Ava's First Day of PRE-SCHOOL.....

I CAN'T believe that my little baby girl started Pre-school today (sniff-sniff)!!!!!! WOW how time flies....literally!!

Ava was soooo excited to go back to school,many of her day care friends come to find out were in her pre-school class so she was extra excited to see them all again!!

This is Ava with her Pre-school Teacher Ms. Debbie.....she is so sweet and think Ava fell in love with her today!!

Ava picked out a special dress and hair bow of course....she liked the dress because it has tea pots on it and she thought she was going to have a tea party all day today at school!!

She couldn't wait to get inside to see all her little friends and meet her teacher again! Noah the perfect BIG brother leading the way and helping her! How cute!

After all of today's excitement the kids asked if we could take them to one of their favorite restaurants Wausau Mine for a "Back to School" dinner of pizza and Italian fries......

Minoqua....

We spent another beautiful weekend up in Minoqua last weekend, this time accompanied by Sean's sister Sarah and her cute little daughter Ziya!!! The kids had a blast with plentyof sunshine, campfires/smores and of course Noah's newfound passion....FISHING!!!!

Look at these 3 cuties....
Collecting stick for the campfire.....

Brotherly/Sisterly LOVE.......

Ava and Ziya had a blast playing in the water....Literally almost ALL day!!!!

And of course all Naoh wanted to was FISH!!!!

All I can say is:

Like Father....Like Son

Noah's "keeper" caught of the deck at the Gehin cabin! He was so proud of this FISH!!

And even more proud when he reeled in this whopper of a BASS!!! Just short of being legal :-(

He was beaming from ear to ear though and that's all he talked about for the rest of the night!!

I do have to say....Sarah caught the biggest "Whopper" of the day.....check out this HUGE Crappie!!!! Good Job Sarah!!!

*She was beaming from ear to ear too!!!!

Up North....

Noah and Ava absolutely LOVE going up North for weekend getaways....and we are so fortunate to have cabins to go to thanks to our families. While up in Minoqua for the weekend one of Ava's favorites is Wildwood Zoo (I think she just goes so she can go in the bunny cage and snuggle with all the cute little bunnies!!)!
Ava and I feeding the bear specail "bear juice".......

This bird cage is amazing.....you get little popsicle sticks with bird food stuck to them and they come and fly right to you and eat food off the stick!! Ava loves it.....

More snuggle time.......

Watch out these darn goats will eat ANYTHING!!!

So while I took Ava to the zoo....Sean took Noah out fishing(He has really gotten the fishing bug this summer and now that's all he wants to do!!!) I feel bad because this is the only picture I got of him...I had the camera with me so Sean couldn't get any of Noah fishing in the boat catching "the biggest fish ever"!! He caught a nice stringer of fish......keep em' coming Noah, we love fish frys!!

Four wheeling FUN....Noah actually took us for a ride! He's a great driver!!!!

Packer Family Night.....

Last Saturday night was Packer Family night at Lambeau Field....What a great way for the entire family to get out and watch the Packers practice under the lights on a beautiful summer evening........
One of my favorites of the two....so stinkin CUTE!!!

My camera died after I took a few of these pictures of course.....!!!! I got a few cute shots but really wanted to get a few pictures of the massive storm that came out of nowhere FAST!!! I would have had a few cool pics of the storm coming in over the stadium. The announcer came on and told us that we all must evacuate the stadium at once and wait in the concourse area for the storm to pass and they would continue with the fireworks(one of the MAIN reasons we went-Noah LOVES fireworks and they have an awesome show!!!). After waiting for 45 minutes...we did get a up close and personal show from the Packers Drum Line (they were awesome by the way!!!)....we decided to leave and not wait for the fireworks :-(

After all the waiting....they still LOVE each other!!

Just as we left and Sean picked us up....the Fireworks started(we watched from inside the car in Lambeau parking lot)! It was SOOOO worth the wait....they were unbelievable....the smiles and looks on the kids faces were priceless!!!

Summer FUN!!!

WOW....I can't believe that summer is coming to an end!! We've have a crazy busy fun filled summer and realized that I haven't posted anything for almost 2 months!!!

Here's a few of our summer highlights.....

Wisconsin Valley Fair....Ava wanted to jump on the trampoline...she had a BLAST!!!

What's summer without plunging into a nice cool pool on a HOT summer day!

NEW Zoo-Green Bay with friends Olivia and Sullivan

A trip to Chuck E Chesse....

Bay Beach Amusement Park...

Strawberry picking....

Wildwood Petting Zoo-Minoqua