Audrey's Mobility and Mini-Bats

Just a quick update on the progress of Audrey's mobility. She is crawling now and pulling herself up onto furniture and walking back and forth. I hung up my mini-bat collection. We are making pretty good progress on our goal to visit all the major league ballparks in our lifetime.
 

Natalie's Third Birthday

We celebrated Natalie's 3rd birthday today at Chuck E Cheese. Natalie was afraid of "the chuck" and would not go up to him alone - Not a bite of pizza was eaten by the girls, they were too distracted by the excitement - Audrey puked on Daddy's face into his mouth and nose - Nicky took four 3 year olds to the bathroom... simultaneously - and best of all we were treated to a duet of singing and dancing by "the chuck" and the Chuck E Cheese manager (he can be found getting his groove on in picture on the right--word). It was great!

Garden Veggies have ripened

 

More pictures from our trip to NY

 

Trip to NY

We had a wonderful trip out to NY to visit Omi and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa. Here are some of the highlights. We visited Kirtland on the way out to NY. While in NY we visited most of the church history sights. It was a very inspiring trip


 

Jacobs Field Cleveland

 

Nana and Audrey Noelle

Trip to the Twin Cities.2

We also went to Como Zoo with Allison, Hailey and Taylor Miedema. Natalie had a great time on most of the rides. She couldn’t handle the frog hopper, and had to get off early... it was the zero gravity that got to her.

 

Trip back to the Twin Cities

We made a trip back to the Cities last weekend. It was a great time. We stayed with NANA and went swimming and had dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory.  

Panorama of the Mississippi

 

That's our baseball girl!

 

Indestructible Swingset

A tree fell down in the backyard this week after a heavy rain. It smashed though the fence and landed on the swingset. Luckily we built the swingset to withstand and F5 tornado so it didn't even notice that a tree had fallen on it. Nice craftsmanship Dad!

 

Tricycle

Natalie learned how to pedal her tricycle this week. She rides up and down the sidewalk, and up and down the sidewalk, and up and down the sidewalk, and up and down the sidewalk... You get the picture.
 

Chicago White Sox

We took a trip down to Chicago on Wednesday night to watch the White sox beat up on the Cardinals 13-5. It was a great game! Pete was able to get us tickets from a friend of his. They were wonderful seats in the premium terrace level with a special air conditioned/carpeted concourse. We had a waiter come to our seat to take our order for our food. It was a great way to watch a ball game, padded seats and everything. US cellular field is a very nice stadium. So we have one more down on our goal to visit all the major league parks. Natalie is a chip off the old block and loves baseball already, although her favorite park was the mascot, we'll have to work on that.


 

Our last week

We had Sarah, Jeremy, Tori and Evan Smith come visit us last week. Natalie loved having her friend sleep over, as did Nicky. We spent last weekend in Rockford, IL at a bi-stake youth conference. That was a lot of fun. They did an activity with GPS units called Geocaching. Look it up, it is a lot of fun http://www.geocaching.com/. Audrey is starting to crawl and put everything in her mouth.