Abbey is Here!

I'm so excited to have my cousin Abbey here! She and Amy got in really late Wednesday and I knew they were coming while I was asleep, so I was so happy to wake up Thursday morning and find her playing downstairs! Luckily, she seems to like me and Harrison is being nice to her too, so everything is going well so far.

They may have thought they were coming to small town rural America and not much would happen, but boy were they wrong! Thursday night after getting us to bed and sitting down to watch a movie, the tornado sirens started to sound and a big storm started rolling in. They were pretty close to coming to get us up and then the storm started heading to the south of us. Us kids missed the whole spectacle. Once they knew the severe stuff was not on our path, they stood outside and enjoyed an amazing lightning show. They tried to get a few pictures of it all...in the last picture, it looks like it's daylight but that was just the bright flash of lightning! -- you can see it in the reflection of the windshield...

This weekend is the 125th celebration of Gettysburg, so the adults headed out last night for the all-school reunion while Jenna came over to babysit us. Today was the parade and this time, we all got to ride along! Abbey, Harrison, me, Mommy & Aunt Amy rode along and helped pass the frisbees to Daddy and Justin (he's running for one of the House seats) -- they walked alongside the float and handed the frisbees out. It was a fun day to be out but it was really windy. This is us getting the float ready before the parade began...

Once again, we were in the front part of the parade, so after we finished, we hopped off and sat with Grandma & Grandpa to watch the rest of it and get yet another bucketful of candy!

This is the float for Brown's Commodities -- Grandpa's office sells insurance and commodities. There's a funny guy in the office who runs the commodities who put together the float for the office -- he had a guy dressed up as a bear and one as a bull (I must not understand the markets very well because when Grandpa put the bull hat on the other day, I thought he was a goat!)

Tonight the grown ups are going out again for a big street dance (live music, drinks, etc, all down on main street). Daddy thinks this works out perfectly as a way to celebrate Mommy & Daddy's anniversary (it's today! Happy Anniversary Mommy & Daddy!). Mommy says he still has to take her out to dinner :).

So it's been an exciting start to baby Abbey's visit and we love having her here. Harrison even enjoys having her around (as long as he doesn't try to play with his trucks...then he just puts his hand out to her and says "no, no, baby...no, no, baby"). They're here for another 2 weeks and we're all looking forward to things quieting back down again after this weekend. We'll check in again soon!