A GREAT giveaway

I don't usually blog about giveaway's but this one is really great and I would love to win it! It's for a Bubleride Indie Twin Stroller. I don't need it yet...but would love to put it away for one day when I have 2 to push around (Lord willing ;o)). You too can enter to win...head over to Two of a Kind Working on a Full House to enter!

Free Fun Friday-Concert in the Park

Every Tuesday at Capitol Park there is a free concert! We took in our first one of the summer this week...and had a nice time together just relaxing as a family. Amazingly, Hannah sat on the blanket the WHOLE time...she really loves music! We enjoyed some Irish music and Hannah loved to clap her hands.

There are so many FREE FUN activities going on all around us (esp. in the summer)...we just have to find them. If you don't live in Redford...I'm sure that your city has free fun activities too. Just log onto your cities website (and the others around you: there are tons of great things to do all around metro Detroit) and see if you can find some free fun. What kinds of free & fun things have you been doing this summer?! For more ideas for local fun head over to Run the Earth, Watch the Sky and share your free idea too!

A self portrait of our family. There was a man from Redford there taking pictures for our yearly calendar and he took a shot of our family too...who knows..maybe you'll see us on this years calendar :)

Seth has been picking up the camera more these days, and I'm glad he has...I just love this shot he got of Hannah!

My first 100 words

Mommy can barely keep up with all of my new words...but she has been trying to keep track...and I'm at 100!! Here they are!

You can see my first 57 words here.
58. egg
59. I don't know
60. stuck
61. yucky
62. diaper
63. flowers
64. Hannah
65. good girl
66. banana
67. off
68. goat
69. animals
70. monkey
71. cheese
72. round-round
73. rain
74. mine
75. movie (says boive)
76. soup
77. stairs
78. bad
79. hand
80. cup
81. big
82. hug
83. pray
84. block
85. horsey
86. want
87. jello (ello)
88. nap
89. rock
90. Elmo
91. truck
92. poopy
93. roll
94. Joshua
95. Noah
96. nap
97. ouch
98. keys
99. play
100. airplane

Hannah Plays & First Ouchie

We enjoyed a visit from Dad Finnegan and his friend Rick today. Unfortunately, none of the pictures I took turned out too great. Hopefully Mom F. will have some on her camera that she can share ;o). We enjoyed having pizza for lunch and visiting for a little bit before they headed back home.

It's been a while since we've posted any videos, so here are some videos of Hannah at play. I love how she says "Oh No" and bops to the music while she plays :) Enjoy!

She just learned how to turn the train around to face the person that she is driving it too...so that's exciting!
Hannah was playing outside with Daddy and fell on the sidewalk and scraped her knees. (actually I finally got it out of Daddy that they were running on the sidewalk :)). She has actually fallen several times since and always has to show her ouchie. She loves her hello kitty bandaids and keeps them on great.

A beautiful day at Plymouth Sprayscape

Today we met our mops group at the Plymouth Sprayscape. This morning we thought that it might be a little chilly to run around and get wet, but it quickly warmed up and the sun was shining...such a beautiful day! Hannah had so much fun. She was a little chicken to run right though the water..but enjoyed walking all around the perimeter of the spray scape, and splashing in the puddles. Joshua and Hannah decided that they would love to bring their daddy's back some evening for a picnic and playtime in the water!

Taking a snack break with Joshua

She looks so tiny here...she was getting a little brave.



I believe that this was her first time playing in the sand. Noah was nice enough to share his shovel & pail and dump truck, but was too bashful for a picture

The Fourth of July

We had a very enjoyable and relaxing Fourth of July. Our friends Marian & Narcisa and Jeff & Amber came over for a bbq and yard games. It's funny, because sometimes we get so busy that we don't see much of each other...but we really enjoyed the friendship and fellowship this week :)

ladder ball~ Marian & Narcisa ended up being the champs of the day


She loves Amber!

silly faces

SMORES!

A day at the zoo

On Friday we took our first trip of the summer to the zoo. Daddy and Mommy bought a membership, so we should be able to take many more trips. We had a great time seeing the animals and enjoying the beautiful weather. It was super crowded though, I think everyone else had the same great idea as we did...but we still had a great time!

So tired from a busy day at the zoo