Ashlyne turns 5!

We celebrated Ashlyne's 5th Birthday last Tuesday night at Chuck E. Cheese's. We had a great time with a big group of friends and family, including a few of Ashlyne's friends from preschool she hadn't seen since the end of May. She had a great day and is really looking forward to kindergarten!!

Happy 5th Birthday Ashlyne!!!

The kids were dancing with Chuck E. Cheese to a birthday song!

Ashlyne gave Chuck E a big hug!

High 5 Chuck E!! Ashlyne got a lot of cool gifts: a baby doll, a princess creativity set, a new dress, a new bike and lots of things to go with her bike. So many new things!

Thank you to everyone who joined us that day! It was a birthday to remember!

More pictures!

I forgot about these, from the day before the 4th... Here is Jordan and Alexis... (they were both a little sunburned from being out on the jetski's that day) Me and Misti :)

I was laying on the floor and Laney jumped on my back. She was saying "pee boo Mommy!"

she's so cute!!!

Delayed Update

So I am lattte updating I know. Its been busy over here! And I forgot how this photo uploading works, so these pictures are backwards! UGH...well here goes a ton of pictures.
First are pictures from our camping trip to Lake Cushman last weekend. We were there Thursday until Sunday. We had a double site and we had all 7 of our kids, plus our friends Adam and Nicole and their 5 kids, and our friend Devron, and Jordan's girlfriend Alexis. We had a great time! First up, Delaney figured out that grabbing handfuls of dirt and throwing them on herself and up in the air to land on herself was a lot of fun! ha ha...we were calling her Jungle baby!

Let's just say by the time we got home, I had to empty her bathwater twice before I got her clean! LOL...but she had a great time and was really good. This was her first camping trip since she was only a few months old.

Next up, a family picture. LOL...we were dirty and icky, but dang it, it was the first time we had all the kids camping with us, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get a picture.

We had a great time swimming and playing the lake all day Friday and Saturday. We just lugged coolers down and spent the day. This is Jordan (standing behind everyone), Alex, Cole, Brittany, and Misti jumping in the lake.

Laney had a good time cruising around in the blow up boat with Daddy.

And playing on this "hot dog" that Adam and Cole brought.

Or just floating in a tube, as long as Misti didn't let go!

Ok, so the night before we left for camping was the 4th of July!!! My birthday and America's. We stayed home and lit off fireworks. GOOD TIMES!
Ashlyne, Misti and Laney watching Daddy light a sparkler:

This was pretty much where Laney spent most of her evening: on Misti's lap with her ears covered. She enjoyed the fireworks a lot actually, they were just loud.

What can I say about this one? It's LOVE :)

This is a rare moment.....Laney talks a lot about her "Bubbo" as she calls him, but she gets shy when he gets too close to her. So when she let him pick her up, Jordan said "get the camera!!"...lol... So sweet..

Sorry I was a week late, but I hope you enjoy the pictures! I have Ashlyne's 5th birthday pictures coming up.... :)

Take me out to the ballgame..

We took the family to the Tacoma Rainiers game last night, and brought along Uncle Devo. The weather was beautiful, clear and about 70 degrees. Tacoma lost, but it was fun anyway. Here are some pictures. :-)

Relay for Life and End of the School Year

This weekend was the Relay for Life. I, Cortney and Jordanna arrived at the Relay just after it began at 6pm on Friday. Our entire team did great, raising over $2000 and walking over 10 miles each one of us. Cortney walked 15 and Jordanna walked almost 20. I came in with 11, which was no small feat either. Jordanna slept for a couple hours early Sat. morning and I slept for about an hour that morning. Cortney didn't sleep until we got in the car and headed home Saturday night. I'm so proud of my girls for participating fully in the Relay this year. I didn't hear either of them complain at all and they gave it 110% for sure. It was amazing!
Unfortunatly, I am not sure what the heck I was doing (hmm, walking?) but I didn't take any pictures except for the luminaries.

Today was the last day of school. This morning I checked the mail for Saturday's mail. There were 3 letters in there from the Puyallup School District with our approvals for all 3 of the girls into Maplewood for next year!!!!!!!! I was so ecstatic! It is such a relief to know that they are in for next year. Especially because I didn't think we were going to hear until August.

The girls' report cards were WONDERFUL! All their grades were either the same or improved, and the comments from their teachers were great too. I'm just beaming with pride today!

And I picked up all the registration papers for Ashlyne for kindergarten today too. I will turn that in this week. :) I'm excited to be able to finally register her for Kindergarten- and so is she!

So that is our update! Have a great week!

It's almost summertime...

We survived another year of dance!! The recitals went great on Saturday! Ashlyne did great in both of hers and was so excited to get her first trophy, for 3 years of dancing!
Jordanna also received a trophy- for finishing her 8th year of dancing! I can't believe we've been doing this that long! Jordanna did a great job as well. I think we are all relieved to call it a year.

Cortney and Jordanna have just this week of school and then Monday is their last day. We are all looking forward to sleeping in and all the fun things summer has in store for us! So with that, here is my Summer Top Ten!

Top 10 Things I love about Summer:

1. Warm temperatures and SUNSHINE!!

2. Sleeping in

3. BBQ'ing and just hanging out with friends and family more

4. Margaritas on the porch

5. CAMPING!

6. Hydros in the Tri-Cities

7. swimming in the pool

8. daylight savings

9. 4th of July! - my birthday and fireworks

10. the smell of coconut tanning oil

11. Football Season is almost here!

Top 10 Least Favorite things about Summer:

1. sunburns

2. sand everywhere (trips to the beach/lake)

3. plethora of dirty wet towels

4. the never clean kitchen floor from kids running through there coming in and out of house

5. "I'm bored!!" cry of the kids home on summer break

6. packing and preparing for camping

7. unpacking and laundry from camping

8. mosquitos

9. watching forest fire after forest fire on the news

10. its not football season yet! :)

I'll have more pictures soon...

The new and improved Acura

Two weeks ago Craig spent most of the weekend painting to Acura. For our anniversary last month he got the windows tinted for his gift. The wheels and tires are fairly new as well, in the last 6 months. So here it is....

It feels great to have it done! We were both getting tired of driving it around with primer spots on it! :) It looks incredible!