Sept 14th, 2012
Last wedding (that we know of!) to attend this year! Lots of weddings , lots of travel for the Akerson's! This time my dear cousin Andy and his gorgeous bride Rashelle, who he has been with for over a decade, will tie the knot! We are extra excited because they have asked our little Max to be their ring bearer!
Our journey started Friday a.m. At 0630 we woke our sleeping babies, dressed them and snuggled them in the car. First stop, McDonalds of course! Then to the pets hotel for a long weekend getaway for our pups! Then we set in for the drive to the airport in rush our! We made it with enough time for one and a half bathroom breaks before the plane was boarded minus the Akerson squad! So, the guy at the counter nicely gave a shout out to Robb, i mean "Mr. Akerson, to gate A11"! Poor guy! It was a small plane so it boarded fast. I think it said 76 people or maybe even less! Oh well, we all made it! The kids started off squirrelly but evened out by he time the one flight attendant passed the refreshments!
We chose to fly to the Cincinnati airport so we could drive, I thought, into Cinci for lunch. Turned out to just be a drive by, but we saw the Ohio River, the Reds stadium and the Bengals stadium! then we were off on the rest of our adventure.
Kentucky is hilarious! It started off by seeing one of the brown state parks signs for a place called Big Bone Lick, which is near Beaverlick?! Seriously, I couldn't make this up! Then we passed a water tower which had horizontal stripes alternating red and blue. It read Florence Y'all! Loved it!
Kentucky is gorgeous rolling green countryside! It's similiar, yet very different to us "up north". I loved taking it all in! Thanks to my hubby for driving! ;-)
There is so much history here, too! We are 15 miles from Perryville battlefield. I pretty sure that just driving by you can get the feeling of the battles that took place! Not to mention the Kentucky love of thoroughbreds! So cool, I just wish we had time to take it all in! Speaking of horses, Gracie was loving the brochures in the rack of all the horse attractions! Pretty sure her favorite two brochures are coming home with us! She keeps taking them out to look at them! She would get along so well with her namesake!
The town of Harrodsburg, which is our home away from home or two nights has a monument when you enter the town limits stating the settlement date as 1774! We are staying in a seedy little hotel called Country hearth. I booked via there website and guess got a tremendous deal, I guess! The lady told Robb as he checked in that our " king suite" normally goes for $150 but I got it at $95 per night! I will say its pretty deluxe! King bed, two pull out couches, a little walk-in kitchenette, bathroom and sink/ closet space! Good enough for us and our non-sleeping kiddos! They FINALLY feel asleep by 12:00 ( 11pm our time)! Gracie was up two times and the whole gang was up by 7:30! Sorry to the fellow patrons of Country Hearth for our 2 and 3am wake up calls! Thank God SO much for the two hour nap had by most of us ( I'm using part of this time to blog! :-)) and coffee! Always thanking God for coffee!
With our early start we found some nourishment and head back up the road to find the Wild Turkey Distillery! Nothing like opening up at 9am to our rowdy crew! Never even heard of the Kentucky Distillery Trail! Again, I wish we had more time!
I'll post all the wedding stuff in a separate post but the event site at Terrapin Hills farm is amazing! Time to get the family ready for the big event!!
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Playhouse part two
Our playhouse is almost complete...just some detail work left inside, a table and it will be livable.
Welcome! Please come in!
The loft!
The red benches Robb built while up in Pequot for a weekend!
This has been a work of love! Many hours and lots of creative energy has gone into it! I'm hoping with our more mild temperatures we will get in and finish up those last touches and begin getting the use this house deserves!
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Welcome! Please come in!
The loft!
The red benches Robb built while up in Pequot for a weekend!
This has been a work of love! Many hours and lots of creative energy has gone into it! I'm hoping with our more mild temperatures we will get in and finish up those last touches and begin getting the use this house deserves!
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Summer (thus far) in pictures
Dancing in the rain, waiting for daddy to get home. Max: "I'm gonna go out there so my hair will grow longer"
- Max's soccer class for 5 Monday's June 18th- July
Rainy day activities, or maybe avoiding the sun...play dough
Daddy's 35th birthday!
One of Gracie's first year photos, compliments of amazing Stacey Montgomery
Nana and Little dance snuggling at auntie lisas wedding!
Max's gymnastics class, 3 weeks!
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- Max's soccer class for 5 Monday's June 18th- July
Rainy day activities, or maybe avoiding the sun...play dough
Daddy's 35th birthday!
One of Gracie's first year photos, compliments of amazing Stacey Montgomery
Nana and Little dance snuggling at auntie lisas wedding!
Max's gymnastics class, 3 weeks!
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Gracie's 13/14th months
Man does the time go fast! And I am great at thinking about what to blog and bad at getting it done! So Grace turned 14 months last week! She is making so many strides lately that I need to get it all down!
First off is the teeth! 12.5 months and no teeth, now she has 5!!! The last two came in over this past weekend! Her grin is getting quite toothy! She is now able to bite, which is helping her to eat sliced apples and sandwiches! Speaking of eating, she is actually a picky eater. What she was digging just a few days ago, she will turn her nose up at. Who is this little girl?! She also is not interested in stopping nursing. She has gone 3 days without me and not nursed and as soon as I am back at her disposable she wants to drink.
She is starting to attempt talking. Her favorite words which is probably the impetus of her saying them are mama, dada, maa (not like a sheep, as in Max),bye, hi, chee (cheese), swin (swing), and shus (shoes, duh)!! There might be more, I'll try to be better at writing them down. But this kid gets it. She brings shoes to people when she wants to out side, which is often. And she will actually bring you the set.
She is a speed walker, climbs every where, and is working on the balance to walk down steps. We are in the midst of her first "class". Both Max and Gracie are in swimming lessons at Jackson pool where I took lesson umpteen years ago! She would hardly sit still while we took Max to gymnastics and soccer. She wanted to be out there, too. And let me tell you she can dribble a soccer ball better than most 3 year olds I know! Look out!
She giggles then most for her brother, complete adoration. She likes her mama and dada and nana. Really she loves people. She is always waving and smiling at people, trying to catch an eye and make a new friend. She makes new friends every where which is a test for me. Max has been so shy, not unlike Robb and me, so to learn the outgoing ropes is new to me. All these things that kids teach you!
Her toe head locks are growing and I was able to do piggy tails a few weeks ago! She loves pretty kitty, aka Hello Kitty. Loves playing with her babies and tea set. We turned her around in the cars eat which she likes. She is pretty easy going but knows what she wants. I love her up every chance I get and tell her I love her. She is one of my little highlights!
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First off is the teeth! 12.5 months and no teeth, now she has 5!!! The last two came in over this past weekend! Her grin is getting quite toothy! She is now able to bite, which is helping her to eat sliced apples and sandwiches! Speaking of eating, she is actually a picky eater. What she was digging just a few days ago, she will turn her nose up at. Who is this little girl?! She also is not interested in stopping nursing. She has gone 3 days without me and not nursed and as soon as I am back at her disposable she wants to drink.
She is starting to attempt talking. Her favorite words which is probably the impetus of her saying them are mama, dada, maa (not like a sheep, as in Max),bye, hi, chee (cheese), swin (swing), and shus (shoes, duh)!! There might be more, I'll try to be better at writing them down. But this kid gets it. She brings shoes to people when she wants to out side, which is often. And she will actually bring you the set.
She is a speed walker, climbs every where, and is working on the balance to walk down steps. We are in the midst of her first "class". Both Max and Gracie are in swimming lessons at Jackson pool where I took lesson umpteen years ago! She would hardly sit still while we took Max to gymnastics and soccer. She wanted to be out there, too. And let me tell you she can dribble a soccer ball better than most 3 year olds I know! Look out!
She giggles then most for her brother, complete adoration. She likes her mama and dada and nana. Really she loves people. She is always waving and smiling at people, trying to catch an eye and make a new friend. She makes new friends every where which is a test for me. Max has been so shy, not unlike Robb and me, so to learn the outgoing ropes is new to me. All these things that kids teach you!
Her toe head locks are growing and I was able to do piggy tails a few weeks ago! She loves pretty kitty, aka Hello Kitty. Loves playing with her babies and tea set. We turned her around in the cars eat which she likes. She is pretty easy going but knows what she wants. I love her up every chance I get and tell her I love her. She is one of my little highlights!
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Max's golf debut
June 2nd, 2012
I saw a post about a kids golf tournament in the Brooklyn Park community activities bulletin. Max said he wanted to try it. It was a 9 hole course.
Max getting warmed up!
We noticed he is a lefty when it comes to golf. He writes right handed.
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He also has a heck of a hockey stance and swing!
I saw a post about a kids golf tournament in the Brooklyn Park community activities bulletin. Max said he wanted to try it. It was a 9 hole course.
Max getting warmed up!
We noticed he is a lefty when it comes to golf. He writes right handed.
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He also has a heck of a hockey stance and swing!
Playhouse, phase one
So a few weeks ago Robb got a wild hair and decided he wanted to build the kids a playhouse. I love the idea but haven't been keen on the idea, for several reason, but I digress. So after relentless conversations I gave in last weekend and this is what we have at the completion of phase one!
-team sweatbands hard at work!
Thank you daddy!
Time to take it outside!
Here are the tools Max brought up from his tool bench to help dad!
We will keep you up to date on phase two!
-team sweatbands hard at work!
Thank you daddy!
Time to take it outside!
Here are the tools Max brought up from his tool bench to help dad!
We will keep you up to date on phase two!
Gracie's first year stats
One week ago Gracie had her first year medical appointment. She has grown 13 inches to a length of 32-32.5"! Reason for the range.. I got 32" then MD's office got 32.5". Wow!! And she exactly tripled her birth weight! So that was 23lbs 13oz! Not to shabby for my baby!
She got two shots and took them like a pro.. A few tears but recovered quickly! I am so proud! And then just on Sunday June 10th I noticed a jagged edge in her mouth! She has a tooth!!! I just caught my first glimpse of it today. It's her bottom left front tooth! Her bottom right is swollen so I am thinking its not too far behind and I can see the front top teeth coming down but not close to coming in yet. So it's been an eventful two weeks past one!
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She got two shots and took them like a pro.. A few tears but recovered quickly! I am so proud! And then just on Sunday June 10th I noticed a jagged edge in her mouth! She has a tooth!!! I just caught my first glimpse of it today. It's her bottom left front tooth! Her bottom right is swollen so I am thinking its not too far behind and I can see the front top teeth coming down but not close to coming in yet. So it's been an eventful two weeks past one!
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