Full House

Last weekend we had visitors! Our friends Bob and Amber and their daughter Brianna AND Chris and Abbie came to stay with us for the weekend. And they were all in our house! Andrew and I decided we wanted to host a golf event for some of the Knox golfers that included significant others and children. Most of their golf outings are for the guys only so we thought it would be fun to include everyone at one of the events.

The guys spent the weekend playing golf at the Chaska Town Course, Chaska Par 30, Deer Run in Victoria and Braemar in Edina. Abbie joined them for a couple of rounds too. The ladies visited Riley Lake and the Mall of America. And we all visited Golf Zone on Saturday night to play a bit of mini-golf. Time was spent engaging in lawn games, Euchre and Trivia Pursuit as well. I think we all had a great time and were completely exhausted by the end of the weekend! We hope to get everyone together again in the future!

I picked up the latest Harry Potter book on Saturday and spent Monday and Tuesday devouring the book. It was fantastic! I'm so glad I got through it before I heard anything about what happened!

In other news, we are having Ella's birthday party tomorrow. It's a Tinkerbell themed party and she is soooo excited! She's pretty much been talking about her birthday since the day after Christmas. And I think she can hardly believe that its finally here! Yesterday, as we pulled in to the grocery store parking lot to order her cake, she started singing, "It's my Tinkerbell birthday. It's my Tinkerbell birthday. Yeah!!" So cute!

She picked out the theme. She's informed me there must be balloons and candles to blow out. She specified green, blue, and yellow balloons. She is just so funny! The other day we were talking and I asked her if it would be okay if we actually sang "Happy Birthday" to her this year. And she said, "No." Then I asked her if we could just say, "1-2-3, Happy Birthday, Ella." And she said that was okay.

I think I may have mentioned before how Lily likes to push Ella's buttons. Well, she must have been listening to the exchange between me and Ella. The only song she ever sings all by herself is "Happy Birthday to Ella." And she looked at Ella and started singing it. Ella told her, "Stop singing, Lily." And Lily stopped, paused and then sang, "...to you." Oh my god, I laughed so hard! Lily is just such a character.

Just a cute picture of the girls

Lily's most current thing is carrying around an old purse of mine. It has a shorter strap so its just perfect for her to put on her shoulder. She walks around the house with it, finding stuff to stash in it; bits of paper, a straw, receipts, a Little People person. Then if we get into the car to go somewhere and she's forgotten it, all of sudden she says, "My purse! My purse!!" Such a girly girl already!

I've been playing around with my fun new camera so I've taken a lot of pictures lately. Just haven't had time to upload them yet. There's a few in this post to tide you over. And I think since I've been focusing on Ella more in the last few months, I'll put up a Lily photo retrospective. :-)

Sleeping at the lake

We have a full house again this weekend with Tom and Pat and my mom and Dave in town for Ella's birthday party. They'll all be staying with us too! And Uncle Ben and Aunt Jenelle are making the trip too!

Enjoy the end of July!