Play Date!!!

1/29/2010

We had a play date at the park in Astor beside the library. We had Kiley and Tristin, Tim, Crystal and Parker, and Mommy, Daddy and Dani there.

Tristin had to show what a big boy he was.

So did Parker.

Dani spent most of her time on the swings.

And the kids weren't the only ones who got to play!

The boys really liked going down the slide at the same time.

And of course I have to show my favorite picture of the day.

2nd Birthday Party!!!

1-24-2010

Dani's birthday party was in Cadwell Park in the same building as last year.

There was lots of time spent with family and friends!

Lots of people Dani's age :)

Lots of adults too. And plenty of food!

After getting a bite to eat it was out to the playground for a bit.

Then it was time for cake and presents. Dani picked an Ariel cake again and seemed happy with her choice.

After presents it was back out to the playground.

Dani tried to hug Lizzy but knocked her over in the process.

There were plenty of Dani hugs and kisses to go around!

And then we went home and crashed early!

Birthday Portraits

For Danica's first birthday we had professional pictures done and I spent about $200 for 8 poses. So this year I decided I could do the pictures myself and get a lot more for a lot less. So I hung a sheet on the front of Zonnie's Tahoe in the front yard at my Mom's house and started snapping pictures. Here are some of my favorites, and don't forget you can click on the collage to expand it. The rest are in a Walgreens album, just let me know if you want the link.

And the ones below are my individual favorites.

Danica's second birthday

Jan 22, 2010

First thing in the morning Dani's birthday bear sings to her. This was a gift from Bev when Dani was first born and we promised to play it for her on her birthday and thought it would be a nice start the day right birthday tradition.

Mommy took the day off and we played in the park for a while. Even though it was January it was pretty hot!

While we were there a cool old plane flew over. Dani was the first one to see it :)

Then Sierra showed up to play too!

The tube slide proved fun for everyone, Dani, Sierra, Dani's Daddy and Sierra's Mommy!

That evening we went to Grammie's house for dinner and it was a food explosion! Literally! One of the dishes exploded and sent glass everywhere! Into all the other food, all over the counter, there were even shards in the ceiling! But the important part was nobody got hurt. So we improvised dinner and moved on to presents!

We finally gave her the kitchen set that we had been holding on to. It came with all the extras and she loved it!

Then it was cake time!!!

And...like mother like daughter :) She likes being behind the camera almost as much as she likes being in front of it.

A.P.E.S. visit

On Jan 2, 2010 we went to visit our friends at APES. For more information on their facility visit http://www.apesplace.com/

While we were there we did plenty of relaxing and snuggling and Mommy got to take LOTS of pictures!

I love the set below, especially the middle bottom picture. To me it looks like he's smiling :)

Not all the love goes to the furry friends!

And a GREAT BIG YAWN!!

The rest of Christmas Day

After Grammie's house we went to Nuna's. We weren't there too long and I didn't take very many pictures. Parker decided he didn't want to pose w/ Grandma Nuna and Calvin so he started fussing which got Dani fussing too. Here's what we ended up with.

Next we went to Grandma Zonnie's house. First was posing for pictures, then stockings and presents!

Dani got another box of princess shoes!

Tim and Crystal got a washer and dryer which made Crystal cry!

Then the kids got to play in the box

John got the inversion table he's been wanting for years.

Then it was time to go outside and play!

The bowling set was a huge hit!!!

Dani decided it was more fun to kick the pins over than it was to roll the ball at them.

Uncle Tim tried to juggle the pins (with a little help from John)

But he got very frustrated with it!

And here's my favorite of me and Dani :)