greetings.

peace. it's been awhile. sorry. sorta. the hiatus from blogging has been somewhat intentional and somewhat circumstantial. i will be the first to admit i often blog when i am bored or attempting to procrastinate in some regard. so...often when i had a paper due or reading to finish or something of that nature. my life has been free from these obligations/responsibilties in the past few weeks so my computer has been stashed away. but i am back. check it.

i am grinning gleefully because i am totally beating my sister in the simpsons road rage game. she gets pretty upset if she looses at these games. shh....dont' tell her. but, sometimes i let her win just so she'll keep playing w/ me.


I spent the first weekend w/ my sister. My parents came up the following weekend and we celebrated my dad's birthday. i am not sure why zach picked out a pink cake. but...please note that it is a layered cake. zach didn't think i could do it. but....i did. i think the blue candles even out the femininity of the pink/purple frosting. hey...it tasted good.


the next weekend i finally got to go on vacation w/ my family. it's been awhile since i've gone w/ them on a family vacation. what used to be a family tradition of traveling somewhere in the summer....continued when i went overseas. they went to washington d.c., germany, colorado, and toured the upper western states....all without me! can you believe that? well.....they took me to the dells this time to an indoor waterpark. not germany...but, i felt like a kid again. plus, i got a new swimsuit out of the deal. i actually had a ton of fun. we went go karting and did miniture golf.... and the room had a fireplace.



abbie didn't have so much fun. she spent the first evening puking. i slept through it...but, she was pretty sick the rest of the weekend. zach and i continued to race each other down the slides while good ole' gma stayed in the room w/ the sick kiddo.



i got my chance to take care of abbie. i went back to dm to watch the sick kid while my sister and zach worked. we watched carebears. note tenderheart bear in my lap. he's orange. abbie wanted to be strapped into her seat. i obliged. doesn't she look pathetic?


abbie fed me sometimes. i even remembered to put her pants on the second day.



we are loading up the car in hopes of getting discovered. doesn't she look like a model? seriously.



we had a race. i won. the pink carriage somehow slipped out from underneath abbie and she is now sitting confounded upon the grass. poor kid.


we went swimming. she enjoyed it until we turned on the sprinkler. before pulling her out of her misery i had to take a picture. kids are adorable when they cry....don't you think?










she is climbing into the potty. i don't think she gets it yet. i had fun telling her to let her dolly go for a swim. my sister didnt' think it was funny. that's why i am the aunt.


I think abbie had a fun time hanging out w/ me. i had fun dumping water on her.