Haven Dress Testing

My always willing and ready model got another modeling job today!

We tested the Haven Dress from Petite Kids Boutique.

I've tested quite  few of her patterns and they are always easy and well written and of course the final product is CUTE!

Here is her "Haven Dress."

We chose some fall colors and plan to layer it with long sleeves, leggings and boots this fall!

Go check out Petite Kids Boutique for some other great patterns!

Fun at the Wisconsin Dells 2012

We took a short weekend trip to the Wisconsin Dells and had lots of fun!

It was a long walk to some of the water parks.

Holding hands helped a few times!

They loved the deer park!

She was shouting words of encouragement to preston here...

Preston had quite a few followers throughout the park...he was loaded with "Nacks" at all times.

He liked the little ones the best.

Peighton remembered the go-carts from last year and of course we had to do them again!

Dustin got a turn on the mini carts because there was no one else to race against peighton!

Everybody ready to go!

She squealed the whole time....and leaned over at one point and told me "this is what I do on the waterslides!!!!!"

Racing daddy.

Preston liked the Wisconsin Ducks ride!

Preston made himself at home on the mini golf course and tried out the dinosaur eggs...

We tried very hard to pose these two....it wasn't going so well at this point.

But then they decided they liked each other!

Lots of water park fun!

They all enjoyed the wave pool a few times.

Preston loved climbing on all the stuff in the kiddie areas.

Dana and Carson!



A little fun on the 4TH!

We had a great fourth of july!

The monkey's wore their super cute red white and blue for the parade.

We decorated the gator and Peighton drove it through the kiddie parade.

They won the award for "Best Animal."

They had the back end filled with bears and dolls!

The parade was H-O-T.

They had a few drinks in between running after the candy.

Preston had to bring his own farm machinery to the parade.

This was how he watched most of the parade!

We love a good parade!

Peighton's First Driving lesson...

This is where Preston spent the afternoon:

Glued to the window watching Grandpa rake the hay.

When he was done, Preston got a long tractor ride over to Grandma's house.

Which left Peighton a bit sad since there was only room for one extra in the tractor.

Her consolation prize...Grandpa told her he would bring the Gator over and let her drive!

It's a good thing there was LOTS  of space!

And if you look close you can see that she dressed up for the occasion with her turquoise hair flower and dress...

She did really well.

Although from the deck I could hear a few "SLOW DOWNS" from Grandpa!

Preston waited patiently for his ride and played in the sandbox.

And we walked out to see one of the "BEEEEG" bales.

He told us that the "Mer's" were going to eat it.

( A "Mer" is a cow....you know, because they go Moo.)

Another fun summer night!

Road Trip Clips = Genius!!!!!

Awhile back, I saw a cute idea for some "Road Trip Clips" HERE.

I filed it away thinking someday that might be useful.

Well, this weekend our "someday" came!

If I would have thought about it just a bit sooner, we would have had WAY cuter ones...but at 10:00 the night before we left for our little roadtrip, I wasn't into making fancy ones like these:

I just busted out the stickers and some clothes pins and made them in about 5 seconds!

Peighton got Snow White and Preston got Boots the monkey!

The kids thought they were fantastic.

I laid out the rules for Peighton as we pulled out of the driveway.

If she was not being nice to Preston, threw a toy, whined, etc her clip came down.

But if it stayed up then she would be allowed to pick a small treat at the next stop.

The girl is all about treats...she was all in.

And it worked GREAT!!!!

I only had to remind her once that her clip could come down and she made a better choice.

At times, there's a lot of whining in our car.

But I'm thinking our new little clips might help make the whinies happen a bit less on trips!

Such a simple thing but made such a BIG difference!

I think I'll make some cuter ones for our next trip though!!!!

A little Fair Fun!

We are having lots of fun this summer!

We drove to northen Iowa this weekend to go to Dustin's High School reunion and got to see the Worth County fair too.

A great weekend for all!

There was free face painting...that we stood in line for about 45 minutes to get!!!

But was totally worth it.

Preston enjoyed the ice cream and burgers!

There was a "Kiddie Barn" with puppies, kittens, goats, a pot bellied pig, horses, a donkey, a llama, rabbits, ferrets...and a camel.

Preston tried feeding the kittens corn....it didn't really work out for him.

Peighton liked the horses.

When did this one get big enough to sit and watch a show like a big kid?!?!!?

There was a music show that they got to go on stage for!
They both enjoyed that part!

He stayed on stage like a big kid!!!!

One of my favorite parts was the hula hoop contest.

Peighton is pretty good!

There's really nothing cute than my little guy trying to hula hoop though!

It was a fun day at the fair.

Dustin got to watch the cattle show and the kids got to see so many fun things.

We may just have to go back next year!