Keeping Up With the Vandegrifts: August/September 2012

I can't believe it's been since July since I've updated, we have been busy as usual and enjoying watching Addy grow and explore the world around her. In August, we took Addy and our niece Taylor to the aquarium downtown and enjoyed it, we went to the Johnson County Fair and Bull Blast, our friends Ellen and Bret had their 2nd baby, Cara, and Kelly and Brett had their first, Hannah. It has been fun seeing them and their little ones! Addy and I went to Deanna Rose Farmstead in August with our neighbor Christy and Addy's boyfriend Jordan, and then went again in September with Kelly, Hannah, and Kelly's sister and her boys. Addy fed the goats a bottle of milk and they jumped on her but she enjoyed the animals. We went to Ark City to visit Ellen, Bret, and their 2 girls the end of August, and then they came up here in Sept to attend a wedding and stayed with us one night and we went to the zoo with Ellen's family. We went to the Ottawa tractor show with my mom and Jared's dad. My dad, stepmom, grandpa, and Jason help with it every year and Addy woke up just in time to ride with papa in the parade. We celebrated Jared and my mom's birthdays the end of August and then my brother Jason, Jordan our neighbor's 1st, our nephew Caden, and my birthday the month of September. We went to the Royals game on a Fireworks Friday and they had won, making it more fun. We also went to the Louisburg Cider Mill's Fall Festival and Addy rode a pony for the first time and ate donuts. We went to the PRCA American Royal Rodeo and Addy stayed awake until the last 10 minutes and loved it! We had lots of lunch and dinner dates and shopping with friends and family, and enjoyed walks almost every day and had playdates outside with Jordan in the evenings. Here are some pictures of our fun events: