Summer Bucket List - Silver Dollar City

1. Silver Dollar City
2. Photo Outing
3. Late Movie Night
4. Swimming
5. The Park

We are taking care of business.  Silver Dollar City is marked off the list too.  This has been fun, and I will likely do a Summer Bucket List every summer.  It forces you to get out and have a fun time and make your summer go out on a high note.

Silver Dollar City was awesome.  We went with my parents and had a blast.  I didn't take a ton of pictures because we were too busy riding rides, getting soaked, and just having fun.  We rode Thunderation, The Swings, The Tom Sawyer wet ride, let the kids run wild in the kids area, ate a funnel cake with my dad, Got some salt water taffy and called it a day.  It was so crowded that it took a long time to ride rides, but it was fun anyway.  The weather was mild and everyone was having a great time.  Here are some pictures I snapped with my phone.

Bren is not one to stop and take pictures ha ha ha!  What a horrible face he made, the stink!

 Oooopse!  ha ha ha... Accidentally took this one! ha.

 My dad snapped this.  We look awkward, I just wanted to be on Avery's level ha!

 Lindsey!

 BREN! and my mom's hand!

 Thunderation!

 Salt Water Taffy!

The End.

P.S.  Mom and Dad, if you read this, Thank you so much for an awesome time.  Thank you mom for buying our food!  Thank you Dad for taking baby duty while we road rides!  You are the best parents (grandparents) EVER!

Summer Bucket List - Late Movie Night

1. Silver Dollar City
2. Photo Outing
3. Late Movie Night
4. Swimming
5. The Park



The kids and I vegged out on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and watched How to Train Your Dragon Legends and an episode of Ant Farm.  It was a great night and we didn't get to bed until 11pm!  Then in bed we vegged out a little more playing on our electronic devices ha ha ha. 

Summer Bucket List: The Park

1. Silver Dollar City
2. Photo Outing
3. Late Movie Night
4. Swimming
5. The Park

We can scratch the park off of our Summer Bucket List.  We went Thursday night and boy did we have fun.  There is a park in Springfield that has made quite the transformation over the past couple years.  Nathaniel Greene and The Springfield Botanical Gardens.  So awesome.  It used to not be much of a park but now it's a magical place.  I made sure to photo document with my phone camera.

 Avery's first time on a swing.  She liked it for a little while!

 The kids loved this huge butterfly and caterpillar thing.

 They have a cool butterfly house, it's really awesome.  Full of all sorts of butterflies and some staff that can help you learn more about them.  Really cool.

 Our AWFUL attempt at a self portrait! ha ha ha.

 I couldn't choose between these next two so I am posting them both.

 The flowers were all beautiful, even for us being in a drought.

 These leaf things were awesome.  The kids had a blast climbing all over them.

 Afterward we stopped at Braums for ice cream at a great price.  Bren and I shared this banana split.  YUM.

 Lindsey had a single brownie fudge sunday.  Great fun.  This summer is going out with a bang.

Eight Months

Why oh why is it quicker for 8 months to pass when you AREN'T pregnant?  It's unfair really. ha.  Well, 8 months has indeed passed and my little sugar bear (or butt head, it's according to how she's acting at the time) is growing up way too fast.

She is crawling as of yesterday.  It's so adorable.
She still hates mushy food, but loves mac and cheese.
She loves to be talked to.
She has 8 teeth!
She loves it when you help her stand up.
I lowered her crib because I woke up to her standing in her crib.
She is in 18 month clothing.
She loves to cuddle.
She is drinking from a sippie every now and then.
She loves the swimming pool.
She loves to watch the Olympics especially gymnastics.
She does indeed love climbing all over me and laughing at her brother and sister.



I hope I didn't miss anything.  Here are some snapshots I took for her 8th month.

Summer Bucket List

I saw this done on another blog.  The Summer Bucket List.  I thought, what a great idea.  So here is my summer bucket list.  Before school starts these are the five things I want to do before jumping back into school. 

1. Silver Dollar City - This will be happening this Saturday with my mom and dad.  I plan on having a teriffic day and taking lots of pictures.  May even lug along my serious camera.

2. Photo Outing - I want to do this on Sunday after church sometime... Take the kids out to the Galloway Trail and take a bunch of pictures.

3. Late Movie Night - Go all out.  Popcorn, candy, movies, camp out in the living room.  Might do this on Friday

4. Swimming - Don't know if I can make this one happen or not, but I'm sure going to try.  It just costs so much to take the kids swimming.  I may do this on Monday if I can scrounge up the funding.

5. The Park - Take the kids to park for a picnic lunch and play time for a few hours. 

After these things are done, then I will be content to start school on Saturday the 18th.  The kids start school on the 16th.  I will try and blog about my bucket list adventures.  I will also be blogging about Avery's 8th month and Bren's first day of Kindergarten!  So much goodness coming up.

Laters.  Enjoy the rest of your summer break!

Avery is 7 Months Old Today

This first year is already over half over!  It's such irony that 7 months of a pregnancy can seem like an eternity and 7 months of your baby's life seems to go way too fast.  It's unfair really!

Avery has so many teeth coming in right now.  I feel so bad for her.  She has 4 coming in on top and she already has 3 broken through on bottom.

She is rolling all over the place and seems to be showing signs that she wants to crawl.

She HATES mushy baby food!  She will not eat baby cereal or the 1st stage baby food.  She pushes it right back out with her tongue, but she LOVES those cereal puffs and she loves to feed herself anything that I will give her that she won't choke on.

She is 21.7 lbs!  Which puts her in the 100 percentile for babies her age.  She is 27.5 inches long, which makes her my tallest baby at this point and she is in the 95 percentile in height.

She fits in 12-18 month clothing.

She loves to be held.  She is by far my clingiest baby.  She has been my toughest baby too.  She requires a lot of attention. I don't know how much of that has to do with teething though.  She loves to be talked to and held upside down.

She still likes to listen to Mumford and Sons "Sigh No More" when she is upset.  It calms her right down.  She even smiles when she first hears it, it's cute.

She loves to listen to daddy play the guitar and sing.

She alternates days on whether she is a daddy's girl or mommy's girl.

She started sleeping through the night a couple weeks ago, but she will still wake up needing a pacifier reinsertion.

Just in case I didn't update you all, she doesn't have a hernia, the CT scan showed a normal chest, so no surgery and for that I am thankful.

7 Months.

HA HA HA THIS FACE CRACKED ME UP!!! Cutie Butt!