Happy 4th of July

Another successful 4th of July in the books! Surrounded by family, friends, lots of positive energy and a  fun hometown parade! What could be better?!?!

Ellie's 2 BFF's...Brooke & Addalyn

Daddy offered to paint Ellie's face for the parade!

Ready for the parade to begin!

LOVE HER!!!

Rochester Rocks...love the "small" town feeling that's given from our community!
Such an amazing place to raise a family!

Thanks Patti and Bill for letting everyone come to your house on this special day!

Hadley was in the parade for girl scouts! :)

Brooke, Ellie, Addie & Nolan

LOVE HIM!!!!

Grant's Farm 2013

Ellie was beyond excited to come back to Grant's Farm this year! She absolutely loves feeding the goats!

Watching the enormous tortoise.

 

This was the first year we went to a "bird" show.

Petting and Feeding the Llamas.

Such a Doll!!!

The goat tried stealing the bottle out of Ryker's hand.  He thought it was pretty funny!

Ellie loved going in the gate to the goats after they were all fed and tired.  She would have taken ALL of them home if we'd let her.

Great place to cool off!

Love their Snow Cone mouths!!!

Iguana

The only thing different this year were Camel rides.  I actually bought Ellie a ticket, but the line was so long she changed her mind.  Maybe next year!

St. Louis 2013

First stop on Saturday morning...feeding the goats!



The goats were rather mean! One goat was new to the group. The other goats were ramming him. :(



Sand Fun



Cooling off in front of the mister.

Brotherly Love...

Feeding the duck by hand...BRAVE GIRL!

Building a Zebra

Loving his train!

Ellie wanted me to take pictures of them while Brad went to get the car.  Her poses were killing me!

Feeding the fish at the mall in St. Louis

Had to make a trip to Target just to get swimming suits.  We knew the hotel in Chicago wasn't going to have one so we didn't pack any.



"Look at the Princess!" yelled a couple walking by.  Ellie was in heaven!



Ellie LOVED her carriage ride down by the arch!

Cinderella Carriage

Loving on the Horse

They wanted us to rent these nifty little bikes; however, it was too late! DARN!!! :)

We decided to go down underneath the Arch.  Brad and I had no idea that this museum was underneath.  It was very interesting.  We thought about going up in the Arch; however, it was getting late and Ellie was getting crabby.  I knew I didn't want to be stuck in an elevator or at the top of the Arch with her.  That would be asking for trouble!

Fun at the Arch

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!