Shelley's thoughts

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Birthday Party

As I joked with Megan this morning,Cupcake must be about 72 years old now because she has so many birthdays,but today must have been a biggie because the party was much larger than our usually parties!

Megan,Nick and I dressed up in our best jammies (or at least the ones that were [...]

Sunday

Weekends are for adventures. At least at our house they are!

This past Sunday after picking Megan up from her first ever sleepover we headed to the apple orchard —a first for our kids!

Nick,Shelley &Megan

We picked apples,

Megan picks an apple

We ate apples

Nick picks an [...]

Backyard playing

The kids have had so much fun in the back yard this summer! Both are working up the guts to try the monkey bars,Megan swings for hours upon hours,and Nick is finally starting to understand what pumping is all about (although he doesn’t quite have it yet). Even the slide has turned into [...]

Visiting the Quad Cities

Our playgroup decided to take a little jaunt to the Quad Cities last week to celebrate the end of summer…

Our first stop was the John Deere Pavillion. Everyone had a blast looking at and climbing on the tractors,diggers,and other John Deere stuff.

Nick on the digger

Megan &Nick

You’d think I’d learn

So this afternoon when Megan got home from playing with a friend,she asked if she could run through the sprinkler. It was 85 in the house and the idea of a sprinkler sounded lovely so I agreed. I went down,got swim suits for the kids,dropped them on the floor in the living [...]