A new addition to our family…
- Posted by meredith on September 7th, 2008 filed in Family
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We introduce to you… Saymon!
He is our new fire-bellied toad. We bought him today at the pet store after my sister got Connor an awesome Frog house for his birthday! No more excuses on my part that the frog has to go find his family… He is here to stay!
Saymon (pronounced like raymond, with an “S”) was an original name given to the toad by Connor as we were driving home from the pet store. David asked him what we should name it, and Connor thought for a while, and came up with Saymon. He said that he learned it at Church… Not sure where that came from or the meaning, we’ve never heard of it, but he was confident with his name choice! David kept giving him alternate choices, but Connor was set on Saymon - so Saymon it is!
We learned that Saymon loves flies! We have fed it a bunch of them today to which I have come to realize my hidden talent! I am an amazing fly catcher!
Here are some pictures…
The new home for Saymon.
Look at his cute red belly
Connor loving it!
Audrey getting in on the fun!
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In other news, today was the first game for the Cowboys, so we pulled out the gear! Lisa-Marie sent this outfit from Abby and the hoodie from Josiah! I guess we have Cowboys fans throughout our family - well, besides my Dad! : )
Go Cowboys!
We’re going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come…
- Posted by meredith on September 3rd, 2008 filed in Family
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This past weekend was David’s annual golf weekend extravaganza with some of his college friends. This year was David, Joe Manthe, Ryan Penner and Josh Manthe. The wives stayed at Joe’s parents house with the kids. It was really a great weekend for us girls to hang out with our kids. Now granted, it was not peaceful by any stretch of the imagination, but fun and lots of memories! Well, peaceful after they were all in bed : ) Our kids, especially Connor and Joey, are really getting to know each other, and they have a blast.
Here are some pictures…
This was the one and only picture that they guys took. They all have matching shirts on that Josh had printed in the Philippines with a logo that David designed - pretty cute!
The four actually smiling pretty well for the camera. We didn’t even have to take 20 shots to get them to all smile. It did help that I told them if they smiled, they’d get gummy worms…
We went to a Children’s Museum on Saturday, and the kids loved it! Audrey was so concerned when we left each room that the fun was over only to find out there were more exciting rooms to come! This particular room was Connor’s favorite. They had a couple of huge submarines complete with beds, sea shells, computers, etc - mostly made out of legos. Pretty fun.
Back at Joe’s parents house was a huge tractor! Connor was so excited about it. This is Joe’s dad taking him for a ride. Connor was very serious while riding it! He also got to help Grandpa Jody fix something with all of his cool plumber tools! Connor got one good look at Jody’s van stocked with every tool/gadget imaginable for plumbing and stood in amazement and could only say one word… “WOW!”
Connor really liked holding Kylah. He told me that she liked him, and he tried to make her laugh a bunch. She is such a sweet baby girl and, I might add, very tolerant of Audrey taking her pacifier out of her mouth probably 100 times over 3 days!
The girls
Audrey holding Kylah.
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Today it rained all day long, but since it wasn’t freezing outside, we made the most of it! We got our rain gear on and played in the rain. Audrey could not have had more pink on - she was so fun to dress! Especially because of her adorable pink raincoat my mom got her with her matching rain boots! So cute!
fun in florida!
- Posted by meredith on August 25th, 2008 filed in Family
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We just got back from Florida where Uncle Ben got married. Well thanks to Hurricane Fay, it rained the whole time! Some pictures were hard to take cause the lenses fogged up every time we took it out of the camera bag! Anyway, we had a wonderful time seeing our family! There’s a bunch of pictures, so feel free to scroll fast!
This was Connor getting ready to fly on the big plane. I had given him these stickers that my Dad bought for him for Christmas a couple of years ago to put in his “pack-pack” for the airplane ride, but before I knew it, they were all over him!
Audrey thinking it was pretty fun having her car seat sitting in the middle of the entry way.
We were delayed flying out there for a couple of hours, but the kids did awesome. They ran from window to window looking at every plane asking if it was ours!
Does this not look like he could be 15 years old - watching a show on David’s iphone with earplugs!! Whatever works!
This was the first beach that we got to go to. We had to wait an hour and a half before picking up Mimi & Papa Adair, so we found a little cove for the kids to run around and get their feet (and later clothes) wet in real salt water! Connor loved chasing the seagulls.
Audrey wasn’t sure of it at first. She kept pulling her little feet up when the water would get to her. We went to a real beach on the last day that was so great! I don’t have pictures right now - Ron was using his camera - but when I do, I’ll get some of those up.
This was taking for those of you who listened to me go crazy about what clothes to wear! This was the outfit that I wore to the afternoon tea. I had Audrey get in the picture with me so I wouldn’t seem so vain! : )
All of the sisters at the shower. (L-R: Morgan, Nydia, Annie, Sarah, Me, Cappy, Whitney)
Hanging out in the hotel room. The kids loved playing on the bed! Surprisingly neither of them fell off the bed the entire weekend.
When we were getting ready to go somewhere and didn’t want them jumping on the bed (in fear of falling off the bed), we plunked them down to watch a pre-downloaded “Go Diego Go!” Those were life savers! : )
Our family picture at the wedding. 3 out of the 4 smiling - not bad!
Audrey with Daddy
Connor with Daddy.
This is the Giraffe print dress…
Everyone loved Audrey’s little outfit! I have to admit - I did too! She was the perfect accessory for me! Brown, off white with yellow accents! : ) No one could deny that she was with me!
Mimi Adair (mother of the Groom) took a moment after the wedding to play with Audrey. Pretty sweet picture.
Airplanes and girls’ night!
- Posted by meredith on August 18th, 2008 filed in Family
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This is us at the Bentonville little airport. David got to take some aerial shots from a little plane, so we made an afternoon of it! We sat there and watched a bunch of planes land and take off right in front of us. The road in front of us is basically the beginning to the runway and the parking places for the airplanes - so basically we couldn’t have been any closer! Both of them thought that it was pretty neat!
This was the airplane that David went up in. A vast improvement from the helicopter that he went up in the last time that looked like it was built from a lawn-mower’s engine, and it didn’t even have any doors!
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David took Connor golfing the other night, so Audrey and I had some time to hang out. So nice. She is such a sweet girl. The boys ended up having to walk 9 holes cause the carts were broken! David said they had to bail out at 7 cause Connor was spent!
These are Audrey’s new favorite shoes to wear all over the house. Pink rain boots! I find her all of the time sitting down by herself trying to put them on her little feet!
Connor and Audrey bouncing on a chair at the Harris’s house. Makes me smile when I see the two of them happy and playing together - surprisingly it doesn’t always happen! ; )
camel shoes
- Posted by meredith on August 18th, 2008 filed in Family
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Here is a funny conversation in the car early this morning -Connor: I want to ride a camel at the zoo today.Me: You want to ride a camel at the zoo today?Connor: No, I want to ride a camel at the safari today.Me: Oh, at the safari, why?Connor: Well, I have my camel flip-flops on. Me: What? (I turn around to catch a glimpse of his alleged “camel flip-flops” only to see his CAMO flip-flops!) So after that we had a good lesson on what “camo” or camouflage means! We referenced iguanas, Uncle Ben’s army fatigue, and so on. Pretty cute.