Around the House

Josie turned 3 months old a few days ago, so I pulled out the camera and took a few pictures.

The kids working on watercolor pictures they mailed to Aunt Barbie.

My attempt to get a picture of Josie on the day she turned 3 months.  I thought it would be nice to get a pictures of just Josie...but it didn't turn out that way.  Bernadette and Dom demanded that they be in the pictures too.

Poor Josie.  It's hard being loved this much...

Love, us all.

Josie's Baptism

Here are all of the pictures from our little Josephine's baptism!

A big thank you to Godparents, Tina and John.

Also, thank you to our photographers, Maria and Tracy.

And finally, thank you to everyone that traveled for this (basically everyone that was there!), Tina, Amy, Maddox and Baba from PA, Mom, Dad and John from MN, and Maria and Joe's family.

We love you all.  It was a great day.

Love, Nancy, Bill, Gus, Berna, Dom and Josie.

Maddox Visits!

We had a great visit from Maddox (and Baba and Tina and Amy).  We mostly just stayed around the house, but there was lots of fun to be had.

We spent a lot of time at the pool!

And went to the train restaurant, of course.

Which we followed up with ice cream.

And, with the weather cooling off, we enjoyed plenty of time in the backyard.

Everyone was here, of course, for little Josie's Baptism.  See next post for those pictures.

Nancy

A Morning at DeAnna Rose Children't Farm

Bill is out of town for work this week, so, as usual, we kicked off the week with something fun and out of the ordinary, just so that daddy isn't missed too much.

We headed to a local Children's farm for the morning and had a really great time.  We didn't pay for anything extra (pony rides, fishing, goat food) because I was solo with the 4 kids and I didn't have any quarter, so we have made plans already to return with dad and do all of these fun things. 

None the less, we had a good time and got to see lots of goats, which I love.

Looking at the ducks.

Getting to know the goats.  Gus isn't a natural goat lover.

This goat seemed to be more interested in Dom than he was in it...

But in the end I think they all feel in love with the goats.  One day we will own goats.  One day.

And then we found a tractor for Dom to drive.

And Mom even took Josie out of the carrier for a few minutes to get a group pic.  The kids were bribed with food...which is why Berna and Dom and making those strange "chewing" faces.

Watching the fish swim.

Then we found some sprinklers and...the kids cooled off.

Next up, peddle tractors.

By this point we were all really warm and hungry.  So we headed to see the cows...which were a little disappointing.  They were diary cows, and only 2 of them.  So, instead we played in a Tepee for a few minutes and then headed home.

And that's it!

Nancy