Sunday, July 21, 2013

Hudson Days!

We had a great weekend, enjoying some of the Hudson Day events!
Friday night included dressing this "Little Piggy" up so that she and a couple cute neighbor girls could be apart of the Kiddie Parade.
This year's theme was "Down on the Farm".
 





The Dads got to push the "little pigs" in the parade....





And they even won the "Queens' Choice Award - Winner",
which included coupons for ice cream - yummy!


After the parade we enjoyed pie in the park and also did a little playing!



Then onto a trolley ride...



 
 P.S. Come to find out Grandma this is the same couple that came to Aplington on the beautiful evening in December to give us a ride around town.
"Country Gentleman's Horse Carriage Service" and they remembered us.....
look now they have this awesome enclosed carriage....
 
Here's a quick snapshot of Frannie, who stopped by to see the Little Piggy off to her parade...she even decided to sport her cute little ears!

 
Dad & Lanette also came to see the parade,
it was fun having them spend the evening with us!
 

Then on Saturday we took our now 23 month old to the parade!
 

Here she is all ready to go.....


Daddy & Natalie ready for the parade to start...




Our friends Brynlee & Brittany joined us as well!



Collecting and/or eating the candy - Natalie favorite were the suckers!


Brynlee busy collecting all the candy!


Cute girls sporting their shades...


After the parade with enjoyed some of the fun in the park,
first stop the petting zoo with lots of different animals!






Then onto lunch, which included watermelon...


and a little of Daddy's ice cream!


One last stop before heading home for a nice long nap was we just had to see what the chainsaw guy was carving......it ended up being a bear!

 
Thanks to the town of Hudson and the nice sunny weather
we got to enjoy some local fun this weekend......
 
 

Saturday, July 20, 2013

23 months old

Natalie is just 1 month shy of her 2nd birthday, I can't believe it....August 20th will be here before we know it.....but for now we are going to enjoy this last month with our "1 year old".

Here's a quick picture of her from this morning, right before heading out the door for the Hudson parade...more to come on all the fun Hudson Days events we participated in this past weekend!


Happy 23 months baby girl!

 

Monday, July 15, 2013

Weekend Visitors!

This past weekend we had two fun little guys (Carson & Weston) come and play with us and we had so much fun together.....doing all kinds of stuff all while their Mom & Dad did all the hard work of moving into their new house...
I'd say I got the better deal, don't you....I got to do a lot of playing!

Here are just a couple pictures of what we all did....
 

Being silly at snack time....



Sweet corn for supper....which was a huge hit!

 


Playing with all of Natalie's fun toys...


Playing outside...
 



Saturday night's highlight - tractor/wagon rides from Nathan...


 
Baking cookies on Sunday afternoon, just me and Carson
while Natalie and Weston napped...



All loaded up and ready to go check out Carson & Weston's new house....

 
Natalie found herself a fun job of helping Frannie outside when we got to the Brouwer's new home in Parkersburg, they sure were busy!



We had a great weekend and now it's back to work for yet another fun filled week.....enjoy the warm temps, we hear they are here for the week!

 

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Come Daddy....

Come Daddy, that is what I hear most nights, after supper when Natalie wants to play kitchen with somebody and I'm cleaning up our supper mess...
 





Usually we have to sit on the floor and play kitchen,
this night Daddy got lucky and got to play on the little chairs!

 

Sunday, July 7, 2013

July 4th Weekend

What a great 4th of July weekend it was, full of fun and warm weather!
I feel like we did a little bit of everything this past extra-long weekend,
everything from eating supper on the back deck, enjoying some
sweet corn - more than once, playing in the sprinkler, enjoying the backyard bouncing house, visiting with friends and much more...
 
Other memories included...


riding on Daddy's "finished" John Deere tractor!
 

 
A Friday afternoon rode trip to Des Moines which included a pit stop at Bass Pro Shop, us girls enjoyed checking out the large fish tank while Daddy shopped!


 
A hotel stay and then a day at the zoo on Saturday!
 
 
Our trip home looked like this, so I think it was a fun day for Miss Natalie...
 
 
Our Sunday included church, grocery shopping and bumming around at home....gearing up for yet another fun filled week ahead!
 
Hope you and your family had a wonderful 4th of July weekend as well!
 
 
 

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July.....from the Rausch's!
 





Hope you have a fabulous day!