Sweet Summertime

Summer is always busy and these last few weeks have been no exception.

Joel and I were able to have a date night a few weekends ago.  He got free tickets to the Joe Nichols concert at the fair, so I dropped the girls off at Mom's for the night and we headed to the fair.  Free admission, food, and alcohol?  Sounds like a good night to me! 

Joe Nichols at the County Fair

We got to the VIP section of the concert and were surprised to see a few people we knew.  I even saw Gracia Harrison from last season's "The Voice".  Joel was embarrassed when I went up and asked her for a picture with me, but he got over it.

Gracia Harrison

Me and Kaila

Ainsley asked me to paint her fingernails one morning, and I just shrugged her off because she's never let me before.  That evening, I asked her if she wanted me to paint them and she said yes.  She actually sat still on the kitchen island and let me paint them.  She was so excited afterwards and kept looking down at them and had to run downstairs to show Joel.  I caught her looking at them throughout the night and the next day.  I've already re-painted them once since then.

Time flies when you're having fun, right?  This summer must be flying by for Ainsley because it seems like we do something every day.  We've played at the park...

Love these blue boards....I'll be going back to take more pictures of her on them!

Taken my car through the car wash, which she thought was pretty fun...

The faces of Ainsley in the car wash

And, visited Daddy at work one day after getting ice cream at Placke's...


Ainsley was excited about going to Mimi's house.  She calls Minnie Mouse "Mimi" and didn't quite understand...

Jim and Joel have been busy moving dirt around in preparation for a new shed.  It's starting to look different.  Ainsley enjoyed running around with Daddy for a few minutes.

Ainsley thinks my phone belongs to her, and has even figured out how to take pictures.  She loves to take "selfies" and we took a few one day.  She's also managed to post a status on Facebook, "like" pictures on both Facebook and Instagram, send friend requests to a few people, and who knows what else! 

Lily's over the "selfies"!

 I caught Ainsley rubbing one of her baby's heads.  I guess she was looking for some hair!

I love turning the corner and seeing my girl looking at books in our bed.

We can't forget about Lily.  She's been busy sitting in her bumbo seat and talking with Daddy.

If you have a spare 10 minutes sometime and want to hear a good story about how I almost got arrested a few weekends ago, get in touch with me.  For now, I'll just let you know that you can be arrested for keeping three softballs, valued at $8 each that land in your yard for "intentially taking someone else's property".