Fall!

These are pics from a couple weeks ago of the Moellercoaster! My dad put this together, it originally was just off the picnic table, then it moved from the playset, over the picnic table.....now it starts on top of the playset! The kids and adults love it!

With the awesome fall weather, we have been trying to enjoy some time outside!

Man, I love this smile!

The week started out with Steve not feeling good, then Wednesday morning Presley woke up coughing and sounding terrible! It sounded like she had a hard time breathing, she could barely talk...ugh. And once again we called Grandma for emergency back up daycare! I dropped off Piper at Generation and then Presley off at mom's. Of course by then, the coughing at decreased and she could talk just fine. Oh well, a day with grandma would make everything better, right? :)

 

Thursday we decided to take the kids to the Johnston homecoming parade! We weren't expecting much, we even told Presley that we weren't sure there would be candy and that this was just for fun. Holy parade! For a highschool homecoming parade I was impressed (of course, I haven't been to one for 17 years either, but who's counting?)....45 minutes later, after fighting 3000 other kids for candy we had a nice stash! The kids were pretty good, Piper was scared but sat back and opened up sucker after sucker, tootsie roll after tootsie roll, taking one taste of each one of them. Presley actually saw some kids she knew from school and the school principal, it's fun to see her become a part of the 'school community'! It was fun and I can see us doing this in the future!

 

The girls have been awesome about going to bed this week, 3 nights in a row both have been asleep by 8:30! These girls LOVE to sleep. Twice this week when I went to wake Piper up in the morning and got her out of her crib, she cries and screams and actually tries to climb back INTO her crib, saying 'night, night!' So the weekends we always look forward to everyone sleeping in!

 

Last night Steve went to the neighbors about 10 to drink and talk with the guys and I went to bed! Saturday morning about 8:35 Piper got up and Presley got up about 9! I was brave and decided to take the girls to Mary's softball game at 10:30 while Steve stayed home to get some things done. Due to the rain that night the game was postponed for 2 hours, so we went with Grandma, Grandpa, Sam and  Boston to eat lunch at The Sports Page in Ankeny for lunch. Guess what? The girls were actually pretty good! We got done with lunch and headed back to see the game! We were able to stay for about half of it before Presley was complaining that she was hot and we needed to get Piper home for a nap anyway.

 

We got Piper down for a nap and then Presley and I went and got ice cream. Just her and me, it was nice to enjoy a special treat on a perfect Saturday afternoon with my baby girl!

Tonight we have been chilling out, playing in the basement. It's nice to have a weekend with minimal plans!