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Elise loves to play in the car. She begs to go in there. It works great for me because she is completely contained and I can spray paint stuff.

Her hair was a DISASTER.  This used to be piggy tails.

Poor thing's wiped out a couple times lately.  She is constantly covered in Hello Kitty BandAids.

Millennium Park

Saturday morning we took advantage of the beautiful (hot!) weather and headed to Millennium Park -- a huge park in Grand Rapids with tons of playgrounds, a huge beach, and a splash pad.  She wanted nothing to do with the splash pad but loved the playground and the beach.

pool party on the driveway

BIG thank you to the Breckers for giving Elise this awesome little blow-up pool!  I got half-way through blowing it up and decided to go to Wal-Mart for an electric pump.  Worth it!  She LOVES it.  We've got it parked on our driveway this weekend.  And probably all summer.

a day at the lake - in video clips.

I pretty much had the cutest picture of Elise ever.  And then the card in my camera flipped out and decided to eat it.  I'm really sad.  Like so so sad.  But it decided to only eat the pictures on my card and not the video.  And I happened to take a lot of those today...

Elise says a lot of words in here - which I think I translated correctly.  A tiny dead fish washed up on the beach.  She won't say fish, she does does the fishy face.  And she loves doing buckles.  Give that kid a lifejacket and she's set for a half hour.  As long as there's someone to un-buckle what she buckles.

We are busy.

We had such a fun and busy weekend.  Aubrey turned 21! And then she had her first drink.  BAHhaha.  

Happy Birthday Aubie!  We went to Boatwerks in Holland for dinner and happy hour.  And a couple hours after happy hour.

Elise did so well in the restaurant.

She had some entertainment.

Elise wasn't in the mood.  But aren't my sisters cute??

So this happened.   We're sorry to the people that sat here after us.

We had a little party at our house on Saturday too.  Actually it was a pretty huge party - THANK YOU to everyone who came.  It's a little weird for me, because it was a party to celebrate that we are cancer free, and I almost never think about cancer.  I'm just too busy!  Well, kind of.  I play with legos and color a lot.  But having cancer just seems so long ago and done with.  We're over it.  And we hope never to see it again!  So thanks to everyone who showed up.  It was so good to see ALL of you.  And and extra big thank you to everyone who brought wine.  KIDDING.  Sort of.   :-)

I was so busy all day I got almost no pictures.  My throat hurt from talking.  But this one is hilarious.   We told Elise to give Jude a hug.  Jude ran away and Elise chased him around the yard with her arms open for awhile.  SO funny.  Poor Jude.