Gilchrist Family Reunion

Lenna's Grandma Jenny's side of the family (Gilchrist) had a family reunion this weekend.  Lenna enjoyed meeting many new cousins, second cousins, and  Great Aunts and Uncles.  We attended BBQ Friday night, stayed at a wonderful CSM hotel at the Spring Hill Suites in St. Louis Park.

Then on Saturday we hung out at the Riverwood Resort in Elk River for the day.  Lenna got to go to the water park and hang out on the lazy river with Daddy while Lenna's Godmother Jodie and I went shopping for baby clothes at the Outlets in Albertville.  Towards the evening we had a wonderful buffet and the family reminisced and went over the family tree (which I learned a lot from).  Sure wore Lenna out, she was up for an hour today for breakfast and has been napping since!

 

Here are some pictures taken over the weekend (in no particular order).  The family took some good group shots and family photos and I will share them on here when we get them:

Cousin Allie (Tony's sister Shannon's daughter):

Multiple cousins adoring Lenna:

Lenna's cousin Kayla (Tony's sister Heidi's daughter):

Lenna's second cousin Caroline, she loved hanging out with Lenna all weekend:

Family Visiting from Denmark

Lenna has had a busy week this past week.  Monday Mom had off work (for the 4th of July holiday) so she got to hang out at home.  On Tuesday Lenna got to hang out with Grandma Sue because we didn't have daycare that day.  Then Lenna's Grandma Jenny & Grandpa Frank came over with Lenna's Great Aunt Nancy and Uncle Greg from Denmark.  Greg is staying with us and Lenna sure loves the quality time she is getting from her Uncle.

Then on Wednesday we had more Danish arrive!  Tony's cousin Ann, her husband Jesper, daughter Katja, and two boys Kasper and Thomas are staying with us some as well.  They are staying in our shed apartment that Tony and I lived in before we built our house.  They are enjoying the country.  Katja and Ann are very proficient equestrians.  They got their first taste of western riding this week.  I think I can learn alot from them, look at how Ann has our 3 year old horse collected!

4th of July Weekend

Lenna, Tony and I had a nice laid back 4th of July weekend.  We hope all of our blog readers enjoyed their weekend as well.  On Saturday I went to another Omoksee horse show in Delano.  Lenna LOVES animals.  She will look at the horses, Sarge, the kitties, other puppies, and just giggle and laugh at them.  Her kitties name is KiKi (the orange one) and Sarge's kitty is named Smokey.  They are getting big down in the shed I'll have to get more pictures of Lenna tugging on them, oh I mean petting them.  Lenna is rolling and learning to crawl all over the floor now.  She also got her first horsey "sit" at the show on Saturday.  Lenna is also showing off her new cow ears hat from Cousin Amber.

Lenna's New Kitty

Grandma Sue and Grandpa Larry brought over two new kittens for Lenna and Sarge.  She got them from a nice lady she works with who had some kittens.  Sarge's kitty ran away last fall and he was pretty sad.  Grandma brought over an orange kitten and black kitten.  I think Sarge liked the black kitten because he hissed and stuck his teeth out at Sarge really big (ha ha).  So he claimed that kitty.  The orange kitty looks like Lenna has taken a liking to that one.  Now all we have to do is name them!

Happy Father's Day Tony!

Yesterday was Tony's first Father's Day being Lenna's daddy.  We spent it by Mom cooking breakfast for him and Grandpa and then we worked on stuff around the house (his choice by the way).  Lenna already got him his special gift a couple of weeks ago, she traded off Mommy's motorcycle and bought him a used four-wheeler.  We have gotten a lot of use out of it.

Here is Daddy and his little girl.  Check out the shirt!

Lenna also got to meet her Great Aunt (my Dad's sister) Arlys and her husband Billy tonight.  They were on their way back to Texas from a visit.  We haven't seen Arlys in well over 10 years so it was a nice visit.  They enjoyed meeting Lenna and we had a nice visit.  

Lenna had not been feeling well the last day or so. She has an icky cough and head cold. She was still a great trooper while our guests stopped by. She has been a pretty good girl for how under the weather she feels. Mommy picked her up from daycare early today and gave her some extra tlc. This was her by evening (no Mommy is NOT trying to push horses on her, although if that is her toy of choice and it makes her happy that makes Momma happy too :) ):

Mommy and me

Lenna and I are just hanging out here on a Saturday morning hoping this dark cloud passes soon so we can have a nice Saturday.  By the way, this outfit she is wearing is now a 6-9 month outfit.  Scary!

5 months Old!

I'm sorry for the slacking in updating again.  We have been busy since we came home from Arizona.  Lenna was such a good little girl on the flight home. 

June 11 was Lenna's 5 month birthday.  She celebrated by hanging out at Jamie's with Gavin, Kamryn, Jamie and Jeremy while Mom and Dad went to Mommy's work spring party.  On Saturday Collen and Kayla watched her for a couple of hours while Mommy helped Uncle Chumly paint. 

On Sunday we got together with Grandparents Pete & Jackie, Denise, Eric, Shannon & Larry. 

Last week Wednesday Lenna got her first bottom tooth!  Now we are on to a teething girl.  This morning the other bottom one poked through.  She has been pretty good about teething.  A little more needy and whiny than usual but she overall is such a trooper.

Here are some other facts about Lenna:

• She is eating fruits, veggies and baby cereal now.  I think her favorites are sweet potatoes and carrots so far
• She can go backwards and forwards in her walker (scary)
• She can get to her toys now by rolling back and forth and pivoting 90 degrees (scary)
• Her hair has turned from brown to a slight reddish tint but its still the same thickness
• She smiles ALL the time
• She loves to pull hair.  Especially Sarge's hair and Uncle Paully Walnuts' goattee
• She sleeps through the night (I hope I'm not jinxing myself) and has for the past couple of weeks

Tony and I actually set a wedding date in the past couple of weeks as well.  9-10-11!  We are going to get married in Watkins and have the reception at our home.  Now I am stuck planning a wedding too (j/k) but it won't be too bad and it should be fun.