Indiana State Fair

We went to the State Fair today with a bunch of Gogis' and Harmon's.

Here are Brianna and Grant enjoying a motorcycle ride.
Gary and Brayden tearing up the track in a go-kart.

Ok - here we have Grace and Grant Gogis (Zionsville, IN), Elle and Samantha Gogis (Melbourne, Australia), Brayden, Sam Harmon (Westfield, IN), and lastly, Brianna! Future farmers!
Tickle Tickle!

Look at Brayden being so brave!

Beijing 2008 swimmers

Here's Brianna taking a Nestea plunge! Brayden with his teacher Mimi.
He does better without the yellow bubble belt!
Cheese!

Brayden finished swim lessons tonight! Here's a video of him swimming freestyle - kind-of hard to see. Ever since he let me put goggles on him he's been swimming like a fish!
Here is a video of Brianna showing off her moves in the pool - her twist and her flip! (By the way, she had another perfect potty day today! And she is surviving without her "nummy"! ) Looks like Gary is smoking a cigar! It's really just a dive stick!
Cannonball!

Singing in the rain!

Last night we had a lot of rain and this morning it was still raining off and on. Brayden and Brianna have been taking turns getting the morning newspaper - so this morning I decided to let them go out with their own umbrellas - I thought it was so cute I had to take a picture! Brianna update:
Today was her first perfect potty day!!! She didn't have a single accident. She got a ton of stickers, special treats, and phone calls from her favorites (Dora, Boots, Tasha...) We are making some serious progress! She has had 2 dry nights in a row too. Hopefully, she does as well tomorrow!
"Nummy" update:
She slept great the last 2 nights after some serious crying (that lasted 30 minutes or less). First day she completely skipped her nap. Today she took a nap but she was pretty upset about it at first. Now, tonight she is quiet - she only cried for 5 minutes - however I still hear her rolling around awake (it's almost 10 pm). Anyway, she's growing up! She talks about her nummy but I just keep telling her she threw it away and she is a big girl now!
Here's a picture of her playing with her puppy playdough.

We went to the zoo on a special night - they had jazz music, food, mascots, and free train rides. That was pretty fun!

Big girl...

I don't have any pictures but I wanted to post a couple of things about Brianna. We've decided to potty train her. Today she only had 1 accident - which was awesome! Hopefully, tomorrow will be just as good. But here is a funny story:
The other day I didn't have a diaper/pull-up on her (I wanted to see what would happen). I was watching her most of the morning - putting her on the potty many times. Well, anyway, I looked over at her and she was standing on a smeared wet spot and her lamb slippers were pretty wet - she was dry everywhere else - I was so confused. Later that day Brayden was taking toy instruments out of the drum that I threw them into and he said, "mommy this stuff is all wet". Turns out she had used the drum instead of the potty and apparently stepped in it afterwards! I couldn't be mad - I was laughing too hard!
Another thing - we had Brianna throw away her pacifier ("nummy") today. She only uses it when she sleeps but we knew it was time. So tonight she is sleeping with a couple of stuffed animals of her choice. At the moment she is quiet - but she definitely was heart broken and cried herself to sleep (I think she's asleep). Pray that we can get some sleep tonight! I hated to do it.
On a brighter note - Brianna is quite the swimmer! We'll have to take a video of it so you can see what I'm talking about. But she amazes everyone at the pool. She can swim down underwater to get a dive stick (with her eyes wide open). She does back flips just holding onto my thumbs (I don't have to do anything). She does twists underwater. She treaded water a little bit today. Who knows what she'll learn this week! It's so fun to watch both of the kids love the water. Brayden is a little more cautious but he's awesome in the water too. He's learning freestyle (definitely better than I was at 4). He can do back flips and floats too. His favorite knew thing is doing cannonballs!

We have a new baby in the family...

My parents have a new baby... His name is Geo... He is a black and white schitzu (not sure how you spell it). Brianna is in love with him! My dad has been babying him - we call him "dog man" - but it's really pretty funny!

Busy July!

July has been packed full of fun! A few weeks ago we took the kids to a cute little circus. Brayden got to ride an elephant! Brianna was sad that she was too little to ride. For our anniversary we shipped the kids to Ft. Wayne for a couple nights while we stayed in Indy and relaxed. It's amazing how much you can do in a couple of days without kids! We did a lot of shopping and eating out!
The following week we went to a lake cottage on Lake George in Fremont, IN. My parents have friends who let us stay there for a week in the summer. We had fun taking the kids on boat rides, jet ski rides, and tubing! They both LOVED tubing! (Unfortunately, Brayden and I hit a pretty big wave and on the way down he smashed his face into the tube cutting his frenulum - but he's fine now.) Here's a picture of my dad and Matthew.After the lake, Daniel and Kim came in from LA for my cousin's wedding. Check out this group (Matthew - Kim - Daniel)
Here's Brianna slamming down the drinks at the reception! They were so cute on the dance floor! I think the photographer got more pics of them than the bride and groom!
Brayden customized all our menus and name tags! The were so good considering it was way past their bedtime!

I have a ton more pictures I wanted to post but you can check them out at ofoto!