Welcome ILY JO ...

My friend Mandy and her hubby Thorne had a beautiful baby girl on Sunday July 12. Little Ily (said eye-lee) Jo was only 4lbs 14oz and 18 inches long. She was 13 days early. So Tuesday, Bryan and I went up north to visit them and snuggle the baby :0) She is SO tiny. It was like holding a lil dolly. It was nice to hang out with them and see Ava, too. I can not believe she is 7 and going into the 2nd grade. Seems like forever ago that we lived together in the blue apartments and moved to Forest Lake together. Wow, how things change and time goes by .... Ava had a lot of fun playing with Pippy, too. And like always, Pippy enjoyed the attention :0)


Big sissy and little sissy


Ily




Ava, Ily n Pippy


Mandy and baby girl Ily


Ava and me


Ava and Pippy


Pippy (not looking too happy) LOL :0)

Happy 17th Birthday Collin ....

Last Tuesday 7/7 was Collin's 17th birthday .... we decided to go bowling on Monday for his bday. It was $1 bowling ... only $1 per game/per person, $1 shoe rental and $1 burger and fries ... couldn't beat that deal :0) For the first game it was just Bryan, me and Collin and then Kayla and Ryan came for 2 more games ... Collin won the 1st game, Bryan won the 2nd and Kayla came back for a strong finish in the 3rd :0) LOL








the boys ....


ryan, kayla, bryan

Then on Tuesday, Collin's actual bday, we had porcupine meatballs (mine and Collin's fav), baked taters and fresh salad from nana's friends garden :0) mmmmmm!!! Nana came over for dinner, as well as Kayla and Ryan. We had cheesecake with chocolate sauce for birthday dessert. After dinner we watched Transporter 3 ... Collin's choice. It was very good (even if I hadn't seen the 1st 2) :0)










Nana sat in lil Miss Princess Pippy's chair so she had to jump up and sit with Nana. LOL :o) ... it's a good thing Nana likes Pippy.

4th of July ....

So it was Bryan, me and Collin for the weekend of the 4th. We kept it low-key and just relaxed. Played at the park since it was such beautiful weather ... played frisbee and soccer, watched movies and had tacos ... mmmm!!!! :0) We didn't see any fireworks even ... too much traffic to go to Hudson to see them and this weekend is River Falls Days so we figured we catch them this Sunday.


Pippy showing off her dress


Pippy's kinda mohawk







the boys n pippers relaxing

Vote for Pippy

I entered Pippy in the most pampered pup contest .... I know, I'm a dork :0) Here's the link to vote for her. The pups come up in a head to head challenge so you have to vote for other pups too. She'll be on there til the end of July. If we win the month contest, we get a gift certificate for the website (to buy her fun clothes, accessories, etc ...) and then she's entered for the Grand Prize. So feel free to vote for her as often as you want :0)

vote for Pippy for most pampered pup .... www.thepamperedpup.com/contest

Thanks from Pippy!!!!