An evening outside

Thursday night was the monthly church picnic. We meet at a special park that we have elite access to. (That's right, Aaron, I totally ended that sentence with a prep.) Kris and Nicki were there and we had fun playing and swinging. Annabelle sure likes the Austins. It's great that she can have so many people who love her!

Bouncing, Kissing, & Boo

Wednesday night after church, I pulled Annabelle up on the exercise ball and started bouncing. She really liked it. Recently Annabelle has started giving "real kisses", by that I mean: closed mouth and smacking after. It is so cute. Sometimes I have to do fish lips to get her to kiss me. After that she wanted to see what her daddy had just filmed so she scurried up on the couch and watched the video.

Jim Gaffigan

• Saturday night
• Austins and Nances (not pictured)
• Pizza dinner at Old Chicago's
• Big laughs from Jim Gaffigan

Watermelon Patch

Friday afternoon, Dianna invited us to a watermelon patch located a few miles south of Pops Restaurant. During the fall season, instead of watermelon, they grow pumpkins. Annabelle went straight to animals. There was a white cow, Annabelle just watched it, she wouldn't go within 12 inches of the cow. We spent some time looking at the chickens, goats, a donkey, ponies and even a llama. After that we tried to get her to pet some bunnies but she wouldn't go near them. She splashed in the water and had great fun digging in the dirt. We had some watermelon, played with some bubbles and Dianna and Annabelle climbed a mountain of hey bales. Then they hopped on the tractor and rode around for a while as you can see in the video.

We went to Pops for lunch. It was a great morning. Annabelle was asleep before we got home. Thanks for a great time, Dianna!

Fun in the Fountains

Happy Birthday Nicki!

Early B-day gilft!

Thursday night Aaron and Dan surprised me with this awesome birthday gift. I was so surprised I was speechless. After that I spent some time reading the manual and watching a helpful video that came with it. Here are some important features about the Sony Handycam:

• it can take up to 2 hours of video an then burn the footage onto a dvd
• hook it up directly to the tv or computer to watch the video
• the zoom is awesome at 40x optical zoom-auto and manual
• 8 mega pixel on still shots
• and a lot of other great stuff for me to discover

I was truly surprised by the gift. I guess after seeing the poor quality in the last video, Aaron and Dan decided that I needed one of these. Thanks, Aaron, Dan and Rosemary!