Jalyns Birthday

July 15th was Jalyns 6th birthday. It ended up being a few days of celebrating. We made cupcakes on the Sunday b/f so he could celebrate with his friends at sunday school. Then on the 15th we had a few friends from church over for dinner and some swimming.

Jalyn wanted a motorcycle themed birthday party. I made a "flame" colored cake for him.

His best friend Andrew from school.

"Aunt Haley" and "Cousin Grayson" I'm so glad they are right down the road now, their family means so much to us and we're so glad we're sharing our lives with them.

Building the car that came with Papa and Grandmas birthday card.

The family came down on the 19th to celebrate his birthday with us. Emma Leigh getting some yummy homemade icing we made.

Court and I always dive into some kind of adventure when she's here, this time it was tuelle skirts and pumpkin cupcakes for ladies small group. So yummy.

This is what we came home to after ladies small group that night!

We dyed all the boys "mohawks" red, they were so cute!

Such a great smile!

Zeke fixing to shoot Uncle Justin.

Cuddling with Uncle Jonathan.

Flame/Racing cupcakes for all the cousins.

Cutie patootie girls watching spy kids 3d.

We had a great time with all the friends and family for his birthday. Thanks for celebrating with us, he had such a good birthday.

4th of July and More

Here's lots of pictures, random ones, and our 4th of July celebration with Justins family.

First I think that Jalyn must be going thru a growth spurt...as you'll see I find him sleeping all the time...and if you know our family you know our boys have never slept, so its strange, I wondered if he was sick the first few times I found him knocked out.

One of the rare times that I've caught them sharing something, not fighting, and being quiet all at the same time! They were so cute I let them sleep downstairs that night.

This is how I found them when I came downstairs the next morning. So sweet...I'm sure it didn't last long once Jon Michael woke up.

Jalyn didn't even make it to the pool b/f he feel asleep.

We found these fun jousting horses at Target, the boys have had so much fun with them.

This is the front of Jalyns birthday invite. Its super hard to find motorcycle stuff for a little boys birthday party!

The boys going at it with the jousting.

This is a string of pictures of Jalyn sleeping and Samson not wanting to move no matter how Jalyn changed position.

So cute, but needs a haircut so bad.

I can't believe he didn't move, he was so squished!

He kept looking up at me like he was miserable but he wasn't gonna move.

This was another day, I told you he must be growing, I catch him asleep all the time.

The boys have wanted to start getting an allowance so they have to help me out more around the house. Jalyn thought was fun the first time but not so much now.

The boys were impressed with their domino building skills.

The girls, Anika and Ariana, brought me some flowers in cute little glass jars!

Milli with Uncle Jonathan.

I was trying to get a picture of us together but the flash was so bright I kept closing my eyes. She wasn't to fond of the fireworks.

Sparkler time.

Most of our neighbors have little kids so quite a few were out doing fireworks at the same time, it was fun for all the kids.

Trying to get a picture with me in it, I settled for this one.

Jon Michael and Anika were allowed to light their own fireworks.

After fireworks we all went swimming. It was fun being up late after fireworks and then relaxing in the pool.

Milliana riding the horsie.

Snack time!

Midnight snack, literally, we didn't come in from swimming until around midnight.

Jon Michael was teaching Milli to blow bubbles in the pool.

Monday the guys had a meeting at the bakery so Ana and I got to hang out with the kids. We went to the outlet, then to yummy mexican rest. for lunch, and then home for swimming. Apparently Ana and I need to learn to reapply sunscreen, we both got burned even though we had put it on. It wasn't to bad but enough to be annoying.

Having fun splashing her feet.

More snack time! Even Milli had a granola bar.

Tuesday we went to Mardel and Half Price books. The boys found Spy Kids 3D so we came home and the kids all watched the movie. Aren't they cute in their glasses?

Gotta have popcorn with the movie!

This is how I found Jalyn after Ana and the girls left on Tuesday....told you he's been sleeping a lot!

Aunt Ana had bought Jon Michael the last of the Diary of A Wimpy Kid books to complete his set. He had read it by the end of the day.

It was a great holiday, I think we're gonna start a tradition of fireworks, late night swimming, and midnight snack.

We're Back!

We're back! A friend of a friend fixed our computer! Actually he told us there was nothing wrong with it (we are VERY sure there was b/f we gave it to him) so either he fixed it when he updated things for us or laid hands on it and prayed for it! Either was I'm just glad its fixed and I can blog again!

There's been tons of things I've wanted to blog about but of course I've forgotten them all so I'll just start with our fathers day crafts.

Nope, this was not a fathers day craft but I can't get it to move to the bottom of the page so here it is! You'll see at the bottom that we made duct tape wallets for fathers day. Since the guys all got something made from duct tape I thought I'd make myself something. I didn't think I could pull off a duct tape mini skirt so I went with a tshirt bag, it's lined with duct tape to hold its shape. I'm using it as a library bag, its amazing how well its holding up.

This was just a cute picture of Jalyn hugging Samson...can't have enough of those. Its probably one of the last ones I got with that hair style. He's now growing out his hair b/c he wants it long.

Haley and Grayson came over and did some fathers day crafts. They are actually bookmarks but Gray decided they looked better on him as necklaces...I have to agree.

Here's what Haley "punched" into the washers. Its such a super easy craft, I really enjoyed them, thanks for the idea Kaylene.

The boys and I made duct tape wallets for Jonathan, Papa, Papa Jerry, and Papa John.

Do you see the wallet picture I put in each of the wallets? I felt that I had to explain to the photo lab guy that my boys weren't kidnapped that we were just being funny to go with the duct tape wallets we had made. He looked at me like I was insane! But the cops never came for me so I figure he just went home and told his wife about another crazy picture and customer he's encountered!

(By the way, why can my boys never have normal eyes when I take a picture? Wait, I know, they get that from their daddy!)

Now that the computer is back I can't wait to really start blogging again. See ya'll soon.