We decided it was time (much to my apprehension about having my babies hair cut, she's too big!). Her hair was becoming a rat tail although I like to call it the colonial instead. :) Most days it wasn't so bad but when it wasn't curling or in pig tails it was so long. I brought a baggie for the hair and the camera. The girl even had a little card for her baby book that said Babies first hair cut. Matt said "I didn't know this was such an ordeal."

But we still hold hands at the crosswalk. :)

Mama got a cape and Allie got one too

The Before

She did so good (it only took a minute)

Cutting my babies hair!!

The after. Such a big girl!

My friend Kayla and I took our little sweet girls berry picking the other day and got some adorable pictures. We will definitely do this again!

See the determination on her face

The girls, it would be so awesome to look back on these pictures when they are friends in 20 years.

Allie kept saying "Jilly come on!" she was just so excited for her friend to join in the fun!

The other day while we were all hanging out in Allie's room she decided Matt had a poopy diaper. "Dada Lay Down!" she ordered him while pointing at the ground. "Stinky poopoos!" So he obliged and laid on the ground. She pulled up his shirt and wiped his belly with a wipe then put the diaper on top of it. She then turned to me and said "Mama, stinky poopoos, lay down!" and then it was my turn. :)

We didn't take too many pictures but these were the best. Most are of our beautiful daughter. Feel so lucky that she's ours! She had so much fun shaking her booty with Nonna Donna.



Matt bought this bubble gun the other day and we brought it with us to the concert in the park and we thought Allie and Will would have fun. What we didn't expect was for all the neighborhood kids to swarm him like bees.

"Hello Dada! I can't tell you how much fun I am having here at the park. I even got to eat some of cousin Nathan's snow cone. Let's come again next week!"

We had family over for my b-day and it was a lot of fun. Especially being able to have everyone comfortably in our place. We will hopefully post pictures of our place soon but for now you can see little glimpses.

Here is my brother doing my dishes which just had to be photographed. :) Thanks Shawn!

Family :)

Today the weather was finally nice enough to do something fun outside, preferably in the water so we had a play date with our friends Kayla and Jillian at the Happy Valley splash pad. The weather was perfect, just right only about 75 with a little wind. The kids happily played for a while, Allie didn't really want to play with the shooting water but loved to play in the dirty puddles around it. I know we will be doing the a ton this summer. Come join us!

We spent most of our fourth in Happy Valley with my sister and her family so we got to start the day off with some sliding in their backyard!




We then headed to the park because they do a big celebration with food vendors (ate way too many sweets) and bouncy houses for the kids. Allie is still a bit to small for all that but she had fun anyways. I think this picture is so funny. They are making identical faces.


We then barbecued and hung out letting the kids do some fireworks.




and then (I think this is so awesome) the neighborhood does a kid parade. Allie had fun waving at all the people. She was so cute doing her princess wave. Then Happy Valley does a big fireworks show but we got Allie home and in bed before that. We had a fun day!