planting flowers

the boys had fun playing in the dirt and planting some flowers in the planters outside our garage door.  

love, laurie

first bike ride of the season on the trail

we took a trip out to the bike trail for the first time this season.  noah enjoyed riding along on dad's bike and stoping at a few playgrounds along the way to play too!

love, laurie

saying hi to butterflies

over the weekend my dad attended the annual butterfly release.  he came home to us with extra butterflies and we had a nice little ceremony of our own releasing them near the flowers.  noah was especially happy that one landed on his finger and then his leg!

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

a few recent photos and some artwork from preschool.

love, laurie

cooling off on a hot day

our neighbors invited us over for a little summer gathering, and noah enjoyed cooling off in the baby pool.  he also enjoyed dunking himself in the bucket of water for the water balloons.

love, laurie

lots of "big shows"

mr. noah has been a big help at all of mama's "big shows" recently!

and he's always game to test out whatever scenery we have on stage!

love, laurie

birthday celebrations

we all got together last week to celebrate ryan's dad's birthday with sandwiches and a chocolate chip cookie cake!

love, laurie

happy father's day weekend

happy father's day weekend to all of the papas out there!

love, laurie

happy birthday!

happy birthday today to ryan's dad!

love, laurie

happy anniversary!

happy 54th wedding anniversary today to ryan's parents!

love, laurie

strawberry picking at lakeland orchard

it's strawberry season at lakeland orchard and we're very excited about it since we all love strawberries.

on sunday morning, noah and i got to the orchard when they opened to go strawberry picking.  noah was in his glory because his favorite tractor driver drove the tractor we were on to go out to the strawberry fields.  it was a lot of fun and the strawberries are delicious!

after we put our strawberries in a cooler in the car, we spent several hours riding all of the rides and taking two more tractor trips out to strawberry fields just for the ride because he loved watching the tractors drive so much.

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

some recent snapshots of what noah has been up to at preschool and some of his awesome artwork.

love, laurie

farmer noah

noah's class planted seeds at school and then brought them home.  we have been watering the seeds daily and keeping them on the kitchen window to get sun.  noah loves to check them out every morning to see how much they have grown!

love, laurie

a day trip to knoebels amusement park

we have been working non-stop lately.  we finally had a random tuesday without anything terribly important that needed to be done, so we took the day off to take noah to knoebels.  tuesdays in june are buy-one-get-one-free ride wristbands, so it was perfect.  the weather was gorgeous and we packed so much into our day.

love, laurie

"museum after midnight"

the dance studio where i teach had their annual spring dance recital this weekend at the theater and it went great!  the show was "museum after midnight" which was such a great theme that we brought to life.

this show was extra fun because i got to record approximately 40 voiceovers that played between each song to guide the audience through the "museum" and that was so much fun to do!

love, laurie

a friday afternoon trip to lakeland orchard

the weather was beautiful on friday, so we picked noah up from preschool really early and headed to lakeland orchard to enjoy the nice day.  he managed to fit in 3 bee rides, 2 carousel rides, 2 train rides, a visit to the animals, and some bouncing on the jump pillow!

love, laurie

a newly renovated playground

a playground near our house recently got a whole new look thanks to a complete renovation from the city.  they demolished the old playground which was really showing its age and built a completely new one in its place.

we were so excited to check it out recently.  the new design is so bright, open, and colorful.  noah really liked the new playground equipment, complete with a gigantic yellow slide which is unlike anything we've ever seen anywhere else.  thank you to all of the local officials who secured the grant funding to make this project possible!

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

a few recent preschool snapshots of mr. noah.

love, laurie

my spot light guy

i have the best spotlight operator in the industry.  all other theatres should be jealous.

love, laurie

a few random snapshots from life lately

lots of rehearsals and shows at the theatre lately for dance recital season, congratulating dominique on a superior senior recital, and cupcakes for annie's birthday!

love, laurie

happy noah

the face of a kid whose parents took him to red robin for dinner and surprised him with the fact that they had a coupon for a free dessert!

noah is convinced that that the red robin statue in the lobby owns the restaurant and cooks the food.  so he kept saying “thank you, red robin, for making dessert and dinner that was yummy!”  legit i wish i had it on video, i could have sent it to corporate.  when we left he had to visit the red robin statue in the lobby to give it a thumbs up, say thank you, give it a kiss on the beak, and then say “see you soon!”

too funny!

love, laurie

preschool snapshots

a few recent preschool snapshots of what mr. noah is up to at school.

love, laurie