SAILING

In August we had the opportunity to go on a sailboat with our good friends, Dana & Amy. The weather was perfect, and we had a lot of fun with great friends.

Amy & Curt

Me & Curt

A cool boat we saw

The whole crew (plus a random passer-by)

Me & Curt

ABBY'S LAST SOCCER GAME

Abby's soccer is all done for the season. She had lots of fun playing, and it was especially fun to have Daddy and Brie as her coaches. They did a great job and you could see improvement from the begining until the end with Abby. She started out more concerned about matching shin-guards and water bottles, and eventually realized that she was there to score goals and not socialize. Thanks Daddy and Brie for a great season!

Daddy getting them ready for game time

Abby doing a corner kick

Abby's Team

Coach Brie Coach Curt

Makenzie Avery Abby Elly Jayden

Abby & Daddy

Coach Brie & Abby

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT

We love National Night Out, we are pretty much stuck outside with our kids everyday and night that it is not raining, so it is especially fun when the neighbors are all out too. We love our neighborhood and the wonderful neighbors that we have, so it great to have all the kids playing together and enjoying themselves. We feel very blessed to have such wonderful people around us all the time!

CC Tori Abby Emma Sammi & Ally

Sammi & Ally

Abby & Tori

Ally & Emma

Jim-Jim...Little Emma's Dad

We have a ton of little girls in our neighborhood...seriously we are in real trouble if we all still live here when they hit puberty....can we say DRAMA!!

TEA PARTY

Ally found a tea set at one of the neighbor's garage sales, and so the girls wanted to have a tea party, well actually water & cookies. The were extra excited when two little girls from the nieghborhood came walking down the street and wanted to join them.

Ally CC Abby & Tori

CC & Abby

Ally

HOME MADE ICE CREAM

Our neighbor Sammi bought this ice cream maker for $1 at a garage sale. So we decided to make some homemade ice cream. I was surprised it actually worked, and it tasted really yummy too. We made vanilla and then we had toppings for the girls to put on theirs. A very fun summertime activity. Next time we might try chocolate...yum!

Ally Abby & Sammi waiting for the ice cream

Our delicious ice cream

Abby is so excited to try it she can hardly wait

They loved eating it :D

They even brought a bowl over to Sammi's Mom.

ROLLERBLADES/SKATES

Abby discovered my old rollerblades in the garage and was determined to learn how to use them. Her friend Sammi has some and Abby always loves to do what the big kids are doing. So she rode or I mean stumbled around in mine for one night and the next day we went and got her a pair that were her size. She picked up on it pretty quickly and within a day could do it all by herself. I still need to get some pics of her in her new ones, but these are some pics of her in mine and Ally attempting to use the velcro over your shoes Dora rollerskates.

DANCE CAMP

This summer Abby went to dance camp for a few days, I was a nervous wreck having her gone and so far away, ok I know Fridley isn't that far from Elk River, but I have seperation issues! She had a lot of fun learning dances and playing with her friends. The first day she came home and said "Mom they made us dance like every 5 minutes!" I said " Well what did you think you were going to do at dance camp?" She repied "Just play!" She did have a good time even though all they did was dance. She went with some of her friends from the neighborhood who go to dance with her.

The nieghborhood girls

being silly!

Abby

The Show