Labor Day: Wild Animals

We went to the wild animal park and got to all cram into our van to drive through the drive through parts. On the walking part, we got to see them feed the bears and the wolves. It was awesome. And somehow seeing those wolves so close gave me a whole new perspective on Jacob (from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight books)...wow...check out our wild animals as they look at the other wild animals.

Oh-and here we are crammed in the van.

Labor Day: Cars & Caffeine

So, we walked back to the cars after our walk and playground time, and we were thirsty. Note the Diet Pepsi in Solace's hand in some pics...

Poor Ender totally biffed it face first in the dirt-he looks pretty good considering, and he is a tough kid!

Armour loves Ender's Indiana Jones hat and wears it quite often...

Labor Day: Nature Walk

We went for a nature walk...

Armour posed with his cattail... Stef got a great butterfly picture...
And Solace found a caterpillar that Wes caught and we brought home for preschool-that caterpillar was named Sally which changed to Callie the caterpillar and is now Callie the Chrysalis. This is Solace looking at Callie before Wes picked her up...

Labor Day: Pier

Here we are on a picturesque pier. First walking over than watching someone fish. As Stef pointed out on her Facebook, watching fishing is really not always as fascinating as we make it look in these pictures. Keep in mind, they (the watching fishing pics) were all taken in like about 3 minutes time-our attention spans are only about that long...

Walking along (BTW-have you noticed that there are already more pics of me up in these Labor Day posts than I have posted in like the past 50 posts or so-that's what happens when someone else has the camera...Also, please keep in mind when you see my chubby belly that my baby is still not quite 4 months old...)





I totally screwed up this pic-I didn't know it was being taken, but everyone else looks perfect!

Labor Day: Eating out

What would a visit be without eating out a couple times? Here we are doing just that!

You'll note here the matching hairstyles-Stef learned her lesson...if you let a 5-yr-old choose a matching hairstyle for you and her, it will be age appropriate for her...and you will look like one of those grown ups that is obsessed with like, the movies Heidi and Sound of Music...not that there is anything wrong with that...

If ever there was a picture to make the girls swoon...

Labor Day Weekend

Well, this weekend we were so excited to have Anne, Steve & Stefanie visit us. It was a jam-packed weekend of fun, and we loved visiting with them. We already miss them!! I was photographically retarded though and kept forgetting my camera, so I am counting on and waiting for Stef to upload her pics and send them to me so I can share some of the cute pics with you all. As it is, these are the 2 pictures I did get while we were at home-Armour shoved a whole donut in his mouth when I said it was time for bed and whatever was left of their treat was just going to have to go to mom or dad. SO, we got a couple pics of that. Enjoy...

Montana here we come...

Well, over this past weekend we drove to Hamilton, MT to visit Wes's cousin and his family. When Wes was in Medical school in Omaha, Eli (the aforementioned cousin) was in dental school there as well, so our kids were pretty great friends. Visiting this weekend was a great time especially for the kids to get to see their cousins and play with them. They already miss them terribly since we left yesterday...Here are a few pics from the trip (again mostly taken by our little cameraman E)

This is what E looked like much of the drive there. Look at the lovely scenery he is missing...
Armour was happy to take the picture (not really this happy to be in the car, but he is a ham for the camera!!) (Notice how miserable Solace looks in the corner there)
Sol in the car drinking a Capri Sun
Solace & Madison (taken by...you guessed it, Ender)
Eli & Trieste (Ender is quite proud of this picture he took as well)
Brynne (taken by E)
3 girls (taken by E)
Mommy (taken by E)
I commandeered the camera back and took this pic or Brynne & Ender.
Watching a movie

2 princesses
2 princesses and the small prince...
Just hanging out...
Wes & mini-Wes (seriously-could he look more like his dad?!)