Avery Tying Shoe

Avery learned how to tie her shoes. I showed her one time, and she said, "Mom, give me the shoe so I can do it." She is growing up so fast.

Summer Vacation 2010

I was so excited about our vacation this summer because my mom rented a cabin at Beaver's Bend for our family. It was perfect. It was so relaxing, and we could have stayed right there the whole time. We packed all the groceries we would need for four days, and planned on cooking most of our meals there. We did venture out once for Mexican food, and it was worth it. We ate at Papa Pablano's for the first time, and it was so good. We actually stopped there again to eat on our way home. Most of our time at the cabin was spent playing ladder golf, Dutch Blitz, or Mario Brothers on the Wii. The girls loved the porch that went all the way around the cabin and the hot tub, or the "cold hot tub" as Addison called it. They spent most of their time playing with Nanny, chasing Kherington, and going up and down the stairs. We also went pedal boating and let the girls swim in the lake with Bubba. Wednesday morning we were going to get up and go canoeing. When we woke up it was pouring down rain. We thought surely it would stop eventually, and it was the only day we could go so went decided we would go ahead. I have never in my life seen it rain for 3 straight hours like it did that morning. I'm not talking about sprinkling. I mean freezing, pouring down rain. There were times in the canoe we had to close our eyes because it was raining so hard. I was just praying we didn't get dumped out because the water was like ice. I think we completed the fasted canoe trip in history. We did stop once to eat the sandwiches we had packed but had to scarf them down before the bread got soggy. Needless to say we may it back alive and felt like we had canoed through a rain forest. On Thursday we got up and packed everything to come back home. We stopped in Broken Bow on the way home to play putt putt golf. Addison lasted about 3 holes then she got tired. Avery was very serious the whole time, and insisted on knowing who the winner was at the end. Of course it was her. Thanks Mom for a great vacation. We had a great time.

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July 4th

On July 3rd this year we went to the lake with some of our friends to cookout and watch fireworks. On the 4th we went to a small town nearby to watch their firework show. Avery loved it, but Addison wanted to sit in the car the whole time. She did finally get out at the end. When we started getting out of the car Addison said, "I have an ear infection. I don't need to hear all of this." Afterwards we can home to let the girls do sparklers that my dad had gotten for them. Avery tried spelling her name with the sparklers. Addison held her sparkler in one hand and kept a finger in one ear just in case they popped. They had a great night.

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