Angie's Birthday pics

My 32nd birthday was on Oct. 18th. We had some fun posing for these pictures because that same day, Johnathan's new fun toy came in the mail! We bought him a tee ball set and it is also an automated baseball pitcher. So it can shoot up to 4 balls out at you. It is SO much fun! Johnathan likes it a lot, but he gets frustrated because he can't hit the balls too well when they shoot out at him. We also did a confetti shooter in the backyard for my birthday which was really fun.

Man, my belly looks like a ball here!

Out to a fun dinner at Old Chicago. Had deep dish pizza which was SO yummy!

Halloween Party at Preschool!

He is an Elephant this year. So cute! I bought this costume on sale after halloween last year, and luckily it fits okay.

Johnathan goes to preschool for 1 hour on Tuesday mornings from 9-10am with Mom. I stay the whole time so it's something we do together. He really enjoys it!

Here's all his critter classmates.

This is Johnathan's teacher...Miss Kori. He really likes her.

Fun at Preschool

Johnathan putting his name up on the school bus.

Fishing for apples in a water bucket. Johnathan loves this game.

Craft time.

Johnathan as Shrek at home. : )

27...Funny timing

I just realized and find it funny that today, Johnathan turned 27 months old, and today, I turned 27 weeks pregnant. Both kiddo's today are 27....something. : ) Funny coincidence.

Pumpkin Festival in Aurora

Giggly on Old Fashioned Rootbeer. : )

Video for Butch

Sorry, this is just a video for Butch's birthday coming up, for my Mom. You can ignore it or watch it, whatever is fine. She just needed it sent, and it was slightly too big to send over email. Tell me if it works, Mom.

Trip to South Dakota: (Crazy Horse)

We took a FABULOUS road trip to South Dakota on Sept 24-26th, 2011. We wanted to go on one more trip as a family before our family changed again and it got even MORE difficult to travel (with more kids). This was Johnathan's first road trip. We probably won't be flying much more at all anymore due to cost of 3-4 people now. We won't fly again until next summer (august to spokane). Anyway, we've always wanted to go see Mount Rushmore. So we finally went!
It is only a 6 hour drive from Denver, CO! So this was the time to go.


Crazy Horse was our first stop and it was really cool to see. They still only have the face done (and a little big of the pointing finger). It is VERY slow going work. We will definitely all be gone by the time it is done.

Johnathan running around in front of Crazy Horse. One of the many funny quotes that happened on this road trip was, "I pooped at Crazy Horse". : )

He said that on his own on the last day of our trip. So funny!

Our Cabin

We got the cutest little cabin in the woods in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It just had these 2 rooms. It was nice having our own kitchenette. We gave Johnathan his own queen bed, which actually worked out really well. He slept in that A LOT better than he would have in the small pack n' play. He's too big for that now. And he loved having his own big bed.

This whole thing was our little cabin. We loved its location and it was only $89 a night.

Bear Country, USA

We went to Bear Country, USA which is right close to Mt. Rushmore. Lots of great tourist things to do in this area. This was one of our favorites! As the sign says, you drive through the wild animals and you have to keep your windows up and sunroof closed at all times. It was SO tempting to roll down the window briefly to get a great picture. But you couldn't. We LOVED being up close and personal with the animals.

Each new animal was only separated by a wide cattle guard. I was amazed the animals didn't just try to take a running leap over it. These were the Arctic Wolves. Beautiful dogs. : )

Bear Country has about 100 bears and 2 grizzlies. That's a lot!

Bear Country, USA cont...

Nate with a Bighorn Sheep staring him down.

Johnathan cruisin' through the Bear exhibit.

Bears loungin' around.

Bear Country, USA cont...

Big black bear! He was a huge guy.

Cute older brown bear.

We LOVED Bear Country!

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I asked him to howl like a wolf...and he did it!

We LOVED the baby bear exhibit! Lots of baby bears!

Johnathan, 2 yrs old.

Oh so cute!

Bear Country, USA...last

That is an otter climbing out of the water...on the right side.

This place has the coolest gift shop known to man. : )

Wall Drug

What a FUN place to stop on your drive from Rapid City, SD to the Badlands. This is what you see all the "Wall Drug" signs for like every mile leading up to it. Johnathan had a load of fun there. Lots of fun eye candy for us.

Chief Johnathan James

Tons and tons of stores amongst here.

Badlands

This was quite a sight to see. We were glad we drove the extra hour and a half to go see the Badlands. It is just such unique terrain. I thought it is what hell would look like...if you added fire.

Could you image anyone trying to cross through these? People do I guess.

Fun family photo at the Badlands.