The Jagow Family

Brad's 40th Birthday Party

On that same weekend that Grandpa Joe stopped by, we went to Brad's 40th Birthday bash. All the kids (big and small) had a great time.

Jim, the birthday boy (with a hair piece on) and Wayne

Kyle helping Sydney with the pinata

She LOVED this slide!

Uncle Brad showing Sydney how to play a game.....

Grandpa Joe

My dad and Lori stopped by on Saturday, August 16th and we went out for breakfast! I just thought this picture was too cute to not post. :) Such love!

The weekend of August 8th, we hadn't sold the house yet, so we thought why not stain our deck, since it really needed it. These are some photos of before, during, Sydney playing and after. The weather was perfect and oddly, we actually had a good time doing this. Maybe it was because it was the satisfaction of completing such a large task. A huge thanks to my mom too, for coming up and helping us.

Another fun fact - the very next day we got the offer on the house that we accepted. :)

Before (with Sydney on the deck)

Before

Our neighbors have this hill that Sydney LOVES running up and down

While Daddy and Grandma was power washing the deck, Sydney and I did some finger painting

and walking like an ant

and playing in the pool....she was already wet from the hose, no sense in changing her :)

Boy, this is fun!

So much fun!

Sunday - staining

Almost done with one side of the deck....notice the difference. It turned out great!!

I had an after shot, but accidently deleted it....bummer. I will post it later!

Fun in the country....

We went out to Holloway, MN for Jim's mom's side of the family reunion in August (8/2). While we were out there, we went out to Jim's dad's farm site. Little did I know we were going to do this, much less that I could get some perfect shots of Sydney. I only wish I had brought along my good camera. I still managed to get some great shots, but if only.... :)

Daddy & Sydney

+Shelby & Jeremy

Jeremy, Deb and Shelby

Jeremy, Deb, Shelby and Grandpa

I just love this picture....notice she even has her little tongue sticking out

Cousins - Shelby, Sydney and Jeremy

This was a random photo from a trip to the park...I just thought it was a cute.

Family Reunion July 2008

We went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for my mom's side of the family reunion. We went down a day early as my mom had a wedding to attend (one of my cousin's kids...that we weren't invited to), so we got to stay at a hotel. But as we all know, Cedar Rapids had a very large flood...we didn't call for a hotel until after the flood....all we could get was a really nice suite at a really nice hotel. This was awesome for us....a room for Sydney to sleep in and a room for us. They also had a pool....when we got there, we quickly changed and headed to the pool. No one was there...perfect! Sydney loved it and was very brave....maybe a little too brave. (reminder to self....we need to get her in swimming lessons). We had a ton of fun in the pool and playing at the hotel. Sunday we had the family reunion. It was really nice to seeing everyone that was there. Unfortunately, the family that had the wedding the day before, none of them was at the reunion...bummer, we missed them. Next year.....

Daddy and Sydney

Can you tell she was having fun?

She even loves going under water.

Snug as a bug..this was after her nap, she snuggled in our bed.

Funny girl, she likes to pose with her shirt on her head.

Snuggling....

This was our jacuzzi tub...I said it was a nice room....she loved this. It was like her own little swimming pool.

Aunt Donna and family - (my mom's brother Lyle's family)
Front L to R - Johnny, Aunt Donna, Steve and Marsha
Middle L to R - Robin, Linda, Steven, Gerald, Austin
Back L to R - Tom, David
Multiple people were missing from this family

Us...my brother and Jessie wasn't able to make it this year

Aunt Joanne and family (only some of her family)
Front L to R - Nicole, Kelsey, Aunt Joanne, Kathy
Back L to R - Michael, Travis, Becky

My Aunt Carol's family - her and her husband was not there, but one of their kids was

Traci, Scott, Mackenzie and Lexi - their son Remington wasn't there

My mom's oldest brother and his wife and one son - Uncle Lawrence, Aunt Ona and Bill
The siblings and in-laws

Mom (she's the baby), Aunt Donna (she was married to my Uncle Lyle, who died a number of years ago), Aunt Ona, Uncle Lawrence (oldest), Aunt Joanne

Missing siblings - Aunt Evelyn (her grandson got married the night before) and Aunt Carol (they were home in AZ), Aunt Jean and Uncle Lyle - deceased

Cabin July 2008

For the third year in a row, we went to the lake home in Sauk Centre with Jim's family and my mom. Although the weather wasn't as great (rained more than usual) as it has been the last couple of years and the pontoon was in the shop, we all still managed to have a great time. Sydney loves the water still (although I have no pictures of her in the water...those pictures are on other people's cameras). She had fun playing in the lake, but even more fun in the pool. She got her toes painted by auntie Deb and thought that was the coolest thing ever (funny, she would never sit still to let me do it prior to this). She LOVED playing with her cousins and just being on vacation with mom and dad (okay, I may have made that up....but she did have fun with us. hee hee).

On our way home we took some back roads and got stuck having to wait for another towns parade to finish....only in small town America would this happen.

Although we all had another great time at the cabin, we did end the trip with a sick little girl. She wasn't right all day (fever, snuggly and crying alot and kept saying her ears hurt), so our first stop in town was at urgent care. She had strep...I thought for sure she had an ear infection (which would have been her first ever), but it ended up being strep. We were not surprised by this, since Caitlin had it earlier in the week. By Monday she was feeling better and slowly getting back to her normal self...but Sunday night was a long night. Poor thing...she was miserable!

Fun fact....we had a showing on our house the Sunday we came home (7/20)...little did we know how much these people liked our house, because three weeks later they put an offer in and a week later we accepted it. Almost 2 months to the date later, the house was theirs. :)

Corn on the cob....the first time. She loved it and did great!