Bunco!!!

I love any excuse to get together with a fun, loud, crazy group of girls without kids! And this group is doing just that. Once a month, we are getting together to play a very challenging ;) game of bunco. It requires little thinking, lots of fun, lots of laughter and competitiveness!! Did I mention it was loud?!! I felt right at home ;)!! So these are to some of my new friends and some of my old friends...the game is on!!!!!!!!!!

Celebrating Baby Girl Keller #3

Us "Aunt Shannon's" put on a fun celebration brunch for our newest niece to come in 2 and half weeks!! This is Jenni opening up a gift from her "Mom's"...since Jenni and Andy won't reveal baby #3's name until she arrives they are left to guess. And so they cut out what they think her name is to go above her crib in the room. It says "Debbie Sandy". (The names of both Mom's)

Since Shannon and I are her only Aunt's we are partial to her being named Shannon ;)!!

Some Life Group Girlfriends of Jenni's chattin'. Sweet friends!!
Family Girls enjoying each other.
(left to right...My Mom's sister Becky, and Connie "Tut", Cousin Jaime in the background, Jenni's Mom Sandy and my Mom Debbie ;) Got that!!

A little this and a little that...

Hangin' out with Ggma at their house. She wanted Mommy to get my haircut so she could spend some time alone with them.I wasn't goin' anywhere so she got to ride on the golf cart with them!! These are the best memories!!

Went to the zoo again with the big cousin (by 4 months). Aren't they so cute together!! We are making them do this while we can!!

Loved the Butterflies at the zoo!!
Touched her first butterfly!!
Had her first swimming lessons and Daddy went in with her this time! She loved it!!

She was so excited to do this with Daddy!!

Celebrating JP on Father's Day...

We ate huge chocolate chip waffles and cinnamon rolls and went to the families to celebrate all the Dads. I was spacing it and didn't get any pictures of all the Dad's we celebrated but we love them all and had a fun filled family Father's Day!! (other family blog pics are here)

On Saturday, we went to a small local airport where the princess got a butterfly painted on her arm and we got to see inside private planes, helicopters and even firetrucks!!

It was a fun time of memories with Daddy!!

We touched a truck!!

We went to our local community event called Touch a Truck today, where we got to do just that. Touch and sit in all different kinds of "trucks" in our community! We had a lot of fun!!

She cannot wait to ride a bus!! She loves watching the kids in our neighborhood get on the school bus. So this was a hit for her!

She got to see inside an ambulance with her cousin!



Then they got to sit in the back of a firetruck!!


Then they drove it!!
Oh and the Helicopter was the hit of the day...
The kids thought the best part was watching it go up in the sky!!The big cement truck...
Oh man watch out...The Pongratz's movin' the earth!!

And the police car was oh so fun!!

Havin' fun on the "bool bus" as the princess calls it. She can't wait to go to school!!

"Bob the Builder"!!! Yes they can!!!

Ridin' in the semi-truck and gettin' to honk the horn...what a great day!!!!

Dora and Diego!!

We went with our good friends to go see Dora and Diego today at Conner Prairie!! It turned out great because even though it was a rainy day, we got to spend a lot of time hugging and dancing with Dora and Diego!! We also got to play in the discovery zone store and milk the cow!! We had a ball and thought we'd show a slide show of the highlights...

Just as the summer was going so great...this princess ate a cashew!!!

And we found out real quick that she's allergic. So we spent the night at the Hospital Monday night and got into her allergy doctor yesterday to get further education on how to prevent and treat this very scary reaction. WHEW!! What I've learned!! And we will now be giving her treatments 2 times a day for asthma because her allergy doctor was a little nervous about her asthma. So pray that we make it through another lesson learned and that our little princess is completely healed of any allergies/asthma. She's already doing much better now ( a little hyper from the medicine she's on to counteract the allergic reaction, but functioning like a princess ;)

So far this summer we're havin' a ball...

Had a fun craft play date at our friend's house!! Went to the Monon Center Aqua Park with fam...
Played and ate over at Grandpa and Grandma Pongratz house...

Had cousins over to swim in our neighborhood pool...

(gotta love those buns)

We're having a great summer!! How about you?

Having boys for cousins is pretty awesome too!!

Boy cousins are great friends... The best protectors...

so much fun to laugh with...

and adorable to boot!!!

There's nothing like having cousins for girlfriends

A little Sesame Street together... A little snack together...
a little playing "house" together...

and a lotta lovin'!!!