Beach with Samara

The Fair is WAY More Fun with Friends

Ashley and Miles (Janey's favorite baby).
Ella, Lila and, of course, Janey.
Not our stroller. Janey is a big stroller thief, so much so that we rarely bring a stroller of our own anymore. She spends quite a lot of time in the double stroller in the back of the picture right next to Baby Miles.
Butter sculpture.
The 4H kids were walking around letting the kids pet various animals.



Playing the milk jugs like conga drums.
The next two are chickens ...what?

This girl let Janey and Ella throw darts for free, slow day I guess. Ella actually popped a balloon, but didn't get a prize.

This was on our way back to the car on a double decker bus.

The end.

Pretty

She insisted!

SD County Fair

Janey and I went to the SD County Fair today. We parked about a mile away so we could get free parking and get shuttled in. In the past that's always been the way to go, but this time it took about an hour to get from my car just to the metal detectors. There were long lines for everything and weaving in and out of all the people was a nightmare (and I didn't even bring the stroller). BUT, seeing how much Janey loved all the animals made it all worth it, especially the "baby goats" (I think they were really pygmy goats and they really were super cute). Until we had to wait another hour to get back to our car and then another hour sitting in traffic to get home. I treated us to In 'n' Out on the way home and it really was in and out (which was a nice break from the mass amounts of waiting we had just endured).
The above picture was taken on the bus being shuttled to the fair.
Below is the pygmy goat.
I told Janey to give me a BIG smile and this is what I got.
The day ended with me wondering if she could be any cuter.

Long Lost Friends

Ellen moved back, yay!! At least one person listened to my rule. JLo came back to visit and that meant we got to see Mary too. Hurray for seeing long lost friends and their multiple children.
Janey wanted to draw a "fwower" for me. She was pretty into it and spent a good deal of time on it.
Getting ready for church. I wonder what the nursery leader would have said had I dropped her off like this.

Summer Lovin'

Still no pictures of anyone but The Janey.

The Other Stuff

Samara and Janey hugging at Sea World. Janey has become a real hugger, mostly to babies, much to their chagrin.
Thank goodness for Sea World and year passes to lure north county friends and family down to visit us.
Spending a rare afternoon with daddy at the park.
And then at the zoo. Not as rare I guess since he was on break (not anymore, unfortunately, now he spends all of his time doing super interesting stuff with the public defender's office).


Janey at the office. She looked too much like a little old lady with her pearls, sweater and lap blanket not to take a picture. I think old ladies don't drink out of sippy cups though.
Getting ready for a big day of spelunking...
... under the table.
Janey and her booty at a friend, Tanner's, pirate birthday party. She spent a good amount of time parked right there in front of the Swedish Fish staring anyone down who tried to pilfer, arrrrrrrrr.
At the beach with Lila (Wila).
Yes, it was my birthday, and I am now older. For people's birthdays at work the office buys lunch and sometimes a cake, but never with writing on it. I felt very special, not only because it doesn't usually happen at work, but because I don't think I've had a cake with my name on it since I was 10. And it was a super delicious Heath bar ice cream cake. Joe says it should have had a drawing of a man on it and it would have been perfect. Heath-man ... hahaha. Janey was a fan also.
I cleaned out Janey's closet the other day and decided I didn't really want to hang on to this swing anymore, so I got it out to give away. Janey is in love with it, which I guess shouldn't be surprising since she loves any and all baby seats, but she hated when she was an actual baby. I guess we'll hang on to it for now considering I don't really care if she breaks it since I was going to give it away anyway. If anyone is in need of a baby swing and wants this one before Janey breaks it, please let me know.
Saturday was Janey's buddy Curtis' birthday. We had a wonderful time swimming and playing. And he got the best gift ever ... a Tonka truck. Like I mentioned before, this girl loves chairs/seats whatever form they come in. Curtis was pushing her around for a little bit, but then decided he needed a turn, it was his truck after all.
It was also nap time.
And now we're all caught up. Hopefully, now I can keep up so I won't have to overwhelm blogger again. And I'll even try to get pictures of people other than The Janey.