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9.25.2015

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

For Mary's birthday she said she wanted cake and she wanted to play baseball.  Sounded good to me!  On Mary's birthday this year I was feeling so awful, I was weak and sore all over and my throat felt so swollen.  Thankfully, my sweet sister-in-law Alisha graciously offered to make Mary's cake!  I was so grateful to have that taken care of for me and that Mary got her red cake.
The night of her birthday we all gathered together at a close by church to have a ball park dinner and play baseball and kickball.  For dinner we had hot dogs with "checkup" (ketchup), peanuts, and popcorn!  I was going to get cracker jacks, but couldn't find any big bags so I just went with popcorn.
The party was fun, we didn't play too much baseball or kickball.  My brother John did go over with the kids and play with them and Jake played baseball with them too, but mostly the kids just ran around having a lot of fun together.







Happy third birthday Mary!


3 Year Old Mary

Our cute and sweet Mary turned three years old this week!  She could not be more excited about it!
Her whole birthday she kept saying, "I'm not two anymore!  I'm three years old!"
These are some random things about Mary.


Mary is getting so big, she is talking all of the time and I love the things that come out of her mouth!
Mary has the sweetest quiet voice!  Don't let that fool you though.  She's feisty! 
My favorite things she says, 
"I just already did that!"  
"Why are you smiling?  Because you love me?" 
"Can I have some checkup?" (ketchup)
"I'm so beautiful!"


 She is learning so much and getting so smart!  She knew all of letters before she was 2, but she now also knows all of the letter sounds!  She is starting to learn how to write her letters, she knows how to spell Mary, Jack, stop, go, and Mom.  She can count to 39 and count backwards from 10.


Mary loves to sing songs and picks up on them quickly.
She loves to dance and I have to get a video of her dancing one of these days because it's wonderful!
Mary still loves to climb and jump.  She's our wild child!


  Mary has been awful to potty train.  It's been stretched out fooooooorever!  I feel like we may actually be there now though.  I hope that doesn't jinx anything.  The last week has gone really well, but it seems like she is good for a while then regresses, then is good for a while and regresses again.  


Here are a few of Mary's favorite things:  apples, "checkup", nursery rhymes, she loves having a blanket on her lap, the color red, earrings, reading, watching a show, going to the park, and balls.


We are so happy Mary is in our family, she brings happiness and laughs into our home!







9.15.2015

Father's Day

For father's day I gifted my dad with homemade Kneaders French toast, 
yesterday my Mom and Dad were able to come up to our house 
and we had a nice night together.  


We had our delicious dinner then we had a nice family home evening about the life of Christ.  
It all went very well and was an overall great night!  


9.09.2015

Photo Dump

I was looking through the photos on our computer and came across a lot of really cute ones!  Since I print off my blog every year, but am horrible at printing pictures, I thought I'd post some here!