Isabel's baby siblings.

Happy 2nd birthday Isabel! Isabel sure knows how to throw a party! Her 2nd birthday was a blast and she is definitely a party animal.

Isabel had some arts and crafts time the other day. She loves to paint, and made us some beautiful pictures! She is so neat about it, if she gets any paint on her hands, she insists you wipe it off before she will continue painting.

Yesterday morning as I was getting ready for work, I went into Isabel's room to check on her. I found her on her bed as she was trying to put her skirt on. She had picked out an outfit (It matched! She does better than her Daddy!) and was trying to put it on herself. A few minutes later as she was watching t.v. in our room she picked out a pair of her Daddy's socks and put them on as well. A trendsetter already, and she isn't even two yet.

The lovely outfit Isabel picked out herself, we left the socks at home. (Excuse our messy room)

Last week during our vacation we took Isabel to Cook's Forest for a few days, she got to experience a little bit of the outdoors and we blew lots and lots of bubbles. This is as close to "roughing it" that we have been in awhile. I'm not 100% sure we are cut out for it.

Playing with bubbles.

Isabel loved her pizza mountain pie and the chocolate from her s'more.

More bubble blowing.

Again, with the bubbles.

Bubbles. Again. I told you we blew a lot of bubbles.

Our family picture before we left the forest. It really was beautiful there and so much more quiet than we are used to.

Today we went to the Pittsburgh zoo and PPG aquarium with Kara and Crue. The kids had a blast and enjoyed all the animals.

Giraffe butts!

I love this picture of Isabel and Crue holding hands, so cute!

Checking out the fish.

The penguins were a big hit with the kids too.

Some of the fish in this aquarium were bigger than Isabel.

It was a fun day, but the kids were definately ready to go home. Isabel was asleep within ten minutes of leaving the zoo.

Vintage Isabel. Isabel, last year on our vacation, she sure has changed a lot in the last year.

This is the location of our future home! We lov this lot, it is beautiful, quiet and we even have a little bit of woods! Can't wait to sell our house and get our new house up!

We all got together to celebrate Reece's 5th birthday, and of course adorable pictures followed.


Kaden and Jarrad playing.

Isabel checking out the t.v.

Isabel watching over the baby, she is a baby fanatic.

I had to add the last picture because it just cracks me up, Isabel wearing Daddy's sock around. She put it on all by herself.

Now she's cooking! Isabel helped me make some pancakes the other day, she had a blast making them! Now, if we could only get her to eat them.

This is her new "Cheese" smile. She says "cheeese" when she does it too, super cute.

Sadly, we haven't had much sunshine this summer. But we were able to get Isabel into her swimsuit the other day to play in her water table. Her being the water baby that she is, she really enjoyed it. I even caught her sticking her entire face into the water a few times. Hopefully, we will get some more nice weather soon.

Sunday was a beautiful day. We took Isabel over to the barn to visit the horses, she is a true animal lover. She was so excited to see the horses, and had to visit each one of them before we left. After we left the barn we took a walk through the woods, she fell asleep on Grandpa in the woods. I guess she had too much excitement.

Hugging Streak.

Lounging in the wagon.

Happy 4th of July! We took Isabel to watch the fireworks last night and she loved them! She was so much fun while waiting for them to start. You couldn't even tell she was up past her bed time.
Of course, she passed out in the car pretty much immediately on the way home, and never woke up until this morning. It's so much fun watching her get excited about things, she really is a fun baby to be around.

Waiting with Grandma for the fireworks to start.

Watching the fireworks with Daddy.