Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk is the one with the helmet behind me for those who don't know.

I got home from school early today and checked my twitter account and saw the following on tony hawk's twitter:"

4 Seasons Skatepark, Milwaukee, 4pm, ta-ta-ta-today Junior!" So I grabbed Natalie and we took off to 4 seasons and watched tony and friends skate the bowl. Natalie's favorite was Kevin Staab

because he had purple hair and purple leopard skin shin pads.

We were right on the edge of the bowl and got to stand next to many of the pros as they waited to drop in; including Tony.

Natalie also got two mini tony hawk skateboards and loved playing with them on the mini skate park.

Tony Hawk Skating

Natalie mini-skating

Fall is Coming

Fall is definitely in the air here in Wisconsin. School has started, activities are in full swing, the weather is cooling off, and I swear I saw some leaves beginning to change. We're excited for fall, but not Winter, so we hope we have a long, long fall ahead of us. With the beginning of September Natalie has started many new activities. She is loving life and getting way too big. This is a massive post so sorry if you get bored halfway through.

One day while I was getting ready Natalie decided to organize her books and bring way too many of them downstairs to organize them on the shelves in the living room. So cute, but it definitely took us awhile to carry them up the stairs to put them away again.

Natalie had her first trip to the dentist and it was a success! No cavities and she was a brave girl. She wasn't necessarily scared of the dentist, she is just way shy with new people so this was a definite success.

Natalie also started dance a couple of weeks ago and really looks forward to it. I think she is still shy in class, but is loving it.

One day Myleigh and Natalie we playing and I found them in Natalie's room, they made a "fort" and were having so much fun reading books in it. After I took these pictures I forgot to put the camera away and they found it and took great pictures of each other. I have never heard two girls have so much fun with a camera before, they were so cute.

Thanks to our good friends Shawn and Bird Patrick and I were able to escape to Chicago over Labor Day weekend by ourselves for the night. It was so wonderful. I know the picture below is a little weird, but I was messing with it and accidentally saved the changes, and Patrick had already deleted the original. Also I am sporting the windblown look. Chicago definitely earned the name Windy City while we were there, it was crazy I almsost got blown away a few times. We had a great time, stayed in a hotel on Lake Michigan, shopped went out to dinner, walked Navy Pier and braved the "L" and the bus system to get around. It was a fun break and we were excited to see our girls when we got home. Thanks again Ostlers.

Natalie started preschool this last week with her friends, us moms are teaching them. She was so excited to go with her backpack and loves it. She actually has come home and talked all about it and told us all of the fun things she did. I hope that she keeps telling me what she did all year,

I love hearing her tell about it.

For those of you who have seen the picture of Natalie at the St. George Marathon when she was this age you can definitely see the resemblence of sisters. Natalie was wearing this same outfit, minus the bow and they look so similar. Rebecca looks more like me and Natalie is a better mix of the two of us we have decided.

REBBIE

NATALIE

Cute Rebecca all ready for the day, she is getting way too big, I finally had to pull out some warmer/bigger clothes for her, I can't believe she is almost 6 months old.

There was a kite festival along Lake Michigan this weekend. We have been so excited to go for awhile now, and woke up this morning to rain, of course. The last 6 or 7 times Patrick has been off and ready to go on a bike ride it has rained, we have to stop planning for him to go on a ride so we don't have anymore rainy weekends. The rain did clear up though and we were able to go and enjoy the festival. Taylor and Eliza braved the clouds and joined us too. The girls loved the stroller like always, I think we should write our stroller company and tell them to market this stroller as a triple stroller instead of a double. Whenever we use it I am either pushing 3 kids or 1, I think I have only pushed 2 kids once. They love it though.

Can you tell we woke Becca up from her nap to go to the festival? She did fall back asleep eventually while we were there she is such a good girl.

These cut outs to take pictures in provided the girls with lots of entertainment. Natalie enjoyed teasing me while I was trying to take a picture and playing peek a boo with Eliza. They finally posed for Taylor in the end.

Natalie and Elize spinning the wheel. The girls had so much fun running around and watching the kites.

Family picture by Lake Michigan, the lake is so beautiful and fun to live by. The kits flying by the lake looked so neat.

They had some of the kids help hold down the netting over the balloons while they were waiting to launch them. Natalie took her job very seriously and did not move until they told her to.

The launch of the balloons and kits, Natalie was so excited.

My Girls

Here are some snapshots of our summer, sorry the most recent ones are first, going all of the way back to 4th of July. These first pictures are taken of Rebecca when she was 5 months yesterday! Crazy how time flies. We are loving having our two girls and they sure love each other.

Eating rice ceral-kind of, she is not sold on the idea yet as you can see.
Getting upset when I'm hungry and I don't think mom is fast enough getting my food.

Natalie feeding Rebecca a bottle.

5 Month Pictures

Stretching and growing (finally-We took her for a weight check on Monday 11 lb 8 oz at 5 months)

Tummy time- I'm liking it more and more, mostly because I know how to roll over now to get off my tummy when I get mad.

Having water fights in the backyard with Myleigh.

Sitting in the Bumbo and thinking I am so big!

Brewer's Games- They definitely have not won as much as last year though.

4th of July- We loved the parade, ward party and most of us liked the fireworks!

Fun in the Sun

After our fun filled vacation with our families we came back to Milwaukee a week before Patrick had to start his rotations and enjoyed time together exploring Wisconsin. Here are a bunch of pictures from our adventures. Also sorry to my family the girls and I spend almost two weeks there, but did not get any pictures to document the time, we had a blast though and really enjoyed swimming and playing with the family.

On Wednesday we went to a lake close to our house with the Ostlers to let the girls enjoy the water and sand. As you can see Natalie also really enjoyed eating cherries while she warmed up.

Here is Rebecca's 3 month picture, can you believe 3 months has passed by, I can't. She is a delight to have in our family and a wonderful addition. Natalie loves her, sometimes too much. Rebecca is getting so big and is starting to really love to grab toys and things and tries to put them in her mouth. The thing I find in her mouth the most often right now is her clothes, she grabs them and pulls them up to her mouth, I guess I should get the poor girl out some more toys. She is a great sleeper and always happy. If she is crying it is usually my fault, either she is hungry or tired, those are really the only times she cries. Rebecca is growing up way too fast, and is changing everyday.

On Saturday we went to Strawberry Fest in Cedarburg. We had never been there before. The town is so beautiful and the festival was very fun to walk around. We found a new favorite Sprecher soda while we were there, Strawberry; Natalie loved it. Below is Natalie and Patrick building a bird house together, they had free crafts in the kids area, Natalie is so proud of her bird house and painted it pink and green before putting it in the back yard.

Here is Becca enjoying the shade while Natalie built her bird house. She is trying her hardest to get her outfit in her mouth, but onsies don't work as well as dresses.

This last picture is of Sunday morning, Natalie and I went outside to blow bubbles. We had a great time and Natalie loved chasing the bubbles. It had rained the night before and was still cloudy, which for some reason made the bubbles all rainbow colored and Natalie thought they looked so cool.

Now this week had been back to reality, with Patrick at school in orientation, tomorrow he actually goes to start his first rotation in family practice. Natalie keeps telling him he doesn't go to school anymore now he gets to go do doctor things and help people.

Also today is our 4 year anniversary, I can't believe we've already been married four years, time sure flies by. Last night Patrick and I celebrated by going to Summerfest. It was a blast to see all of the bands, but the people watching stole the show and made the whole evening enertaining. Thanks Ostlers for watching our girls so we could enjoy an evening out!