Our new house

Here is the house we hope to buy.

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look at this awsome house for sale
http://www.nothnagle.com/properties/details.asp?mlsid=1&mlnum=925036

Shannon in the Wiz

Paige in the Wiz

Madison in the Wiz

Take a ride on the Reading

While at the lake we took our first ever train ride!

Summer on the Lake with Mark and Joanie

Act II

Madison and her friends in a Peter Pan skit at the county fair.

Act I

Shannon and Paige performing a short Peter Pan Skit for the County Fair Talent Show.

Riding in Style

The last leg of our Illinois trip was a stop off in Colombus, Ohio to visit Josh's brother and sister-in-law. While there the girls got to ride in Uncle Marks convertible. Cool!!!

There were four in the bed, and the little one said...

Getting a good nights sleep, camping in Mahomet, Illinois.

Shannon's birthday

We also celebrated Shannon's Birthday while we were in Illinois. Her Aunt Kate made her this crazy hat cake! WoW!

Look! Grandma's puff is as big as me.

Hot weather meant lots of cool showers at Grandma's too. Vivian especially liked them. She would ask each night if we could shower and then she would run out to the coop naked, carrying her towel above her head screaming "I'm a human". I thought it was so cute but it wasn't until much later, when I caught myself saying, "That shower felt good; I feel human now." that it hit me why she chose those words. Something I picked up from my mom and have now passed down to my daughter. There is a little bit of Grandma in my little bit of a Vivian. Now, that's how we live eternally!

Summertime

Summer hit hard on our vacation in Illinois. It was in the high 90's and humid. My mom wasn't quite ready for such an early summer heat wave so we tried to keep cool anyway we could. It was quite a contrast from the summer we had out here this year.

Dressing up with friends

Writing class presentations

Princess party at the Library