Our cousin Forrest came over to split some wood with our family. The girls wanted to help so the boys let them try out the log splitter. Laney and Chloe stacked all the wood in Forrest's truck. Chloe was out working in her princess shoes. She is our girly girl.

TJ got his first tooth. It looks as if our cute little baby is growing an adult baby tooth. 7months old.

Laney started kindergarten on Thursday. I left the little kids with Tony all prepared for Laney to cry or refuse to go in, however the only one with a problem was me of course. I didnt cry because I didnt want to upset her but it was a sad sad day for me.
With four children I dont seem to take pics when I should and I forgot to take one of Halle on her first day of 4th grade. However I kinda got her on her 2nd day.
Today Laney asked me if she could walk in to school by herself. I told her maybe on Monday. I'm not ready to let my little Laney walk in the big school all by herself, what if she gets sad? Halle always wanted me to take her to class and after school she wanted me standing outside her classroom. Every day for the whole year.
I got Halle on her 3rd day too. Just trying to make up for the first day.
TJ was laying on the floor playing with Laney's new backpack and I realized that he isn't much bigger than the backpack.

We went to the Sandwich party at the library with our friends the Chappell's. The kids get to pick from a couple tables full of goodies and they get to make their own sandwich. I think they pretty much stuck to PB&J, but they did get alot of treats on the side.


Grandpa Ken and Grandma Annie take our kids that are going to school shopping before the first day. Grandpa couldn't come this year so I filled in. The only rule was I couldn't pick out anything. The girls get to pick what they want. If you know me then you know that I can be pretty opinionated, However I upheld my part of the bargain and the kids picked out cute things. Not neccesarily things I would have picked, but cute things.

Our little Chloe was a flower girl in Ross and Desiree Krotzer's wedding this last week. There were two flower girls a two yr old and Chloe. It was interesting getting them to go down the aisle. Halle saved the day and walked the little girls down the aisle.( because mom didn't want to) The wedding was a cute backyard barbeque on the Puyallup River.

My big brothers like to lift the girls up above their heads and then slam them into the couch. Uncle Chris and Uncle Josh have been power bombing (Josh's term) Halle since she was very young. She is getting alot bigger now that she is alomost 10yrs old. So Josh decided to try Laney. He tried Halle but couldn't quite get her up.

TJ and his Cousin Baby Chris got to hang out at Grandma and Grandpa's for a birthday party for all of our summer birthday's.

While I was posting about TJ and his push ups , Tony called me over and TJ was taking his first few crawls. He did a few crawls before I got the camera but I caught a little one.

Happy Birthday Chloe Bug. She turned 3Yrs old. We didnt take very many pics, but here she is blowing out her candles and heres a pic of her and her friends starting their bug hunt. Halle hid fake bugs all over the yard and took the kids on a little hunt for them.

Our TJ is almost mobile. This last couple days we have been seeing lots of push ups, but no movement.

Chloe made a new cousin friend. Chloe and Mckenna were so cute at Grandpa Ken's house. Chloe keeps asking about her cousin Kenna.

Camping in Forks WA

Here are the kids pretending to sleep.

On the way to the campground we stopped at Crescent lake. We have decided it would be the perfect place to have a vacation home. BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL!
Just put this pic in cause Halle looked kind of odd


Our fam went camping this last weekend with some close friends to Mora beach which is in Forks WA. It just so happened that we were there when Breaking Dawn the new book from the twilight series came out. Every little store and restaraunt had some Bella burgers or Edward accesories. I picked up my copy bright and early on Saturday from the local Forks Thriftway. Back to our camping trip. Our first night was a complete rain out , however my parents and friends went to town and bought up all the tarps in the store and we stayed dry. The beach had all of these beautiful rocks. When the rocks got wet they turned colors. When we camp we're not usually camera pretty but we take pics anyway.

Milestone

This past week was my birthday. 28 is now here. You know when you were younger and everyone seemed alot older than you, well I have reached the other end of that scenario. Not that everyone is younger, just that I am alot older. My family has been having a weight loss challenge. I have lost about 3 pounds. woohoo! Pretty good for me since I have never lost weight except by giving birth and that month or two after. Anyway to the point for my birthday three of my close friends brought me not so wonderful presents for my goal. Cupcakes, rice krispie treats, almond clutsters (a whole big container) and a big box of Sees candies (in all my fav flavors.) Oh and my mom took me out to my old fav restaraunt Sakura's and Tony took me out to my new fav restaraunt The Samurai. That was my very fattening birthday.

Oh and for a milestone on TJ. His first word was mom, then he said no, then dad, but yesterday he kept saying mom over and over and that is new and it just made my day. Here is a picture of him making one of my fav faces. He looks like a little gummer when he sucks his lips in.

Jam

Me and my mom made yummy raspberry jam. It was my first time making jam and I was quite proud of myself. Her is a picture of me and mom, not the best pic we have ever taken. Oh and the next pic is of an apron that I wore, it was given to me when my Great Grandma Mcbride died and I just love it. And last the finished product.

This week was a normal summer week with visiting with friends, library trips, Super Saturday at church, garage sales, and Halle's soccer camp. Which by the way sitting in the grass for 3 hours a day is not such a good idea for my allergies. Half of our family is suffering from sinus pressure and lots of snot. (gross) However we went to Northwest Trek this week with our friends the Lamb family and it was the perfect day for it. Thursday was overcast in the morning and all of the animals were out. Halle enjoyed taking pictures of all the animals. Heres a picture of Chloe, Laney and their friend Preslee. Then a picture of Kristen and Chloe. I only have one lap and T.J. was occupying it so Kristen helped me out and held Chloe. The last picture I just put it in because I never have any pictures of me and my kids.

T.J. is now 6 months old, and he had decided to sit. He still falls every once in awhile but he recovers quickly. He's not a newborn anymore.

Our baby nephew Christopher or in our words The B.C. came to visit recently. B.C. and T.J. were playing on Grandma's couch and I noticed they were holding hands it was so cute. They would grab hands and then let go at least 3 times. Heres a picture.