Thank you Jenny and Olivia

Jenny and Olivia sent us some yum, yum, yummy cookies!! As cute as they were delicious, thank you, girls !! Olivia is almost exactly a year younger than Maya, which works out well for us to share clothes.

Terri shares Samantha's outgrown outfits with Maya (thank you, thank you, thank you - I love your taste, Terri!) and then we share Maya's outgrown outfits with Olivia. Works well!! Girls rock!!

Butterfly Meadow and Caterpillar Crossing

Valparaiso has the coolest playground - Butterfly Meadow and Caterpillar Crossing. We went here several times with Grandma and Grandpa. I rode with Maya down the biggest slide each time - ONCE - it was scary for me, let alone for little peanut. She did love the animal sounds, the smaller slides, and the big bouncers. The bus/car/taxi thing too.

BIG FUN !!

Good Friends and More Mashmo's

Our Hobart high school friends came over for an awesome dinner. Janet and Lee made the most delicious beef for sandwiches. Sherry handled all the side dishes and we only supplied dessert. Although it was an amazing dessert, if I do say so myself, LOL. Janet had sent me a recipe for a trifle. I think that's what it's called - the layery thing that Rachel made in friends and oops, but in beef, YUCK. Anyway, I didn't have time to put it together, hahaha, so I just put all the ingredients out on the table and let everyone make their own! It actually looked like I did it on purpose. Oops, except for the pudding, because I didn't take the time to make that either, so I substituted vanilla yogurt. Hmmmm, somehow when I talk about something that I cooked, the word "oops" comes in alot. Regardless, it was delicious and lots o'fun :)

Teeny tiny bowling shoes

Who knew that they had such tiny bowling shoes?

When there is lots of thunder and lightning, I tell Maya that the angels are bowling. Then I realized that she had never seen any bowling, duh. So Grandma and Grandpa took Maya and I bowling. We weren't sure that Maya could play, but sure enough, they had shoes and balls for two years old. The lane bumpers came in handy for all of us (smile). It was such fun to watch her giggle after she pushed the ball down the lane. It took quite awhile for it to get to the pins - once it didn't make it and we had to call the bowling man - and she usually lost interest by the time it actually got to the pins, LOL. BIG fun, thank you Grandma and Grandpa!

Go Irish

One of our favorite things to do is to visit Notre Dame. After a yummy lunch at the Morris Inn, we went for a walk on campus. Grandpa picked up a wheelchair at the Eck Center and he ready to go any and everywhere. Of course, we lit candles at the grotto. We had cold drinks at the Starbucks in LaFortune and pittered in the war memorial fountain next to Breen Phillips (mommy's dorm). It was a bee-yoo-tee-ful day, as Maya says.

Blueberries

Pack up the picnic basket and off we go.......

Picnic food, a playground, a barn, a kitty cat, yummy ripe blueberries, sunshine - FUN !

Maya's Favorite Things

Some of Maya's favorite things:

Tigers
Candy Cames
Milk Shakes
Balloons
Canteloupes
Elephants

Happy Birthday, America!

We went to the parade in Porter (Chesterton didn't have one this year?) and had a picnic lunch - perfect 4th! Maya was scared of the fireworks though. Maybe next year -

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