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.

On Sunday Laney comes up to me after church and says "Mom I have a loose tooth, feel it mom" So not really thinking much of it I feel it and sure enough it is loose. It brought back all the sadness of Laney graduating from preschool and growing up way to quickly. So yesterday we were at our friends the Kimballs and Laney and her friend Emersen collided heads and out popped Laney's tooth. Trying to get a picture of her tooth was pretty funny here are a few of the tries at getting a cute one. Not sure if we ever reached cuteness.

So we are a little behind bur for the fourth we started our festivities hanging with the Chappells at a neighborhood party. Food, visiting and play for the kids. We finished up the day at the home of Rick and Kylynns for more food and a very cool fireworks show.

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just got back from our vacation to California. I am very proud of myself. I never drive anywhere because I don't like riding in the car, however with a family of 6 airfare is rather pricey so. I took the kids with the assistance of my momma and drove 15 hours through the night(which is the only way to drive with my children.) to see my brother Lin and Sister in law Linda and their 5 children. Thats right 9 children in one 3 bedroom home. You would think it would be kinda crazy there but it wasn't. We went to the Cheese Cake Factory and the waitress complimented us on how well behaved our kids were. We went to Alcatras, this cool theme park Great America, the boardwalk and the beach front. It was a great vacation. The weather however was just like normal Washington weather. Cloudy and high 60's low 70's.


Here is a picture of all of the cousins. The little boy in the middle with the stripes is not one of ours. When we went to the beach TJ loved eating the sand. I was so proud of Laney because just before it was time to go she finally went in the water. She is very afraid of water. She usually spends her time up in the dry sand building castles and collecting shells.

My sister in law Laura and brother Chris got us this sooo cute outfit. I cant stop taking pictures of him in it.

TJ is starting to eat. We have one of those mesh feeder things, which is a must have for babies, but our baby loves to eat just like his family. I asked Tony to feed TJ some melon and when I looked over at them he had given it to him with a fork. Daddy's think so differently than Mommy's.

Our Halle baby performed in her 2nd Piano recital. She doesn't think she wants to play the piano anymore but Mom and Dad aren't going to let her give up just yet. Mean parents Huh? Right after her recital we had to jet out of there and change clothes in the car for her final softball game of the season. Last year her team was undefeated and this year they won all of their games except for the last one. They lost. However they are still co-champions. Wins and losses aren't that big of a deal to Halle yet.

Halle is quite the little sportster. This season it's softball. Right now her team is 7-0. Tonight we had a game, yes in the rain and cold and wind. Halle pitched for the first time ever and she had 3 strike outs and one walk. We were so proud of her. Her games are so much fun. Her first time up to bat this season she hit a homerun. She hits alot of doubles. She is so lucky to have an awesome coach named John Meers. All of the kids on her team play well.

Laney graduated from pre-school last Thursday. About a day before I started to get this sick sad feeling. I just can't believe that she is going to be in Kindergarten next year. I can't kick the sad feeling. Overdramatic I know. I asked Laney if she was sad at her graduation. She said " I'm a little bit sad and a lot happy." Here are a couple pictures of her big day. The kids sang cute songs and alphabet rhymes. The last picture is of Laney and Teacher Patsy.

Last week we went to our cute little nephew Christopher Gabriel's baptism. T.J. and B.C. are best cousins. For Halle's field trip they went to Point Defiance. The weather wasn't to much fun. Halle and Graysen dressed up at Veterinarians.


T.J. has been for the last two months watching every little piece of food anyone eats. So we gave him his first food Zwieback Toast. ( Well except for that Hershey bar his daddy slipped him when mom wasn't looking)

I do realize that I havent been posting anything about the Halle, Laney and Chloe. So here are their school pictures. Well Halle's school picture and the girls got theirs done because I volunteered to help that day. Halle had her first baseball game a couple days ago and her first time up to bat she hit a homerun. She is also playing soccer. It's hard to take pictures at all of our outings now that we don't have any free hands. Four children is alot. I would think seriously about it if I were you.

Just some cutie pictures

T.J. can finally hold and play with toys today he played with his elephant toy for 15 minutes. Sweet!

Baby Chris in his pimp hat on Mothers Day.

Spending time with daddy is always interesting. The noise tony makes when he does this interesting face is GRRRR. Big Tony is the one making th noise of course.

T.J. is doing so many new and cute things lately, however when ever the camera comes out he immediatley stops and he won't do anything but stare at the camera with a blank stare.

My wonderful brother Chris kept sticking his tongue out at T.J and for the next week T.J wouldn't put his tongue back in his mouth. Thanks Chris.