Ellie's 7th Birthday

Ellie turned 7 this summer. I can't believe how grown up she is getting. It seems like just yesterday that I was waiting and waiting and waiting for her to be born. She sure has been a little firecracker in our house. She really wanted her party and build-a-bear. We took a couple of friends and bought a whole bunch of bears....crazy, but it was really fun!! She also wanted a key-lime cheesecake for her birthday from Costco. Her grandpa, whom she loves, loves key-lime which is why I think she chose this :)!!!

Another Cute face

Xander so loves to get dirty and I just love this sweet smile!! I know that I am finally getting caught up on my blog and so this will be a long run of pics!!

Super Cute faces!!

Don't you just LOVE that dirty face!! I sure do :)

80's Hair Color!!

I had some leftover hair color from halloween...you know the spray on color that washes out. Well the kids found it and really wanted to color their hair. It was on a saturday and we didn't have really anything important to do that day, so I said sure :)!! I think we put all the colors in each of their hairs!! It was really fun!! We even put some in Xander's and gave him a mohawk!!

Look at that little hair-do!!! I wish he more hair...it is growing in so fine and slowly!!!

My favorite is this picture...it looks like something out of a catalog. These were supposed to be shorts...but between the new style being really long shorts for boys, his short little legs, and that these pants were a size too big and so they were hanging down...he looked like he was wearing jeans that were flooded!!

March of Dimes Walk!!!

We were able to have a lot of fun at the March of Dimes Walk to raise money to decrease the incidence of premature births!!

Ellie really enjoyed having her bike there. There were a lot of people though and then it made it really hard for her to ride along the path. We eventually put the bike back in the car and that made it a little easier to get through the crowd!!

Xander is just our cutie! He really enjoyed hanging out the stroller as we walked.

I was trying to get a cute pic of Aeryn and I but she wasn't really interested. She was more interested in the donuts and juice that they had for everyone who was walking that morning!

After we did the walk, they had a lot of fun things for the kids to do. Xander really enjoyed getting a monkey holding a banana made by the balloon guy. Xander just kept saying..."nana, nana" and really wanted to eat a banana when we got home.

They also had this professional face painter who did amazing jobs. I think we waited like 45 minutes to have the kids get their faces painted. But amazingly, they were very patient throughout the wait. They wanted this SOOO bad. Ellie chose a rainbow and a frog...it was really cute.

Aeryn wanted a rainbow butterfly. It was cool because the lady used a sponge/crayon thing that had all the colors on it and just brushed it along their cheeks to make the rainbow effect. The kids already are excited to go back next year to do it again.!!

Trampoline Time!!

My kids enjoy jumping on the trampoline so much. The girls are so nice and let Xander come and jump with them...they know that they can't really jump when he is on. But he loves them to bounce him. He giggles so much!! You can see here that after a while he was just tuckered out from all the bouncing. But if I tried to get him off he would get so mad...so he just got really tired jumping and jumping!!






Isn't this just the cutest picture of how much they love each other.... Funny thing, that lasts for 5 minutes and then the argument begin and I was lucky to catch it on camera!!


My kids enjoy jumping on the trampoline so much. The girls are so nice and let Xander come and jump with them...they know that they can't really jump when he is on. But he loves them to bounce him. He giggles so much!!

Green Beans!!!

Xander LOVES to eat green beans...you know the kind right out of the can. I will make up a can for me and he comes right over and wants to eat it. He will even refuse ice cream over green beans. I love how cute he is when he is happy!! What a sweet boy!!