Ellie says it best!

Ellie was the flower girl in Tim's cousin's wedding on Saturday.
She explains her day wonderfully in the video at the bottom...

Ellie-phant Ride

We went to the CIRCUS!!!

Ellie-phant ride!

Ellie had never been to anything that would have been
remotely close to this kind of event.
So Ellie was a little nervous, as you can tell by the look on her face
and the idea that whomever was holding her
needed to have both hands around her AT ALL TIMES.

This was one of the first events and Ellie loved them...

She squealed with delight when she saw the ponies...

(We got to eat a snack and drink LOTS of water...)

But Ellie went CRAZY when all 4 elephants came out!
She was literally yelling,
"LOOK! ELEPHANTS!"
the entire time.

We had a blast at the CIRCUS!!

A Card for Grandpa!

"Here's my card for Grandpa!!! I'm going to mail it to him!"

"I need to buy stamps..."

"...then I put it in the mail tub.
I'm excited to see if Grandpa gets my card!"

4 G's of Daddy day

1. Getting rowdy before church

2. Going to to get groceries for a special dinner

3. Group hug before bed

4. Giggles for Grandpas

Daddy Day!

The 808 chicklets love their Daddy!!!
Plus a shout out to Grandpa Larsen and Grandpa Mathiesen!!!
Happy Father's Day!

The Winddown from AC 09

This past Sat through Wed was the LB Annual Convention here in good ole FF. Being with Tim's position in the LB and mine at F&F - our life was the furthest from normal the whole time.

We spent somewhere around 43 hours at Bethel. And for me...most of it was here in our not-so-mobile store.


This is our good friend Mark. It's been awhile since we saw him last because it takes him awhile to get here on a horse and buggy....(he's from Amish country)...


My Dad was also able to come up as a delegate. He got in his Grandpa time as well...






So after all those hours we're getting back to a "normal" atmosphere at 808 which includes the gals rolling around on the floor together...












...naps for all of us...


















and a good wash down....(she was so interested in the boat that I had a hard time getting her to look at me so I started saying names of snacks she likes. It was a long list I had to get through to find the winner to make this pic. I guess we'll have to buy some ICE CREAM soon!)...

We had a great week and looking forward to the next convention, but we are definitely looking forward to a low key Father's Day weekend.

Parade and a Tickle

Waven' at princesses...

but aren't these two some cute princesses themselves?

This is the FANTASTIC guy
that pulled us out of the ditch at Mile Marker 61....
when Anna was only a few weeks old...
I like him a lot.

The stash.

Sucker #2.

Anna wasn't at the parade so I had to add something for her.
I thought this was pretty cute.

Larsen Coop

We brought the chicklets to the Larsen coop again this weekend.
Mommy hen celebrated a soon-to-be Mommy hen
who's going to lay her egg sometime in July (a.k.a. Jess).
She was gorgeous!
(You'll have to imagine because I forgot my camera.)

Here's the two babes together.
It's fun to see what Lil' Rylee is up to when we see her
because we know those things she's mastered
Anna may be doing really soon...
Notice the sitting up by one and not the other!

Uncle Jeremy dodged the drool bullet just in time!

Sweet Rylee asleep...

Sweet Ellie asleep....

And a fabulous visit with a friend from high school
and her lil' chicks...seems like just yesterday
we were dancing for football games,
and laughing about CHEESE.

Tons-O-Fun

Bath-O-Fun

Old-Toy-Made-New-O-Fun

Good-Friends-O-Fun

Uncle-O-Fun

Trying-To-Get-Anna-Not-To-Cry-O-Fun

Cool-Whip-O-Fun

Pool-O-Fun

Toe-Two-Shek-O-Fun

Way-Too-Much-O-Fun