So I got this water table for the girls (it was 50% off---end of season!!!) and boy was it a hit. I knew it would be, they just love to play in the water!

Mallory and her Daddy! She is looking more and more like him as she gets older.

SO---I call this next section...The Dora Couch. I mentioned this couch in another post. Well the girls still love it (especially Emma!) This is when Emma was feeling big-sisterly and loving towards her little sissy.

Loungin'

What do you want mom?????

I am sure watching Dora here...(we really don't watch TV that much...but I will say that TV is a mom's best friend when trying to make dinner!!!)

CHEEEESE!!!

So out of all three girls Kaylee is the only "ham" for the camera. I tell her to say cheese and she makes this silly smiley face and says cheeeese!!!! She is too darn cute. So these are a couple of those shots from the past couple of weeks.

Casa Bonita!

We headed to Casa Bonita last weekend with Jeremy and his family. Josh and I think that the last time we were there was before we were married so at least 8 years! Not that it is a place we need to go to a lot. NOTHING has changed in all the years I remember going...it is EXACTLY the same, but I guess it is still open so they are doing something right. An attempt to get a group shot. With 3 young kiddos under 3....pictures...especially a group shot is NOT what they want to do. Here is the best we got in front of the fountain in front.

Here is the 5 of us. We don't have too many family shots...I guess this is why. Josh and I are smiling, but NONE of the girls are looking at the camera. Oh well!

My brother, Jeremy, and I. It is great to have him here living in Colorado now.

Ready to eat!

Laurie with Mallory

A little sisterly love.

The girls got these bunny ears from Laurie and Jeremy...they light up. Kaylee wore them all night.

Best part of Casa Bonita were the little rides at the end of the night on the way out. The girls loved driving/riding all of them.

....even Hope enjoyed them.

Love Mallory's face here. She is loving her train ride!

Hmmmm.....what should I choose???? A Tootsie Roll or a Tootsie Roll. So I remember the "Treasure Room" as being much better than this with cool little toys and good candy, but all there was was Tootsie Rolls. Casa Bonita must be feeling the recession like everyone else!

Look at how many I got Mommy!!!

Silo Park with Knox

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Belleview Park, Silo Park, and Butterfly Pavillion

So as of today....my track-off is over....so sad! We have had so much fun this track-off. I love that the girls are getting older. It makes going places and doing things easier and they have so much fun, I love it! Belleview Park Last summer this was a favorite outing we did a few times. This summer we only visited once, but the girls loved it and enjoyed the animals much more this year. Kaylee kept waving and saying "Hi" to all the animals. She also loves to watch them and study them ever so carefully....every time I had to make her move on to the next one and then finally leave. She is the same way at the zoo and Butterfly Pavilion.

Emma on the other hand, likes the animals but prefers to just look not touch. In this picture she is saying "poopy mommy, icky!"

Practicing their milking techniques

Silo Park We headed to Silo park last week with Kasey and Knox. Above there are some pics posted that Kasey took with a good camera. These are just with my phone....not too bad for a phone I guess.

On this day I got a phone call while at the park that my mom had had a heart attack (mild....for a heart attack...is anything "mild" when it has to do with your heart?!?!?) and had to be air lifted to the hospital in Grand Junction (they are staying in Gunnison). SO---the next morning I took off with my brothers and we headed west. This was the first time I left all three girls over night! The girls did awesome and my mom got discharged on Saturday morning. Which seems crazy to me. They put a stint in her heart and cleared some blocked arteries (I think I got all that right???). The important thing is is that everything seems to be good. Butterfly Pavilion Today we headed to the Butterfly Pavilion with Beka, a friend from church, and her kiddos Mac and Rachael. Rachael is exactly one month younger than Emma so they have been in the same "classroom" at church since day one. Maybe they will one day be great friends. Again pics are with my phone so not the best.

We ended out day at McDonald's. We don't do this too often, but on Wednesdays you get a free Happy Meal with an extra value meal, so I can feed all of us for about $5.50! The girls share the Happy Meal so it is perfect! They were the only kids besides two others in the play area, so we stayed and played for an hour. They had a blast and no big kids to run them over. Here is a not so great pic of Mallory, who got to get down and crawl on the plastic flowers!

That's the end of our break! Now to the world of work and juggling being a mom at the same time! Nine and half week count down has begun!

I got the girls this little Dora couch from a consignment shop. They LOVE it! Especially Emma....she says "Emma watch Dori on Emma's Dori couch" (in her Dora jammies!). She loves Dora right now!

My bestest friend from college visited last week with her new little guy Jackson. He is a cutie! Kaylee enjoyed entertaining him!

Yet another trip to the zoo.....this time with Daddy. We haven't gone with Josh in awhile so it was fun to be able to go with

Since Josh was with us we were able to feed the Lorikeets and ride the carousal (it is just too hard when I am by myself). So the girls loved the birds!

Emma DID NOT want to ride an animal....she was very content to ride here in the peacock seat with Mallory and me.

On the 4th of July I caught Miss Mallory getting into Josh's beer stash in the mud room. She actually got one open....well a little hole somehow and I realized after there was a large puddle of beer that she had crawled all around in!!!

Enjoying time at Nana Pamela's house!

That's all folks....one more day of my break, man that flew by!