About a week ago I went to New York and Philly with my mom, aunt and cousin. We had about five days to travel between New York and Philly. Here we are with Lady Liberty in the background. We also went to Hershey, Lancaster County and New Jersey. We had no time to rest, because we were trying to get everything we could possibly do done in the short time we had there. All in all it was a fun time.
Saturday we celebrated Matthew's 4th Birthday! It just doesn't seem like he can be 4 already! These pictures are a little out of order, but you'll get the just of it. I'll start with the picture above. Matthew decided he wanted to go to Chuckie Cheese for super that night, so we did that. He enjoyed it, but I think the rest of us could have done with out.
Matthew and his Chuckie Cheese Birthday crown.
Ok, now we are back in the right picture order. This is Matthew with his John Deere birthday cake. Grandma Wanda made the cake. Carrott cake, Matthew's favorite.
Matthew opening presents.
What other kind of book would you give someone at there John Deere birthday party?
So, after we were done with the party and Abby had a nap we went bowling. Matthew has been really wanting to go bowling ever since Todd started playing bowling on Facebook of all things!
You can see the excitement in his face and also that he just got a spare all by his self! Way to go Matthew! All in all it was a very busy, fun day! Thanks everyone for helping to make Matthews birthday very special!
Last week the Great Grandma Gladys, Grandma Wanda, and the kids and I went out to a farm to pick tomatoes.
Abby and Matthew had a great time.
Matthew is trying to get the tomatoes to stay in his shirt, just like Grandma Wanda.
Matthew and Abby on the dirt road back to the van. Matthew is such a little farm girl. The boots we had with for her were way to big so we took them off and shw walked barefoot. She didn't even care.
I canned salsa, stewed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, and pizza sauce out of the tomatoes. This is about 1/4 of the stuff we got out of the tomatoes!
As cute as she may be, she does cause some trouble. Today she has climbed out of her crib twice, so I guess we have to have her sleep in the toddler bed which is not going good by the way. Its ten at night and she is still up!
I made this tag blanket for a friend of mine, and also the Boppy cover below. I was impressed with myself, cuz the cover even has a zipper sewn into it!
Last weekend we went to the Abercrombie Days parade. It rained the whole time and everyone and all the candy was soaking wet. All the kids had a great time though.
Matthew waiting for the parade to start.
Abby could care less about the parade after she found a sucker in her bag.
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A couple of weekends ago the West Fargo Park District put on a thing called Honkin Hauling Trucks. They brought in a whole bunch of different kind of machines and trucks and the kids all got a "drivers license" and the could go and "drive" any and all the trucks and machines that they wanted. This was really fun for both kids.
As you can see from the look of the sky in this picture it rained on us a few times, but all the kids there had fun anyways.
On one of the last rainy days we had the kids and I headed out to West Acres to look around and play on the Dino's. Matthew loves to go to the bookstore and look at the books. Here are Matthew and Abby sitting at the kid sized table looking at the books. I seem to remember someones grandpa Darrell liking to go to the bookstore at the mall and look at books too! Hmmm
The family went to Crusin Broadway the last week they had it for the year to go see Grandpa Joe and his corvette. This is Matthew and Todd looking at all the old cars.
Matthew and Abby at Crusin Broadway. So Cute!
Matthew and Abby were snuggled together with the lantern watching cartoons on our bed one day.
