TOTONKA!!!

Gosh I miss it up there!! Home away from home!!!!

Veggie Tales anyone?

We went to the free Veggie Tales movie at the Regal this week with fun cousins Tyler and Conner. This pose lasted about 5 minutes, then we distributed snacks to last the day to keep the busy bodies somewhat tame. It was really fun to have the kids experience the Movies together though!!

It's so great to live in Nobletucky!!

We love our neighbors and have not ever lived in a neighborhood where you feel like family and your kids are all the same age and life is just lived together!! We do bonfires, holidays, hayrides through our neighborhood, baby showers...the works!! One day I was mentioning to my neighbor that I heard the coyotes in our tree line and he said, just let me know next time, I'll be down there with my gun. Of course, I am sure he would love to add to his collection of animal heads displayed in his garage! This is what I love about our neighborhood.

So our neighbors asked us to go the Brickyard this Sunday!! We were so excited to go. Can't say we follow it to know what we are talking about, but really enjoyed it. As we were packing up, we saw the whole street getting their coolers and cars ready to go down to the Brickyard!! We just love our neighbors ;)!!!

Here's some highlights and pics of the day...especially for my cousins in ND who are big fans of the NASCAR racing!!! You guys have got to come down and go with us some time!!

Here's our fellow neighbors Jenni and Joe. They have a 2 yr old boy named Adam and one on the way in January!!!
They got the green flag!!

Pace cars leadin' the pack...

Home town pride...Jeff Gordon. He was fun to watch and had lots of fans!

Tony Stewart talking to I am not sure who...but I knew it was Tony Stewart.

Tony Stewart greeting his groupies...

Jenni and I decided to take a walk a little before the race started and we had no idea who we were seeing. So here we are standing right in front of this guy...just talking and this fan comes running up saying...ROBBIE!!! We stopped and smiled. I took a couple of pictures after I realized that he was a drive...Robbie Gordon.

We sat between the start/finish line and 4th turn. That was pretty incredible to see them round out from the 4th turn full speed.

Crazy Girl!

I got her some new goggles because she loves to use them during swim lessons now. So she had to try them out in the baby pool no less!!! They don't have much suction to keep out the water but they look cute, right?
Oh and off to yet another allergy doctor apt during nap time going crazy while they take a half an hour to see us!! So I let her entertain herself anyway she can. This time, she used a thermometer to go cross eyed! I gotta kick out of it!!
If she makes it through walmart without any major catastrophes, we stop for a little ride on bob the builders tractor!! A little bribery goes a long way ;)

This is the face that I get when I ask her to smile...oh so natural.

Those silly "oknub" girls!!

This month, besides playing our competitive game of bunko, our theme was backwards night. So you could wear your clothes inside out or backwards. I wore my pants backwards even. Talk about uncomfortable!! The gals sitting up front even "accessorized" their backs!! Crazy girls and Oh So Fun!!

More zoo pics...

Baby Claira's Here...

A week ago Thursday, Baby Claira made her debut and we got to have a spend the night the night before with her big sister's Lo Lo and Ju Ju as the Princess calls them.

Here are the girls getting up in the morning! They actually slept longer than the Princess.

Then we piled up in the minivan!! How fun!!! Baby Claira is a great mix between both of her sisters. And her hair is beautiful and dark like her older sister Ju Ju.
Leigh Leigh is letting Claira's big cousins love on her...aweee!!

Oh so hilarious "parentisms"

I got the biggest kick out of Jaime's oh so true hilarious realities of parenting!!!!!!

4th of July Fun!!

We had a fun 4th of July weekend filled with lots of outdoor fun with family and friends and neighbors. We started off the 3rd at the Liller's Fabulous 4th Extravaganza. Then on the 4th we went to the Carmel Parade with family in the rain, but a great tradition.

Then we were off to our neighbors for the rest of the day of eating, volleyball, corn hole and fireworks!! We also celebrated my Dad and Mike's B-days this weekend, but I didn't get any pictures of that :(. It was a very fun and full weekend!!

These are pictures with our neighbors. We all have kids around the same age and lots more to come in the coming months!!

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!!