If You Give A Baby A Box...

 Britta loves tissue boxes.  She loves taking the tissues out of it (of course) and she loves putting toys and other fun things back into them and pulling them out again.  This girl is so great and entertains herself incredibly well!  (And I just can't get enough of her puffy cheeks!)

Here's my pretty purple bracelet...

 It goes into the box...

Where has it gone??

 Yahtzee!

 Here it is once again!

 And...just a couple of close ups of this happy little girl!

One Last Zoo Hurrah

I took the children to the zoo one last time before school started back up.  Everyone got to pick something to go see, and we even shared our ice cream treats.  Love it when everyone gets along and we can have fun together!

Friendly Ju Ju

Juliana is quite the love bug.  She finds an open lap and snuggle right up!  We met friends for a park day one afternoon.  Juliana and Bridget enjoyed just kicking back and relaxing a bit!

 Juliana also is a good friend and she really likes digging in the sand and dirt.  We love our Ju Ju.

Britta's "New" Shoes

 Look at this cute little girl!!!  We stopped by Grandma's house one day and we tried a pair of my old shoes on her.  And, being the girly-girl that she is, Britta loved how fancy she felt in them.  Gah!  Just LOVE her!

Kari's Sleepover Fun

 Kari's sleep over nights at Grandma's and Grandpa's house is always a party.  From play-doh to dress-up, this girl knows how to par-tae!

 (And Grandpa is a really good sport!)

Lazy Summer Days

With only a couple of weeks left before school (and our crazy fall schedule) starts up again, we took full advantage of just playing outside and relaxing at the pool.

 Bathing beauties!

 And pretty Emily, just chilling

 Also, it was during this time that Britta FINALLY decided to start crawling!  (It was on the trampoline and I got a video of it, but since it takes so long to upload videos to the blog, some pictures of the blessed day will have to suffice.)

These last two pictures just make me smile.  I mean, what is going on with Ju Ju's hair?  She reminds me of Harry from Dumb and Dumber.  And the snoozing Kari and Daddy shot?  Too sweet :-).

Slide the City

Although coming home from our week in Utah was tough on the kiddos, they had Slide the City to look forward to when we came home!  (Slide the City is exactly what it sounds like--a giant slip and slide down the middle of our main street.)

Some old childhood friends of my family's were running this city-wide event and they not only hooked us up with free unlimited ride passes, but they bumped us up in line whenever we came within view.  (Thank goodness for those hook ups too, bc otherwise, it would've been way too much money for a LOT of waiting in line.  I mean, the whole city, plus many more from the Omaha metro, came out for this event.)

 Auntie Erin came out for it too--she knows how to party and the big kids loved it!

After going down a couple of times, we went back home to relieve my mom who had been watching the little girls.  Not too long thereafter, Cubby took Em back with Kari and they met up with some friends and went down a few more times.  Kari LOVED it!