Busy, Busy, Sat....Visiting, The Farm and Birthday Party!

Ok I've posted our days events in reverse order.....WHY? (as Avery would say)...b/c I did a short video of The Farm and video's always post at the end so that was my reasoning :)

Natalie's 2nd Bday Party:

The Birthday Girl

Mommy and Natalie

Avery assisting Natalie in opening her gifts!

Mr. Jackson Gerber (sorry Tab I didn't get a picture of Mr. Grady :(

Excited watching her balloon go up.

End of the night.....so tired since she only took an hour nap!

Visiting Gma Mabel at Walnut Hills:

"That's Mine!" Avery hording all the toys :(

The Farm at Walnut Creek, Ohio........we had rain, we had wind we had sun and we had more rain but most of all we had a great time! Thanks again for treating us to a day at The Farm Mimi! I will have more pictures once I get Janna's and Mimi's.

Beautiful rolling hills of Holmes County, Ohio!

Aden our tour guide.......Mimi paid extra for us to all ride the wagon.

Isn't the Llama cute??!

I'm King of the World!

Miss A wasn't afraid to feed the animals......said "they tickled my hands."'

Sticking her tongue out imitating the animal.

Bison.......

Nursing her baby.

Big Elk.....

Baby Giraffe

Love this picture!

2 satisfied customers! Hope Janna got a good one of Kaidrie that I can have :)

After the hour long wagon ride we got to explore the rest of the grounds......

Kangaroo and her baby...so sweet.......

Male Peacock.....

Female Peacock and she had her baby with her....look by the arrow (she was high up close as I could get)

Nice hair after rain, wind and sun...ha.ha.

What a Zoo of a week!

What a busy week......with normal work week, getting Avery's Big Girl Room ready, then Wed. night met Berdene and Ellis (Josh's Aunt and Uncle up from Florida), Brian and Kathy another aunt and uncle, Beth and clan, Mike and Julia at Bags for dinner and fellowship, then Thurs. night Beth and Leah dropped Miss Kaid off at our house so girls played together for awhile, Fri. Janna and Kason came home so we all headed to the outlet malls (minus Avery) then Fri. night Ellis, Berdene and Beechy's came to Proper's for pizza so another late night, Sat. Josh and I were busy picking up and delivering furniture then headed to Akron for Zoo and Hamburger Festival, Sunday was Church and later back to Proper's to drop off Avery for a sleepover - woohoo!

All weekend the girls matched - weird since neither Janna or I saw or knew what the other one had on....we have GREAT taste ;) Best picture I could get of them girls.....


This was HEADING to Akron AFTER Avery got up from her nap!!! She's had a rough week of fever for a few days, teething, being moved to a new bed,playing hard with her cousins, etc.


Pretty much all Josh and I saw of the zoo! We got there at 4:30 and they closed at 5pm - the couple that invited us didn't check the time and we all assumed they were open later then 5!! Well they weren't NOR did they let us in for free or a discount so Carrie had a membership and took the girls in for 20 mins and a train ride. Bless Carrie's heart since Avery was sooooo excited to see live animals.




Playing in the water outside the entrance.

Onto the Hamburger Festival in Downtown Akron - about 5 mins from the zoo....

Finally enjoying a yummy burger from Menches Brothers. It turned out to be a beautiful day...it was sprinkling when we left the Burg.

Avery enjoying her 1st ice cream cone.....I know she's not right! She just doesn't eat much sweets. She only ate a little so darn I had to finish it off ;)

This wasn't Paty's first time with ice cream :)

There was a band there and the girls had fun dancing, running and playing with the balls and other kids.

Finally at 8:15 Avery ate her supper!

15 mins into the hour trip back home.....zzzzz............

Avery's in her BIG girl room!

Well I finally finished cleaning the spare room out MINUS my clothes :( washed her sheets and made her bed in time for nap time!! Daddy read to her, Mommy read to her and then I laid with her for about 10 mins. then I told her Mommy is going to go work and you need to take a nap.....that last about 2 mins. so I put her back in bed and tell her NOT to get up till she wakes up and she said "ok, nite...nite"....so far so good! :) I know it was time but just didn't want to give up that room....selfish...YES!! lol.

She's pretending to be sleeping..........it's been 15 mins and I still haven't heard her NOR has she gotten up let's hope this works and then I'll be kicking myself I didn't do this a long time ago!! Yea she did it went to sleep on her own!! She only slept an hour then but I'll take it...she's working on her incisors and has had a temp yesterday and today.