Princess Tea Party

My friend Wendy hosted an end of summer tea party for a bunch of friends the other week. It was a great day for it and we had a great time ending the summer with a bang!!

My Helper

A few weeks ago my 10 yr old neice Stephanie came to stay with us for a week to be my "helper". It was so great to have her here to play with Maddy and help out with Colby. We also took a little vacation to the Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City while she was here and had a blast. I will post pictures soon from our trip. We got to see lots of family while in Kansas City and also attend my sister-in-law's baby shower. It was a fun trip!!


Stephanie working with Maddy on her preschool workbook:

Stephanie and Colby:

Colby and Adam

Here is a picture of Colby and his cousin Adam who are less than 2 months apart.

Maddy and RJ

Maddy and Colby's cousin RJ who is 4 1/2 moved to Des Moines this summer (along with my sister Katie and brother-in-law Rob ;-))

Maddy and RJ hit it off right away just like old pals and have a great time playing together (they moved from New Jersey, so we didn't get to see them a whole lot previously) It's fun having Katie and her family back in IA!!!

More pics of Jeremy's family visit:

Aunt Tami, Meg and Abbie on a ride at Adventureland:

Grandpa Dave and Colby at Gray's Lake:

Meg, Abbie Maddy and Colby watching a movie:

Maddy doing Abbie's hair:

Colby doing Abbie's hair.....ha, ha....Colby absolutely LOVES hair, though....I think it's his

favorite thing right now. He had a great time playing with Abbies nice long hair and getting

all tangled up in it! ;-)

Maddy, Grandpa, Aunt Tami and cousins!!

Some of Jeremy's family came to visit us this summer and I wanted to post a few pics from the visit. We had a great time seeing everyone and Maddy had a blast playing with her twin 6 yr old cousins Meg and Abbie. We are looking forward to getting out to VA over Christmas time to see them all again!


We went swimming and had a picnic at Gray's Lake one day:

Jeremy and Colby relaxing at the water area at Adventureland:

Abbie, Maddy and Meg swimming at the water park at Adventureland:

Abbie, Maddy and Meg playing with barbies:

Grandpa Dave and Colby:

Colby is 6 months old!!

So, it's been awhile since I've posted and I have a ton of updates, so will start working on them!! First, Colby turned 6 months old on August 16th! I can't believe half of his first year is already over!! He can now sit up very well by himself and push himself around on his back. He wants to crawl so badly and is getting close. He also has 2 bottom teeth about to come in any time now. He's pretty much on a 2 nap a day schedule now and we've fallen into a somewhat decent daily routine. Of course, it will never be perfect as Maddy has her things that I need to take her to, etc...but overall things seem to be going pretty smoothly so that has been nice. Looking forward to the Fall now and pumpkin patches, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and all of those firsts that Colby will get to experience!!