Father's Day Weekend!

Well, we made the rounds this year for Father's Day weekend. We started on Friday down in Springfield to visit my dad. We spent a nice couple of days relaxing at Momo and Popo's house

Saturday evening, it was off to visit Em's other grandparents in Springfield. We all took our annual trip out to New Berlin to the county fair! Emily had so much fun. She is a lucky little girl to have such a good daddy!! Here they are watching the elephant show.

She didn't sit with dad for long though. She let us know real quick she's a big girl now and headed straight to the fence to get as close to the elephants as possible :)

Since Kristy and Adam are pretzels now, they only had to take a short walk up the road to join us in our county fun. Em had tons of fun since they were into playing games and riding the rides with her!

Even Ma-Ma braved her weak stomach to ride the wiggly worm!

Emily loved every single ride (except the big slide). She wanted to keep riding them again and again!

Sunday we headed to Sullivan to visit Chad's parents for father's day and the annual family reunion. Unfortunately it was sooo hot, our camera didn't even make it out for pictures there.

Em had lots of fun, but got a little hot and crabby at nap time so we headed home.

Where we cooled off in our huge backyard pool :)

HA...I don't even think Emily barely fits in this little froggy pool anymore!

But she still had TONS OF FUN!

Happy Father's Day to all of you Dad's out there!!

Summer fun has begun!

Well I haven't even been off of school for a week yet, but we have been BUSY, BUSY!! This is going to be kind of a long post :) We started our first day off of school with Emily's friend Emma's 2nd birthday party at the Discovery Museum. Emily was into the party thing. She even wore the hat, blew the horn and ate a cupcake :) It was lots of fun!

We spent a lot of time outside this weekend...I have a feeling she's going to live on the swingset this summer!

We also have already taken our first trip of the summer. We went down to St. Louis on Monday and Tuesday with Tami, Mike, Emma and Brayden. We went to a Cardinal game and then to the St. Louis Zoo the next day. The Cardinal game was pretty hot so we spent a lot of time playing in the family pavillion. It was a little different ballgame experience then we're used to, but we had lots of fun. The girls LOVED all the animals at the zoo.The kids were troopers for not having naps (unless you count the little snooze on the choo-choo train!) We had lots of fun and can't wait for our big trip later this summer to Florida!

Dora!

Yes, School is finally over and I have time to post some long awaited picture of Emily!

Last night Emily and I met a couple of friends and their kids and went to the Dora show.

We started at Chili's (big surprise!) for dinner. Can you guess what she ate :)

Then it was off to the Dora show! She was super excited!

Her and her buddy Jack were ALL smiles!

She waved and sang and yelled to Dora throughout the whole show. It was just as much fun for me to sit and watch her!

Enjoy the pictures!

Easter at the Rogers

We headed down to Sullivan for Easter this year. The day started with church and surprisingly Emily made it through the whole service with only a couple of yells up to Ma-ma and Pa-pa who were singing up in the choir.













She was a total ham in the Easter bonnet that we thought she'd hate!

As always, she had tons of fun playing with Drew and Dalton!!

The Easter Bunny....

Or should I say, Santa part 2. I had the day off work today so my girlfriends from work and I decided to take our kids to see the Easter Bunny. Emily talked about going to see him all morning. We put on her easter dress and off we went. Once we got to the mall, we pulled up in the stroller to line and Emily decied "I don't like easter bunny". There was no coaxing her on this one. She would wave from far away in the safety of her stroller, but once I took her out, she wanted to go nowhere near that bunny. The bright side....she saved us thirty bucks on pictures :) So instead, I splurged for her first carousel ride!

Easter Egg Hunt 2009

No, it's not easter yet, but we have had some easter fun already. Last weekend, we took our friends to the easter egg hunt at church. We did crafts, played games, ate doughnuts and of course the big hunt. Emily had lots of fun with Emma, as always. The hunt however didn't interest Emily all that much. She picked up about 5 eggs then decided it was much more fun to play on the playground! That's our Emily :)

There was no Easter bunny at this event (which probably was a good thing...).

Opening Day

I took these on opening day and haven't had time to upload them!

Here's to the 2009 Baseball season!

GO CARDINALS!!