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Is what is in the back of my mind. I need to BLOG! This poor Ada child is getting no attention on this blog. If you look back at what I blogged about James at this age, I kind of looked like a freak! :)

Not sure at all why she seems to be mad at the world in these ones. There was no getting that look off of her face either!

Baby Luke. My cousin Marianne's sweetness.

We were over at my aunt and uncle's beautiful lake home. Good times! Yummy steaks, thanks Dennis and Steve!
Ada went on her first boat ride!

A very tired Jacob...This child is so happy. Even if he is delirious. Gotta love a crazy tired kid :)

Now, I am sure an automatic reaction to this picture is to grab your computer screen and kiss those cheeks. It's OK, no one is watching!

Playdate at my house :)

I had some friends, kids, and babies over yesterday for an all around good time with some yummy food!

these 3 were born within a week or so of eachother :)

A small baby girl celebration with old friends :)

Today James and I went over to an old friends house to have a little celebration of the baby girl brewing inside of me. It was such a nice time! James had lots of fun playing with a super cute set of twins!

Dezmond, Lori, and James.

A sweet little cake.

Bella

Dezmond

The kids!

3 little monkeys

Ro Ro's Birthday party

I can't believe this was already a week ago...I am such a slacker :) Last Saturday, we went over to Rowan's house to celebrate his birthday...Mickey Mouse style. It was a really good time with some great food, and cake! James had lots of fun with all of his little friends.

long time no see

James got to hang out with his little buddies (from left) Henry, Hailey, and Michael. They all had lots of fun, even though Henry was feeling a bit under the weather after having surgery on Tues. We hadn't seen them in a while so it was fun to catch up.

My friends, Brittany, Charee, and I.

Train Ride!

My friends Sarah, Ashley, and their two boys Rowan and Lance, plus James and I all went on a fun train ride! The Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway. I believe it was all of our first times being on a train. It was lots of fun!

Lance and Rowan

The boys and I, in all my giganticness. EEEK!

A worker on the train

Checking out the scenery.

There were many parts to this trip that scared the crap out of me. This was one of them. It looks like we were going slow or stopped, but we were going pretty fast.

Another part that scared the poop out of me. These were the door ways where the cars were connected. We walked over a few of them while the train was moving.

A yummy train themed snack.

I love these pictures! I do have to say though that the train was stopped at this point. They were aligning something or something. There was also mommies on the inside of the windows holding legs :)

While we were stopped another train passed by.

Poor tired Ro-Ro.

call us crazy...call us what you will

Tiff and I took 6 kids to the zoo. I think that's all I really need to say about that.

Nah, it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be...they are all great kids, for the most part :)

Karl Oskar Days '09

This past weekend was Karl Oskar Days, a weekend of festivities in the town I grew up in. James had loads of fun rockin it into all hours of the night. My friend Tiffany lives right on the parade route so that is awesome...no diaper changes in the mist of crowds of people necessary. This was James' 3rd Karl Oskar parade, you can see pics from the first here and the second here. What was different about this one was he was actually kickin it curb side and able to grab and eat the candy thrown.

Being such a good boy and patiently waiting for the parade to start with his buds Ro-Ro and Kylee.

Fighting for their lives for candy. James had this weird thing about only picking up tootsie rolls for a while...that passed, he must have just known I love tootsie rolls!

Doing a little jig for the fire fighters

Our Candy Queen. This little pip squeak was the quickest candy picker upper ever! Now that I just looked back at last years post on the parade, apparently she gets this from her sister :)

The parade was Saturday and yesterday we went back for more fun. We saw some live music and fireworks.

The kids (James, Jaden, Kenzie, Kylee) plopped on the ground eating some delicious treats before the fireworks.

James and Kylee diggin the live band. They danced their hearts out.

The band was a Beatles tribute band called A Hard Days Night. They were really fun.

We tried to go sit down to get ready for the fireworks, but James wouldn't let me :)

Finally, we saw a great fireworks show...we had the best seats in the house!