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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Our latest adventures!

 One last pic from Sophia's swimming lessons... they wrapped up last week!
 "The ways she plays!" Sophia tucks in her bath toys at the end of her bath. I wish I had photos/video of her latest bath game: the penguin is dead (run over by a car) and all the other sea critters are doctors that bring him back to life. Hmmm....
 Still in a very princessy phase.
 Sophia has been rapidly progressing with her horse skills! See the video post for more details... I'm a pretty proud mama :) Of course, it's in her blood! On both sides!

 On the 20th Sophia and I had a "mommy/daughter" day at the annual Fargo Street Fair. I spoiled her rotten! We went back to the blow up games 3 times. I loved spending 3 hours at the fair with her and just letting her lead the way.

 Huge waterslide... a much bigger, older boy in front of Sophia was too scared and had to climb back down the ladder. I was afraid Sophia would pick up on that and chicken out, but she went for it!

 I let her have tons of junk :) At least this was an Italian Ice instead of icecream!
 Waiting at a booth for cheese curds. I know that sounds gross to my East coast peeps, but they are sooo yummy!
 A slushie...
 Standing in front of the action!
 After the street fair we were SO excited for baby Ava's arrival! We got to have her for a whole night!
 Travis and I took the girls to the local wading pool

 We all went out to eat at Johnny Carino's.
 Ava loved hauling toys out of the toybox. She's such a good baby! And Sophia was GREAT with her, which makes me extra excited for our baby :)
 More dress-up!
 A princess photo shoot :)


 This last weekend was the first weekend we've had in about a month and a half that was UNPLANNED! We took lots of naps... watched movies... hung out with the horse... went for lots of walks... went shopping... and capped it off with a Sunday night family bike ride to Tutti Frutti, about a mile down the road.

 Tutti Frutti is one of those frozen yogurt places where you fill a bucket with your own yogurt flavor pick and then choose from a zillion toppings and they charge by the bucket's weight. Travis and I both got fruity yogurts and topped with strawberries, kiwis, rasperries, cherries. Sophia chose chocolate yogurt and topped it with sprinkles. :) It was yummy and fun! There is a new yogurt shop, Cherry Berry, going up 3 blocks closer to our house (and on our side of the busy street)... Sophia's already super excited for their grand opening!
Unplanned, family weekends are just a little slice of heaven! :)

2 comments:

Meredith said...

Has Ava doubled in size since you last had up a photo of her? Maybe it's just that she's in a standing position to play that makes her look so much older. And is it OK to be jealous of Sophia? That mommy date looked like a ton of fun! I'm hoping to have something similar next week when I head home for Field Days :)

Ruth said...

So much fun!!!!!! Love all the adventures. And we do love cheese curds by the way--they are a delicacy anywhere that cheese is made! Fun frozen yogurt places--that we do not have around here. Wish you could come to field days with us next week ;-) I have some friends whose girls are getting into showing horses and it brings back such memories watching them. Btw, I visited with Linda and Juna last weekend!