Camping with the Niemeier's

We did our annual camping with the Niemeier's at Scharnberg park near Everly again this weekend. We had a great weather and a great time!

Cousin Chloe and Aunt Kimmie

Playing at the Park

 Kendal showing Grandma how to run our new Ipod touch amazing how much those little ones know what to do!

Pushing Chloe in the stroll

Cora helping play the bean bag game

 The girls watching Ruger swim in the lake making sure he is ok.

Ready for the Beach

The girls with Mason's fish:)

The cousins

Proud Grandparents with all the kids!

All the big kids with their lovers:)



The girls were practicing a dance they were going to perform for us when Daddy tried to be sneaky and get a quick picture of them. As you can hear Kendal scold her dad for peeking on them:) I told him the first of many scoldings from his daughter:)

This was their final performance!

1st Day of Pre School

Kendal at school with some of her classmates

Today was Kendal's First Day of Pre School at Harris Lake Park! We had the preschool pot luck where we met her classmates and teachers! Chad and I got to spend our 8th anniversary at the preschool potluck:) We had a great time checking out her locker and classroom. She shares a locker with a boy named Billy and has 11 in in her class! We were a little nervous about how things would go today since the teachers home visit did not so good on Monday morning...Kendal was not herself and sat on the couch and pouted and would not cooperate for them. Not the case today! She got ready no problems and went right to school with a big smile on her face!!!

I was soo proud of her! she didn't even give me a hug and kiss good bye she was so excited.

Kendal lining up to go to the class room

 Kendal got to ride the school bus to her daycare house, Daddy was there to greet her and take some pics!

At home with her sis after her 1st day!

Trip to the Cites

We went on a road trip to the cities with Daddy on Thursday. Daddy had to go back to school for some cont. education so we went along for the ride.  The road trip started it out with a little treat in the car, yes that is a giant ice cream drumstick:) Surprisingly she did really good with it, not mess and she ate the almost the entire thing on her own!

Cora being a goof ball in the car.

 While Daddy was at his school the girls and I did some shopping and went to a park in the cities.  It was a beautiful summer night!

 Once Dad was done with classes we all headed to the horse races!! As you can see Kendal was a little excited! Next time we need to bet some money and have Kendal pick the horses, b/c she predicted Horse #6 that won the race!

 The girls with Daddy up close watching the races!

 Off to the hotel for a little swimming!

 On Friday before we left we went to a big indoor park that had a huge play park and a gym for the girls to play in.  They must have had fun b/c they slept for most of the way home. We had lunch before we left for home, Cora had top put on a nice performance for everyone in Red Lobster... yes we were the family with the 2 year old under the table crying and throwing a fit...little stinker. She definitely knows how to put on a good show. She was asleep in the car before we got on the interstate.

Kendal starts preschool next week so this was our last little getaway for while since the baby will be here soon also!!

Rally and Riding Horses

Last night I went to Holstein to golf in the Rally for the Cure Golf Tourney with Mom and my sisters. It was a lot of fun and great to see soo many people! We had great weather and a great time!!

Chad's mom, sisters and Kristi's friend

 Tonight it was a beautiful summer night so we went out to our friend John's house to ride horses. Tonight Cora was all about the horses and got on all by herself for the first time!!! Then when it was time to go she didn't want to get off. The pictures are hard to really appreciate the true beauty of John's farm!!

Cora helping John feed the horses.

Farmer's Appreciation Weekend

We started the week by cleaning our new golf cart! Our old one died, well the clutch went out and we did not want to put anymore money into it so we had to splurge for a new one. Well new to us but it is a used one. We are all very excited about our new baby!

 On Wednesday night we road tripped to Sioux Falls to a Go Fish Concert. This was the bible school our church put on this summer and we got passes to go see them. So there was a lot a people from Lake Park that were able to go and enjoy the great concert! This is a pic with Kendals buddy Brooklyn that we went to the concert with. I think if you look close enough you can see her tonsils:)

Kendal with Baby Nemo's Bloomers on:)

 Every year in Lake Park on the 1st weekend in August we have our town celebration, Farmer's Appreciation Day. The past few years we have had the Hintz's from Holstein come up for the day to be in the parade and then stay and give free rides to kids in the park. This year the entire family got in the cars for the parade, baby included:) A little tight but we all fit!

 Dylan, Emma and Chloe came up for the parade.  Chloe is getting soo big, I told her next year she gets my spot:)

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The girls cooling off with some snow cones

 Mommy trying to knock Daddy down in the dunk tank. I never did get him down but Kendal's Buddy Lucas got him down 3 times!! There were plenty of other people that got him wet. He didn't mind too much b/c it was hot out!

Kendal with her Buddy Mason from Daycare

We got a baby bump shot before we went to the street dance. Cora had to pick out exactly where I needed to stand. Only a few months to go!!