Sunday, July 5, 2009

Celebrating Independence Day

Yesterday was spent with family and friends! In attendance were:

The Garretts

The Swishers

The Roselands

Hannah and Andy (soon to be moving to AZ!)

Aunt Heidi and Grandma Donna

The Creels

The host and hostess with the most-ess, my parents! Thanks for having everyone out to your place! We had a blast!


Before the party got started, the Creels came over to my parents house to get Camden a little nap before we all headed to the pool! This is how Michael and I entertained each other! If you click on the picture, you can see the ridiculous faces we were making!)




Ok, so what you don't see is Camden eating the book! Where are those pictures Candis? For some reason this book looked mighty tasty and Camden decided to take a big bite out of one of its pages!!! Yummy - guess she wanted some Green Eggs and Ham!

Me and my babies



At 3 we headed to the pool to meet up and get everyone signed in!










Candis was getting ready to show off one of her Yoga poses in the water!



Kyan is usually the oldest kid at the party, but not yesterday! He was so excited to play with Frank's son, Xavier!


I took Lola down the slide, even though she was hollering - but then again, when doesn't she yell?! She is drama and that shoulda been her middle name! She has her "I" teeth, as Candis called them, coming in, so after the slide we had to take a much needed Motrin break!





Xavier sliding!

Chad enjoying the slides too!

Frank coming up for some air after he went under coming down the slide!

Watching everyone go down the slides!


Mommies got to break for a picture!
Chrissy, Susie, Me, and Candis

Camden braved the slide with daddy! Think Jayla did too, but I didn't catch a picture of that one!



All the babies in attendance!


Ok, we were trying to "position" the girls for the perfect photo, but this ended up being the best one! HA! Crazy mommies!



After three hours in the sun, we headed back to my parents house to BBQ!

Camden loves chillin' in her playpen! Although, she got down and dirty with JayLo last night!


Discovering the water from the fountain!




The Grillmaster last night! Thanks dad - the food was delicious!

At about 7:30 last night, Kyan threw in the towel! He was done-zo for the night and fell asleep right after I took this picture, curled up to daddy and grandma.

Jay showing off her kitty!

Playing peek-a-boo with Heidi, she ran around in circles too trying to get her great aunt's attention!



Drinking her juice like a doggy?!?


Camden loved the misters that Michael helped my dad put up before the party started! She was even trying to lick the water as it was coming out! Think she even licked some out of her daddies hair!


Lola knew Candis was looking for some snuggle time, as Camden limits hers, so she gave her some!

JayLo were so excited that Camden is almost 1 and more mobile! They got to show her the ropes of the backyard! She held her ground with the two of them quite nice!

My dad took all 3 girls to the fountain to explore! They loved it and were all splashing around!


Xavier and Chad

As if they weren't messy enough, Lola emptied out her juice box on the ground and then both girls proceeded to rub it around on the cement!

Jayla blowing kisses!


Camden using her snuggle ticket of the evening tonight on Susie! What a lovebug!

Thank you everyone for coming out and spending your July 4th with my family and I! We had an amazing time and hope to do it again next year!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

No place I'd rather be...

...than hangin' with my family! Last night we had so much fun hanging out at the Golf Club for happy hour! Outside we enjoyed misters, music, great food, sprinklers, and family time!

Aunt Heidi with my kids

Think Lola was digging for something - not sure what? Maybe she hid some food in her belly button?!?

Lola ran around the table in circles, reminded us of a dog!

Grandma headed to the putting green and driving range - no one is there at night and kids get to run around on a sea of green! They love it!

Kyan striking a pose -we danced to the music as a family!



Think this was fit #1 of the evening, when I stopped to dance with Kyan for a sec!

My mom and aunt - asked them to take a pic together and this is what happened! They are so goofy! I gave some bows that I made to my aunt Heidi earlier for a baby present and when they walked into TJ Max, what was in their short hair - the big flowers! They are funny!


Love my mom in this one!

Aunt Heidi and I

My dad and I - courtesy of Kyan! These next few are his too!





SPRINKLER TIME!!!



Lola was hell bent on running around on the grass, she got sprayed and was so mad! Grandpa rescued her!!!



Fit #2, she so badly wanted to run around, but did NOT want to get wet!


Giving Grandma a soaking wet hug to end our night!

Friday, July 3, 2009

TAGGED!

How could I not do this? I was first on Rae Lynn's list!

8 Favorite Shows:

1- So You Think You Can Dance?
2- Bachelorette
3- All My Children
4- Heros
5- Crime Shows (Lockup, First 48, Crime 360)
6- Anything MTV Reality (Real World, 16 and Pregnant, Uh - annyong myself right now, I am a sucker)
7- Friday Night Lights
8- True Blood (Chad and I just watched Season 1 - first episode, think I'm gonna like it!)

8 Things I did yesterday:

1- Took Lola swimming with Rae and her kids, auntie Kiki, Krystal and her nephew
2- Dropped Kyan off at Summer Camp - the zoo brought animals today!
3- Watched Episode 1, Season 1 of True Blood
4- Folded laundry
5- Swept floor
6- Ate leftover spaghetti from my mother-in-laws house (that is where we swam)
7- Ate more of that yummy salsa, Chad made a new batch and I ate the WHOLE thing!
8- Talked to my mom on the phone

8 Things I am looking forward to:

1- Fourth of July Party at my parents
2- Seeing Hannah Banana
3- Buying a bigger house
4- Wedding in September, its about GD time Missy
5- My 3rd year teaching 8th grade
6- Learning how to take great pics with the D90 that we have
7- Losing more weight, can't wait for school to start so that I can go back to eating regularly
8- Scrap booking new pages Heidi gave me

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1- Ah-So
2- Green Flash
3- Paradise Bakery
4- Mi Mi's Cafe
5- Pizza Hut
6- Pei Wei
7- Quizno's
8- Ah-So (ok, I know it is twice, but I double love it and almost put it on all 8)!

8 Things on my wish list:

1- Getting the call from my uncle saying that we got the house of my dreams
2-My parents moving to AZ for good
3-Liposuction
4- A healthy family
5- No more migranes
6- A new laptop
7- A sewing machine, where I produce baby shoe after baby shoe after baby shoe
8- A cure for cancer

8 People I Tag:8 People I Tag:

1- Celeste

2- Laken

3- Susie
4- Candis
5-Camille

6- Colleen
7- Meagan

8- You, C'mon, I stalk blogs too! Don't be scared!

BIG Thanks!!!

To my mama and auntie Heidi for helping me with the estate sale! Felt just like old times today and was so fun to share stories - even ones we shouldn't have been telling! Hehe! Would have been perfect if Hannah was there, so excited to see her tomorrow!

To Susie and Jayla for keeping Lola busy today! She had so much fun playing and napping at your house! I am greatful for such a wonderful friend! Susie ALWAYS offers to take my kids for me whenever, today I finally took her up on that offer!

To my pops for loving Kyan the way that you do! He loves spending time with you! Thanks for taking care of him today and for letting me have time with my mom and aunt!

To my auntie Heidi! OMG - so loving the scrapbook pages, I know what I'll be doing next week - sorting through photos and getting them ordered to put in the kids new pages! LOVE THEM!!!