the terrible twos...

When Lucy went to the doctor's for her 2 year old check up the doctor told me he didn't know why they called it "the terrible twos". In his experience, two year olds were charming and a joy. After we left my mom and I were laughing about it. Apparently he's never been the mom of two year olds. :) Two year olds are so fun, but that rotten little independent streak is in full force at our house.

We're loving having a two year old. Most of the time.

Petting Zoo

We went to the petting zoo the end of August. I'm just getting around to blogging about it.

We went with Kendra, Ellie and Tommy and had a great time!

Here are the girls when we arrived:

The 4 kiddies:

Lucy and Ellie LOVED the animals. Lylah and Tommy were indifferent, but enjoyed being out:

Ellie's so crazy! While we were looking at the goats she took off and we couldn't find her anywhere. We were panicked! All of a sudden I looked over and saw her ON A HORSE! She had run over to the pony ride and crawled in under the fence. They didn't know what she was doing, so they just stuck her on. She looked terrified. Silly girl.

Cabin!

Months ago my family planned a family reunion at my cousin's cabin for the middle of August. But when my Grandpa passed away on Aug. 6th, we weren't sure what was going on. After talking about it, we decided to go ahead with it. I'm so glad we did! We seriously need to relax and recuperate after all the stress from the weeks before. So just a week and a half later we all headed down to this cabin. It was such a blast!

The day after we arrived was my dad's birthday.

My dad said I should get an "action shot". Here it is: :)

Dad and Ken (who made breakfast):

Bahaha, we do exist...

We were horrified that the mom was using Pepsi (caffeine free, but still....) for her Cafe Rio:

Going on a little hike...

This was so cool! It was a web made out of twine tied into tiny knots. It was way up off the ground, and so awesome! The pictures don't really do it justice...

Lucy and Daddy

Lylah. She couldn't be cuter.
Tim, Lanae and Luke. Love this shot.
Every once in a while Lucy just needs to kiss her baby.
Taking turns climbing the web.

Uncle Davey.
Chelts. Having a rest.
After lunch everyone just relaxed.
My cute girls:




The boys all had a pool tournament.

It came down to my dad and Preston. Pretty intense. Preston rocks at pool.


Then we had dinner and everyone got ready for the talent show.

Tim, Davey and Luke practicing their song.
The pool tournament winners. :)
My talent was taking a picture of everyone. Shocking. :)
Amber showed off some of her work from her art portfolio. I'm telling you, she is beyond talented.
Mark sang a song and played the guitar.



My little shadow walked around with my phone taking pictures of everyone. :)
John, Mark and the other boys did the funniest play I've ever seen. I'm going to try to get the video and put it on here. It's amazingly awesome.

Tim, Luke, Davey.

And at the end we sang happy birthday to my dad.

(Just one of the many times Lucy sang it to my dad during the day)

It was so fun and we really missed the family members who weren't able to come. Hopefully everyone can make it next year!