The Apple Farm--

 For my Birthday we went to an Apple Farm-- Jason had the day off-- which was the best present ever-- the girls LOVED the cider--

 They also loved the John Deere tractor tricycle course...

 Daddy was the hero.

 They loved the flower field...

 This is Emmy in front of WITCH-- because that is what she is going to be for Halloween!!!!

 They loved the tractor

 Ems loved the ghost-- Elles was terrified.

 my little skunk!

and the highlight-- Mr. Bee's 3 D adventure-- the only thing at the place that had a steep ticket price of $2-- it was WORTH it!!! mostly because we got to keep the glasses... Ellie also was terrified of this-- why?- whp knows!

A Wisconsin Weekend!

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!

raspberry picking with the Princes!!

 maybe the cutest picture ever!

 Ellie ate waaaaay more than she picked!

 happily, Jackie the dog came with the Princes!

enjoying the haul!

Little random moments

 talking to Booky-- look at that hair and those legs-- seriously.

 dancing to "Single Ladies"

 "put your hands up"

"Ellie is all dirty- I put dirt on her-- I'm berry clean though"    nice.

Labor Day camping trip with the Jenkins and the Princes

 Ellie's first time camping- aside from a 2 minute panic attack the first night
(when we closed the tent) she ADORED it.

 We are VERY thankful to the Princes for allowing us to borrow their tent-- even though I teased them that it might be a demo-- you know, those mini ones that are the models at stores~ our family actually slept very comfortably in this little structure-- thank heavens for friends who have everything!

 I love this pic--everyone is doing their own thing-- but check out Evie watching Ellie being swung around by Jason.

 She liked the idea and wanted to join in-- you're welcome LIZ.

 It was so cute how they were little fun friends.

 Jason was the entertainer-- and here he is swinging EVERY kid!

 I love this one of all of them begging for more

 best friend braidy girls!!

The BEST part of the weekend-- though many fabulous memories were made-- is that our kids got to spend time together and be best friends too-- I love it!

35 weeks!

Here I am at 35 weeks- and at 31 years old-- wow! that's all I can say ;)