Sunday ANOTHER Day and ANOTHER Party!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU **HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PAPA!
LET THE ELEBRATION BEGIN!!!!!! ha ha ha (she even posed)
1.....2......3..................BLOW PAPA !!!!
CHOCOLATE CAKE (or my dinner)
THE FAMILY---geo cache

RING THOSE BELLS----
Cosin Blake and Nana
Checking out the sights------
Good-bye Papa and Happy Birthday to You---
Swinging at Papa and Nana's

Guess what we went to church and then drove to WW for Papa Cole's birthday. Papa made salmon and we had corn on the cob and CHOCOLATE CAKE!! Although the cake made me goofy and wound up it was yummy!! We did a geo cache and played until it was time to come home!! I stayed awake the whole hour (8:30 to 9:30)on the way home--mommy had lots of packing to do for our trip this week.

Suprise Party Photos

Water Balloons!!!

GRETCHEN AND HAILEY

TIM EMILY AND ELLEN (Hailey's mom and Mary's sister)
BACK OF MARY'S HEAD!!
Walking a stuffed dog on a stick all over through the dirt and grass and field!!!
I AM IN THE JUNGLE MOMMY!

PLAYING WITH HAILEY!! NOTICE THE DOG ON THE STICK ABANDONED!!

Playing in the fountain---
Walking and Talking and Exploring----------------Drinking tooo!

COOPER AND GRETCHEN---He is two also!!!
MY SHOES ON AND OFF!

Trying to blow up a water balloon---tehheee
TWO YEAR OLD TROUBLE--just kiddding!

See the post below for explanation--I just did not want to add more photos to that post!!

Family Fun Fest *** Suprise 40th Birthday Party

Saturday started with another rotary pancake breakfast downtown Hermiston! We actually stayed in town on a Saturday! Gretchie is getting so accustomed to getting up and going SOMEWHERE?? They had Main street closed and had booths a stage and activites--they even had lawn mower races! The kids had a teddybear parade at 9:30 am----little did we know we were the parade as we marched down the street! G was cute and waved to the people as she carried her teddybear in one arm!! We played games and won a pair of teddybear sunglasses and some other things I never took after she played the game (bad mom I know) She did get this red heart stress ball--she eventually took two bites out of and that was taken!! You can have way to much stuff!! She sat in the firetruck and was very impressed with the BIG WHEELS--ha! We listened and watched little kids dancing and cheering and cloggers and Polynesian dancers---She was so tired and fell asleep minutes after we got in the car at 12:40 pm! I was going to a suprise 40th birthday at 2 pm---for my friend Mary.

Party girl decide after 30 min her nap was long enough and ready to go with mom!! We had fun--not sure who had more fun Gretchen or mommy----the kids played in the pool, fountain, dirt, field etc. We got home after 5:30 pm----Gretchie played with Zaq (7) Quinn (4) Cooper (2) and Hailey(2 days older than G) Megan and Katilyn and others. Mommy had fun talking and catching up with her teacher friends!

JUNE AND JULY VIDEOS

Sunday July 6 to Friday July 11, 2008

HOLD ON AND LISTEN TO OUR LAST WEEK--
This photo is Gretchie pouring herself a cup of water--she is quite self sufficient she thinks---ha!

Of course I am always asked what in the world do you do when you don't work??? Hello--I have a two year old and love every minute of it (ok--not all minutes but you understand..........) ALSO--LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER IS NOT TRUE AT OUR HOUSE---We are on the move-------------------------
**Sunday evening--Funland (no pic)
**Monday morning I took "G" to VBS from 9 am to noon---She did pretty good considering it was 3 hours--For craft we made monkey name tags!!
For snack we had rice and a pizza snack--she did TRY IT! At 11:30 am during the last song she laid down on the floor and just had had it----I thought oh no here is a big fit-NOPE I scooped her up and we left-whew---never know the mind of a 2 year old! Just plain tuckered out--teheee!

Oh yeah and the theme of VBS was CHINA--sooo Sunday morning the dragon float (from the 4th parade) was in the corner of the foyer---she was scared to death to even go in the front doors of the church! So when we pulled up to church on Monday the front was decorated wth colored posters of monkeys---(she sometimes freaks out with monkeys and hides and says she is scared--MY PERSONAL OPINION--play it off and she is fine---Last summer a monkey jumped at the plexiglass at the zoo and she cried!!--so I think its a hidden fear----then what did we do buy her pink monkey sheets not even knowing---it took forever to put them on -she now loves them) So with the monkey posters outside on the church and then the Chineese dragon inside---it was a rough start (BUT no TEARS) (Just very CLINGY)Talked about VBS all day--so I took her back Tuesday--Monday afternoon we took the paper binoculars she got at the zoo and looked for ANTS outside and then made a ant hill with brown construction paper and ink pad and then raisins----HOW FUN!!!
**Tuesday--VBS--walked in by herself past the posters and dragon----ahh! Looks at me and says THE DRAGON IS NOT SCAREY---IT'S OK MOMMY!
Craft--made paper lanterns!! Snack was graham crackers and frosting and "RED STICK" (licorice)!! Tuesday after nap we had planned to go to Mrs. Fun's house but change of plans and I took G to the Gretchie park instead! It was so hot that she crawled under my legs --I was sitting on the steps and she curled up under my legs and said lets go----funny girl!




**Wed--Baby Boogie--she loves this class! Storytime/Craft --made a bumblee bee sack puppet. Checked out Horton movie and more books--- asleep on the way home again. After nap---Mrs Fun's house with Zaq (7) Quinn (4) Cooper (2) from 3-5pm and of course it was hot hot hot and 100 degrees!! They have a huge blow up water slide they shared with her this afternoon---(I GOT NO PIC) But she just played in the bottom and would not go up-----she had fun !!! In fact when it was time to go and they deflated it she said I am still playing!! We were invited back ----
This is the same child who stood on the towel and refused to put her swimsuit on and was dripping with sweat for the first 30 min we were there! She then asked to go potty and I took her suit in to the bathroom and she put it on (SMILED AND SAID LET'S GO HAVE FUN!!! (gee)(could she be modest so young--which is good)

**Thursday--we went grocery shopping since I had nothing left--we were there quite awhile and talked to four different people we knew!! She fell asleep in the car and then my friend Shanna and Seth (5) and Jenna (19 months)came at two from Walla Walla!! They stayed for dinner and left at 7:30 pm! What a fun day catching up--Mary stopped by for a couple hours also. Shanna taught with me at McNary the four years I was there--and stayed with us one weekend a month when she got her Master's degree! Gretchie had a fun fun time playing with her new friends----she played in the dirt outside and went to bed.

**FRIDAY--VBS!! She made a Chineese scroll and had raisins and a fortunate cookie. She read and read her fortunate--stuck the paper in her pocket! We had hotdogs at noon and then they had carnival games for the kids--she loved her tied purple balloon animal. We left church at 1:30 pm and she kept herself awake the whole way home by singing---we then watched DORA and rocked and she still stayed awake-after an hour I decided to go claim my $100 first place we had won back in April off our electric bill and get our rodeo box seat tickets and buffet dinner tickets!!! G was so tired and would not get in the carseat in the driveway----laid down on the floor and said I don't want to go----after punishment I buckled her in----I did not want to get her out at the UEC office but had too--She had her blankie, elephant, tied balloon, and new rubber tiger from VBS! The clerk thought she was so cute--I still was exausted from trying to give her a nap and putting her in the car. The lady handed G a Ty beanie animal--and it happened to be an elephant (THAT IS NUMBER 10 stuffed elephant) The girl needs NO MORE ELEPHANTS!!! Gretchen's reaction was adorable OH THANK-YOU SO MUCH --ELEPHANTS ARE MY FAVORITE!! I AM HAVING AN ELEPHANT BIRTHDAY!!! (I had to hug her on that--no prompting on my part just plain cute!!!) It made my day --plus the clerk was talking to the other lady when we left!! SUNSHINE EVEN IN THE MIDST OF NO NAP!!! She fell asleep at 4 when we went to get Papa Murphey's Pizza-I woke her 15 min later when we got home.Played with older neighbor kids and bed!