First Day of Shcool

Kimberlen started school on Monday and was overly excited. It was all I could do to get her picture taken as she ran out the door and towards the bus stop. I never knew how great it was to have kids that ride the bus, but I am learning that this is very nice. Brylee and Maycee are still sleeping most days when it is time for her to leave and if I had to take her that would mean I would need to wake them up. Who wants to do that? Then I get some more quiet time before the chaos begins. Kimberlen is in second grade this year and apparently has a morning teacher and an afternoon teacher. I am still trying to figure out this whole year-round school and it is all new to me. Lets just hope she continues to be this eager to go all year.

New Patio

Here is the begining of what is going to be our favorite spot in our yard. They started pouring the cement at 6:30 am and I went and woke the kids up so they could watch. They were sure interested. My Dad and Mom came out the night before so they could help in the morning. It was so fun to have them there when we got up. It was a great day.

These guys worked really hard for about an hour.

The wet cement.....the far rounded area is where we are going to put our fire pit with bench seats. I am excited to finish it one day.

Just finishing up......

This was the view from inside...The three men watching the cement dry. HA HA HA HA

bA tH TuB tImE

Here is the first bath with the baby. I am a little weird about putting the baby in the dirty bath water of the kids. I know it wont hurt her but she is no where near as dirty as the girls are. This particular night Maycee wanted to get in with Brylee and she had already had a bath that morning so I decided it was okay because she was pretty clean.

And this is the girls' first time bathing in my tub. They just love the jets. I love the fact that it only takes a few drops of bubble bath to produce so many bubbles.

They are sure silly. It took Kimberlen a while to decide if she was going to wash her hair. She said she liked the way I did it too much to undo it. Silly girl.

Summer Fun

Drive-In} We went to the MOTOR-VU with Desiree' and Hudson and saw Ice Age 3. It was a pretty cute movie, but don't ask Kimberlen, she fell asleep half way through it. It sure brings back a bunch of memories of many fun times I have had there at the drive-in since I was a little kid. I hope to make the same type of memories for my girls. This was only the second time to the drive-in since Maycee was born and this was a much better experience than the first time.

Cherry Hill} We made another trip to CHERRY HILL this summer. The kids sure do have a good time there and we have fun watching them. Well my mom and sister have fun watching just about everyone else there. They are total people watchers. He he he! But if you are pregnant or have a newborn this must be the place to be. I think every third female was either pregnant or had a little one to tote around.

JackHammer

Have you ever seen a 7 year old Jack Hammer?
That's what Kimberlen wanted me to put on here. She wanted to help so bad so Eric said "Okay, here you go." She was really excited and had fun helping out. Here Eric is helping push apart the pieces.

She was really good at doing it herself.

Eric being the supervisor. She broke up the entire square that they were working on. Of course, Eric had to pick it up and move it to the next spot for her. Those things weigh a ton.

MaRkErS!

This is what happens when I attempt to take a 10 min shower while the kids are awake.......

We have yet to learn that markers, crayons, pencils and pens are for paper only. Anytime she gets ahold of them marks end up all over.

Brylee's new toys

Now that Brylee is getting bigger (4 months) I decided she needed some things to entertain her and keep her from being left in the swing or on the floor.

Kimberlen and I went to the basement and got the excersaucer and bumbo chair. She really seems to like them both.

This is a new item. I never had a play gym for the other two, but because there are two others she needs some way of entertaining herself. She really seems to enjoy this.

She has the tag of one of the toys in her hand and kept swinging it back and forth.

The Great 4th

To start it all off we stayed at my moms house on Friday night so that we could go to the parade with her in the morning. That night my aunt, cousin and her little girl came over to play, along with Des and Hudson. We had a nice dinner and a tons of laughs. Here are the kids in the wagon on the porch.

Kimberlen just kept pushing them back and forth and they loved it. And yes Kimberlen has some shorty shorts under her shirt.
Of course they talked Gramma into swinging with both of them.Jamma Time! Here are the cousins in there jammies.

After the kids went to bed Brylee was sad so we found her some friends to play with.

We got up in the morning and headed down to the parade. Kimberlen got mad at the other kids that kept getting in front of her and stealing her candy.

Maycee was silly. She wanted to eat all the candy she got. She was happy with the flag. I didn't get many pictures during the parade. It is hard enough trying to keep the kids out of the street and save them from the other kids.

They all thought this was pretty funny. My mom put Brylee in the doll stroller and buckled her in. We did not let them push her, although Maycee wanted to really bad.

Then Maycee thought she needed the doll bottle too. My mom was there for the save.

We then headed over to Layton Park for some food and fun. The kids loved the bouncy toys. After these two pictures my camera died.

Thanks for the fun time Gramma and Desiree'. Later that night we did some fireworks with some friends back at home with our Dad to celebrate our Freedom.