Happy 4th of July

We had a wonderful 4th of July. We spent part of the day at home hanging out together and we spent the rest of the day with my mom and dad fishing, working around the yard, and just hangin' out! It was nice we had a great time! Janae fell asleep before any of the fireworks started so Michael and I just went over to Dickerson Lake to watch them before going home to bed. They were nice but, after you hear them for three days you get a little tired of them and don't care to even sit for very long to watch them!!

~*~Hope everyone had a Wonderfu 4th of July~*~

Posing at a tree...

She takes her dirt very seriously.

Building Mommy a sand castle.

Janae posing on a rock with her perfect ~*Cheese*~ smile on.

Duncan!

Janae and Grandma smiling big for the camera.

Daddy and Grandpa going out to go fishing.

Janae and Grandpa hangin' out back to the lake.

Michael in the boat...he thinks he's the captain!?

Got my life jacket on ready to go in the boat!

Getting ready to go fishing with Grandpa, Grandma, Mommy, and Daddy.

Welcome Spring 2009 - randoms from April and May

Here are just some updated pictures so you can see how much Janae has grown! She is getting so big and well has SO much personality sometimes that I just don't know what to do with her! WOW...her dad says she acts like me but, I think she acts like him so I guess you have to be your own judge on that!! (when in all reality she has such a good mix of both of us that we are really going to be in for it as she grows up!)

Playing with her Easter basket and easter eggs.

Playing at the Laurels while visiting with Aunt Marcia.
Hiding in the closet in Aunt Marcia's room.

Playing in the mud hole at Easter with Alexis and Xavier.

Sliding at the park in Carson City.

Wearing Daddy's big yellow Harley shirt!

One of Janae's FAVORITE past times...stomping in the mud holes!

I tell you I have never seen a kid to wish for it to rain just so that she has holes to stomp around in! What a little turkey.

Memorial Day Parade...Sheridan Springfest

Janae and I made our walk through Sheridan again this year in the Annual Memorial Day Parade. She kept referring to it as HER Parade. She was ready to march in her parade and she was even planning on catching a deer and riding that to the parade. (we did not however remind her on our way there about the deer so that she didn't get upset that she couldn't really catch one and ride it!) After the parade was over she even got to ride a pony and she was VERY happy about that and VERY sad when she had to get off and go back home!

Here is Janae and daddy with the pony!
Janae and daddy with the pony again. Daddy got lots of exercise walking with this pony!

Janae and I in the parade...after she saw her Grandma, Grandpa, Daddy, Natasha, and Doug she was not so thrilled to finish the parade. Thank goodness they are always close to the end.

Here's Miss Janae in her super cool wagon!

Grand Rapids Public Museum...DiNoSaUrS!

We decided to go to the Grand Rapids Public Museum because they had DINOSAURS there and Janae LOVES dinosaurs. She has gotten really big into watching ALL of the Land Before Time movies and anything dinosaurs. I actually thought that she would want to have that for her birthday party this year but, she still wanted to stick with Dora for that (and have a few dinosaurs too!) We spent a few hours at the museum looking at all the different exhibits but, we ended up back at the dinosaurs 3 different times before we left for the evening. Then we went and ate and did some final shopping for the birthday party and then she wanted to go back and see them again but, they were sleeping so we couldn't!

This is the little dinosaur displayed in front of the gift shop...where Janae got her a new dinosaur puzzle and a couple of little dinosaurs to play with at home.

This is Janae and Daddy riding on the "Music Go Round" at the GRPM.

Here's Janae playing with another table full of dinosaur toys...the SHARP TEETH!

Here are her and her Daddy checking out "Little Foot and his Grandma!"

Janae playing with lots of dinosaurs at one of the stations set up for kids to play at in the exhibit.

Easter 2009

We went to an Easter Egg Hunt at Anderson's Orchard this year and Janae had a BLAST she also had a friend to play with Andy Wayne was there and she had fun with him. They fed the goats, searched for easter eggs, and ate donuts so all in all it was a pretty good day!


Janae and Andy talking about the goats...Janae feeding them and Andy thinking about throwing food at them.


During the Easter Egg Hunt. Janae did pretty good. I did my job of holding her bag for her to scoop as many eggs as she could into.


"WOW Momma look at all those eggs!!"
Janae with donut in one hand and goat feed in the other. She had to fight the goats away from her donut but, believe me she won that fight!!

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Then on Sunday the Easter bunny had came and brought Janae lots of goodies that she absolutely LOVED! Daddy wasn't home because he had to work the night before but, I took lots of pictures and video taped her so he could see it all. We also got to spend some time with family at Aunt Tracy's house and we will be having Easter with Great Grandma and Aunt Marcia next weekend.


Janae sitting with all her Easter goodies from the Easter bunny!

Here she is saying cheese for the camera and trying to open her cotton candy.


Here is her and Lenny dancing on the top of her cotton candy.Eating "Easter breakfast" and enjoying a new dinosaur movie.

Testing out her new floaties and cheesing for the camera.
Reading My Little Pony story book while watching her movie.

Lindy laying on Janae's sleeping bag and pillow enjoying Easter Sunday with the family!

Janae in one of her new outfits ready to go eat Easter dinner.

Janae will not look at the camera for nothing so here she is being her normal stubborn self. I think she gets that from her dad ;)

Our Family Weekend in Grand Rapids

We were going down to visit with Aunt Marcia while she was in the hospital so we decided to stay in town over night and hang out. We had lots of fun swimming in the "big" pools and shopping at the malls. Janae got a whole new set of fishing gear so she can go this summer with her Grandpa and "shoop" a fish!

Riding on the carousel with Daddy.

Playing on the big food at the Woodland mall while Mommy was shopping for some new Maternity clothes. Still playing in the cereal bowl.

Jumping on the bed at the hotel! That seemed to be tons of fun until she fell off and bumped her head on the night stand!

Happy New Years....this was our New Years Eve Party!

Michael, Janae and myself we decided to stay in and hang out at home. We cooked supper and then Janae watched a movie and then we all got out one of her toys that she got for Christmas that we hadn't played with yet. She even stayed up to watch the ball drop and we called Grandma and Great Grandma and wished them Happy New Year!!

Playing by the computer.
Causing a little mischief

Standing on Daddy...she was having so much fun doing that!!

Playing with her new toy!!

Saying Cheese...this is her new Step Two Main Street Village Set that she got for Christmas.

Modeling some more new Pajamas!!

Her favorite past time....EATING CHEESE! You would think she was a mouse or else related to Steve Urkel.