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This one has got to be one of my favorites! She’s all scrunched up in her baby’s play pen.
Fun outside…
I think he has pretty good form!
Kate loves to hang on the rim!
Tim’s team played at Linfield last week, and it was fun to show the kids where daddy used to pitch!
Kate and my dad dancing to the between-inning music:
We got some garlic bread at my favorite place to eat in McMinnville (where Linfield is). Kate loved it!
Fun shopping:
Kate and Taylor enjoying their lunch at the mall!
My mom and the grandkids:
A couple of Roupp family updates:
Baseball is over for the year! They had their last game this week. So Tim is officially responsibility-free for the rest of the summer! Except that he gets to be Mr. Mom a couple days a week when I go to work. :)
We’re going on vacation next week - I’m sooooo excited!
My silly little girl made me smile a lot at bedtime tonight. We prayed about five times while we were trying to settle her in for the night. She kept asking me, “Please pray again Mommy?” and how do you say no to that?! Finally I told her that it was time to sleep, but that she could pray in her thoughts if she wanted. She said, “No, you pray in your talk.” I gave in because that was too cute and asked her one more time what I should pray about. She said, “Ummmm, your toes.” So I thanked God for my toes and Kate’s toes and our matching pink toe nail polish. :) That seemed to satisfy her for a minute, and then she said a little prayer all on her own:
Dear Jesus, Thank you for Grandma and Grandpa. And Jada and Scott and Wes-o-wee. What is her name? Wes-wee? No, it’s Wes-OH-wee. Wes-o-wee, wes-o-wee, wes-o-wah. Wess-o, wess-a, wissa. Like you, Mommy! Wissa! Wissa, o-wissa, wessa, wes-wee, wes-o-wee….
She went on singing the Leslie Alyssa song for a while and eventually decided she could sleep. So Les, I’m thinking you’ll get a great night’s sleep tonight because Kate put in a good word for you! :)
Just some pictures…
Kate strikes again!
This one was at nap-time:
Here’s one of many baseball game evenings:
And I love this one. Tyson and Kate instantly made friends with these guys. They’re the grandsons of one of the other baseball coaches, and they’re visiting from out of town for a couple weeks. They love baseball, so Tyson fit right in. And Kate was so cute and friendly with them - she and the youngest one (he’s five) hit it off. Look at the cute little conversation they’re having!
We’re having a great summer!
My beautiful friend Erin got married last weekend! It was such a nice wedding, and Tyson and I were very honored to be a part of it. Tyson was the cutest little ring bearer ever!!!
(Tracy took this picture - I love it!)
Erin asked Tyson if he was nervous at all having to walk down the aisle in front of all those people or if it was just easy. Here’s what he said:
“Actually, I was kind of scared, but I prayed to God and he made me brave.”
Erin and I both instantly had tears in our eyes because seriously, I don’t feed him this stuff! He’s just the sweetest little guy and he has such amazing faith and trust and love for God.
During the ceremony, he was standing with me for a while during the pastor’s talk. The pastor was reading his notes out of his Bible and Tyson turned to me and asked, “Is he reading the Bible?” like the Bible was the coolest book ever. And then when the pastor mentioned God, Tyson turned to me again and said, “God?!” like he was thinking, “I know that guy!” So cute.
Congratulations, Erin and Erik! We love you!
Oh, I almost forgot to put this picture in (another one from Tracy) - this was my favorite cake ever!!!
I can’t stop laughing about this one!
Tim and I were in the kitchen reviewing our day with each other, and Tyson was on the couch, giving us a play by play of the Mariner game. We were trying to respond to him with, “That’s great, bud. I’m glad they got the guy out,” and such, but pretty much we were ignoring him and having our own conversation. At one point Tim told me that he drove by a new bikini coffee shop near our old house today. I was saying that I just don’t get that and yuck. I asked Tim if he had heard of the naked one in Seattle? And he said yeah, and that there were a lot of people at this one he saw today and yada yada yada.
And so here is what Tyson said:
I think that was a fast ball or a curve ball or maybe a slider. And did you know that that yellow diamond means someone is on first base? Oh wow! Now Ichiro is on second base! He’s on second! Ichiro’s on second! I think the Mariners are going to win! The game is tied and there’s two balls and one strike and WHY would people be naked in Seattle when there’s a baseball game on??!!??
I love it!!!
This one is pretty sad! Why wouldn’t she just come get me? I could have helped her get her pants back on and snuggled her back in bed. But instead she decided to camp out on the bathroom floor??!
I think she’s been there a few hours because I vaguely remember hearing some noises while I was sleeping and I asked Tim a couple times, “What was that?” and he just rolled over and then I fell back asleep too! And now it’s about 6:30am and she went to bed kind of late so I don’t want to risk waking her up for the day when she would normally sleep another hour or so. But is that really mean of me to just leave her like that while I sit here and tell you all about it?? AH!
[Update: At 7:25am, Kate came and found me with her pants in her hand, smiled, gave me a big good morning hug, and told me proudly, "I peed in the potty!" She didn't mention anything about sleeping on the floor or waking up there... She's so funny!]
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