Annual Trip to the Zoo!

We took our annual trip to the Madison Zoo on Friday with Joah and his mom Toni!  We had a great time as usual, and saw ALL of the animals!  They all were out and about (even the polar bear, black bear and badger!!!)  What a great day!

We LOVE our Monroe Friends!

We sure do miss these guys!  We have some AWESOME friends in Monroe! Wish we could see them more often, but so happy for the times we do get to share! 

Ava is in heaven in this bottom picture.  The girls got their own table, and she was feeling so grown up!

Pirates are taking over MONROE!

We went down to visit our good friends The Wellmans, The Bruntons and The Anderson's last night.  We tried to hit up the Concert on the Square but it was canceled due to the rain.  SO... instead we checked out the pirates all around the square.  (You may remember last summer they had zoo animals carved by a local wood carver/artist.  This year, they have pirates!  Cool!

Alto Fair 2012

As usual, the Alto Fair was one of our highlights this summer.  We love everything about it...

Here we are enjoying all the fun!

 This is Ava's horse friend "Peach".  Ava loved her... especially because they share the same birthday!  Hopefully we can visit again next year with Peach at the 2013 Alto Fair!

 The FAMOUS "Go-Gator"!  Ava finally faced her fears and actually enjoyed the Go-Gator this year.... Ryan, not so much.  This was taken right before it started and before he started bawling!!!  I think we finally learned our lesson....
NO GO-GATOR UNTIL YOU ARE 5 YEARS OLD!!!!

 Ryan was very proud of his shark that he won!

Counting down the days until Alto Fair 2013!!!



Bille Family~Summer 2012

New Family Tradition?

For Grandpa's birthday yesterday we all went out to Tony's Pizza and then BOWLING!!!  This was Ryan's first time and only the second or third for Ava.  We LOVED it!  We also liked spending the time with all of our favorite people!  Hopefully this is the start of a Bille Family Tradition to celebrate Grandpa's birthday!

 

Happy 55th Birthday Grandpa Bille!!!

We had to get a silly picture too!

Summer 2012

Mini Golf!

Our summer of fun continued with a game of mini golf.  The kids loved it, although we didn't exactly keep score.  (Even without the scorecard, it was obvious that I beat Kyle!)  :)  To top it off, Ryan WON a slushie at the ball return machine at the end of the course.  Luckily for us, he shared!  Check out the red tongues!

New Look!

Ava has been asking for a hair cut for a couple of months now, but we have been waiting until after the big wedding.  She finally got it this week and she looks as beautiful as ever!  She has also been asking to get piereced ears and we have decided that she needs to wait until her 10th birtday.  But while on vacation, we went shopping and I found her a pair of cute clip-ons for little girls.  She loves showing off her new look!