Happy birthday Emry

I know that this happened a while ago but I still want to post this.
Our sweet (not so little) Emry turn 11 last month.
Talk about time flying by.
Chelsey had another great birthday party for him over at my mom house.

We did presents.

Had cake.

And even did a pinata.
After they broke it open and collected all the candy,
we had a great canned string fight.
We were covered in it and it was a blast.

This is the party walking back over to my moms house
once we finished with the pinata across the street at the park.

Then we got back to the other fun.

Chelsey rented two bounce houses for us to play on.

One was this water slide that everyone
took turns going down.

Bayleigh dropped her lollipop and was
not at all pleased with the dirty covering it!

The other one was this big bounce house.

Happy birthday Emry, you truly are an amazing kid.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

Our fun camp out in Grandma Ami and Grandpa Duane's backyard.

A few weekends back we went over to my
dad's house to have a sleep over in the backyard.
Since we have so many little kids this had been one of the best
ways for us to enjoy camping. Ami set the whole
yard up for the event. There were tents,
sleeping bags and even a place for a fire.

My dad barbecued hot dogs and steak. There was a game of badminton going off and on and Grandpa even had a t.v. out so the boys could play video games. As the night went on we did a bit of roasting marshmallows.

We hung out by the fire,
enjoying a nice evening outside.

The kids all had so much fun hanging out with their Grandparents.

Bayleigh loved being outside the entire time.
She is our nature girl for sure.

Sleeping went really good during the night. All the kids slept in two tents and Ben, Ami and I slept under the stars. Grandpa got sent in the house, Blake said he snores way to loud.

We all ate donuts for breakfast
and hung out enjoying a nice cool morning.

After we were all finished we got ready to head over to the pool at my dads elks club.

We swam there for over an hour. It was a great pool and we were the only people there. The pool was 8 feet deep and we all had a blast swimming.

Before we left we had one last snack by the pool.
It sure was a nice camp-out.
Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for letting us all come over.

Happy 3rd Brithday Bella

(So I know I am a bit behind in the blogging world so here is my attempt to catch up)
We Celebrated Bella's 3rd birthday in June. She wanted to go skating for her party, we did it a few days before her actual birthday so Auntie Ashley could be included in the festivities. We all met up at Roller King for a afternoon full of skating.
Camey also came and brought her twins that she watches.
We were so excited to meet Jordan and Jasmine...
( I promise Bella has two shoes, even though one seems to be missing in this picture).

We were so happy Ashley was able to be apart of Bella's skating party. Even though Ashley didn't skate, it worked out great cause Bella decided that she wasn't going to actually skate either, once we were all there with our skates on.

However, I made her keep her skates on and she just rolled around the skating rink. She was not a big fan of anyone trying to get her out on the hardwood floor. I did take her out once just to show her how fun it really was. Emry joined us half way around and after crying the entire way she looked up at him and said "That was not fun at all."

Grandma Joy and Brooklyn were best buds skating.
They had so much fun out there!

Dallas was a stud out on the floor in his roller blades.

Blake did a great job getting around the floor also.
He was so brave having not been skating in over a year.

Bayleigh on the other hand wanted
NOTHING to do with the skating floor...

I love this boy so much.

It sure was a great day and we all had a blast.
Even though Bella didn't end up skating she sure had a great time.
Little Bayleigh was happiest with her cup of ice water!

Our sweet girls trip to the dentist

Brooklyn was such a brave girl at her trip to the dentist.

She listen really well

Did everything they told her to do.
Didn't cry when they gave her the shot.

Held her mouth open nice and big.

And even manage to give me a smile after two fillings.
Mommy felt like the worst mom in the entire world. We brush every day
but the dentist told me how important flossing is
and that I needed to brush for two minutes every time.
I got the worst mother of the year award that day...

You live and learn.
Now we brush AND floss every day.
We time it for two minutes each time.
Let me tell you two minutes is a lot longer then you think,
but worth not watching our little girl go through that.
Even though she was so brave,
I can't sit my kids in pain.
I'm a softy, I know.

Have to really keep my eye on this one...

A few weeks ago Aunt Jeanette came out to spend the day with us.
We went over to Panera to get some lunch with mom and Dallas and decided to eat outside due to the active kids that accompanied us. While I was trying to enjoy lunch I had to constantly get up to retrieve Bayleigh who thought it was so funny to get as far away from me as possible. After totally being sick of chasing her and feeling I had exhausted my request of Dallas to run after her I was just going to let her be and see where that would leave me...

Well needless to say my sweet little daughter found the only mud pit in the entire eating area and proceed to fall, that's right fall into the mud. So now what are we left with? A little girl, covered in mud and a lunch still in progress. So what do I do? Oh just take off her pants and let her run around in a shirt, diaper and saltwater sandels. I guess when you get to baby #4 you tend to let the O.C.D. things go a bit.

Sorry I don't have a picture of her in all her glory!
I can't even tell you how proud of herself she was.
She thought she was the sillest little Bayleigh around.

What do you have in your mouth?

This is our sweet little Brooklyn.

You could say our wildest in the bunch.

What can I say?

We love our kids so much and when you get pictures like these, who wouldn't?
(I'd like say thank you to Ashley for being such an amazing photographer and for having such an amazing camera).