flashback friday: a fun summer evening with friends

we celebrated our birthdays (todd and i) and one of our last get together with our favorite friends before they moved to dallas.  i'll let the pictures do the talking.  i forgot all about this drafted post and it just put the biggest smile on my face.  i love my friends and although i know they are doing amazing well and loving texas, i really miss them like crazy.

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indiana state fair. and a video!

four months later and i'm finally ready to get this thing blogged!  i believe this was either the day before or after my birthday.  but that's the problem with blogging months later. you forget things like dates. oops.

anywhoo.

jackson and i drove to the fishers train station and actually rode the "fair train" from fishers to indianapolis.  the look on his face when we took our seats. i cannot explain.  he was seriously so thrilled (and so well behaved too!) it was really fun to be able to sit and enjoy this experience with him instead of driving him across town.  it was really sweet.  i think i liked it as much as he did.

once we arrived, we met up with our friends!  meagan and lucy.  it was fun to watch the kids run around and have fun together.  its so neat to see them have these experiences... everything is brand new to them and so exciting.  the fair is so much more fun when you have kids!

this might have been one of my favorite parts of the whole day.  the goats acted like they've not eaten in days.  so we just kept feeding them carrots.  we both got such a kick out of it. those goats are greedy little things and jackson thought they were so silly.

here's a quick little video i put together from our day.  i am obsessed with videos lately.  i hope you guys like them!

and last but not least...

because this boy loved riding on the train... and he's pretty dang cute!!

it was a really fun day and i'm glad we got to experience the state fair with our friends before they moved... one short month later and they were residents of texas!  i'm glad we had this little day together before they moved.  we miss them like crazy and looking at these pictures makes me miss them even more.  especially because those kiddos have been friends since little lu was born.  sap alert. i'll be quiet now!  i just miss my friends!!!

i have so many more blog posts drafted from the last few months so stay tuned!  happy thursday!

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scenes from our last weekend

as we near the start of yet another weekend, why not revisit the fun that was our last weekend?! sunday afternoon after an almost three hour nap (hooooray!) jackson and i took a little drive over to zionsville to spend some time with friends.  it was really fun and almost like a playdate since all of our kids are so close in age!  lucy was about to turn 2 the next day, jackson and noah are just shy of three and actually only a month apart exactly.  

its kind of fun to watch all of their interactions together and they all play pretty well since they are all daycare/preschool goers but at the same time, outside of school, they are all only children. ;)  but they are all the cutest and as parents of these kiddos, we are pretty dang lucky.

after we arrived to meagan's house, we walked to the park.  this is one of the best parks we've ever been to!  two dinosaur-shaped climbing structures?  what more could a little boy ask for?!

i promise this is a "smile".  just a forced one.  when your mom has a camera in your face 24-7 it is bound to happen!

"help! help! i'm in jail!"

at one point, jackson helped me move the wagon.  what a nice boy!

and then it was off to the other dinosaur to climb on! 

and then he turned around to make sure his mommy was still there and still watching.  oh that smile. that is the real deal.  the best thing ever.

thanks again google+ for making these auto awesome. i am obsessed!

after spending a bit at the park, it was time to walk back to the house and start grilling for dinner!  here's all the sweaty littles taking a ride in the wagon.  it really only lasted about two minutes before each of them wanted out so they could keep running... ;)

oh those pigtails!

after we got back to the house (todd arrived too!) and had some delicious dinner (sliders, salad and crock pot mac&cheese..... YUM) it was time to get out the bubble machine!  i think they liked it!

a couple more auto awesome(s) because i seriously cannot help it!

and finally it was down to the backyard to burn off a little more energy.  once they had a few minutes to run their little hearts out, it was time to pack it up and head home.  bedtime for everyone!

i'm so glad i got to spend so much time with friends this weekend and it was even better that we got to have our kids around too.  its a pretty good life we live... and a happy one too!

p.s. since these pictures were taken right before her birthday... 

happy (belated) birthday lucy!!!  we love spending time with you and your family and its pretty cool seeing you grow up into such a smart little girl.  jackson is pretty lucky to have a friend like you!

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