Fort Belmont

Today Piper and I met up with my mom in dad in Jackson Minnesota at Fort Belmont. I've been driving past Fort Belmont all summer seeing their sign for the Fort Belmont Rendezvous. I've used to go to Rendezvous as a child and I asked my parents if they wanted to meet us there. The sights and smells definitely brought back memories.

The Rendezvous was real small but we still had a great time. Piper loved the horse pulled wagon rides, and getting to go inside all the old buildings.

While my mom, Piper and I were checking out the fort tower and the sod house my dad was busy buying toys for his future grandson. Some how he managed to find him a bow and arrows and a sling shot. I told him these are toys baby boy will have to keep at Grandpa and Grandmas house.

We all had a lot of fun and here are some of my favorite photos from our little adventure.

Cat Mask

Piper and I took a trip to the craft store today so I could get supplies to make a Halloween picture frame. Piper spotted a cat mask and got a big kick out of putting it up to her face and saying "meow meow".  I thought it might be fun to let her paint it. She did an awesome job. Of course the first thing she did with the paint brush was dip it in the yellow paint and stick it up to her lips. Once I explained she should paint the cat she got the hang of it right away.

I added some whiskers while she was taking a nap.

After it was nice and dry she had a great time pretending to be a cat, and seeing how all her stuffed animals looked when she held it up to their faces.

Piper had an electrifying trip to the park tonight.

Halfway There

I'm 20 weeks pregnant and that means I'm halfway there. It also means we had my 20 week ultrasound and I know the baby's gender!

We found out today that we are having a little baby boy! We are so excited!

Everything looked great during the ultrasound and he also gave us a little smile.

Only 20 more weeks and I get to meet my little guy.

Evening in the Park

Since Piper started walking it seems like we go to a park everyday. She's gotten quite brave and climbs allover the place.

Here are a few shots from tonight's trip to the park.

She loves to spin and get dizzy. We're not sure when she learned the word dizzy but she would lay on the ground and say "dizzeeee" every time she would get off this thing.

She also likes to go down the steepest slide. She went down this slide many times tonight and each time she went down my stomach would do flip flops.

To just think she was afraid to go down her little 2 foot slide at the beginning of the summer.

She also thinks she's a big girl and likes to help the big kids do big kid things.

Yep my little girl is growing up.

Gammy and Baba were here!

We've had a busy last couple of days around here. Josh's parents drove over for a visit and Piper had so much fun. She loved showing off her rock collections, and her favorite parks.

Josh's dad helped him work on our deck ( long story, it seems lately one house DIY project leads to another).

I asked Piper today after they left "What did you do with Gammy and Baba?" and her response was "Play". Here are a few snap shots from their visit.

My Favorite Photo From August.

I can't help but smile every time I look at it.