June was filled with absolute fun! Olivia and I visited Colorado and Nebraska, Gramma and Grampa Schurz came to visit, and there was plenty to do in between all the family and friends!
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| Aunt Terri holding baby Jaeslee. She was 10 months here and last time we saw her she was 2 weeks old. She is precious and gorgeous! |
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| Scottie and Jaeslee. The greatest Dad! |
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| Olivia and Jaeslee loved each other. Every time Olivia would come back into Jaeslee's sight she would light up with the biggest smile. |
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| We found an inchworm and put it in Livi's fairy garden. She watched it FOREVER. She is our bugloving girl :) |
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| "cheese." Our plane trip to Colorado. |
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| Coming into Chicago |
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| Grandma and Grandpa Smalberger's amazing back yard. |
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| Of course we visited Nadxieli! It was so fun to see "baby" Torrence and Abuela and everyone. |
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| Playing with the Quiet Book Grammy made |
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| 4 wheeling! |
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| cooling off in the stream |
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| playing She-Ra dolls with Uncle Scottie |
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| building fairy houses |
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| smores |
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| We got to meet up with Aunt Jennifer, Asher, Hannah, Gramma and Grampa Schurz for an afternoon, too. Such special times! |
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| another fairy house |
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| lunch at an adorable coffee house in Florissant |
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| a favorite: playing in the playhouse at Grammy and Granddad's farm (with my cousin's baby, Carson) |
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| we beat the intense heat with sprinklers |
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| even Grandpa and Uncle Bill joined in :) |
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| and Granddad! |
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| and Grandma! |
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| beating the heat in the sand pits |
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| building with Grammy |
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| Grammy had all kinds of fun and cool things planned for the Smets reunion. Kite building was one of them! |
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| the finished product |
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| popscicles beat the heat, too, you know |
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| Grandpa and Cousin Brent |
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| Granddad loves to spoil his great grand kids. He brought out the stock tank, cleaned it all up and filled it with water for a swimming pool! |
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| ...and then he got in, too |
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| Olivia tricked Grandpa by throwing a water balloon at him when he was least expecting it ;) |
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My Uncle Steve working on his kite. It won the flying contest BY
FAR. It even broke off it's string and flew over the train tracks to the highway! |
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| ladder ball |
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| 4 generations |
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| running after the tractor trailer |
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| caught it! |
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| Olivia loved Cousin Connie's doggie Lulu, and Connie loved Olivia ;) |
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| Olivia was a really great traveler. She slept a bit both ways, which helped. |
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| Lupine and Iris bouquet from the garden |
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| lunching in their "house" at the library. (Jonathan and Livi) |
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| Just doing a little dancing at Lowes while figuring out decking stuff. |
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| sidewalk chalk with Gramma Schurz |
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| Like Father Like Son |
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| can you tell I love my fresh bouquet's from the garden |
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| downtown with Grandpa Schurz and her new pony |
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| climbing her favorite tree at waterfront park |
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| taking orders at her restaurant |
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| beach time of course! |
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| prepping the clams after clamming at the beach |
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| garden progress |
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| tea at the bookstore |
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| the kickoff to the summer reading program at the library |
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| We are so thankful for Grampa Schurz and his major help building the deck. He even stayed longer than Gramma to help finish it up! |
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| Livi's firswt trip to the dentist |
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| Someone's half birthday |
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| balsa wood airplane flying |
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| Livi's first swim lessons. She did awesome! |
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| the finished deck. don't they do good work?! |
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| building a pumpkin trellis. |
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| on a nature walk with her new nature kit |
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| princess castle with Daddy and Grandpa |
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| strawberry picking |
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| She wants to do a pose with her arm up almost any time I take a picture now. A future star of some sort ;) |
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| clamming |
2 comments:
Wow! What a month of fun-filled adventures!
I love this look into your life! I've been thinking of you lately & missing you! I can't believe how big your baby is! Love you, friend! <3
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