Grammie's Beach Vacation Part 1

 9-18-11

Every year Grammie gets a week at the beach.  We checked in the night before but didn't take any pictures.  But I took plenty on Sunday.  This year we got to have Josh and Delaney with us too!  Josh was just great about building sand castles with Dani.

Playing in the waves with Grammie.

 Then play in the sand some more, watch the trick kites fly, build more sand castles.

And when she managed to build her own, she was so happy!  That's why I love the middle picture in the next collage.

That's all for that day...More to come. :)

Meeting Zena

9-6-11

Dad had been wanting to get another Shepherd, and while he was out one day he met a very nice lady with severe arthritis who was looking for a good home for hers.  Dad and the dog got along great, but the deciding factor was how would the dog do with Dani...
So the 3 of us went to find out and Dani and Zena became instant friends.


Zena's best dog buddy was a pug, whose name I can't remember.

It wasn't long before Dani was down in Zena's face.  How did Zena react?  With big slobbery doggy kisses of course!

That's the end of this post, but the beginning of a great friendship!

Labor Day Weekend 2011

We went to Grandma Zonnie's and spent the night. I didn't take very many pictures, most of them are of Dani and Parker playing hide and seek.
 

 

And I don't know why she looks so sad sitting on the ground, but she does and I love it.

Parker took a nap with Lacey, then she decided to keep Tim company, anything to stay on the couch.

I'm sure the reason I didn't take any other pictures was because we spent a lot of time in the pool.

First family of 4 pics

8-27-2011

We went to visit our beach family and while we were there I had the honor of taking the first official pictures of this wonderful family of 4.  Here are some of my favorites!

Daddy's girls.

 

 

So sweet...

 

I made tutus for all 3 girls (Dani, Ellie, and Anna).  The grand plan was to take green screen shots of all 3 wearing them and put them together as a set.  But, Ellie didn't want to cooperate so this is the only one I ended up with.  But all in all, I'm pretty happy with it.

Annual Bow Shoot 2011

8-20-2011

Every year our friends Kevin and Jamy have a bow shoot.  This was our first year to attend.  There were all kinds of things for the kids to do including 2 wet bounce house/slides, sling shots, kid's bows, etc. 

Waiting for food.

Kevin preaching.

Jamy helping with microphone duty (if you look really close you can see the little bump that turned out to be Brody!)

Pastor Buddy preaching and random kid shots.

The other reason every body was there (besides the food and sermon)...to shoot!  Someone brought a cool little doodad (technical term) that measures how fast your arrow travels, so you know all the boys had to play with the new toy :)

 

Yep, pregnant girls can still push cars/trucks when they get stuck!

My favorites of the day.

And after the shoot is officially over we get to go play some.

I just thought this log looked cool.

 

 

The end.

Introducing Anna!

8-15-11
On the 15th Grandpa and I got to visit baby Anna at home even though she was only 2 days old.  Such a beautiful baby!!!!  I have edited the announcement, there's enough of her info on there without her last name :)


 

I can't tell who had more fun holding her...Aunt Katie or Grandpa!

 

 

I can't find the words...the closest I can come is thanking God for the blessing of adding this family to our own.  They may as well be blood!

Random stuff

Random, non-Danica, pictures from various dates...

Some cool clouds...

Trying to catch lightning...

Another quick maternity session with MaryAnn...

And a cute little bobcat that came in to work.

I promise the next post will have plenty of Dani pics :)