August... The end of Summer.

So, it has been TWO Months almost, since I blogged.

My Dear Cousin Carrie has managed to squeeze in approximately 65 blogs since then.

I can't compete.

The only new news is this...

HAYLEY ANNE HARRIGER needs glasses. I've come to terms with this. It was hard at first... but I realized she's still Hayley... and Uhm... last time I looked in the mirror... I was wearing glasses, too.

Here is a shot of Hayley wearing her new glasses: :P



Seriously - they come in sometime this weekend & they are pink!

Since I'm here... here are some other pictures from August & July:

SUPER FLYING HAYLEY!



C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-T-E!



The 2020 Olympics are fast approaching & I think we're training for the tallest Olympic Gold Medalist EVER!!

You all know Tim & his quest for useless knowledge... of course he Googled "Tallest Olympic Gymnast" & discovered that the girl considered THE TALLEST was all of 5-feet, 4-inches!

No wonder when I was in Kindergarten, the gymnastics teacher at the YMCA told my mom that "Maybe gymnastics isn't the best place for Sara."
WHY NOT!?!? Just because I was already 150# & 5-foot tall?!?!

Anyway, we enrolled Hayley in a "tumbling tots" gymnastics class during July & August.
She LOVED going to "nymnistikas" every Wednesday! This past Wednesday was the final class.

We're looking into either Soccer or more gymnastics for the September/October schedule. It is something I think is fun for Hayley - getting out, being a big girl, getting away from Hannah for 45 minutes... & Hannah loves it too, because she gets to play with Rosie!
(Rosie is one of the Albus girls that I babysat when I was in High School & College.)
Rosie loves it too, because she gets paid! :)
(& Payback is the best... "Hey Rosie.. we're here & Hannah needs a clean diaper. See you in an hour!")

Tim & I celebrated nine...
NINE! 9! Nueve! Neun! Neuf!!!
YEARS of marriage on August 14.

Tim started a tradition of buying me one rose for every year... and now I told him it is better to buy a dozen & take out the "extras"... He was buying the $4 stems. That was fine years 1 - 4! LOL



I met TWO of my "Cyber-Mommy" friends!!!

Jill is from Chicago. She was in MN on business in August.
Her son Jack is Hannah's age. I "met" Jill through BabyCenter.com's "Birth-Club"...
(I can't wait until she is forced to return to Minneapolis!!!)



I also met another "Cyber-mommy" friend in July!



Eliza lives in Michigan (Ann Arbor). Her Daughter is Jessalyn. They came to MN for their summer vacation at the Mall of America. They attempted to go down-town Minneapolis to check out the Hard Rock Cafe.
Let's just say they got a GREAT tour of the downtown area, but never found Block E or the Hard Rock Cafe! Or wait... did the find it & couldn't find parking? or did they turn right & end up in St. Paul? I can't remember. Anyway. I told them driving downtown Minneapolis isnt' for MPLS rookies.

I think I met the tallest & least-tall "cyber-friend" this summer. Jill tops off just under 5-feet tall & Eliza is on the 6-foot side of the fence.

(I'm pretty sure Eliza's 6 feet tall... I do have one friend at least AS tall if not taller than Eliza, Val is 6'Something. I look forward to meeting her one day, too! Maybe I could meet Eliza & Val at the same time & officially be "The Short One" for the first time EVER!!!)

Strawberries, Corn & Slides, OH MY!




Seriously... the slowest slide ever. She was actually stopped & just sitting there in this picture.
Like... GREASE THAT BABY UP!!



Picking Strawberries on the 4th of July

The black dot on Hannah's left arm.... A GIANT MOSQUITO! No kidding.


A bit of foreshadowing?
On July 4, I woke up to this standing over me. She grabbed my glasses & was goofing off... Of course my camera is sitting on my night-stand.
(and for the record... those are MY glasses, not hers.)

Auntie Lois Made Me

Okay- if Auntie Lois says so... It must be.

I am blogging.

But this is all your getting for now.

Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

Day Two in Florida

Okay - at this rate, we'll have taken 34 trips to Florida before I talk about this whole trip! LOL

So, Day Two was APRIL 12 --- Happy 34th Birthday Timmy-Boy!!

We went to the Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom.

I promise to write more about it soon! but I just didn't want anyone to forget I really do blog! LOL

Okay...

DAY ONE in FLORIDA.

Well, apparently Hayley only needs 5 1/2 hours of sleep. Tom & Joy left for work/meetings around 7:30 or 8am & Hayley came bouncing into our room! Gotta Love Orlando's Sun!

Many of you know that I am actively involved in a website group of mommies that all have babies Hannah's age. One of my mommy-friends lives outside of Orlando, so we HAD to meet up!

That was the mission for Friday.

We met Jada & Ainsley at Walt Disney World's Down-Town Disney's Boardwalk. A nice little area full of Disney-shopping. It is really nice to have "Real" Disney products, at "Real" Disney Prices (think $25 for a 2T Minnie Mouse t-shirt) ~ without having to go into the Disney Parks (think $60 for a 3 Year Old's admission!).

(Jada, Sara & a few Princesses.)




















Ainsley & Hannah "Chillin" in the stroller line-up.
Don't they look SO thrilled to meet each other?? :)


















There were a few temptations, but our current financial plans have made me a TOTAL money-conscious freeeeek! Like, for example, I saw a Disney-Princess Towel. The kind with a hood... the hood had a Princess crown on it & looked like a big, pink Princess dress. I was IN LOVE. Until I saw it was $25. & I KNEW I would need one for each girl... No Thank You!

Jada is a super cool mommy-friend who is expecting #2 this fall! We walked around, shopped, talked, ate, talked, shopped & then let the girls play at Lego-Land!

Hayley built a "Big Red Tower" & the two little ones chased each other up the steps & down the slide a bazillion times. It was 95*. At one point, Jada looked at Tim and said "Wow, look at the Minnesotans Sweat!" She grew up in Central Florida, so she's used to the "Heat".

WHEEEE!









































Hannah fell asleep approximately 35 seconds after we buckled her into her carseat!

It was so fun to meet one of my "Cyber-Mommy-Friends". Right before we left, Jada said her husband had spent the day in the "Man-Room" playing Play Station 3. Tim looked at me & said... "So, you could have dropped me off to play PS3 for the past 3 hours, but... you drag me HERE instead?"

Well... the only thing more strange than meeting a cyber-friend is dropping my husband off at her house to 'play' with her husband!