Waaaay Up High

When we were in Chicago we went to a building where you go way up on the 100 something floor.  I think it was 103 floors or something like that.  But anyways, they have glass all around and you can look down on the other buildings.  It is way high and it is a long way down.  It was cool.  I just got Samantha so I took her with us.

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We were trying to take pictures in the glass floor box but Julian was throwing a fit.  He kept screaming and crying.  So they weren't good pictures.  He wasn't scared but he was made because Daddy wouldn't let him take a baseball from the store.  But it was really cool to look all the way down.  Cars looked really small.  Like ants.  And you could see soooo far...

My American Girl

I finally got to go to the American Girl store.  It is an awesome place.  It is so big and they have so many dolls and so much stuff.  I kinda wanted to get the Samantha doll just like Mommy had when she was a girl.  I looked around at the other dolls and I decided to get Samantha.

I picked a couple of outfits for her.  And we picked hairstyles.  They fix their hair right there is a little like hair salon place. It was so cool.  

Samantha is from a long time ago.  Her time period is like 19 hundred something.  I'm so excited to have her!  Thank you Mommy and Daddy!

2nd Grade School Picture

Riley the big 2nd grader

Wedding In A Barn

 

 

 Mommy's cousin got married and the wedding was in a barn.  It was pretty but it was really hot that day so we stayed in the shade.

I liked it because we got to see some cousins like Madeline and Carly.  They are not close cousins like Landon but kinda far away cousins.  We had fun.

 

 

Then after the wedding we went back to the hotel and swam in the pool and karaoke with the whole family.  Poppy was singing songs and Mommy sang some songs.  Daddy didn't sing because he is not silly fun like that.  It was fun and we stayed up late.  Then we saw everybody for breakfast in the morning before we drove home. Family weddings are fun.

Colonial Girl

We went to Williamsburg for vacation this year.  They have a town where people dress up like it is a long, long time ago. Do you like this picture with my colonial mom and dad?  Hahaha!

They have old houses and streets.  There are no cars and they have horses walking on the streets. And the horses poop right on the street and you have to walk around it!

The girls wore a lot of clothes.  It was too hot to wear that much clothes but I liked the hats.  So Mommy and Daddy bought me a hat.  We went in some of the houses and saw how they cooked and washed clothes.

 

 

The only bad part was that Daddy put me and Luci in the jail thing.  They just lock you up on the street.  I really could have got out because it doesn't fit kids' arms. 

 



Seacat Again

I swam on the Seacats team again this summer.  I did a lot of morning swim practices.  Gram picked me up a lot of the time.  The meets are more fun because you get to have a break.  We usually sit in a tent with Mommy's friend Alicia and her family.  Gram and Grandma both came to one of my meets too.  I got a lot of medals.  Some were 1st and some were 2nd and some 3rd place too.  And sometimes I just got a participation ribbon.  Those are rainbows and they are prettiest.

 

I swam the butterfly this year.  It is the hardest stroke.  I did pretty good with my freestyle and my freestyle relay team was good.

 

 

I got to the do the championships this year before we went on vacation.  There were a lot of kids there.  A LOT.  They don't give out ribbons but only medals.  I got 3 medals and the Seacats won the championship!

 

We dressed up as superheroes and Mommy made costumes for all 3 of us.  We had our letters on our capes.  We went on vacation right after the championship.

 

Say Cheese

We did family pictures.  A girl came to our house to take them.  We did pictures of just the kids and as a whole family.

And we did some silly pictures too.  Julian didn't know how to make a silly face.