Summer Break

This is the first summer in a long time I have really been able to take off...sometimes I'm not even sure what to do when I wake up in the morning since I don't have somewhere I have to be or something I should be preparing for. It is amazing!!

So, yesterday Finley and I got to go to the Creative Discovery Museum with my mom and aunt to see the Curious George exhibit. Finley has been to the CDM a few times before, but she definitely had some new favorite exhibits this time around. Usually she plays with the water for at least 20 minutes before I say, "Okay, let's move on", and she reluctantly follows along. This time she stopped and played for a few minutes and then moved on herself. She of course still loves the Little Yellow House, but this time she rearranged the furniture in the house!




We were able to make some sand art as well as play some music and dig for dinosaur bones!


Then we headed upstairs to see Curious George! Finley LOVED playing in the produce stand...although she didn't quite understand people were supposed to give her money for fruit they were buying. She kept wanting to give people their fruit and money. Such a sweetheart!

By the end she was ready to give George a hug and kiss before heading to lunch at Lupi's. I love being home over the summer!

Happy Father's Day

For Father's Day Finley wanted to get her Daddy something to "play with." So, we ended up at a sporting goods store and remembered a fun "toy" we had seen some teenage girls playing with at the beach. All I could think of to ask the sales clerk for was a skateboard with two wheels. He pointed us toward the fitness section, which definitely didn't have what we were looking for, but then we spotted it! Rushing over, we laughed when we saw the name - "Ripstick".

We took the gift home and wrapped it the night before Father's Day. I told Finley we couldn't tell Daddy what was in the present...wasn't sure how long that would really last, but it was worth a shot. Our air conditioning was broken (84 downstairs, don't want to know what it was upstairs), so we were all sleeping downstairs on the sofa bed with the fans on and windows open. Finley didn't want to go to sleep with all the excitement and change of scenery, so when she was still awake at 12:01am (now officially Father's Day), she asked if Daddy could open his present.

I think this might have been one of the only times we managed to really surprise Chad, and he was very excited about his new "Ripstick" although at this point, I think he was still a little leary of the gift! However, in the past two weeks he has taken his ripstick everywhere with him and is officially hooked on it. Any spare time around the house is spent outside with the ripstick, and it usually also involves Finley outside as well riding her big wheel or electric car. However, on one special ocassion earlier this week you can see Chad was teaching Finley how to ripstick as well!

I Never Thought I Would Do Something Like This...

Start a blog that is.

But, I enjoy reading everyone else's blog,
so I think it is only fair
I share my side of the story.

I'm Elizabeth,
married to Chad,
and we have a
two year old little girl Finley
who loves polka dots
(her mommy may have
rubbed off on her a little).

This blog will hopefully
be a place we can look back to
in the future
and see what was going on
during this crazy, exciting time in our lives.

Stay tuned...