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Here's a preview of our Labor Day weekend.  As you may have gathered from this picture, it was AWESOME!

fresh raspberries

 We had some friends in town a few weeks ago and went raspberry picking with them.  After that, we all came back to our house for lunch and swimming.  We put the lunch spread out on a blanket in the backyard and this little girl was going crazy with all the fruit.  Especially the raspberries.  She was making a huge mess but I didn't even care because she's just so cute!

Snips and snails... more like frogs and snakes

 When I opened the door from our garage to the outside, I saw a little garter snake.  I quickly called the boys over so they could see and then Dennison picked it up and put it in this bucket.  They wanted to put it in a jar so I told them that one of them would have to pick it up to put it in there.  Jude didn't even hesitate.  The boy has no fear.  Except for monsters in his bedroom at night.  Anyways, we put holes in the lid and made them kinda big so the little snake could escape if he wanted.  That being said, the snake jar was not allowed in our house.

 The snake in a jar

Then a few days later, we found a little frog in the garden center at Home Depot.  We, of course, had to bring it home and make a little home for it.  But the poor thing was starving.  What do you feed a tiny little frog?? So, we opened the top and let him hop out when the boys were asleep.  We dumped out all the sticks and leaves and things they had put in there for him.  The next morning, Carter noticed he was gone.  I told him that he went to go find his family, but he took his home with him because you built him such a good home!  That made him happy and he hasn't missed him much.

Silly boys.

These two....

are gonna be trouble!

tv time

They decided that they wanted to play with Curious George so they tried to push themselves into the TV. 

"Mom, it's not working!!!"

check out these cuties

 

  Seriously?!?!  Does it get any cuter??

 

crazy hair and crazy eyes

 His face is priceless in this one.

 We went to check out the waterfall on our Sunday drive.  Carter told us that he needed to bring his binoculars so he could "spot the waterfall".

 My world

 They are awesome.  Carter has not had much energy lately.  He gets a little energy for a few hours a day so we try to take advantage of it.  He still wants to go do stuff but gets so tired after only a few minutes.

 Me and my kids.  Still hard to believe I have THREE.

 4th of July outfit.

 They are so cute together.

 One of my all-time favorite pictures.  Vienna with the Flash.

 Jude is always injured, it seems.  A can fell out of the pantry while he was playing in there and hit him in the face.

I know.  Super duper cute.

We are loving that it's finally warm and sunny most days! 

7 months old

 Well, almost.  In a few days this little beauty will be 7 months old!  I took her in for her 6 month check-up this past week.  She weighs 13 lbs 12 ozs (5th %) and is 26.75 inches tall (71%).  The doctor told me not to be stingy in the food department :)  She was a champ for her shots, too.  Carter came with us to help her be brave.  She cried until I picked her up, then she was fine. 

So our little baby girl just can't be slowed down.  She's crawling all over the place now.  She can even go up the step from our living room which means I have to keep the entire house clean instead of just one room :(  She also can pull herself up to standing!  She is very proud of herself... until she falls over.

 crawling - action shot

I don't only dress her in hair bows, she had clothes on earlier.

 She climbs over and out the other side of this all the time.

 She has an audience for everything she does.  These two boys could not love her any more!

 I finally started feeding her solids last week.  She loves it.

 She is very cuddly.  Here she is asleep on my mom's shoulder.  So sweet!

She is the sweetest baby ever!  I'm not just saying that cause I'm her mom either, she really is :)