As with a lot of other things in my life, I'm sort of all or nothing when it comes to blogging. That being said, get ready for a lot of pictures of what we've been doing lately...
With Sadie's birthday being the day after the 4th of July, and this year the 4th was on a Sunday so we decided to combine the two and have a little BBQ at our house and let Sadie dig into her own cupcake and call it good.
Thanks to Target for a little help with Sadie's "cake". Maybe someday I'll be one of those cute mommies who bakes a cute little cake that goes with the theme of the party.
Unfortunately, my camera was on macro-focus so all of the pictures turned out blurry. :( Oh well, here's a couple of them.
After the BBQ, we all headed over to a local college that does an AMAZING fireworks show. We sat right next to where they set them all off.
This was actually Ella's first experience with fireworks since last year I was just about to go into labor and the years before that we were more concerned with getting her to bed than letting her see fireworks. She was not a fan.
Sadie was though!
At first I was kinda bummed when I thought about how Sadie's birthday would always be kinda overshadowed by the 4th, but now I think she'll think it's pretty cool that she gets to see fireworks every year the night before her birthday.
We made the mistake of getting really good parking. Unfortunately for us, that meant waiting for about 45 minutes to be able to get out of the parking lot.
Another fun thing we've been doing lots of this summer is going to the water park. Since we don't have access to a community pool and it gets so dang HOT here in Oklahoma, I bought a season pass to the water park and we have definitely gotten our money's worth!
Ryan's even been able to come with us a couple times. (Ella now goes down any slide that you can ride a tube on. See those slides in the background?...She's gone down the blue one and the yellow one. I have to admit that even I get a little scared as I'm climbing those stairs to the top, but she's a brave little toaster and can't get enough of those slides! The blue one is one of those enclosed ones that's totally dark and you can't see which way you are about to turn. She loves it!)
This is how Sadie likes to enjoy the water park.
The Lazy River.
For Sadie's birthday, my dad and sister went shopping together and got my girls a couple of matching outfits (and their cute green polk-a-dot swimsuits.) I think that's one of the funnest (most fun?) parts of having 2 girls is dressing them the same (or 2 boys for that matter.)
We have some good friends out here that have the perfect back yard for Ultimate Slip-n-Slide. **We did a version of this in Omaha with some dental school friends but I have to say that these guys perfected it with the addition dish soap. :)
One day we were swimming at a friends pool and Ella got ahold of my camera:
A couple weekends ago, we went down to Dallas for a meeting that Ryan had. Ryan's program pays for it every year so we always like to tag along. There was a pond behind our hotel that had some ducks in it so one night after having some yummy Jimmy John sandwiches, we asked the guy for some extra bread so that we could go feed those ducks. He gave us like 4 loaves so we fed the ducks for a LONG time!
The ducks saw us coming.
Sadie didn't quite understand the concept of feeding the ducks. She was more concerned with feeding the Sadie.
Ryan really gets into feeding the ducks.
One for you,
one for you guys,
and one for me.
I don't know how many remember, but Ella would ALWAYS do this face when she was Sadie's age and breathe thru her nose like a little bull. It makes me laugh so hard to see Sadie do it too!
Look closely at this next picture. Ella was literally feeding the ducks out of her hand. Crazy girl.
