July...and some of August

Seanna got glasses in July. So far she is okay with them. She does a pretty good job of keeping them on and clean. We will be crosssing our fingers that this helps with the lazy eye. She has told us that they do help her see to read--that is a wonderful thing since that girls LOVES to read.

One day the girls asked for curlers to be put in their hair--so, here is Cassidy "cheesing" for the camera while she had her curlers in. They just love those things.

We went to the county fair and the girls got to get something painted on their faces. Seanna chose a horse--even though the girl didn't have a stencil for that. Still, it turned out pretty good. Cassidy got some pretty flowers. After this, we watched their cousins show their cattle. Congrats to Codie and Riley for doing so well.

After visiting the fair, we went and got most of the school shopping done. Seanna will be a 1st grader this year and Cassidy will be in her 2nd year of pre-school. She missed the deadline for starting school by 2 weeks--which is okay. She will get that chance to have more pre-school this way. And at the last minute, we have decided to try to move Seanna to another school. We are still pending that decision--hopefully we get notification for the School board before school starts next Wed. (fingers crossed). We believe it will be a good thing, but it isn't because we are not happy with her current school--many other reasons.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This picture was taken earlier this year--but I think it is super cute. It was while out visiting G & G Kraus that we seized the opportunity to get a nice photo.

Happy July 5th!!!

Since we were in a park that did not allow the blowing up of fireworks on the 4th...we decided to go watch some let off by Greg & Cheri and family. The girls really loved seeing some of their cousins and all the animals on the farm. You can see that they got to get on a tractor, play with a miniature horse and chase after a goat or two. And mom & dad got to drive Greg's new toy--the 4 wheeler. It was great!!! Then we had some grilled food & waited for dark. We were even able to see of of the Lincoln show from their house. We didn't get home til almost midnight, so the girls were crashed when we tried to get them out of their clothes...see picture below. But a good time was had by all, NEVERTHELESS!!

The first 6 days of July 2009.

We started off the month with a camping trip. This time we went to Mahoney state park. There are lots of things to do there--good thing some of the activities were inside since there was a little bit of rain with this trip (imagine that!). The girls painted little bird houses, played some miniture golf, climbed the observation tower & most importantly, went for a couple of pony rides. Fun times.