What a busy weekend!!

Wow, I can't believe that summer is now officially 1/2 over!! We had a great 4th of July and Annika had a blast. Our big news in the past is that she lost her other front tooth so she just looks so big now. She has no front teeth (one of the bottom front teeth is starting to come in) now so we have the big toothless smile!!

On the fourth, we went to Annadale for the parade, swimming and of course carnival rides. I can't believe this little girl. She went on every ride at the park except for 3 (2 of them we didn't let her ride on or I think she would have). She just went from ride to ride and kept on pushing through. As expected, we had to take her from the park in tears as she didn't want the fun to stop. We decided not to hang out for the fireworks as she was really tired and we had more fun filled days to follow. There is fireworks here in Litchfield this Friday so we will get her out to those then.

Saturday we were off to a friend's cabin to spend the day at the lake. She had a great time in the water and then got to go on a boat ride with Dad and her brothers. She even got to go fishing with them in a paddleboat. We had to convince her to do this instead of going back into the lake because the sun was starting to go down and the weather was getting cooler.

On Sunday, we had to drive over to Wisconsin to Allen's sister's farm for a birthday party for our niece. Daniel is spending the summer there on the farm so it was good to see our long lost son!! Annika had a blast as she has a cousin there to play with. She also got to see a baby cow being born, ride on the 4-wheeler and just run around the farm. We thought for sure she would crash on our drive back home but she spent the whole ride home talking with her stuffed animals she brought, singing songs and basically annoying her brother in the back seat. And we thought our "fighting in the back seat" days were over but those 2 can fight as well as the boys did when they were younger.

Hope everyone had a great 4th!! I think we will spend this week recovering from the weekend!! She also gets to head over to Northern Voices for the morning on Thursday. I think looking back in the past year I can't believe how far she has come in just a year. Yes, there are struggles that we have but really this is better than I could have ever imagined.