Finally, a few new pics

We finally got a few new pics of the girls today. I wanted 5 year pics of Camryn and 3 1/2 yr pics of Elody. Also we needed to get pictures of Camryn with the glasses. Somehow I got her to wear her original pair of glasses in these pictures, not sure how I pulled that one off. She got a second pair because we needed some for back up and of course she loves them and only wants to wear the new ones. I think they are slightly too big for her face and have been sitting a little crooked lately. Also, I think these fit her much better and are more comfortable but she wears the new Barbie glasses because she is female and apparently will endure a little pain for beauty :)
Anyway, enough rambling.... here are my favorite pictures from today!

I couldn't get both girls to smile in the same picture without making them laugh so this was the best we could do of the two of them.

June 22-24, 2012

The following 4 posts contain pictures of our weekend getaway. This was definitely one of the better trips we have taken. The girls are finally getting old enough that traveling is a little more possible and there are a lot more things they can do than even a year ago. Our trip may have involved 1 bee sting, 2 ticks, 3 different states (ok really only one but we did cross the border into 2 others), 8+ hours of driving, a 10 min doctor visit, and 63 extra stops to potty but we had fun and everyone survived!

Indian Cave State Park

even the girls liked the views at Indian Cave State Park

watching the blacksmith

Elody was pretty proud of the mess she made with the lye soap

the girls got to ring the dinner bell we watched him make

Candle making

Camryn was NOT very fond of the out houses

Camryn likes to be in charge....

from this lookout you can see 4 states... the girls couldn't have cared less!

on their way up to "Indian Cave"

"you mean this is it?" well, someday maybe they will see a real cave...

one last pit stop on the way home

it may not look like it from these pictures but we now know that daddy and Elody do weigh more than mommy and Camryn :)

Brownville

River Inn Resort

Our room

Elody dancing on the top of the boat.

Camryn and I hanging out on the top of the boat

waving at the boats going by

"lets see how high we can climb before mom freaks!"

The girls hanging out outside of our room.

 

the view up the river at sunset

Nebraska City

The girls each had some money to spend on the trip this is what Camryn picked...

and this is what Elody picked...

Elody showing off her new shoes

 Our first stop in Nebraska City was at the Mayhew Cabin/John Brown's Cave. The girls are still a bit young to understand slavery but they were able to understand a very basic explanation and enjoyed the other activities that they had for the day.

Camryn making a rope

Elody with her rope in John Brown's Cave

 Our second stop in Nebraska City was at Arbor Day Farm Tree Adventure. The girls had a BLAST here! Lot of birds for Camryn and lots of other things to do/look at for both girls to enjoy. 

This picture makes me laugh! Elody could have been much meaner than she was :)

Listening to nature

 Both girls enjoyed the giant spider web

 We even took the 2nd trail that was not paved and went much further out. The girls love to be outside and it was nice and shady with all the trees but VERY humid.

 This trail had 50 birds and 1 squirrel hiding in the trees. The girls loved spotting all the birds.

daddy found the squirrel

the girls found lots of birds but I'm sure we didn't find all 50... we didn't count

Hawk eyed Camryn found a snail, she was very sad we wouldn't let her keep it :(

Camryn ran ahead to sit on baby bear's chair, she yelled to us "it didn't even break!"

the 3 bears must be BIG!

my little bears

Elody was walking at a snails pace by the time we made it back to the parking lot because she was "out of power."

Zoo 2012

We have been to the zoo so many times now that I skipped the camera and we just took a few pics on our phones. I tried to pick a few that I loved of the girls and skip all of the animal pictures that look the same as always. 

This bird tried to peck at Camryn through the glass!

Elody has turned into quite the goof!

I'm not quite sure when she got this big and developed this attitude!