The Summer of 2009

So, I haven't written in a long time even though we have done things with our summer.
The first was a day-trip in Cincinnati. We went to Ikea, Jungle Jims and a Cincinnati Reds game.

Ikea was fun, though I wanted decorating fabric to re-upholster one of our chairs. I wasn't loving any of their stuff and went with Amy Butler fabric's instead. Jed was a champion and helped me recover it. The end result...



Jungle Jims is this great ubber grocery where there are 3 or 4 seperate groceries all under the same roof. You walk in to an average, run of the mill store, then to the side of those aisles is an entire organic/farm fresh grocery, then behind that are aisle categorized by country to make an international grocery. Then, of course, there's the bakery, butcher, and candy things to round out the store. As if that wasn't enough, they've made it fun for kids. An example is the talking Robin Hood placed over the English foods aisle.

They have the rice-crispies gang and other figures stationed through the store. Ella kept giggling at the talking animals. We also got a kick out of the hot sauce section. Yes, a SECTION, just for hot sauce...they actually have an national hot-sauce competition and convention hosted at the store. Here's Ella with out favorite packaged sauce.
You have to be brave to use the dynamite hot-sauce.

The Reds game was with other dental families.

Ella's favorite part was doing the cheers between batters.



Our next trip was supposed to be an over-night camping trip that turned into a 2 hour drive home at 11pm because we knew Ella would not sleep in the tent.
The day activities, however, were lots of fun.

We spent a good 3 hours at the lake.
Ella LOVES her daddy.


Ella brought her friend Garrett a cookie and he tried to thank her with a kiss. She just looked at him funny.
This picture is of the Southwells and the story and of the binkie. They have a one year old who will not sleep with her pacifier. Somehow the binkie made its way into the lake and got lost. This caused massive panic for the parents, as that was their only binkie. The prayers started and from there a very diligent daddy spent 45 minutes diving and searching the bottom of the swimming area for the lost binkie. To everyone's shock, he sound the pacifier and everyone lived happily ever after.


We also went to a playground on the Lake grounds. Jed did underdog for the girls, they died of laughter, I almost died because they look like they're going to fall out.


We then made dinners and did ball-toss ice cream.



I learned something from this experience, it doesn't work without the rock salt. We ended up with Oreo milk, but the tossing was a lot of fun.

These are pictures from the Kentucky State fair.

Ella petting a sweet colt at the World Equestrian Games.
And here's Jed a couple bites closed to the grave from this deep fried snickers.

Lastly was Jed's birthday. It was simple with our little.
Ella got to hide dad's presents. And the big surprise was the Primary singing Happy Birthday to Brother Nordfelt instead of the closing song with cupcakes and cookies after the closing prayer for Primary. Each Primary class colored Jed a card. It was really fun to watch Jed be so surprised when I started playing Happy Birthday instead of I love to see the temple.