Down and Dirty!

Corina Jo
Corina came over to our house to play last night! She found our "sand box" it was an area the former owners had the filter for their pool sitting in and it's sand, about 4-6 inches deep. PERFECT! It's not very big either just 2ft x 1ft. We had fun! I went and got her this cup and spoon and she was entertained for about 1 1/2 hours with walnut breaks. See we have these nasty, stinky, gross walnut trees. Well the walnuts are starting to fall off and Mike decided he was going to throw some at the shed. Corina sees this and says "ball?!?!?!" so she went and helped Uncle Mikey rid the yard of walnuts. It was so much fun we were picking them off the tree! By the time we were all done playing, even I had sand down my shirt!


I'm pretty sure she was counting when I took this one. She can count to 14...she's not even 2 yet!!!!!
Neat-o effect!!!
GIANT BABY!!!

This is Blake. He is out friend Jon's son. He's turning 1 on Friday!
He had a hold of the camera...he wanted to see!!!
Corina's foot in the sand

Playing "catch" (throw the cup at each other)

This is Jon and Blake!

I am ta human jungle gym! Good thing I'm soft! :)

I can't wait to have kids, but it's sure fun to send them home!

Welcome to our world my new cousin!!

Welcome home "Baby Girl" Harder!

Everyone, meet my new cousin!

She doesn't have a name yet but she was born at 8:39 this morning. She is 8 lbs 7 oz, and 21 1/4 inches long.

Isn't she beautiful?

Congratulations Don and Shelley!

Take me out to the ball game...

Mike...not having fun...Mike Having FUN!

It's Buck!


Aren't the lil guys so cute? 5th and 6th graders!
Baseball Hat, Popcorn,
1 beer per inning...were good!!! Haha!!
Ok so I didn't really have 1 beer per inning but it looks that way because it was a double header and they were only 7 inning games.
I think we are bad luck. We stayed for the whole 1st game and then about 1/2 of the 2nd game and they lost the 1st game. There were losing when we left during the second game, but right after we left they came back with 7 runs in one inning!!! GO BUCKS!
We had a really fun time thanks to Eric, someone Mike works with who gave us the tickets to go! He was there and made the night really fun! We also won tickets to any game we want to go to and Eric won 5 Bucks! :) We had a great night!

Ouch! Charlie Bit me!

This is Charlie.

Charlie is very very very hungry!!
Charlie didn't bite me but he woulda if I wouldn't have had that bottle!! :) Charlie is a survivor! He almost didn't make it but he's doing great now and growing up quick.

We were visiting our friend Allison at her new house in Hudson and her parents were there. Her mom said it was time to go feed the baby cows and I informed her of my love of cows. She invited me and Mike along and it was so fun! I couldn't believe how fast they took down a 1/2 gallon of formula! Under 3 minutes!

Allison got the cutest house in Hudson and had to show it off to us! We ended up staying late and had a really good time!

Saturday

We were supposed to go to our Morse family reunion at Aunt Tommy's house, but I felt terrible and didn't want to go anywhere. I pretty much just layed around the house all day and didn't do anything. By about 4 I was feeling a little better and decided I could leave the house. We went to the Cedar Falls Raceway for The Night of Fire. Sounds cool huh?? We stayed for a while but I felt so terrible I couldn't really enjoy it. It was hot and loud and don't even try to blow your nose with porto john tp!!!! Normally these things don't bother me but that day the really did. So we stayed till about 8 or 8:30 and headed out. We will try and go again when we can stay and have fun. Well I fell asleep in the car on the way home and pretty much went to bed after that, on a Saturday night!!! I was mad! Luckily our friend Jon was there for Mike to hang out with.

Sunday

Well another wasted day.

I think I got one load of laundry from the washer to the dryer. That is what I did.

I managed to get my butt in the shower at about 5:30 trying to make myself feel better. No luck. Well I felt cleaner. I pretty much napped on and off all day. I felt much better by 8 last night and was able to really eat again! I WAS SO HUNGRY!

Haha! Well I went to bed hoping I would feel better today. When I woke up I felt good not stuffed up at all! Then I was on my way to work and blah it hit again. But I figure oh well I'm already here what's the point in going home. If it's really slow I will be leaving early. No point in sitting here suffering for no reason. OK I'm done complaining now! Everyone, HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!

The Baby Borrowers!!!!

Mike's new "occupation". No he is not making drugs. He is melting Lead in to muffin tins....to sell for money...
What does he use to melt the lead?? A turkey fryer burner...it gets HOT HOT HOT!
This is what the finished product looks like, there is about 30 pounds here, so about $60.00. Cool.
Well Corina came over to our house yesterday! We were babysitting for Adam and Cassy. We got to play together all night! We were supposed to be babysitting while Adam got some sleep but since he missed his little girl he couldn't sleep and we all went out to eat for Mexican!! Oh, that was after he locked his keys in his truck and Mike rescued him...again.
I found this cute outfit at Dusk to Dawn and just knew she would love it and never want to take it off. I was right! She's a Butterfly..."Prity BuFly"!


Corina the Butterfly learning to Fly!!
Dancin!!!
She loves her Daddy!

We had so much fun! Daddy had to leave and go to work and Corina was such a good girl and came inside with me so SHE could go to bed, but we both ended up in bed sleeping until Mommy came and got her about 10:45. All in all no problems, she's such a good almost terrible two year old!! Best hugger ever!

Rain Rain GO AWAY!!

Mike's Sister Pam from Colorado and Mike's mom Jeni!

Happy Birthday Ladies!
Mike and I at Faraday's in the Casino.
Dave, Pam's boyfriend and Pam
Mike's Sister Tammy's new Daughter Brianna. My newest Niece!

Well Mike's mom and Sister's, Pam and Tammy, all have birthdays in the same week! July 18th, 19th, and 20th! So every year Mike's sister Pam comes to Iowa to visit! We got together on Tuesday night when they got into town and showed off our house and grilled Brats and Burgers. We had fun!
So Friday night we went to the Casino where they were staying to have dinner and go swimming etc. We had fun eating at Feredays. We had steaks and fried cheese cake! That was my favorite! Mike couldn't finish his so yum yum I got to!
After that we stayed around and tried our luck, no luck! We also met Pam's 1/2 sister Boo. They got there much later and we were ready for bed! So we headed home. We lazed around a little on Saturday and the Jon came over and we went to see the Amish! We stopped and several stores then went to Oelwein and went to Pamida! I LOVE PAMIDA! We then went out to eat at Los Flores! Yummy Yummy Yummy! We finally headed back home and got all cleaned up because we were going to have a bon fire and some friends were coming over. We then, the storm blew in and put us in a Tornado watch until midnight so everyone but Jon and Lisa stayed home! So we just hung out in the garage! We had a great time and Lisa and I were able to catch up! We ended up in bed by midnight.
Sunday we go up and around about 11 and lazed around for a while. Then I went swimming with Cassy and Corina, while Mike "cleaned" the garage and fertilized the yard. It was darn hot out! After we went swimming Cassy and Corina and Jon all came and we hung out and watched some TV. All in All it was a good weekend! :) Oh and I got almost all our laundry done! :)