Tailgate Fun

We headed up to Ames last weekend for the ISU/A&M game.  Kyle's whole family from Texas was in town and we had a blast.  This was Peyton's first tailgate, she even had her own little chair, thanks Uncle Nick!  Peyton and cousin Boston (BoBo) got along great and she says "bobo" all the time now.  She also says Sassy and JoJo, super cute.  I had a "good time" as well....needless to say, I was ready for bed by 3 pm. 





{boston giving peyton a kiss}

{chris, blake, tyson and kyle}

{kaleigh and i smothering tyson}

{peyton giving her cousin boston a hug - precious}

{greg and mary with their grand baby's}

{heather and bobo}

{holding hands}

{kisses for mama}

{kyle and tyson} - Yes that is drink in Kyle's hand, yay!



{mary and nissy}



{me and my two favorite brothers}

{bag boards turned slide - so fun}

{the car peyton and boston hijacked from the neighbor tailgaters}



{t|k}



{kaleigh and me}



{a gentle nudge, you go first bobo}

{race ya!}

{peyton's got bobo's cowboy boots on, she LOVED them!}
Every time we put her black boots on, she says bobo.

{they'll hate me for this one, but had to include bath time fun}
Boston splashed the whole time and Peyton laughed hysterically!



Until next time...

House for Sale, Goodbye and It's Fall "You All"

Hello there.  Some things have come and gone since our last post but the new venture I referred to last time is that our house is for sale!  For those of you heard.....NO, we are not moving to AL.  Plans in the company and division changed course so you can all rest easy, we are staying put in DSM.  Notice the title, "You All" instead of "Y'all!"  But, our house is for sale (ironically, before the whole AL thing even happened).  We are just testing the market to see what happens.  If we are lucky and can sell, we would like to take advantage of the low rates and get something new.  Check out our listing here:  http://www.15790wildwood.com/.  Thanks, to our friend Jeff Schulz for being such a great realtor and Kelli for "staging" it!  Looks nice huh?!  We've had a few showings and a couple people give some good feedback so we'll see what happens. 

Last month, Kyle's grandpa, Wayne passed away.  He had been suffering from Alzheimer's for the past year but is resting comfortably now and enjoying his family from above.  He was such a great man, husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather!  I wish I had the chance to know him like Kyle did but I am thankful for the couple of years I did have with him before he slipped away.  We love you gpa!  A bright moment of that week was Peyton and her cousin Jada got to play!  They got pretty good at "sharing." 

Carrying around Gma Sheryl's purse

Jada and Peyton singing tunes and playing piano

Peyton MAD because she couldn't actually play the Piano

Meet George, Jada's George.  Peyton stole it every chance she could.

This face just cracks me up!

Auntie Kaleigh

Well the leaves changed, the weather is till 80! but it's fall.  We traveled to MN last weekend for a family reunion on my Dad's side of the family.   It was so good to see everyone and the next generation of kids.  There are 10 grand kids including myself and almost all of us have had kids of our own now.  Peyton had a blast playing with all her new second cousins, unfortunately I didn't take any photos!  : (  We did get to a pumpkin patch in MN with Grammy Pammy and Auntie Stephy.  Peyton took off running straight for the bouncy house as soon as we got there.  Here are some pics.  Until next time!

More Summer Fun

The Dirks crew went on our anual summer vaca the first week of August, this year to the Wisconsin Dells. (It was Tyson's idea.)  The adults were a bit too old for it and little miss Peyton was bit too young for it, but we had a great time anyway! Peyton loves playing in the water and thought the little water slide was pretty sweet.  They had one of those big buckets that filled up with water and then the bell rang and it dumped it all down onto the kids in the pool.  P got so excited and scared all at the same time when the bells rang.  We went and saw the Tommy Bartlett Boat show, kinda cool to see once.  I didn't get a lot of photos from the trip but there are a few below.  The weekend we got back was Nick's Bday and a couples golf tournamament in Reinbeck.  Kyle and I and Nick and Kaleigh placed in one of the flights, so that was fun.  I think I played better than Kyle that day, haha!

Peyton and I recently took a road trip up to MN to see my family and made it to the "Great MN Get Together" (state fair) with Grammy Pammy and Auntie Stephy.  It was a bit difficult with an almost two year old at first, then we found the ice cream and of course that made it all better.  We saw the little baby cows, and chicks and piggies!  I think she liked the cows the best.  I wanted to take her on the giant slide but didn't make it there.  We only lasted a couple of hours and was ready to go home. 

Kyle and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary on the 12th.  I can't belive its been that long!  We didn't do anything too special but did get out and saw a movie......in the theatre.  We never get to go to movies so that was nice.  Thanks to Shelley for hanging out with Peyton while we went.  Kyle kept telling me we were going to plan a vacation/honeymoon style trip for our anniversary in the spring.......... but now we kind of have a new venture.  I'll update you all on that next time.......

Sleepy kids on way to the Dells

Gma got her a floaty, she didn't want to use it but we had to have it at all times.

 

Too much pool fun!

Cherry Bombs...on a Sunday!  Happy Bday Nick

Auntie Steph and P at the Fair

Had to throw this one in there.  Mullet turned into adorable pig tails!  Love them!



Summer!

Well to state the obvious, its been HOT! this summer.  So hot, we have to keep little P inside or she might melt (or blow up)!  She's doing great though!  She is in definitely absorbing all the little things she sees and what we do.  For example, she picked up the remote yesterday and started pushing buttons then hit it on her leg a couple of times and pushed some more buttons.  The battery is dying and so we do that to get it to work sometimes.  Pretty cute!  Still not saying a whole lot that makes sense yet but any day now will be talking our ears off!  She does say ball, shoes, baby, poo poo and NO!  She says poo poo and points to her butt!  She is very particular about things..... wonder where she gets that from (DAD) and is very attached to her baby and blanket.  We literally can not go anywhere without them!   We had some family pictures taken by a friend in June.  They turned out pretty good so thought we should share some.  Enjoy!