Sheep Dog Competition

My dad found out about this sheep dog competition that I'd never heard of. It sounded really fun and I had the Saturday off. It was a bit of a drive to Midway and ended up being much warmer than I was expecting. But it was fun. The things I thought the kids would like, they weren't as interested in, but we did find lots of things they did like and Greta said the next day that she wanted to go back :)

This guys' presentation was really boring so we walked over to the hula hoops and Harvey was going to town! He was doing awesome!

We walked over to the dog jumping competition where they jump into a big pool to fetch a toy and they measure how far they jumped. I thought the kids would eat that up but they got bored sooner than we would have liked. So they ran around under the bleachers etc. Then we went and had lunch on the other side of things and they had this little shooting thing set up that Harvey did about 5 times.

They thought this part was pretty cool too!

They had sheep dogs running sheep on the hill that we didn't really watch that we wanted to but the kids were getting tired. Harvey wanted to go back up by the hula hoops and so we did that but my parents left with Laura's kids. (They were watching them for their anniversary overnighter).

We were going to try and watch them sheer a sheep but they didn't have that going on at the time or place the schedule said. And then we happened upon a little critter expo thing. And I'm so happy we did but sad we didn't see it with Logan and Clara. That was my kids favorite part!

He was letting people put the snake around their necks and I thought I ALMOST had Harvey bribed to do it but then he wouldn't. No one would. Oh well. They all touched it :)

Cutest little hedgehog.  And Harvey loved this bearded dragon lizard that you can't see great in the picture with the way the lighting is. He also wanted me to take a video of him petting it which I did but didn't think it made the cut of being included here. Fun day!

Lottie is TWO!



Two whole years with this little spunkster. Everything that comes to mind when I think about Lottie makes me smile. She is smart. She talks SOO much and her voice is the cutest. And she's funny. She does stuff and laughs in a way that you know she knows what she did was clever or funny. When I sneeze, she says "bless you mama". Or to Tanner (who she always calls Tanner, not dad) - bless you Tanner. She has the cutest little giggle too. And she sings lots of songs - "Let it go", the Jesus song (The Miracle), the ABCs. She can count pretty good up to 15 (skips 4 and 5 a lot thought). "I wanna do it MYSELF", with car seat buckles and just about anything. She can throw a MEAN screaming fit tantrum which is a fun aspect of life.  But really - she is my little buddy. She always wants to "hold you" (me) and I love what she's turning into and hearing the things she says and thinks more and more but I want to be able to hold her cute perfect little self forever.

Sometimes I feel like I need to do a better job at making birthdays special with a few extra touches. Tanner picked up these balloons the night before and got donuts - I think it was just perfect. She was so cute when she saw the balloons and was a good little present opener. And loved her donut :)

Mimi had come over the night before to deliver her gift since they were going to be out of town for her actual birthday.

We did a repeat for her party. Went to the Farmington Pool. It worked out perfect again. Should be a tradition but she'll probably have her own opinions about it soon enough. Although she loves the swimming pool. And so does everyone else and it's fun to have a birthday we can do fun in the sun stuff :) My parents and Laura and Heather came. Our friend's Laura and her sister Julia came and sister in law, Nat and kids. I think everyone had a great time!

It was probably about this time that we had a little incident. Harvey was a wild little swimmer without his puddle jumper and was doing somersaults etc etc and would swallow some water and cough a bit and what not. Well, he was coughing quite a bit right after eating pizza and I turned to look just as a large amount of barf was coming out of his mouth and into the pool. Laura looked at me in horror. I ran over to the lifeguard and told her what happened. They made us clear the pool and luckily only a handful of people knew what happened and that we were the culprits. Funny, gross, embarrassing and sad all at once. We figured it was a good time for cupcakes and presents. Haha.

Then when it opened we swam some more till the shut 'er down! It was a blast. This girl is so loved.