Today

Jeremy and I took Allie to the park this afternoon. I just thought I would share some pictures.

This Week

We were very busy this week. Allie, my mom and I went shopping on Sunday. We took my mom to the cities on Monday to catch the train back home. John, Jonny, Allie, my mom and I went out to eat at the Olive Garden. We found this little pond with a fountain outside of the restaurant while we were waiting.

Tuesday I had to go back to work. Thursday I had a surprise waiting for me when I got to my car, I had a flat tire. Of course I have never changed a tire, so I made sure that I had a jack and a spare tire and then proceeded to ask some guys across the street to change my tire for me. They were very nice and I was very thankful. Thursday night we had a work picnic and my friend Jen came to town. She used to work with me, but moved back to Oklahoma last year. We stayed up late and woke up early every day this weekend. We went to the cities this weekend to Ikea and did some shopping and this morning we went out for breakfast. Jen headed back to Oklahoma after breakfast today, it was sad to see her go again, but hopefully we will be able to meet in Kansas City again in a few months.

Allie's Birthday Party

This is Allie before everyone got to our house. She was very excited for her party.

Here are a few pictures of her opening presents.

I don't think that we will have to buy clothes for the rest of the year, which is great!!

She was very excited about her princess cake, although I don't think she ate the cake. She was more concerned about the edible flowers and hearts. I think she ate almost all of them.

Auntie Morgan was being very nice. She let Allie dump water on her head. By the way, it was not that nice out. The water was very cold. Poor Auntie Morgan.

Allie had a great time riding with her cousin Abby in her Dora Jeep. She can' t quite steer her Jeep herself, so her rides usually consist of me walking beside her holding onto the steering wheel while she pushes the pedal.

Auntie Jonny drawing a castle, princess and horse for Allie with chalk on the sidewalk. Jonny is a great artist and none of the rest of us wanted to draw next to her.

Thanks for coming, Allie had a wonderful Birthday!!

Allie and I went to Balsam Lake on July 19th with some of my co-workers. (Jeremy was at RockFest during this time, but we will not be sharing any pictures of his adventure.) One of the consultants from our lab invited our lab up to his cabin for the weekend. We had a great time. Allie was all excited to use her life jacket, floaties, boat and fish, but when it actually came time to go swimming she wasn't excited anymore. She decided she wanted to go in the canoe, but when she got a ways out she decided I needed to swim to her. When I got there, she didn't want to go in the water, so I had to swim back to the dock and my supervisor had to bring her to the dock in the canoe. She didn't attempt to swim the rest of the weekend.

Here Allie is playing with some toys at the lake. It rained for a while, so the kids watched movies and played with toys until it was time for dinner. We have a Doctor visiting our lab from the Dominican Republic. He decided to treat us with a Carribean Dinner. It was kind of spicy, but very good. I stayed away from the anchovies, not my favorite. We also had a great time roasting marshmallows and making smores after the rain cleared.

Allie and her friend Xavier, got bubbles all over the deck and one of the other children slipped, so they got to clean them up with a bucket and a scrub brush. They had a wonderful time. They would each scrub for a little bit and then say "It's your turn." It was really cute.

Allie relaxing in the hammock

Allie hugging Addie "Goodbye"

Allie doesn't normally get jealous about me holding babies, but she was not very happy that Addie was taking too much of my time. She got a little sassy with Addie, but in the end they were still friends.

On Thursday a group of management from Charter helped work on a house that Habitat for Humanity is building. We did alot of work including digging a huge hole for the plumber.

You can see me in the back ground working on the hole

This is Paul our I.T. Manager. He and I were the ones that dug the hole. It ended up even bigger by the time we were done.

Bathroom remodel has been put on hold for a few days. We have some drywall to repair after removing the old towel rack and tp holder before we can paint

The Bathroom Remodel

Before

Destruction of the Cast Iron Tub

Demo

The New Tub

The Cement Board is In.

Today we are supposed to be getting the tile in. I'm not sure when though. The cement board just got put in about an hour ago. Hopefully we will see some tile in the next couple of hours.