2 Girls and a Dog: July 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

Tangled!

Come on - it's Zachary Levi! Of course we'll be seeing this one!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Chuck - Ryan and Sarah: Season 4 Surprises - Video - NBC.com

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Nicole Nordeman is singing a song on the new Veggie Tales movie, "SweetPea Beauty" coming out the end of July. We are still huge VeggieTales fans around here and the girls can't wait for this one to come out. Just thought I'd share the video for the song.... Love it!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Famous Animals From History

Bria and Emmy are in charge of the blog post today.....

Sacajawea :Everything I did on that journey was for money.

Abraham Lincoln:4 score and 7 years ago our fathers brought forth on this conteinant a new nation concieved in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were made to serve me.

Benjamen Franklin: A penny saved is a penny destroyed.

Shakespeare:What light through yonder window breaks gas.

General Custer:There is not an indian in the world that can break dance like the Seventh Calvary.

Buzz Aldron:We've got to go to the bathroom. But we don't want to stay long. The ultimate goal is the porta potty.

Amelia Earheart:The bathroom is the price that life exacts for granting armpit hair.

Betsy Ross:Fart is a disease of the heart, in the end there's no treatment, and it might just kill you.

Christopher Columbus:And the bathroom will grant man new relief, his sleep bring dreams of a porta potty.

George Washington:Few men have strength to hold thier pee.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

4th of July Happenings

We enjoyed a great 4th of July weekend! The weather up here was beautiful, the weekend was relaxed, and other than the mosquitos, it was lovely!

Saturday afternoon we all went swimming for awhile and the girls love having Jon at the pool with them! On Sunday Jon spent a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours in the early evening helping the Sertoma committee with the downtown 4th of July activities since he is a Sertoma member. So during the afternoon we all went downtown so the kids could jump in the bouncy houses, explore the science exhibits, do the petting zoo, enjoy a funnel cake and we got a family picture taken. Fireworks didn't start until 10:30 up here because it's light outside until 10:30 in the summer.... so we found our spot at Lincoln Park, got all set up, and Emmy managed to say awake until about 10:35 - she enjoyed a whole 5 minutes of fireworks and then was out cold! But it was a great weekend and we all had a lot of fun. Sometimes it's really nice to be home and to not travel for a holiday.

Family photos in Grand Forks

Fireworks at Lincoln Park

Minnow races downtown

minnow races...

minnow races.....

Being "shrink wrapped" ... bria's favorite thing!

Water/bouncy house

water/bouncy slide

4th of July girls

face painting

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Summer...

The kids really seem to be enjoying the summer around here. We were able to make it to the swimming pool twice this week and both days were beautiful to get out and enjoy swimming. They like to jump in off the sides, play "marco polo", have underwater contests, go "diving" and searching for swim toys, practice swimming and floating and just enjoy having fun in the water. Thanks again to all you parents for letting me take the kids this summer. It's definitely been a lot of fun so far!

They have also enjoyed lots of time playing at parks and playgrounds as well as making a lot of use of our backyard. It helps a lot that everyone is getting along well right now and they seem to enjoy being together. Everyone has their "days" here and there, but for the most part the summer is going very well!

I've been terrible about blogging, about getting pictures up and doing newsletters lately. It's just been too nice to feel tied down to the computer! Here are a few pictures I have taken lately though.

Even the backyard "swimming" has been a lot of fun.