Emily's New Braces

Emily's New Hairstyle

Emily's new cute fun haircut

                                          

Ta Da!

Ashley's newly updated room

The room before...

The room during...

The white box on the wall was for a big screen tv...just kidding, we painted a mural to put above the bed.

 

The Finished Product

(just kidding we did not paint the mural...it was a stick on)

Ashley wanted a Hawaiian room theme, so we purchased her a new comforter, accessories and a mural. We still have a few things to add, but Ashley is very happy with the results so far.  

Oklahoma Natural History Museum

A few months ago when we were visiting Chicago Christine was wanting to go to the Natural History Museum to attend the Chocolate exhibit that they created to teach about all things chocolate. While we were in Chicago we learned that the exhibit was a traveling one and we just missed it! We found out that the next stop for it was Norman OK! A day before we came home we were able to visit the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. The museum far exceeded our expectations.

The Chocolate museum was very educational, I do think that the rest of the museum was more of a treat for us all. The Museum was very well done with an very large dinosaur exhibit. We saw the remains of a dinosaur with a neck that was 40 feet long as well as the largest dinosaur skull on earth! We had a great time learning about Oklahoma History!

The Girls first professional Baseball Game

Saturday Night Edward Jones sponsored a baseball night for the family. About 50 Edward Jones families attended a night game for the Sacramento Rivercats. Our tickets were behind the outfield on the back lawn. We brought our beach towels and jackets for a fun evening. I think that the best part was all of the yummy snacks that we all enjoyed (Kettle Corn, peanuts, cotton candy, fudge pops, chips and hot dogs). The girls are ready to return soon...as long as they are allowed to have snacks again as well.

Michigan and Chicago

We all went to St. Joe, Michigan to visit Nick, Stephan
ie, Ben and Hannah. ( this post is written by ashley) Sorry this post is so late! We had a great time. Ben was always a ball of energy and Hannah was always so cute and smiling all the time. We enjoyed going to the beach, having pizza, playing in the waterpark, and lots more.

Then the Jacksons drove us to Chicago and we had fun there also. We went to the Federal Reserve bank and we got to see 1,000,000, dollars in ones! It weighed 1 ton!!! The American Girl Store was my favorite. We had a yummy lunch, Emily got her doll's hair done, and we each bought a new doll. We enjoyed ourselves so much that we can't wait to go back.

lunch at american girl

at sears tower

1,000,000 dollars in ones!!!!!!

Emily recently celebrated her 8th Birthday!
I know that I am late in posting this but the day after her big day we went on a 7 day trip to Michigan and Chicago. Here are a few pictures of her big day.

The best part of her birthday came a few days later when she was able to live a little girls dreams by spending her birthday money at the Chicago American Girl Store!