Sunday, July 31, 2011

A MONTH WITH FAMILY

Heather and Joe and their 3 cute kids came in to town to visit this summer. It was so fun to have some more little cousins to play with, and of course it was a blast to be with Heather. I basically put as much of my life on hold so that I could spend most of my waking moments with her. We did a lot of hanging out at Grandma B's house, a little at my house and some at Bekah's pool. It was just so fun and went way too fast.

Here are the cute kids watching a movie at Grandma B's later in the afternoon to have a little bit of down time after playing hard in the backyard.


We hung out at my house a bit, but Heather's kids were so terrified of Molly, that we had to lock her up and make sure they knew for sure she wasn't going to get them. But they had fun painting nails, playing in the back yard, dressing up and of course winding down with a good movie.





Grandma B got out some of her fun hats for all the little kids to try on and play around in. It was so cute to watch them prance around. Luella got a hold of the Mr Potato head kit and tried wearing the earings herself. It was so funny.












So when I leave my little Chance in his bouncer, and if I leave for even a sew minutes, this is usually what I come back to. Samantha loves to cover him up and make sure that he has all of his favorite things around him (even if he doesn't know they are his favorite yet), it was so hilarious when I came back and found him like this.

Grandma B's again, popsicles and playing in the yard.







We were in the house and the kids got down a blanket and started dragging each other back and forth on it. They were having so much fun.









Heather and I made the cutest patriotic shirts for the grandkids. They were so dang cute and fun to make. All the kids looked adorable. I was kinda glad that Heather forgot red white and blue so we could make them.
It was such a treat to have Heather and her kids here. I love seeing her and loved all the time that we spent together. And my kids are still asking about Martha, Alice and Jonathon. Such cute little cousins!!!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

LADY GAGA WANNA BE


So this is what happens when Samantha leaves out her birthday presents. Luella gets ahold of them and thinks its a good idea to get the black marker and scribble it on her eyes. When I found her, she looked at me, help up the black marker and said "make up". So apparently she thinks that is how make up is supposed to look. Hopefully that isn't what I look like to her with my makeup on, I guess you never know. It just really reminded me of that crazy makeup that Lady Gaga wears.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

SAMANTHA TURNED 6!!!!!

Happy Birthday Samantha!

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I can't believe that my little Samantha is already 6. It seriously blows my mind to think that I have a 6 yr old, a first grader. I am not old enough for that. But I am loving it. Samantha has grown up so much and matured a ton in the last little while. She is such a great helper with Mason, Lu and Chance. She loves to love her brothers and sister. Samantha loves to dress up in fancy clothes and wear makeup and look beautiful. Anything to look and feel more grown up and Sammi loves it. She loves to hang out with her Dad. Really anything that involves Ben, she is totally in. She is so sweet and getting to be so grown up. I am sad and excited for her to go to first grade this year. I am sad because I won't have my little buddy with me during the day. She is my mini me, and it is so fun to have her around me. But I am so excited for her to go and learn so much in school. That is one thing that Samantha just loves . . . . school. She loves to learn new things and is always so excited to come home and tell me all about it. I love her so much and am so grateful that she is my daughter and I am humbled by the responsibility I have to raise her and teach her and be her mom. When I was pregnant with Samantha, around 20 weeks, I had to have an emergency circlage. I was having some spotting and they ran some tests and thought that I was going into pre term labor and were worried that if they didn't do the circlage I was lose the baby. I hate to think about what would have happen if they didn't catch it or if I didn't get the circlage. Samantha has been such a blessing in my life. She teaches me so many things every day as a mom and just as a person, that I am so grateful for her. I love her so much and hope that she had an awesome 6th birthday. Happy Birthday Sammi Sue!!!! I love you!!!


Here were the birthday festivities for Sam's big day. When she woke up we had her birthday breakfast, which was pancakes, as to her request. Then we gave her her present. She had been wanting an itouch like Mason's, but with a purple cover. Once we gave it to her, she was off with Mason playing their games and being really quiet. That gave us some time to get ready for her little friend party. She wanted to invite some friends over for a slip and slide party. It was so much fun, and pretty low key. How much more low key can you get than a home made slip and slide, pizza, cookies and ice cream cones. PERFECT!!! And the kids loved it. After 1 1/2 hours, and the parents were starting to show up the kids were so sad when we told them we were turning it off. After Ben yelled he was turning it off, all of them at once ran and slid down together. It was so cute. So after the party, cleaning up and playing with some of her new toys (with Martha, Alice and Mason) we ran some errands with Heather and her kids and Jessica. We took Sam to pick out a present, some fun new art supplies. This girl loves to paint draw, play with stickers, anything artsy. So art supplies were great. Then off to cafe rio for her dinner, which she requested. It was such a fun day, and I think Samantha had a blast!

(I just had to add a quick cute story. So just over a week before her birthday Ben and I and the kids were in target shopping. Samantha saw a little girl that she knows from the gym. Actually I'm not quite sure how well she knows her, but she plays with her at the gym, so there you go. Anyways, she saw this little girl at target and went up to her and invited her to come to her birthday party. So then the next morning before we went to the gym, Samantha was writing a little invitation to give to this little girl. I guess she gave it to her, cause when I came to pick my kids up, there was a reply from the little girl and her mom. So Samantha had a new little friend that she met and invited to the party. This is just exactly how she is. She is my little social butterfly. She is always running around talking to everyone. It is so cute!)