Gettysburg

It's been quite a while since we have been able to go on vacation so when Bryan's parents came out we decide to go on a little trip. We rented a van and drove 6 hours to Gettysburg. After a short movie and walk through the museum at the visitors center, we decided to get a tour guide to drive us around. We are soooo glad we did. This man knew so much about the war and Gettysburg, it was like he was there himself. There's no way we would've known who was who and what happened where without this man. Bryan and his Dad watched the movie "Gettysburg" before we left so they knew a little, but i was completely lost. And after 3 hours of our guide feeding us non stop information, i am still lost :) ha ha...maybe this war stuff isn't really my thing. I think the guys really enjoyed it though.I don't think this war stuff was for Ashley either. :) They call this "The Valley Of Death". (self explanatory)

I love this picture of Kaitlyn watching a bug.

Hello Mr. Lincoln!

Zoo, tomatoes and friends

There is nothing more fun than getting together with friends on such a beautiful day and spending it at the zoo. . The kids had so much fun playing with each other and seeing the animals. It was nice for us Moms to play with our friends too :)

I love my girls in glasses! Soo cute

These are the 3D glasses we got from "Toy Story 3". That was their first movie in a theatre and they actually did pretty good. (As long as they had popcorn to shove in their faces :) ) They even kept the glasses on most of the time.

I love the hair! Ha ha. Kaitlyn is jumping on her little enclosed trampoline

My little cutie!

Ever since we moved into our house i have been wanting to start a garden but kept putting it off because i didn't even know where to start. I had never grown anything. My wonderful neighbor stopped by with 3 tomato plants so i decided to plant them and see what happend.

I actually grew something and they turned out great! i don't really like tomatoes but Bryan and Kaitlyn have been loving them. Maybe next year i will get daring and try squash or some other veggies too.

Last month Bry and the girls went with our good friends, the Murdocks, to the Ohio State fair. Unfortunately I was not able to go because of a sprained knee. But it was nice to get some alone time and it looked like they all had a blast.

In August i hosted a "Diaper Shower" for my good friend Britni who was expecting her second boy. What a fun group of girls! I am so lucky to have found such wonderful friends here in Ohio

Kirtland Trip!

A little over a month ago, two of my sisters came to visit me for a few days! Unfortunately their 5 day visit turned into a 4 day visit because of a cancelled flight. :( We spent 4 days traveling all over Ohio. Our first stop was the Prime Outlet stores in Jeffersonville. Lets just say we over saved (especially Rachel :) ) The second day we traveled to Kirtland Ohio to see the Temple and some of the church sights there. Day 3 was spent relaxing and included seeing the 3rd Twilight movie "Eclipse" with some friends. The last day, my wonderful husband took the kids for a whole entire day while us girls traveled to Cedar point amusement park in Cleveland! Like usual, i wish we would've taken more pictures of our week but we did take plenty of Kirtland..
These are some of the rooms in the Whitney Red Store

These are some of the rooms in the N.K. Whitney store.

This store was very significant in church history. It was the place where the school of the prophets was held and where Joseph lived with his family for a while. The table shown actually belonged to Joseph Smith and that room is where he translated some of the Book Of Mormon and received many revelations for the church.
The many cute faces of ashley!

At the beginning of our tour, we received little comment cards to fill out and return to the missionaries afterward. Kaitlyn was so cute with her card! Every place we went she would stop and write on her card (little circles and scribbles) Sooo cute!

The Kirtland Temple! Unfortunately the "Community of Christ Church" would not let us take pictures inside but it was an amazing experience to be able to see inside and hear about it's history and the things that took place there.

Oh Tara, this was just too cute to not post! lol

I had so a fun week with my sisters! It was just too short :( Love you girls! xoxoxo Thanks for coming!

Our Summer So Far

I have been really bad about blogging lately. Two of my sisters came out about a month ago and spent a week hanging out and traveling around Ohio with me. I have been really wanting to blog about it but haven't found a way to convert all of our pictures to jpeg. Hopefully you will see them soon. Other than that we really haven't done anything too exciting and my camera has been tucked away in a drawer for most of the last 2 months. Bryan has been extremely busy with Dental school, the MBA program and studying for boards. We finally have boards out of the way so we'll see how things will be with Bryans schedule now. I am so proud of how hard he has been working. We just have to keep telling ourselves it will all be worth it.

Here are a few pictures of our Summer so far.

The girls love helping Daddy mow the lawn

The water fountains at the park

This face makes me laugh

Kaitlyn got a trophy at the end of soccer season. She was so proud!

Last Saturday Bryans mom came out for a short little visit. We decided to spend our morning at the Columbus Zoo.

I love the look on Kaitlyns face :)

The girls are showing off their little monkeys Grandma got them at the Zoo.

soccer Girl!

Our little girl was doomed from the beginning! Before Kaitlyn was even born, Bryan said she would be a soccer player :). After watching her play (or stand and look around) for 5 minutes we decided soccer might not be the THING she was meant to do. Lol!!! Ok, we will cut her a break. She is only 3 and all of the other kids were about as skilled as Kaitlyn. It's a little frustrating to watch but also the cutest thing ever!! With a little practice and time she just might be that soccer player Bryan has always hoped for. Amongst all the chaos, she did kick the ball a few times!!! Those were proud moments ha ha :)
I love the way her pictures turned out! Isn't her team cute? Kaitlyn was the only girl on her team, but she had no problem handling all these boys :) Here she is in action!