Father's Day 2009

Hoff and his little girl on Father's Day! Hope you had a good one. They are both in yellow. Dad got to pick out what you were wearing today; of course he would pick out yellow.
Papa bought the kids a pool and they had a lot of fun swimming together. Grandma Jo brought out the bathtub toys and everyone had fun squirting one another.
As you can see, they were the center of attention. They got a ton of laughs.
This is Gracie saying, "Tada". I'm not sure what was so amazing about what she was doing.
At the end of the day, we all got to enjoy homemade ice cream, jello cake, and cookies. Gracie ate her ice cream so fast that I think she experienced a cold headache. The dinner and dessert was delicious and we all enjoyed the day and each others company.

Luke & Steph's Wedding

A picture of us before the wedding. Gracie thought it was fun to run around all over; so needless to say, she didn't get to stay long before she was Papa and Grandma Jo bound.
Our good friend Cherri was unable to attend the wedding. However, Karri had the wonderful idea of bringing "Cherri" anyways. She was very popular throughout the evening. It was hard to get everyone together in one place; sorry Jessica you were missing in this picture.

Laura, Maria and I at the wedding. Everyone had a lot of fun. Congrats Luke and Steph!

Summer Fun Around the House

Gracie loves to play in her sandbox. Especially with all of her farm animals.
We finally got the swimming pool out the other day. I was thinking just last year, she was having a hard time just sitting in the pool and this year she's swimming around and getting in and out of the pool all by herself.
We thought her little ruffle-filled suit was just darling, but she didn't. For weirdos sake I did not post the pictures of her pulling her top down and exposing her little boobies. For some reason, she did not like it pulled up in to position, she liked it down by her belly. I told her its smaller than the bath tub; maybe we'll have to upgrade.

Sprinkler Action!

We tried out the sprinkler one of these rare warm days and Gracie thought it was pretty cool. She mostly was trying to drink the water. She lasted for about 5 minutes, I think until she got cold.