For my birthday weekend we drove to WISCONSIN to see my Grammy, Papa and Uncle John-- Ellie and Papa Jiggs were in love from the start-- something that doesn't often happen.
we enjoyed Papa's gorgeous house.
Emmy and Jason caught a monster frog!
I love frogs-- but WI are the best-- hands down.
Look at the dinosaur frog-- Emmy LOVED him!
Here she is showing him off to Uncle John
You know you want to be frog belonging to the Frederick family... Emmy and Ellie gave him these beautiful flowers for a habitat. The sad news is that Emmy decided to peek at him while in the car-- he leaped out causing utter chaos while I was backing up in the parking lot of my Emmy Papa's old shop-- in the havoc, I ran into a stone wall-- lowering the resale of our car even more, by scratching the bumper... nice-- the rotten frog then jumped out the door and into the Cedarburg creek... seriously.
We got to visit Grammy Lloyd at her nursing home-- she loved the girls.
Uncle John suddenly loves kids too- or at least tolerates them EXTREMELY well.
I love this pic-- Ellie is playing the "watch me" game and giving Uncle John flowers and Emmy and Papa are having a love fest in the background with Grams.
Ems and Papa Jiggs are best friends ;)
Grammy's maiden name is Callahan-- here I am telling her that "this baby will be named Callahan too"
Ellie and Grams got to meet for the first time-- last time I saw Grams I was almost as largely pregnant with Ellie as I am with Callan now!
Ellie stole Grammy's baby for a little minute while we were there-- ;)
Getting to see family and enjoy WI was the best birthday present I could have asked for!
