Converted....

We Splonskowski's are pretty proud tonight. Kyle(Darren's brother, Tressa(his wife) and Tenley(their adorable baby) moved in with us almost two weeks ago. They came from Boise and plan to be with us for a couple of months until they find a house. We're excited to have them and this will certainly be a fun adventure.

Anyway, these non-Husker fans have officially been HUSKERFIED, shirts for the grown ups and a sweet little dress for Tenley. We watched the game tonight and I have this feeling that they'll soon love the Huskers too. They'll see that the Huskers bring together good food, family, friends, laughter, joy and love....GO BIG RED!!!!!

Pinkalicious!

We took Ayla to her first play this weekend...Pinkalicious, at The Rose Theater downtown. It was a big, big hit with her! We have the book and read it often so she knows the story inside and out. She dressed up in a pink tutu dress, a pink boa and a crown with pink accents. She looked like quite the little diva! Most of the little girls were dressed up in their Sunday best...all pink, of course. She absolutely loved the show and has talked about it nonstop since we went. Darren and I LOVE theater and see almost everything that comes to town so it was fun to share this with her.

Go Big Red!

It's no secret that we LOVE Husker Football, and our littlest fan is really getting into it this year. She cheers, claps and shouts "GO BIG RED!!". I love it. The day before our first game, they had "Husker Day" at school. Ayla was all Huskered-out...

Today we had Caleb and Cady because Holly and Jeff worked. We watched the game at home and did our best to keep the kids excited about it. Cady finally started saying "go big red" and I am quite proud :)

Hanging out together and watching the game....

Our little Husker princess

My favorite little soccer player

This was the YMCA's coolest team, the Zebras, third game. Ayla's second game. We skipped one that we thought was way too hot. The heat index was over 100*, her game was at 3:30pm and their uniforms are all black on a shadeless field. That was a no-go for my little three year old.

She's a funny little soccer player though. A bit princess-like really. I know that isn't hard to believe. She will however, walk off the field for drink of nice cool water even while the game is in session. She was also over heard telling a coach that "It's just too hot to play soccer today". Definitely my daughter.

She shoots, she scores...this was just a practice run though.


Playing ball. Go Zebras!!

Pictures from the weekend

John and Carol were here for the weekend. Just a short stay but we managed to fit alot in. Their 39th wedding anniversary was Saturday, so we took them to dinner at Charleston's. It was delicious and we all left fat and happy! Darren and John

John and Carol

Us

After dinner we went to Millard Days. Ayla rode a bunch of rides and played a few games. There were soo many teenagers there, I suppose because we went later in the evening than previous years.

The slide was hilarious. Darren was at the top trying to get himself and Ayla situated to go down together. She started to slip so he grabbed her hands and down they went. It looked a little scary like they didn't mean to go but when they got to the bottom Ayla screamed "That was so fun Daddy!"

Dancing along to the band's music!

Sunday we had a lazy morning, went to lunch and looked at houses in the afternoon. Kyle(Darren's brother) and his wife Tressa are moving here in September, so we were scouting out some homes for them. In the evening we made dinner and had my parents and a couple of neighbors over for smores. It was a fun and busy weekend for all!!

Here comes the bride....and the flower girl!!

On Friday, my cousin Jordan married a wonderful girl, Lindsey. We welcomed her to the family with big open arms. Ayla was so, so proud to be their flower girl. This is AYla with great-grandma Jane, my grammy!
She did such a great job. She walked down the aisle slowly and carefully dropped her petals on the floor. I was a proud mama.

I wish she would have looked at me here, still cute though!

My cousin, Mason walking Ayla back down the aisle after the wedding. There will be more pictures to come when the pro pics come back...I couldn't get shots during the wedding.

"Hey little Fella!"

So...just a few short days ago(Wednesday evening) we were out running some errands and decided to stop in to Petland and look at some puppies. I stop to look at puppies on a regular basis but we already have TWO BIG DOGS. We're definitely NOT a three dog family, or so we thought...Ayla fell in love with this little guy immediately. He's a miniature Dachshund and weighs almost 3 1/2 lbs(He'll grow to somewhere between 8-10lbs). He's tiny, but still a full pound bigger than Ayla was at birth...crazy. Needless to say he along with Ayla, pulled on our heart strings and there you have...we're a three dog family!
He's naughty of course, he's a 10 week old puppy...he likes to shred newspaper(he prefers unread newspaper), toilet paper, chews on whatever he can sink his teeny tiny teeth into, is working on potty training and has all kinds of energy. He thinks it's all kinds of fun to chase people, the dogs and even the cat around the house!

He's also sweet, loving, cuddly and very tolerant of Ayla and other kids holding him and playing with him.

He cuddles right in for a nap with anyone who will hold still for more than 15 seconds. Here, Ayla fell asleep with her head on his dog bed ...

He's everything a puppy should be - playful, curious and mischievious.

Ayla named him "Fella" Welcome to the Splonskowski family Fella!