RED POWER ROUNDUP!

Okay so I am going to be 100% honest ---I DID NOT WANT TO GO TO THIS THING!!---but it turns out I had a blast and now I want to go to more of them. Next year it is Wisconsin and we are planning to attend. This roundup was held in Columbia, MO since it was so close to home Aaron and his dad decide to enter their Farmall 350 in the show. Aaron was so proud. He had so much fun telling me all about the tractors. He was like a little kid. I couldn't help but enjoy it. I even learned lots of new interesting things!! For instance did you know International Harvester produced Cub Cadet lawn mowers--I KNOW--i had no idea!! I also learned that Int'l made fridges, freezers, washer, dryers and stuff like that--who knew!! (FYI if you watch Friends, Monica's fridge is an International!--you never know it might come up as a trivia question--you can thank me later!) Seriously though I had fun!

A sea of red tractors.
Not sure what this is but it looked neat
This seriously cracked me up. This tractor is powered by people!! It has 8 bicycle seats with pedals in it!!! Who thinks of this crap?? It was pretty entertaining to look at!

Camping

Doesn't our camper look good? No, not the brown one . . .








Ours is the hippy seventies green one!!!



We went camping at Cottonwoods RV park in Columbia and we pull in to see all these REALLY nice and expensive campers (i mean RVs) and here we are in the OLDEST one on site. Golly, I was proud!! Actually we had a great time and I am looking forward to camping again. Izzy loves her bunk/loft bed!! It did get a little crowded on Friday when it was raining. But luckily the sun came out mid morning and we could escape, i mean leave the camper! The brown RV belongs to a really nice retired couple from Penn. Most everyone in the camp site around us were farmers in for the Red Power ROundup we were surrounded by cattle farmers from Neb. Pig farmers from Iowa, retired farmer from Penn. and people from Texas.

Jen's wedding

June 7, 2008 Jen Davis and Justin Neihoff were wed. We have known Jen (Jenny) Davis since we were little kids. Stac and Jen roomed together at Lindenwood also. Stac was the maid of honor so here are some snapshots from the reception. She had a beautiful outdoor wedding. I loved her colors (tropical blue and white)
opps sorry this pic is really bad. (yes there really is that bad of a height differnce between us--we both had short heels on!)
My camera sucks--that or Aaron takes really bad pics??? Anyhoo--too bad you can't see Jay's preggo belly--she is so cute (and round) We all had a good time together!

Washing the Gator

We got home from work and our neighbor was washing his truck. Well Izz loves Kevin so she decided to be like him and wash her gator. She had a pretty good time and she didn't do too bad of a job!!

Cousins

Here are some snapshots of Izzy playing in the backyard of Uncle Chris and Aunt Jayna's yard with her cousins, Jared and Jordyn.
Uncle Chris was trying to teach them to play with a hoola hoop but it didn't really work out too well! Chris was too sneaky for me to get a shot of him shaking his hips!!

Summer has begun!!

Summer has officially started!! This was Izzy's first time swimming this summer! It was the weekend before father's day. It was a pretty hot day we were in Bellflower getting our camper ready for the following weekend while gma and gpa took the girls swimming. Izzy has regressed from last summer. We had to revert back to the floaties, but give her time and she'll be swimming like a fish again!!!



What a fun pool toy gma!! Izzy had quite the time getting AND staying on her zebra--but i was able to get a quick shot before the wild zebra bounced her off!!

Goodbye Jodi

I am so very sad. This is Izzy's last day with our beloved babysitter. I hate to even call Jodi that. She was more like Izzy's second mom. She has lovingly cared for Izzy since she was about 8 wks old. We will dearly miss having her take care of Izabella. Jodi we love you!! I can't believe is will be pre-k in the fall. It is going by much too quickly!!

Pinkalicious!

Izzy's last day at Jodi (the ultimate babysitter) was the end of May. She decided she wanted to make pink cupcakes like her new favorite storybook. So here she is making them (seriously what other four yr old do you know that can crack an egg??? She obviously does NOT get her cooking talents from her mommy (aka Betty Sh#t Crocker--lovingly nicknamed that by her family)!!!! We had a blast and these photos will go in the cookbook/scrapbook I have been making for her. (as much as she like to cook the darn thing will be full before she is a teenager!!!!)

Pretty as a rose!

Izzy decided to pick off one of my roses. So I made her pose with it. She thought it was a fun punishment!

Yippee! It's finished!

We finished the front yard landscaping project!! The fountain should be running this week--Aaron was taking the tub to work to get it welded. So maybe by this weekend it will all come together! I think when everything fills in it will look really nice.

Payback

NEVER turn your back to a running water hose!! Izzy decided to get even with me. I am safe on the inside of the house! It seriously took me 15 minutes to get safely out of the house and turn the faucet off!! Little stinker!! It was pretty entertaining!!

Water Play!

These photos were taken the weekend before Memorial wknd (You remember how nice that weekend weather was!) Izzy decided to put her swimsuit on and play--no problem THE NEXT PHOTO IS THE PROBLEM. . .
I came out to find her shampooing her hair!!! The "neighbors" had a field day making fun of us!! That's my girl! Golly, she makes us proud!
This was my payback for making us (her parents) look bad!

Grandpa Johnny

After Izzy's preschool program we went to get Ice cream. I decided to snap a few photos of Izzy and my dad working together--they were playing a SERIOUS game of tic-tac-toe!! It was pretty funny--Iz finally started to figure it out after dad won 5 games!

Family Photos

We had to get some photos of G'ma and G'pa with Izzy all dressed up tonight. These are my parents, Grandpa 'Johnny' and G'ma Judy Here's Aaron's parent, Pa-Pa Dennis and G'ma Janet

This is not one of our better family photos--but they are getting few and far between so this one will have to do!

Seriously would it hurt G'pa Johnny to smile???

Preschool Program

Izzy's preschool spring program was tonight. She looked so cute I decided we would go out and take a picture. These turned out a little nicer than her Easter pics did! First Step Preschool Spring Program
I am absolutely amazed at what these teachers can do. These childern are never able to practice all together--and yet you would never know it !! Izzy's 3and4 year old class did the Pledge, a scripture, and a song. I was amazed she's able to say the Pledge. Ms. Donna did an excellent job.

All the kiddos were cute, but some were just down right adorable. We had a great time laughing at the younger kids. There was a whole lot of dress lifting, squirming, waving, and off key singing going on tonight!!! I must admit it does make me sad--she's growing up entirely too fast!!

It's snowing mommy!

I was in the shower and Izzy comes running in to tell me it's snowing. Naturally, I was confused I mean it is May! So after patiently waiting for me to get out of the shower she directed me to the deck. It's hard to explain to a four year old that this is not snow but hail. Lots and lots of hail!!! So she now looks at it as ice cubes from heaven. Kids have a way with words don't ya think!

Tomboy!

Izzy is definately a Tomboy, she spent most of Saturday helping her daddy work on our landscaping the entire time she was digging for worms. She wanted to go fishing Sat. night--Unfortunately their fishing trip was cut short due to rain.

Here she is proudly showing her prize worm!