Friday, July 31, 2009

Happy Birthday JASON!

It's one thing to have a baby turn 3 and think over how fast the years went by...but FIFTEEN? We can't even wrap our heads around 15 YEARS!!

Jason woke up to donuts for breakfast...



Then Maddie (and her friend Makay) decorated a cake for him...



We didn't have 15 candles but luckily our math genius son, Jacob, figured out we could add our number candles and get 15...



Happy Birthday Jason! Before you know it, you'll be driving, then graduating, then on a mission, then college...you're mother isn't old enough for you to be doing all these things!!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

More fun in the pool -

The gang requested pictures of their "tidal wave" yesterday...Jared actually asked, "Are these pictures going in the blog, mom?" - Answer: Duh! Of course they are, son!



Nothing too scientific about the tidal wave...



...stand in the middle of the pool...



...then jump up and down until everyone is being tossed like rag dolls! Fun times!

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Camera Clean-Up

I realized there were quite a few pictures on our camera's memory card that I needed to blog about...so here they are all at once and then I can be all caught up!!

Finally! We got to set the pool up!

Pretty sure those are Megan's legs sticking out of the water.

Jared's belly-flop. I didn't have the heart to tell him I clicked a second too late - he told me before he jumped that he was only going to do it once, anyway! lol

Jason's front flip.

Megan helping Joseph so he'd stop clinging to the side.

Malorie! I just realized that I never took any pictures of her with chickenpox! Yes, she started summer vacation with chickenpox - and surprisingly enough, the three younger than her who haven't had them, didn't get them...yet anyway!

And now the "Surprise Mom" pictures I found on the camera!

I can't even imagine why my baby is standing in the laundry hamper.

This picture cracked me up. Jason was working on a merit badge where he needed to put together a slide show of prominent landmarks and icons around the community - the punk took a picture of "Walter"! His name isn't really Walter, that's just what we call him. This little old man hitches between Spokane and DP multiple times a day. I can only think of a few times that I've driven on the highway and not seen him.

I don't know who took this picture - but isn't she just a love bug!

The LAST day of school!! We met dad at Red Robin for lunch (Maddie and Megan were with friends.)

Monday, July 06, 2009

4th of July

We sure had a whirlwind 4th of July this year...but it was great!!
We started the day with breakfast at Uncle Courtney's house.

Uncle Rick, Aunt Lisa, Uncle James, Uncle Courtney & Emma

Aunt Ellen with the kids...of course!

Shiloh, Sylvia, Shauna & Maddie

Ryan & Levi...maybe?

Meredi & Mom

Ready for breakfast! Cinnamon rolls, sausage, fruit and juice! Yum!

All of the girls with their princess ribbon crowns!

After breakfast we rushed home to have a BBQ with old friends that we hadn't seen in a couple of years. The Mauzy's came and spent the entire afternoon with us - eating, swimming, playing and catching up. Way too short of a visit - and too few pictures b/c we were too busy playing!

After the BBQ we drove up to grandma and grandpa's house for fireworks!

Joe - working it!

And it paid off!

Jared & Jason, waiting for fireworks!

Uncle Dick broke out the soft serve ice-cream maker and Meredith loved it! (However, Joseph is the one who ate us all under the table - I seriously lost count of how many cones he had!)

After his 15 or so cones, Joseph scored cotton-candy bigger than his head from Uncle Dave!

Fireworks, ice-cream, cotton-candy, popcorn, family, friends...it was a WONDERFUL day!