Halfway through the second year...

We had quite a busy weekend! Most of it was spent outside, soaking up this beautiful sunshine. Saturday we went to a wedding in St. Paul, where Kyle's fellow civil war reenacter got married. It was a HOT day, full of old friends, kilts andbagpipes!

My strategy during the ceremony; keep her quiet with snacks. She still likes talking though! She turned to her Uncle Bryan during the ceremony and said "hi!" He made the sign to be quiet, so she leaned in close to him and whispered "hi". It was hard not to laugh!

Congrats to the new Mr. and Mrs. Sanford!



Kyle dancing the dollar dance with the bride

Payton loved watching everyone dance!

Father daughter dance

Hehe we told him he was too old for her :)



My big 18 MONTH OLD! :)

We had a great time with everyone, it felt like a reenacter reunion! The next day, we had plans to meet up with the Matthews/Niles family for a get together. They are good family friends of the Halls, they all met while reenacting as well. Their daughter Tara has a little girl who turns 1 in just a couple weeks. We decided to go to Silver Falls Park, the same place we went hiking at the end of June. They have a big picnic area with a water area and a playplace. The perfect place to hang with our little gals!

Always snacking :) I thought her hair looks beautiful in this picture...

Let's play ball!

Aaaaaaaaaaand she's off!

Wait! Where was I going with this??



A girl's gotta rest :)

Blowing kisses to the camera!





Payton and Miss Katelynn!

Checking eachother out







We told her to give Katelynn a kiss lol

Playing with bubbles

She's going for it!

We had a great time talking, eating, and watching our girls play. Payton is getting to the point where she's starting to get a little possessive of her things, which is interesting. She didn't really want Katelynn touching her stuff! She isn't like that with the other kids at school, but I thought maybe it's because it's not her belongings there. Now when you're playing with her things what you hear is "No! Mine!" She's also really into pretending to clean. I was wiping off some of her shoes the other day, and she was just staring at me, mesmerized. I gave her a cloth and she started wiping everything down! She loved it! I'm hoping she still loves it when she's in high school :) Dream on, Mom!