Holy long time, no blog!! Hopefully Nicholas can chill in his activity center long enough for me to post some stuff!!

Let's see... since we last talked a lot has happened!

Ankeny Weekend
July 9-12 we went back to Ankeny. Eric had asked what weekend he could take a couple of days off around so we could go home and I could hang out with my friends. We ended up choosing this one. We drove into town on Friday and just hung out that day. Alison and Ashley spent the night with us at the Miller's house.

On Saturday I went on a wine day trip (6 wineries in 1 day, I think we did well!). Rae, Nick and the girls took Nicholas to the Ankeny Summerfest Parade, check out pics on her website: The Canfield-Barrett Family during the day. Then he hung out with dad for the rest of the day.

Sunday I scrapbooked the day away while Nicholas and dad went over to Jared and Patti's house. It sounded like the kids had fun playing while the dad's hung out. That night we went with my dad and Kelly to Hickory Park! Yum!!!!

Baptism Weekend

This past weekend we had Nicholas' baptism at St Luke's Lutheran in Waukesha. We were so excited that so many people came out to celebrate his big day with us!! On Friday afternoon Nicholas and I showed Katie around with Kim. We met up with Rae, Nick, Alison and Ashley for dinner at Chili's and then went back to their hotel. Nicholas had never been swimming so I brought his suit along. He swam with Katie and LOVED IT!!!

That Saturday we drove down to Jelly Belly in the morning. A few people in the group had never been, so we had to show them what all the fun was about! We followed with lunch at Perkins and some outlet shopping. After dinner we headed to the Waukesha County Fair. It was fun, but a little muddy because of all the rain we had received the past few nights.

Shopping crew

Kim & Alison

Sunday was the big day! We reserved the tea room at Steaming Cup since there was 14 of us!!! From there we went to the baptism just a couple of blocks away. Afterwards we took a few pictures followed by lunch at our house. Nicholas got some wonderful gifts and we love them all! Thank you everyone for coming out and sending cards for his big day

Update

Just to let everyone know, the paperwork has been filed for Nicholas to become a Miller!! In Wisconsin the child has to live in the home for 6 months, which was the 22nd. Hopefully soon we will have our court date and then it will be official!!

Fourth of July weekend!

So, I am not sure why I put an exclamation point... we had a fairly boring fourth weekend. We haven't been very good at planning our trips back to Ankeny on holidays! We were there the past two weekends and then are heading there this weekend so we figured 4 weekends in a row may be a bit too much!

On the fourth we decided to go to the Waukesha Parade. Since it was a Sunday, the parade was moved from 10 am to 1 pm. Well, it was pretty warm here that day so we decided to head to the parade early so we could get a spot in the shade. At 12:15 we found the best spot ever! There was a store whose awning hung out pretty far so we set up shop there. After 45 minutes of hanging out, Nicholas decided to nap as the parade started. Why does he wake up at home if I cough but marching bands can play on by and nothing?? The rest of the day we just hung out until bed time. We decided it was finally time to get Nicholas on a night schedule. It was a lot of tears the first night, but the second night was no crying and tonight was just a couple of minutes! Whoo hoo!!!

Before the parade

When the parade was going on

Eric has off yesterday and today for the fourth. Today we decided to go to the zoo for a couple of hours to get out of the house. We decided to go this morning because it was cloudy and windy. No joke, the second we started walking towards the zoo the breeze stopped and the sun came out! What?!?! Since we have a zoo pass I didn't feel to bad leaving about an hour later.