Playing with Nana and Papa

While my dad and step mom were here we went to the state park where they have a little petting zoo. Hannah loves animals, and she was pretty excited about petting and feeding them!

Allison's baby blessing

Even though it has been almost a month already, here are a few pictures from Allison's blessing. My dad and step mom flew out from CA to meet baby Allison and we did the blessing while they were here!

At church with Nana and Papa

Cousin Kiara with Allison

Sisters

The proud daddy!

The family of four!

Hannah's first haircut!

So Nate has always given me a hard time because I didn't want to cut Hannah's hair. I'm not really sure why he has even talked about it for so long because she is just now starting to seem like she actually has hair that could be cut. Anyways, I was tired of Hannah always pulling her barette out with big chunks of hair and then having her hair in her eyes and food all of the time...so she finally got a little trim. Her aunt Kristen cut it for her. If you ask Hannah who cut her hair she will tell you rah-rah (Kristen) Here are a few pictures of the end result...it is hard to cut a squirmy almost 2 year olds hair!

Pictures

Hannah loves her little sister!


One of Allison's first smiles...of course she smiled at dad first. Some things just aren't fair! :)


Allison's first "swim" She just tested the water with her toes!


Allison's first trip to the zoo!


Daddy and Hannah watching the sea lion show.


And this is what Allison looked like for most of our time at the zoo.


Hannah being brave and going down the water slide with Aunt Jill.


After her first trip she asked for more, more! So grandpa went with her, and grandma did, too. She made plenty of trips down the slide!


And one last smile from Miss Allison!

One month (last week!)

Ok, so I haven't been good about keeping everybody updated. Things always seem too busy! Anyways, Allison is already a month old, well now like 5 weeks. She went to the doctor last Tues. and weighed 10 lbs and was 23 inches long. They grow so quickly! She is doing great, except for a little cold she got from big sister Hannah which she recovered from quickly!

Hannah also started parent child swim lessons last week (MWF) which she is enjoying, but has made our schedule a little more complicated. Nate has actually been able to be at the class 3 out of the 4 times so far when I thought he would be able to attend maybe 1 if I was lucky. Happy day! Anyways, Hannah is enjoying her time in the pool, although she would rather play her own games than be "taught" and follow the instructions. I think she is getting more independent by the minute! Scary!

Happy Birthday to me!

My super cute girls! What a wonderful birthday present!




So this morning this is what I really woke up to...on the left is the front of our house and you can see a tree branch from our back yard on our porch and the top half of our evergreen tree sprawled out across the front lawn. I don't know if that was quite the birthday present I wanted! I guess I actually woke up to Nate telling me that we need to get in the basement NOW at about 2 AM. I don't know about all of these crazy midwest storms! They keep telling me that it isn't always like this. Anyways, our trees don't look quite as pretty any more, but our house seems to be fine. Luckily!

A little contest

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