YAY HOLLY!

So here are some pics from Holly's birthday party! I'm so glad she's home from France, but kinda sad that she's gonna be leaving again for Georgia after Christmas :( But anyways, the party was great!Here's Holly and her little Joshua

(fyi- Daisy was POSITIVE that Joshua was a girl because "She has girl eyes." lol It's true that he does have really long eyelashes!)

My little big sis
(I've called her that for a long time because she has acted older than me since she was in 8th grade :P)

Joshua playing peek-a-boo (notice brin put the streamer upside down lol, but the girls were so good and decorated all on there own while I was spending the night at Shan's which was the first part of the party)

all the kids (it was way noisy at my house :P)

singing karaoke

hehe I love when my mom gets into it! go mom!

it was a great night! Happy Birthday Holls!

my girls

my girls

Here's a cute picture of my girls at Eater. Just gotta love em so much!

Summer Olympics

This is a flash from the past. During the summer while Shan when to Europe, her kids stayed at our house and it just happened to be during the Olympic so of course we had to stage our own :) warning: there are a lot of pictures here, they are mostly for Shan's ambitious benefit :)

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

opening ceremonies

lining up for the relay race

relay race

50 yard dash

100 meter sprint

long jump

parallel bars

rings

uneven bars

high bar

balance beam

rhythmic gymnastics

gymnastic floor routine

water polo ?

100 meter freestyle

synchronized swimming

closing ceremony

We also had events like diving, volleyball, and soccer. All the kids did such a great job! We had so much fun!

Mexico continued

Here are some more pictures from our trip!

So typical Aubrynn- she loves to comb the tide pools and found shrimp, crabs, clams, and lots of shells. She such my explorer!

Here we are riding the banana boat. It was way fun!

Cree loved to boogy board! And she would do it all by herself, just kicking those little legs of hers, it was so fun to watch!

Daisy liked to boogy board too, but she rode it like a horse, coasting up and over the waves as they came.

Brin is a natural at it too. She rode the waves better than anyone, true story.

our hawaiian princess

hehe I was organizing my pictures just now and came across these and had to share. We are so lucky to be able to steal Allie for a few days a month and when we have her the girls just love it! This was in August and they decided to dress her up like the hula girl she is, so I of course took some pictures (she's just so cute)

but then I had to turn the camera around onto the girls behind the scene trying to make her smile and look at the camera, and just plain having fun and loving on her/overwhelming her to death! "Allie, Allie look over here." "Allie, sweetie, smile!" "Allie you are such a cutie baby!" And now you know why she looks scared, hehe, who wouldn't be!

kids say the darnest things

Sometimes my kids just crack me up. Tonight at the dinner table Cree, in a very conversational tone, said, "Me and my new friend Cassie are in LOVE with Jordan because he's hot, and cool." I almost choked when she said 'hot', I mean honestly! the girl is five! So silly.

Then yesterday I was hugging Daisy and decided to tease her a bit, so I squeezed and kisses and malled her until she managed to struggle out of my arms and said in disgust, "Mom! I'm not Daddy! I'm DAISY!" Hehe I just love my kids!