Beach Pics

When we went to the beach in July, we had Melanie Thaw take family pictures! Melanie has been taking pictures of Manze since she was 9 months old! When she e-mailed and told me she would be at the beach in July, I quickly made my reservations for the same time so she could take pictures of us! We LOVE her and she is so patient with Manze (who does not know the meaning of sitting still and posing...but we get great candids that way)! :o) I scanned these pictures, so they do NOT look as colorful and vibrant as the real ones!

All photos by MELANIE THAW

Happy Birthday Claire!!

Our sweet friend Claire just turned ONE!!!! Manze had so much fun at her birthday party jumping on the space jump!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAIRE!!!! We love you!!

The Zoo

Tommy and I took Manze to the Zoo right before I went back to work. This was her first time to the zoo (Tommy was insistant that I wait nad take her when he could go too). Our little zoo is pretty sad. First, it's not in the best part of town, then they were missing some animals (NO bears, and Manze really wanted to see a lion...not there or a tiger). The other animals were kinda dirty. They are doing some renovations, so maybe it will get better. Manze had a great time, so that's all that counts!

Family Picture

Manze and Mommy riding the carousel
Posing in front of the elephants (Manze said, "Oh Mommy they are SO DIRTY, they need a bath!) LOL!

Here is Manze acting like a "mingo" as she called them!

posing in front of a snake...EWWWW!

Manze and Daddy!

Click on the collage to see more!

Geyser Falls

The weekend before school started, we went to Geyser Falls! We had grand plans to meet The Odoms and The Lee's and all hang out together, but it didn't happen as planned. We saw The Lee's in passing once and got to hang out with The Odom's at the end. It was VERY crowded...I need to remember NOT to go the weekend before school starts ever again...I think everyone was getting one last visit in before summer ended! It was very expensive to get in and to eat, so we decided we would do it all and get our moneys worth! Manze had a blast and at the end we went to the big slides for the kids and she LOVED going down the slides...she kept wanting to go again and again and again! Here are some highlights from our outing:

In the toddler area Manze was running through the water!

Here she is going down the slides in the toddler area (these were not the big slides I mentioned earlier)
She LOVED the lazy river...here she is floating on her back with Tommy!

Manze and Hayes had fun going down the slides together. Here is Hayes grabbing her hand and then they walked up the steps together! SO CUTE!!

Here is Brittany and Hayes (Caroline didn't want to pose) and me and Manze right before we left to go home!

Compilation of Funniest News Slip Ups and Bloopers

Hilarious bloopers! Pause my music to hear!

Manze loves to watch "the doggies" (101 Dalmations) at my parent's house. Tonight she was watching them with my sister when I walked in the room and started laughing! She decided she needed to sit under her umbrella as she watched them! She is too funny!

Manze's dolls and shoes

Manze LOVES playing with her dolls! She feeds them, changes their diapers, dresses them, and even occassionally has to put them in time out! Here she is with a few of my old cabbage patch dolls at my parent's house! She insisted they sit in the bed with her!

I think Manze is going to adopt my shoe fetish! I went through all her shoes and and put the too small ones in a box. My sweet mother then came and brought them to her house to store! She definitely has a pair of shoes to go with every outfit!

These are all the too small shoes!

Manze's "wave runner"

Aunt Tyler is the motor!

Manze LOVES her new "wave runner" that she can ride at Mimi and Poppy's house!

Prayers

Okay all my prayer warriors, I need you! Please pray for my sweet friend Cindy! Manze and Emma are such great friends themselves and their family needs your prayers! You can read here!