Did Kacey Really Turn 30???

She sure did!!! We had a SURPRISE weekend planned for her! I can't believe we actually pulled it off without her knowing. She knew we were going somewhere - but had no idea where. She was determined we were going to the Dells - until we got on the Beltline and headed south. Then she was sooo confused. She started out saying Platteville? Dubuque? The farm? ha ha We had her fooled!!!

We arrived in Galena at the Galena Cellars Winery for our first stop of the day.

Amy put together a box for her that explained her entire day. It was fun to watch her open it and she was so happy about what we had planned:

Here's Kacey showing off her "30" glass that Amy got for her:

Here is a picture of the girls tasting their wines - we got to pick 6 each:

Mother/Daughter - in their matching jean jackets :)

After the Winery - we went to Wild Clover Spa and enjoyed a treatment of our choice! It was fantastic and very relaxing.

Here is Liz, Alli and Julie getting their pedicures:

After the Winery and Spa - we went to Amy's grandparents house in the Territories - talk about amazing!!! It was so beautiful out in the woods and up on these giant hills. You could see for miles. We all sat around, relaxed and played some games. Then we all pitched in and made a yummy taco dinner.

Here's a picture out the windows of the home:

After dinner - we all decided to go out on the town!! Here's Amy, Kacey and Me all ready to go. Kacey has a "Birthday Bitch" tiarra on that everyone thought was a bachelorette! Too funny!! She'd be like "No - read it, I'm the Bitch" ha ha

Here we are before the girls got wild and crazy! Liz, Julie, Lila and Kacey:

Some guy somehow convinced Kacey and Amy to go sing - they were "trying" to sing 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'...woah...there are a lot of words to that song!!!

Then the girls put their dancing shoes on!!!

Bonnie seemed to get all the attention from the men!!!

Love this pic of Lila and Kacey! You girls are a riot!!!

We had such a fun time. Thanks to everyone who came and who helped put the party on. We FINALLY surprised Kacey!!!! Thanks also to Amy and her grandparents for letting us stay in their georgous home - it was amazing!!!

It's been a busy few weeks around our house. It's started cooling off here too - so we're enjoying the fall weather.

Here are 2 recent pics of Miss Em:

What's Emme up to now?

Well September has been a fun month so far. The weather has been georgous! I love this time of year in Wisconsin. Over labor day weekend, we went up to Hayward and spend a long weekend with my parents and Casey & Mike. It was fun. The boys got a lot of atv-ing in minus a few atv issues! ha ha I won't go into those :) The rest of us hung out, drank beer, shot guns...oops...did I say shot guns???

It was so much fun! The boys were teaching the girls how to shoot - for those of you concerned - Emme was napping and we were only shooting at a beer can and then a cardboard face that Mike made.

I am not so sure how to caption this picture, but I thought it was hysterical. It's a plastic flower holder...Emme decided it also made a nice hat :)



We also went on a boat ride for the last time of the season. Grammy even let Em drive! She loved it.


Since we got back from Hayward, we've just been busy around the house. Nothing too exciting. Emily is talking more and more. It's pretty amazing how every day she learns new words. We are working on saying 2 word sentences now. She hasn't quite got it down yet - other than "See Ya" - she says that all the time!!


Yesterday we went to Lake Geneva and met some friends at a park. It was really nice to see some of my High School friends and all their kiddos. It was a georgous day too! Emme had fun playing. When we got home yesterday, Em took a nap and then we were playing outside when she suddenly wasn't feeling well. She ended up throwing up out on the lawn. Poor little girl. In the middle of her puking session, the neighbors dog came over and ended up getting a shower of vomit!! Nasty! She threw up another 4 times last night - but woke up this morning seeming ok. She seems a little run down and more tired than usual, but other than that she seems fine. We've been taking it easy all day hoping she continues to feel well. One thing that was kind of funny out of all of this - was that she would take a drink of water out of a sippy cup and then about 15 - 20 min later she would throw up. So then she would make us go get her another cup. We went through about 5 cups last night. So this morning she woke up and was at it again....good thing we have a lot of sippys!!! She is too funny....like it's the cup that was making her sick!



Here is Emme at the park yesterday:



Here is Emme playing at the park with my friend Katie's son, Nolan. They are only 3 days apart in age:


Here are the two newest babies. Kyla is my friend Jen's daughter (the baby on the left), Morgan is my friend Allison's daughter (the baby on the right). Kyla is 5 months old and Morgan is 2 months old.


Here is Mason and Alina. Mason is Morgan's big brother and Alina is Kyla's big sister:

Here is the group hanging out. We had a blast! I hope we can do it again soon sometime.


Had to get a good belly shot of Katie. She is pregnant with twin girls!!! She's 23 weeks along. Can't wait to meet the two new little cuties! We brought her all of Em's baby clothes. Only 5 boxes of clothes -- and that's just up through 6 months!!




That's it so far. Been a good month. Looking forward to the next few weeks too. Gotta enjoy this weather before the snow comes!!!

Here is a video that I promised Auntie Kristen. It's Emme early one morning yelling for Otis. It's sooo cute!!!

August 2009

I've posted a lot of pics this month already, but here's the entire link if you want to see them all:

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Sorry there are a lot - but it's been a busy month! We've gotten to do a lot of really fun things this month. I am looking forward to things slowing down here sometime soon!!! We had Emily into the Dr last week because her eye swelled up again like it did in July. We're still not sure what is causing it. The Dr thought it might be a stye, but I think it was too far from her eyelid to be one. So who knows. We just used benadryl and it cleared up in about 4 days. It's frustrating to not know what is causing it. Hopefully we will figure it out soon!!

Em is 20 months old now!! She is still a little peanut though. She is growing, but slowly! I think she's about 23lbs now and she's wearing 18 month clothes still. Seems like she's been in them forever. She also has the smallest feet ever, she is barely in size 5. Some of her 5's fit and some are too big. Crazy!!!

She is talking up a storm!!! I bet she has 25 - 50 words now. She is doing so well with her words. We are working on counting 1 - 2 - 3. She says "2 - 2 - 2". ha ha Guess we'll be ready when December rolls around to ask her how old she is!!! Speaking of being almost 2 - she has quite the temper tantrums in her. Hard to believe such a sweet little angel can turn into such an evil child!!! She likes to get her way and if she doesn't she clearly lets you know about it. We have started timeouts at home and they seem to work. Ignoring her also works :) It's the public tantrums that aren't quite as easy to manage!!

I just signed her up for music class again at Prairie Music Academy. We did two sessions last winter & spring and she just loved it. Every night she asks me to sing to her...I am awful, but she loves it. So I wanted to get her back into music. Maybe she'll take after her daddy and be a music genius!!!! We start mid-september on every Tuesday night for 10 weeks. Yay!

Last weekend Kory had the truck home, so we got some cute pics of Emme playing around in it:

Our Dancing Queen

I'll let the video speak for itself...

Haven't blogged in forever!!

Sorry we haven't done a blog in so long. It's been such a busy summer. So below is a photo blog of the last few weeks.

Here's baby Zander around his baptism (about 8 weeks old):

Here's a really cute picture of Kalli and Kacey at Zander's baptism. It was a georgous day!

Tony built Zander a sandbox before he was even born!! Here is Emily testing it out with Daddy:

We officially gave up the nuk. Hard to believe she ever even took one! We went cold turkey which everyone told me not to do - but it worked for us. She was 19 months old and we just took them away - we didn't do any special "talks" or anything. We just told her she was a big girl and didn't need them anymore. It took about 3 days before she stopped asking for them.

We went to the Waupon truck show. Emily loved all the trucks. Here she is riding on the cooler with Daddy:

My sister Casey has started her own business, called the Purse Parties. So if you want a new purse - let me know! I know who to contact!!! Below is a picture of my first purse party - it was more like a daycare! The girls all had a blast though!

We did some finger painting a few weeks ago. Here is what Emily looks like after we're done painting! Seems like she gets more of it on her face than on her paper!!!

Andrea and I took Emily and Tyler to the Middleton Splash Pad a few weeks ago. It took both of them a while to warm up to it - but by the end they absolutely loved it. I am hoping to go again this weekend if the weather warms up a little!

I met Alison (with her 2 kids Morgan and Luke) up in Winona for a little reunion. We went this past weekend. We had so much fun looking around and seeing all the buildings and how different everything looks. It's so beautiful. We had a really nice time and I'm so glad we found time to get up there together.

Here's a pic of baby Luke at the pool. He's so stinkin' cute!!! and such a good boy too :)

As you can see - we've been going NON-STOP all summer. It's been fun, but hoping things slow down sometime soon.

Photo Montage

I'm not sure why I'm posting other than the fact that I got a few cute new pics of Emme that I just had to share. She's so cute. Quite the handful lately, but she's as cute as ever and has the sweetest little personality. She loves to give kisses and noonie's. Do you know what a noonie is? It's where you rub noses together and say "noonie, noonie, noonie". It's sooooo cute :)

Here she is with her baby and baby doll stroller. She loves her baby.

Here is a picture from before we went to the pool on Sunday. Had to show you how she has a big girl pony tail!!! I can't believe how long and thick her hair is getting!!

Here is Emily and I at the pool. Check out that tooth-gap....There's room in there for plenty more teeth!!!!


We went to visit Sarah and her girls (Addison 2, and Alivia 2 months) yesterday. It was soooo cute to see Emme and Addy playing together. We heard a lot of "Mine"!! It was cute though.

Here's the group from Sarah's yesterday. Sarah with Addy on her lap, Tina holding new baby Livy, Me and Em and Heather. We had so much fun!!!

This last one is a picture of Emme in her new purple hat. She LOVES it! I had some coupons for the Carter's and Osh Kosh Outlets and bought Em a bunch of new winter clothes. I had to get this hat!!!

That's all for now!!!

Busy, Busy, Busy...

I can not believe it's the end of July already. Emily is now 19 months old. She is such a good little girl. She has a little attitude if she doesn't get what she wants, but don't all women?
She is saying a lot of words - some that we understand, but most that we don't. I think we can understand about 15 - 20 words, which I think is good for her age. She is not saying any 2 word sentences yet (unless "Mom Nah" counts!!).

We've had a busy month of July starting off with going to Hayward with my family for our annual trip. Kory and I had our birthdays - didn't do too much, just went to Buckhorn with his family.

We went to the Dane County Fair a few weeks ago. I got up early one Sunday morning and took Emily myself. We got there about 9am and am pretty sure we were the only ones there...the roosters were still cock-a-doodle-do-ing.... :) We had soooo much fun walking around and seeing all the animals. Emily loved the baby goats running around and even got to pet a cow. She's a brave little girl. About 10:30 Daddy called to see how it was going and I convinced him to come down. We had such a nice family day. Ended up eating way too much fair food, but had a great time.

Here is Emily telling me very clearly that she needs her "Nah" - a.k.a. pacifire. The hand pointing goes along with yelling the word Nah quite loudly. We are working right now on getting rid of the Nah. We are on night #2. It's going okay. Yesterday went a lot smoother than tonight. Tonight was rough...but she is asleep. Yay.

Here is Emily with her princess crown and sparkly shawl...actually it's a flashing party girl tiarra and some red garland!! But she has good imagination :)

We had a good friend's wedding last weekend. It was in downtown Madison and was absolutely georgous. We do have kind of a funny story behind this though...Kacey is looking at this picture wondering why I am wearing my fabulous dress we bought shopping on Saturday - but Kory...hmmmm...he's not wearing the cute shirt we picked out for him. Ok - so I bought him a dress shirt in size Medium...I thought it would fit...well....we got down to the hotel and were getting dressed when Kory puts the shirt on and was like...um...this doesn't fit. I'm like WHAT??? Oh no. So yep...it was 3:30, we had to be at the church by 4--so we went running down state street trying to find a men's shop. Somehow we ended up Lands End..so that's the shirt we came up with...hey - it worked!!! It's funny now, but at the time it was not so funny. He was not very happy with me buying him a Medium.

Here's a pic of Beth, Sarah (the bride) and me. We had such a nice time!!

And Beth and I had matching colors on that day!! Good choice Beth!

Not too much else exciting going on. Been playing with Zander as much as possible, trying to see him at least once a week. Hard to believe my little nephew is over a month old already. He's as cute as ever and did very good shopping on Saturday! He's going to be such a good little boy.

This weekend we are heading up to the Trab, so I will hopefully have some pictures to post next week.