A Wedding

We headed to Wabash on Saturday for my friend Casey's wedding. Casey and I went to school together but became good friends when we lived together in college for 3 years. She stood up with me in my wedding and also sang. She was a beautiful bride and we wish her and Tyler many wonderful years of wedded bliss!
So to get Alison remotely interested in going to this wedding and reception we talked about how the bride would look like a princess and we would get cake at a party. That pretty much sold her :)

Headed out the door to the event. If you think Alison's dress is as adorable as I do you can find it at www.trendysisters.com!
So this picture is absolutely amazing. First, she has never met Tyler before in her life. Second, Ali can be quite shy, and third, she went up to him all by herself and asked him to dance. He asked her if she wanted to stand or be picked up....shocker..she wanted to be picked up! They danced through most of a sang. Of course, knowing Ali I can tell how reserved she was being b/c she wouldn't keep her hands out of her mouth, but I thought it was a precious and very brave moment for her.

Ali, Chris, and Casey dancing. You might be thinking that Alison was picking her nose, well for all I know, she might have been :) HA!

Wow, this will be a long one

We headed home last Wed. night to enjoy the Wabash County 4-H Fair, time with family, and a general little vacation from regular life :)

Enjoying a little pre-fair drink...had to share this pic b/c I loved her facial expression and piggies!


OOOHHH, they do make pink tractors!

Teaching her my LOVE of pigs, especially 4-H hogs

Probably her favorite this year...the bunnies!

Or wait, I'm pretty sure this was her favorite.....the rides. She was a true little carnie kid, loved ALL of them and rode them multiple times.

She was absolutely wild in this car, so funny! Drove like crazy but was able to wave each time around :)

This is what we like to call our elephant ear smile, yummy stuff! This was after a sno-cone. Can you say SUGAR HIGH!

Giving some love to Meme's cat Chico...we have a real little animal lover on our hands.

Love to Alex the dog too! He gained at least 5# with Alison home, she fed him treats constantly!

To round out our trip we did some corn shucking with Fifi and Bobby. Look at these hands at work.
Thanks to our families for taking time to play, visit, eat, and entertain. We look forward to it EVERY year!

A Glorious 4th

okay...so the 4th wasn't so glorious....cloudy, rainy, cool...but the 3rd was a magnificent day and night to enjoy the festivities of the holiday. We headed to Conner Prairie with the whole family and what a GREAT evening we had.


These two are serious about eating these brownies!

Fun times on the playground

Our adorable girls and yes, we did coordinate our 3 youngest with matching watermelon themed outfits :)
Ali, Mommy, Izi....love you girls!!!

A week in review

wwwhheeewww weeeeee, what a week we had. We were so busy havin' fun and bein' busy I just now am getting to updating.
Of course we started the week with Father's Day. We hope Chris had a great day feeling pampered and loved. You are an amazing the father and the giggles and squeals only YOU can get out of Alison are priceless. I love you so much! I wouln't want to be on this journey of parenthood with anybody else! To our dads....thank you so much for being wonderful examples of love, humor, and dedication. We are soo blessed!

Now you will see a trend in the week....water, water, and more water....that's b/c it was HOT HOT HOT!

We did take a break from water to do a little finger/body/toe/hand painting. My budding artist! The wet washcloth to clean up was at least 1/2 the fun!!!

We did get a visit from Travis, Lindsay, and Lydia on Friday night for dinner. Lydia is growing up to quick already! We got to enjoy some playtime with them.

We headed to Wabash on Saturday and again to beat the heat, we hit the city pool. They have a waterslide we must have gone down 25 times with Ali, she LOVED it! Clearly in the pic below, the sun was a bit bright in the eyes :) Please note swim baby...she also made 25 trips down the slide....lucky her, hunh?!

The Bishop Reunion 2009

We headed to Metamora, IN on Saturday for the annual Bishop Reunion. We had a great day, the weather was a little steamy but no rain!!! Alison had a great day bike ridin', puddle jumpin', sand playin', pool swimmin', bubble blowin', cake eatin', ABC singin' kind of day! It was great to visit with family and looking forward to it again next year already.
Here are a few pics from the day----

Cousin Jeannie winning her way through the cornhole tournament!
The 3 girls...okay, they are sooo cute. They are born Oct/Nov/Dec of 2006. I'm sure they will be quite the little musketeers in 10 years or so.

Coolin' off!!!

The dreaded egg holding segment of the annual Chris and Kitty scavenger hunt. Chris pulls this together every year and does an amazing job....I don't know if these folks think so, 30 min. was a long time to hold that egg....way to go guys!!!

and again, Grandpa Bobby looking for that 4-leaf clover that is on the list EVERY year!!!!