with some friends. Taking it all in stride we also brought home a new puppy yesterday. And for those of you wondering...no I am not crazy. At least not yet, I don't think! haha. I will try not to over do the pics on this post!!! Since my camera has about 200+ pics from the past 3 weeks on it now. Can you tell I love pics?

One of my first trips to the park . Mommy and me at the top of the yellow tunnel slide.

Eric, Monica, Kimber, Jim, Nichole, and Ryan pic left to right at the park with us. It was a fun day thank you for going with us.

The next day we meet Sandi (a friends mom) at the park and Kimber had another great day playing. She took a spill this day and scraped up her nose and lip but it is healing and there is little sign of where it was now but if you know where to look you can still see a little pink spot. I am sure you will notice he bumps in the pics below.Here Kimber is at Build A Bear for the first time making a Panda with Aunt Misty!

Here I am putting in my Panda's heart. As you can tell there are a few pics of this experience because mommy had never been to a Build a Bear either so I think I was probably just as excited as Kimber was!! hehe.Thank You Aunt Misty!!! I LOVE MY PANDA. The panda has a little thing in it that tells her he loves her and she tells him I ouve oo too, in Kimber language..this is how she says love you too. :)

Me by the water fountain, just not too close I don't want to get my feet wet. Thank you so much for everything Misty we had a blast and Kimber now says go bye bye, go shop! hehe she is too smart for her own good...but I thought you would find that funny.

One of my favorite things at Grandma's was the dishes and dumping water in the pool.

Here I am with my new baby I picked out all by myself and the baby stroller.

Her shirt said Being Sweet (is a full time job)...I think it should have said...Being Spoiled (is a full time job). She had so much fun and has played with all the toys and love it all so much...THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone. Kimber (and us) all had such a wonderful time. Nanner bought her a purse and phone and now she really can be like mommy and get her purse and phone before leaving for the day! Trust me...she does too. Its a morning thing, go bye bye...I tell her yes we go bye bye...okay...get shoes, my shoes, and then she once she has shoes on she says purse on...meaning mommy find my purse and put it on my shoulder...just like you! haha it is too funny to see when all this is happening in the morning.Sometimes drive me nuts and other times I have to remind myself she is learning and I just need to slow down and let her have her moments.

When mommy would say Cheese I thought I needed to take her pic too.

Here we are on our way home. My Panda and me are both wearing red, white, and blue for the 4th of July. We thought we would see lots of fireworks driving home on the 4th...and we maybe saw 4-6 fireworks. I mean like one firework here and one there not 4-6 displays...we were kind of sad about that but Kimber was asleep by this time anyway so oh well. Another time.

Here I am home finally with my puppy Leia! Poor Leia, Kimber laid on her for prob 10 min like this she was so happy to see her. I think she thought if she trapped her she would never have to leave her again.

Later that day we went up and saw our newest addition to the family...Harley. We used to have 2 dogs inside and then a few yrs ago our male dog was hit by a car and since then our other puppy Leia has seemed lonely so we thought she might like a companion. We will see...today is day 2 of new puppy at home and she is still not too fond of him...but isn't he CUTE?? I like dogs too much.

Here I am reading some new books to my Bear. She sat and read to him for probably 45 min that day. She loves looking at books.
Here I am with baby in my lap teaching her she needs to like watching Jack's Music Show with me in the mornings.
I think you would have to agree mommy was excited to get the new puppy but so was Kimber. This was the puppy Kimber picked out of her choices and she loves him so much she crawled in bed to play with him! She has a big personality. Wonder who she got that from?? wink wink!Well Thank you to everyone who made this trip possible and memorable for us. It was so wonderful to see all of you and hope you can make it up our way sometime soon...a year is just too long. We have plenty of extra space for you to stay with us:) I will post pics of our fun in the sun at the lake another night...it has taken me forever to upload all these pics and I tried to keep it to a minimum. Hope you enjoy and we will try to send out some pics to you all soon. Hope you enjoyed our update and thank you again. You mean the world to us and we love you and miss you all already. Good night!