A Happy Number 2

As most of you probably know, Avery's second birthday was on Monday. It was a wonderful weekend filled with fun and relaxation that couldn't have been any better. I think Avery had fun too. What made it extra nice was that Gma Ollig was able to come for the party and stay for a nice weekend. As you can see, the two of them were best buddies this weekend.

I really cannot believe that it has been two years but I guess it's true. Or at least that's what Avery keeps telling me. I am sure from the next picture that you can guess the theme of the party. Starts with Strawberry and ends with Shortcake.

I can assure you that she read EVERY birthday card! As you can see here, that took a lot out of her. She held in there thought, afterall there was cake waiting for her upstairs.

Special Request: The Renslows requested a picture of her opening her card from them. ...there you go.

Had to put this one on here because it reminded me of a picture from her first birthday. Don't have time to look for it now but in the near future I will do a before and after for you. Kinda like Bro +1.5 does at work. I'll explain later.

Had to have a picture of the cake. She's been talkin about it for 4 weeks!

We spent the last day of Gma's visit at Deanna Rose Farmstead. A great city park with all sorts of farm animals for the kids to interact with. We had a great time.

Not sure what they were looking at but it sure was interesting.

We sure love those goats. And this one loved the metal fence.

She had to wait for her actual birthday on Monday for this present since Dad built it and I was too slow to finish it for the party on Saturday. She loved it all the same.

She also loved the bubbles she got.

The whole weekend made her so happy she made Mom dance with her in the front yard. Might as well let the whole world know how happy you are...Well, at least those people lucky enough to be driving by our house at the time.

You aint just whistlin Dixie.

First of all, yes I will be posting some birthday pictures. But first I had to give you all a little insight to my little world. This is the kind of thing I find setting on our desk at home when I sit down to post some pictures. I guess that's what you get when your wife works on a big ol city sewer project. "Hi Honey, how was your day? What did you talk about at the office?"



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Hey look...

...A worm.

His name is Eliott.

Oops, I broke him.

Perfect

For everyone who has been wondering what has really been on Hillary's mind lately, you should watch this. This is the funniest (and saddest) thing I've seen in a long time. I love these ladies.

Doing homework??

Ok I am supposed to be doing homework right now but I can stop thinking about the episode of the daily show that was on Thursday night. You all should take the time to watch this. The way they lay out the absurdity of what the republicans are saying right now is brilliant. FYI, you may want to fast forward past the first 4 minutes. There is a not so appropriate bit on the "Minneapolis Airport Men's Room" if you know what I mean.



There was also a good episode on Friday night as well but I'll leave that to you all to look up yourselves.

Up North

So as most of you probably know, we just made a trip up to Minnesota. As much as I would like to say that it was just for a fun visit, it was not. My Grandmother, the matriarch of the family, passed away last week. I wish I could put into words how much we will miss her but I can not. Fortunately cousin J did a fantastic job of that for all of us. Very well said cuz, you said what was in all of our hearts.

That being said, here are just a few of the lighter moments from our trip.

No I didn't take all of these pictures but I did take some of them with Bro +1.5's lovely little camera(and when I say little I don't mean little). Let's just say, now I want one.

Really cool camera = Really cool pictures