Dawson's Hair

Take a look at our little man's hair -- it is absolutely crazy! This was purposly done to stick straight up, but normally his hair is so curly and crazy anyways, we just had to enhance it a little bit!

Father's Day 2009

We had plans to meet Dave's friend Kevin and his wife Val and their son Tyson at the Minnesota Zoo on Father's Day. Unfortunately, our little man was sick and had quite the fever! He was by no means himself and of course, our first instinct was strep since this is what I had last week. We did manage to go to Russell's for brunch, which was FABULOUS, the kids never eat much, but we sure did enjoy it and they have LOTS of choices to choose from. We then headed home and later in the day we had a chance to stop at my parents house to wish my Dad a Happy Father's Day and had dinner there. The kids, especially Dawson, from not feeling well, were exhausted and tired. It was super hot outside, so that definitely added to that fact. If we knew Dawson was going to hold up throughout the day, we would have went to the Zoo. We miss our friends (but will be able to see them this weekend when we travel to Albert Lea)!

When Dave was opening his Father's Day gift, it was in a Spiderman bag (the best part) and Kylie was like, you're going to love it, and as Dave was taking out the tissue paper, she's like, "its a Harley Davidson jacket"...lol. No surprises in our house! :) It was a "windbreaker/rain coat" in which I thought would have been a good coat to run around town with. Well we ended up taking it back and exchanging it for a different coat, which in turn, I really do like better and definitely know that Dave likes it better too :) So it all worked out perfectly!

I hope all of you Father's out there had a fabulous Father's Day :)

Kylie's first time in swimming lessons

This has been the best $32 I've spent in a long time. She absolutely LOVES swimming lessons. The first time in the water was a bit scary and she wasn't sure how to get into the pool by herself, wasn't confident enough to hang onto the side of the pool or anything. But she's come a long ways in the week and a half she's been doing it. By the end of last week (3-4 days after being in lessons, she was jumping off the side of the pool) and as of yesterday, she got to jump off the diving board (with a life jacket on of course)! But she's doing great and I'm so very proud of her :)

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Dawson loves this show!! Kylie was outside playing with her friends and Dawson was bored (they have learned to entertain themselves quite well)...so we read some books and let him watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the computer. It was just too cute and he got a huge kick out of it!

YeeeeHaa!

Lately, Dawson has been obsessed with the broom. So more or less the kids thought it was fun to use it as a horse! :)

A great weekend!

Friday night, Kylie had a sleepover at our house with her friend Kristen. They were so darn cute, it took awhile for them to fall asleep, and then about 1/2 hour later, I could hear Kristen on the monitor saying, "Kylie, wake up, wake up!"...LOL! It was quite hilarious, but Kylie doesn't just wake up and unfortunately, I don't think Kristen had any luck waking her up.

Saturday, was yet, another busy day! Dave went down to my parents house right away in the a.m. and then the kids and I headed down there around 10:30 a.m. Dave had to cut down trees for my Dad and Grandma wanted Kylie to come over and help plant flowers and she did just that :)

Of course, Kylie and Grandma couldn't do it alone :)

Later in the day, we had an unexpected visit from Jamie and Lydia -- it was soo nice to see little Lydia -- she is growing :) She's soo darn cute and happy!!

Then after nap time for Dawson, we went to our friends house, Mike and Jodi's, for a BBQ. It was a ton of fun -- the kids were totally worn out when we left there. Here's a slideshow of the kids -- they are all so darn cute!