Saturday, July 28, 2007

Shawnee County Fair

Today we went to the Shawnee County Fair. We went so that Noelle could see all the animals. There were turkeys, bunnies, roosters, ducks, goats, sheep, and a cow. We had lots of fun.

Noelle liked looking at the many rabbits in their cages ...

but when they were out, she wasen't too sure about them. This rabbits name was Hot Chocolate.

Noelle liked walking around and looking at the hens and roosters especially beacause they were noisy.

At the fair there was a petting zoo with rabbits,sheep,goats, a cow and some hens.

There was a baby cow that Noelle tried to pet.

Noelle's favorite animal in the petting zoo was the little goats. She loved to pet them and try to feet them.

Friday, July 27, 2007

Googles of Fun

Today we went to Googles of Fun with some of Noelle's cousins. It is a place with lots of activities and toys for kids to play with. Noelle had lots of fun being able to run around and touch almost anything she wanted.

Noelle climbing through a net tunnel.

There was this giant piano that when you stepped on it, it played the notes.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

My New Trick

Noelle has learned how to not only put one finger in her nose, but two fingers. I tell everyone that Mike taught her this new trick.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Diving Board

Today while we were swimming, Noelle watched her cousins jumping off the diving board. She decided that she wanted to jump off too. So she walked to the diving board, climbed up and with some help jumped in.

Noelle jumping off the diving board.

Visit to the Fire Station

Mike's niece and nephew, Reagan and Ryan slept over at our house. Ryan wanted to go and meet some firefighters and see where they work, so we took them to a fire station where one of Mike's friends work at. They had lots of fun!

Reagan and Ryan sitting in the fire truck. A couple of minutes later there was a fire alarm and so our visit to the fire station was cut short.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Fun at the Lake

The other night we went to the lake with some of Mike's family who is visiting from out of town. Noelle is becoming "Miss Independent". She really likes to do things on her own. She loves to feed the geese at the lake, but its so hard because she pulls her hand away so she can feed them herself and the geese are kind of mean!

Noelle posing on a rock in some of the flower gardens at the lake.

Noelle with her cheesy smile with some of her cousins.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Fiesta Mexicana Parade

Tonight we went to the Fiesta Mexicana parade in downtown Topeka. We had fun watching the parade and getting lots of candy! This is Noelle eating popcorn and patiently waiting for the parade to begin.

Noelle loved waving at all the people in the parade and had fun getting lots of candy, a balloon, beads and lots of other stuff from people in the parade.

Noelle loves clowns, which suprises me since most little kids are afraid on them.

Noelle got this cool hat thing. I felt silly after I took this picture because after looking at everyone else wearing it, I realized I put it on her backwards.

At the end of the parade my whole bag was full of goodies! We had a fun time.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Martin Tractor Show

Today we got to go to a Martin Tractor show. Martin Tractor is one of Mike's clients that he does business with at work and they invited us to come to one of their shows. We got to ride in this huge tractor. It was alot more high tech then I thought it would be. It had a GPS system that somehow the driver could program and the tractor would pretty much drive itself. I felt like a little kid on a field trip asking the farmer all kinds of questions about harvesting crops while we were riding in the tractor in the wheat field.

When we went riding on the tractor, we got to see wheat being harvested. One tractor was reaping the wheat and then emptied it out into another tractor.

Living in Kansas we see lots of corn fields. On our way home we decided to stop at one to take a picture.