Fair

As I said in the last post, this week is fair week for Audrey, and I have never seen her this excited.

 She had shows all of yesterday, though they were delayed for rain...

 She is doing fabulously, having a blast, and-as of this morning-was planning to sign herself up for Open Classes tomorrow.

Her plan is to have fun and win some more ribbons.

Now to let Fair week continue.

Summer is a Long Long Time to be Gone...

Wow, it has been an incredibly, insanely long amount of time since I have been on this blog.  I'm sorry to have abandoned you all for so long, but I'm back now. Well at least for today.

Today is the start of Fair for Audrey, in a turn of events Tommy and I are no longer showing pigs and Audrey has started horses and is showing at an entirely different fair this year.

As a general update of how our summer has been, CAN YOU SAY BUSY? Everybody besides Dad did Vacation Bible School at our church, a fun time had by all.  Tommy and Dad went to DC for five days, I went down to South Carolina for eleven to visit one of my best friends, Tommy went to Boy Scout camp for a very, very hot (95 degrees plus humidity) week and came back with a ridiculous tan and all of his requirements for First Class finished.   Last week was Mom and Dad's twentieth anniversary.. YES! TWENTIETH!

And now it is August and the summer is coming to an end... It already feels like fall here, with the temperatures scarcely reaching 70 some days.
 *Insert cry of sadness at the lack of swimming going on in our pool currently*

But that's what has been going on for the past three months.

Unfortunately all the pictures taken in these past months are on Dad's computer, so they will come soon.

Have a fabulous day!

Sammy

A couple quick quotes

The little kids in this house say the most fantastic things, as little kids always do, so as for now, here are a few:

"I just touched wildlife!"-
Dominic, on catching the first toad of the season.

"Dom, stop crying! You're a man! or a comfy, comfy seat. It depends."-
Audrey, to Dominic.

"Docta! Docta!"-
Olivia, because we've been watching a lot of Doctor Who.

A Day in the Rain[drops]

Last Wednesday we went to the Children's Museum. It's safe to say that the little kids had a blast, even if the museum was the most packed we had ever seen it. 

They climbed the raindrops...

And splashed in the water table...

And played in the Big Red Barn room, which, named after one of Livvy's favorite books (Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown) was a favorite of the one year old.

They also played in the raindrops...

 

 And grocery shopped til they dropped....

AND CLIMBED ON THE RAINDROPS!

And played in the sand... it was an archaeological dig sight this year.

And got soaked one last time before we headed home.
Over all it was a great day and between Audrey, Dominic and Lili the raindrops were climbed over thirty-six times! Craziness.

Easter Egg Dyeing

Just a few pictures...



The photo-bombing baby



Happy Easter!

Our Easter was sugar-filled and fabulous, and we hope yours was too.

Love,

The 8

Lili's Note Special

Lili had to be like her big brother, Dominic and have her own blog post too, so here's goes nothing, Lili uncut and unedited:

Umm.. Let me think

I love my Lego Friends set, it comes with Stephanie.  My Lego Friends set is great, because of all the fun stuff, but Audrey destroyed my bedroom. And so my baby Olivia sometimes destroys our Lego House, and sometimes my bedroom too.
So in our Lego Friends House I always use the white horse.  Umm, this is my official note that goes onto the blog.

And that's all...
Sam that's all I wanted on it.

Love, Lili

Lilianna, age four.

(She wrote the title too)