Pictures of the Girls

Here are some pictures of the girls from their various spring and summer activities.

Reese at T-Ball.

Noelle and her Tap/Ballet class. They danced to the song "Easter Parade".

Noelle and Emily in their individual pictures.

Cottonwood Dodgers team picture.

Emily and her Jazz/HipHop classmates. They danced to "Lose My Breath".

Update on the weird cylinder thing...

According to my mechanically inclined brother, that weird cylinder thing found at the Iowa rest area is:

"The weird cylinder thing is used to make drains and drain sewers............be sure to tell the kids that I'm pretty sure they don't clean those things before donating them to way-side rests............."

Which brings to question, why is it at a rest area?

Noelle's First Day of Preschool...

and Mom didn't even cry (much).

Camping Trip

This past weekend, Jeff participated in the Stonewall Century Ride. We took this opportunity to sqeeze in a camping trip. Here is a picture of the girls at the park in La Veta, CO, which is where we waited for Jeff as he finished his ride.

First Day of School

Here is Reese on her first day of 2nd grade at Prairie Hills Elementary School.

Noelle wanted to get in on the picture taking action. She starts preschool on Monday, August 21.

Here is our resident middle schooler. Emily started 6th grade at Timberview Middle School.

Trip to Minnesota

The girls and I decided to take a spur-of-the-moment surprise trip to Minnesota to see my parents. Luckily, my parents rolled with it and didn't send me back home. I first stopped in Cheyenne, WY for an overnighter with my aunt, uncle and their 4 "kids". Here is a picture from the next morning depicting a Wyoming sunrise through a bug-smeared windshield.

We, of course, got Grandpa to take us fishing. Here is Emily with her first catch of the day.

We made a brief stop in St. Paul and had breakfast with my brother.

Here is that weird cylinder thing located at a rest area in Iowa. Someday, I will find out what it is.

Here is Reese with her first catch of the day. She caught this bass and many other fish that would become our dinner. She gave me a run for my money and kept a running tally of how many fish she and I caught.

Our trip overlapped by one day with a trip that my uncle and cousin from Olympia, WA made. Here is my cousin, Sam, playing in the hotel pool with the girls.

Noelle disturbing the goat's breakfast at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, NE.

The girls enjoying lunch.

The girls getting silly at lunch.

Noelle wanted to catch a fish so bad, but settled on having her picture taken with one of the fish that I caught. She proudly claimed all of the fish that were mine in the live well and told everyone about all of the fish she caught.