halle and kiera are natural model's . love the poses! adam is always cold when he's wet, even in the heat of the summer! and rose is our neighborhood friend that comes over to play all the time, she is so sweet.
we have been having the funnest days lately! i love the spring and summer time!
~last week we went to our homeschool group, end of the year summer party. kiera found a 10 year old girl to latch on to. she played with kiera the whole time, it was like i had a nanny! and kiera LOVEs the attention!
~we also went to the fair with our neighbors, who got free tickets and shared them with us. we had to put kiera in wheely shoes so she could get on the scary rides!
yestarday me and lynn hung out all day and then that night i had a wii party at the house, we invited our neighbors with the 5 kids. its always a party with 5 extra kids in the house. we played the wii and all over the house from 6-10pm!!!
today lucy had her birthday party at 10am. the neighbors came again. we had cake and ice cream, opened presents and then played with the presents. at noon, we were h aving fun talking and the kids were having a great time, so we decided to pull lunch togther instead of ending the party. we had taco salads outside and then a rain storm came through. the kids played in the rain for a long time and got soaked! everyone went home to change and then met back at my house for more playing, and wii! lynn , me and ally all cleaned my kitchen! the party finally ended at 5pm! wow , a 7 hour party for a 3 year old!!!
Friday, May 27, 2011
playing outside
Thursday, May 19, 2011
finally some updates
i just did quite a few new posts....i need to get back into keeping this blog updated, as its my only record/journal that i do.....and the girls love to look at past posts and have me read it to them, so i gotta get updated....
i love this picture of halle. everyday i tell her to go get dressed and sometimes she just loves to spend some time putting together her masterpiece for the day. this was after a trip to the thrift store and i let her pick out the shirt and scarf... she feels like a super model every time she looks in the mirror. her and kiera are absolutely in LOVE with themselves and it makes me happy to know they have some serious self esteem!
soccer camp
this year during spring break the rec center had a free soccer clinic. it was fun for the kids and just so cute to see kiki in her little pink shin guards. they gave us lunch. we played on the playground and even went for hike around in the woods outside the rec center, which turned out to be the kids favorite part.
our good friends and neighbors have 5 kids from age 5-11. they went too. we play with them pretty much every day since their house backs up to lynn's house and they have a big lot of grass that we can play on. they are the funnest , nicest kids. they come over sometimes to play at our house, or for dinner, or we meet at the playground or any thing else fun we do around town.
they are homeschooled, so they are in a fun home school group that the girls are also in. the kids just can't get enough of each other!!!
at the strawberry patch
there is strawberry patch about 15 min. from here. we go a lot in the spring time. this year we also went to the lane strawberry patch a bit further from here. they had a festival day with food, bounce houses and a find the biggest strawberry contest. me and tom and the girls looked and looked for the biggest strawberry. it was a fun day....didn't win the contest still had a great time!
strike a pose!
who could do a better job then kiera of posing with a strawberry?
while melanie was here, we went to the strawberry patch. yummm...the kids ate tons of strawberry's , picked a bucket and then i made strawberry shortcake and bought ice cream and whipped cream......really the store strawberries just dont' compare!
easter sunday
trying to get all the kids to smile before church on easter sunday. did not happen.... halle is squinting from the sun in every pic i took....oh well, at least we got them all in a picture. who would of though, lucy was in the mood to smile the most.....
well, these are some cute kids, but to get some frame worthy pictures, we need a do over!
riding her bike
halle LOVES to ride her bike. she rides EVERY DAY!!! she is really good at it and can ride way faster then me, i'm a coward, she's fearless. we play outside everyday when the boys get home from school till dinner time and sometimes after that. these girls play HARD, from riding bikes to playing tag with the neighborhood kids, to practising cartwheels, running through the sprinklers. we live in a great neighborhood with some really fun neighborhood kids!
oh, lily!
lily is the cutest baby ever! i just love her big ol' belly and lily adores me. she wants me to hold her all the time!!!!
the perfect baby
i thought my girls would have been more interested in holding gavin when he came because they are always bugging me about having another baby....but they really didnt' hold gavin that much.....then i realized that lily is what they have in their head that they want. the perfect baby. she looks like a baby and doesn't talk, unless they tell her to say something and she tries to copy them, getting her to say ca-ca always cracks everyone up, she likes to be fed, but can follow direction. they can dress her and ask her yes and no questions and she nods or shakes her head no. she smiles and usually listens to them, and for some reason her stubborn streak doesn't bother halle. halle can put a diaper on her, give her a passy or her blanket and carry her around the house, and halle is totally oblivious to whether lily want to be carried or not, haha.....if halle wants to carry her, lily gets carried. but lily loves halle and loves to give all the kids hugs and play with them. she really is the perfect baby. any younger and she would still be fragile and any older and the girls wouldn't see her as a baby anymore.....if she could stay this age forever, it'd be halle's dream come true!
johnny g's
kiera and lucy are the cutest little friends. when we went out of town lucy asked lynn, are my sisters home yet? the girls just have so much fun together. the first question i get in the morning has changed from< i want breakfast. to : can we go to lynn's house?
johnny g's
a new ride at johnny g's! what could be better! this is already our favorite place to play! for 15 bucks you get a bag of tokens, 2 wristbands for unlimited rides, mini golf, bounce houses, train ride, ball pit, tubes and slides, plus a one topping large pizza and a pitcher of soda. seriously???!!! its a mini disneyland right next to home. we took melanie here when she visited and spent 4 hours there!!!!
gavin
melanie came for a visit last month. she just brought her youngest, gavin, who i hadnt' met yet. even though i was sad that her other 3 older boys weren' t coming with her, i was happy that melanie got to take a relaxing , well deserved vacation. plus me and lynn got to take turns loving on gavin. he is the cutest sweetest baby and i could not get enough of him.
we had sooo much fun while melanie was here. we went to playgrounds, out to eat, and cooked some of our favorites, like egg rolls and won tongs, a lopez tradition...yummmmm.....
we also planned an easter party for all of the kids and their friends. everyone brought a snack to share and eggs to hide. then all the kids played on the playground and went on an egg hunt. the kids all had a great time!
melanie got to spend easter with us. we painted eggs and got a visit from the easter bunny!
more pictures on flickr of her trip and more posts to come!