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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Horseshoe Shuffle

This weekend was the Prokop's annual horseshoe tournament. Chad's cousin was ever so gracious to babysit while we attended the event. Chad plays in it every year, and this was my first year to actually participate (usually me and the kids just cheer). To everyone's surprise, Lindsey and I did very well. We placed 4th out of 12 teams! We were defeated by Daylon and Jeff twice to send us out of the game, and they then competed with Chad and Jason for the championship. It was a pretty close game, but Chad and Jason walked away with yet another victory.

On Sunday, we took the kids to the Czech parade. Brock looks forward to getting candy every year. It's too bad it was so hot and we couldn't stay out there longer.

For some reason, we thought this float was hilarious.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Where did our baby go???

Not only is Sophie crawling, she is now sitting up, pulling herself up on things, and standing! She gets pretty daring when she is standing and will let go to see what happens. That doesn't always end so good. She is pretty independent when it comes to playing by herself, but when she's done playing, she will come and find me wherever I am.

We got a letter the other day from Brock's preschool saying that it starts in a couple of weeks. He is so excited to see all of his friends again!

Baseball practice

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Congrats!

Our friends, Matt and Amy, just had their twin baby girls, Isabella and Amelia. We went and visited them in the hospital yesterday, and they are absolutely adorable! Congrats to them on their new adventure! Kind of makes me want another baby... ;)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

SURPRISE! CHAD'S 30!

After months and months of planning and with A LOT of help from from my family and Chad's family, I was able to throw a successful surprise 30th bday party for Chad! We totaled up the numbers today and figured right at 90 people (including kids) were here to celebrate Chad's birthday. It was so much fun to have everyone here, and we greatly appreciate everyone coming out!

The planning begins...

Setup for the party.

30 balloons lined the picket fence.

Grammie and Ella

Brock wrote this banner for Daddy.

Coming home from an all-day golf outing. Here he comes!

SURPRISE!!!

Ella was on her fifth bag of Cheetos.

It's Daddy's birthday! Have another bag!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Videos

Here are some videos from the other weekend that I finally got downloaded.

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We're so proud...

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Sophie Crawls!

Sophie is officially crawling! She got her arms working a couple of days ago, and now you can't stop her. She is still our gummy baby with no teeth yet, and that's okay because we're in no hurry for her to grow up!

I have a couple of cute videos to post later, but for now, here are some pics from the weekend.

Brock and Ethan on Grandpa and Grandma's slide.

Sophie and Boomer

Sophie loungin'.

Ella putting on her own sunscreen.

Looking for beans.

Washing and eating beans.

Monday, July 6, 2009

4th of July Weekend

For the 4th, we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house. Chad was in a golfing tourney with Uncle Loyd and Ethan that afternoon, and they won! He later met me and the kids over at Grandma and Grandpa's. They bought a huge water slide for the kids to play on, and Brock couldn't get enough. Ella went down one time, and that was enough for her. They had a fun time playing with their cousins and lighting smoke bombs. After supper, we came home to put Sophie to bed, then we lit our fireworks. Brock really enjoyed the ones that zipped up in the air and tried to attack us. Yeah...didn't care for those too much!