aubrey is engaged!

Aubrey and Tyler got engaged last weekend!

Yay Aubrey & Tyler!

Lauren even came into town and surprised Aubrey. 
Also Elise was pretty stinking excited to see Auntie Lauren.

Tyler's parents met us all at SanChez afterwards.  His mom even brought Elise a present.  So sweet.

Grandma keeps a scissors in her purse.  When the scissors comes out, so does the toungue.  And Nick likes to put stickers on her face. 

Congratulations you guys!

hilarious video

She was having SO much fun outside yesterday.

phone dump

I haven't even gotten  my camera out in the last week. 

These are all from my phone. 

I think they're still pretty cute though.  

 

Elise had her first dance class this week. 

My friend's daughter Lyza is in her class too. 

They are SO cute.

She brought all her friends from her bed down one morning. 

Apparently they wanted to watch Mickey Mouse too.

My sweetheart girl. 

Grandma brought princess press-on nails to dinner one night. 

She got them all on, realized she couldn't do anything, and took them off. 

Thanks anyways, Grandma. 

One thing she will always eat completely gone is macaroni and cheese.

Sometimes you just need some macaroni.

labor day weekend

I've been a total picture slacker lately.  Sorry Lauren. 

I pulled these from my phone from this weekend at the lake. 
Sunday was perfect and we had some friends out. 

Probably the last lanterns of the summer...

Elise and her friends.  My dad and these kid's grandpa have been friends since high school. 
The Kloostra's are currently losing in the "how many grandkids do you have?" contest.  
Like 6 to 1.   Sorry.  Hopefully we can get on that soon.

We slept over at the lake one night.  
My dad made Elise a fort in the morning.  She thought it was pretty awesome.  

great wolf lodge [in a million pictures]

The Gootes took us to Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City this weekend. 

We met at their house on Friday morning where we were greeted with donuts.

Elise was pretty excited.

We got there, swam a little, then headed into Traverse City.

This old building used to be a sanitarium - and now it's a huge area that's being redone into little shops, restaurants, and condos.  Very cute.  And a little creepy. 

Seriously a fish.

This would probably make you laugh out loud. 

She was having SO much fun. 

We played a little mini-golf.

She was this excited every single time she got the ball in the hole. 

Sometimes she just threw it in there. 

The pools were SO warm and fun.

I was taking pictures of Elise and looked over and saw Nick.  

All by himself.  Playing in the kiddie pool. 

At 8pm every night they have story time in the lobby.  

We had SUCH a fun weekend.  Thank you SO MUCH Gootes.  

Here's Elise after we dragged her out of the pool when we had to leave and bribed her with McDonalds.