Well, back in July…the beginning of July, we went to Wisconsin. I’m only running slightly behind on the personal pics huh?! I wanted to be sure to document our journey in pics here on the blog…so here ya go!

It was a week of….

being nakey on the porch

chillin with the fam. alot of playstation was played by the guys!

enjoying the Wisconsin countryside

experiencing the epicness of epic! (seriously, this place blows my mind! my sister works here, what you see in the pic isn’t even 1/10th of the campus there. Every room is off the wall in the decor. They have a treehouse, waterfalls, marketplace, Indian Jones hallway, you name it…)

enjoying some drool time at the park

enjoying some lake time, digging for rocks (this picture cracks me up for some reason!)

roaring with dinosaurs! (this was at the Children’s Museum where Lena decided to roar at the top of her lungs with the dino’s. hilarious!)

and some chillaxin’ in the crib:)

thanks for the great week Linz and Eric!

two years ago you came into this world. you took your time getting here and did it on your own terms, two weeks late. i have a feeling this trend will continue:) independent in your own way and at the same time wanting to be in someone’s arms all the time. from the very first night you were a snuggler. i love how you curl up right under my left arm. always my left. and now you tell me when you want to snuggle and say “sit” and pat the back of the couch. how just after an hour, I’ll come in the door and you run up to me saying “mama” with the biggest smile and hug, like you haven’t seen me in days. these are the things that one day you will grow out of and here, on your second birthday, I want to put in writing to hold on to them.

i love your spirit. we joke about it because you are always on the go and we’ve never had the pleasure of enjoying a child who will sit in a cart in the store but that is something about you I would never give up. I love that you put your hands in the air and close your eyes, just to enjoy the wind. I love that you instinctively know how to be gentle with baby dolls and eggs but then at the same time find it hilarious to screech at the top of you lungs so Tabu (the cat) will jump up on the mantle. I love that you already help me cook. and how sitting at the edge of the sink playing in the water and bubbles can entertain you for hours. and among other things, i love that your blocks have to be in a straight line but then you always have to knock them down.

one day you will look back at this and I hope you can see a sampling of what you were like. I hope that your wonderful spirit continues to blossom and that you enjoy life to its fullest. I hope you see the love the your dad and I have for you, how you have made our life complete. and I hope you will always enjoy the wind.

happy birthday, my daughter.

Love, mommy

Her curly hair. I love that about her. However, It was getting to be quite the fro in the morning though and often required detangling and some pulling. Plus, she had a little curly rat tail in the back! And although I’m sure she was ok about rocking the 80′s rat tail, the mama wanted to stay in the current decade:)

So Sheri at Salon Resplendent helped us out and cut off just a tad to help with the frizzies and fro’s:) Thanks Sheri for being awesome! She had quite a good time but I’m guessing it was because she got to sit in Nana’s lap and eat chocolate at 9am:)