Girl talk

Yesterday we swam at the Flakes, I was floating on a raft and my girls wanted to play beauty shop. They used sticks to comb my hair, squirt guns to wet it and a few other tools randomly found in the yard for their beauty shop. As I laid there with my eye closed the girls were chatting with each other...these are the moments that remind me why I became mom...I love it! The girls were complimenting each other on their work, working together, talking about their favorite hair styles and helping each other make different hair designs. It was almost as if they forgot I was laying there as they chatted it up...so sweet! This is just the beginning of an amazing friendship between sisters - at this age it is day to day with getting along and playing but I hope will always be BFF! Paige 7 and Hayley 5-1/2.

Riley cooking.

Mickey Mouse face...great job!


Okay - so I am making an effort to teach my kids to cook. Yesterday Riley made brownies and he accidentally put 1 cup of oil instead of 1/2 cup so we added another mix and made two pans of brownies. This morning Riley made pancakes and he did awesome! He made the mix, cooked the pancakes and then cleaned up his mix. Great job Riley!

Day at the lake

Before we got hot and wet, all smiles!

Paige, Casey and Riley

Paige, Casey, Hayley and Andrew on the tube.

All the kids!

Saturday we went to Roosevelt Lake for the day with Papa Bob and Grandma Suzanne and all the kids. Everybody had so much fun. The kids tubed and swam all day. We ate lunch at the marina and got yummy ice cream. Roosevelt water level has totally risen and the lake is huge.

Morning love...

Sadie is so fun in the morning...she is smiley, laughing and so fun! All the kids love to hold her, actually the fight over who gets to hold her. We have to have a time limit on how long each person gets to hold her...everybody loves you Sadie!

Mom in the kitchen

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a disaster in the kitchen...I forget ingredients, cook things to long and can think of nothing worse than going grocery shopping. This afternoon I was making a cake (actually the second one for the day, because I left the first one in to long you can guess what happened to it :-)). The timer went off for this second cake and I went to pull it out and Paige came out of her room and asked who was in time out ( I typically use my oven timer for time out)? Is this funny or sad....Paige only knows the timer for time out and not for cooking things.

I started to laugh but was kind of sad too...it is great how brutally honest our kids are, it reminded me that I need to be teaching my kids everything I can and not just the things I know how to do or enjoy doing, everything I can.

Musical Theater!

Makenzie, Kaelie and Paige after the show!


Paige did summer workshop with Mrs. Jeenie again this summer. She absolutely loved it! I am amazed how much they are able to learn in just two short weeks. They went from 11:30-3 every day. She gave them each their own CD to practice 20 songs...the theme this summer was Disney. They had a different theme each day of the two weeks relating to Disney like PJ day, Disney shirt day, rock star day, etc. She was playing the songs in the car, in her room and any where else she could get some practice in for the last two weeks. The show was amazing! She had a speaking part and a singing part...and it was hysterical to hear my little Paiger get up and sing by herself in a microphone on a stage. Her singing part was from a Hannah Montana song called Best of Both Worlds, and she did it perfectly!..."Who was thought a girl like me would double as a superstar". I absolutely loved it, I was cheering and laughing. After the show in the car I was telling her how great she did and proud of her I was and her comment to me was "I could hear you yelling my name, I was so embarrassed mom". What are moms for if not for little embarrassment now and again :-).


All the girls in there PJ's


Backstage playing games to keep busy until show time.



This was the amazing solo...You are awsome Paiger!

Sadie's 4 months old!

I took Sader bee to the doctor today for her 4 month well check. She is finally growing...its kind of sad but its so fun too! She weighs 12 pounds 4 ounces and she was 25 inches tall. She grew 3 inches since her last visit but only gained 1 pounds....maybe she is going to be tall and skinny :-). She had to get five vaccinations...4 shots and 1 orally. It didnt look like it tasted too yummy. She has rolled over 3 times but we have never seen her....sneaky little girl, all three times I have gone to get her at of her bed and is has flipped onto her belly. She is still wearing size 1 diapers (I think Riley only wore size 1 until he was 2 months old :-)). She is so cute...and she is starting to baby talk, all the kids love it!

She loves to take baths, too!

Kenny Chesney

Ryan and I went to Kenny Chesney on Saturday night....it was so fun! It was at Cardinals stadium in Glendale....huge, there were so many people there. Keith Urban opened up for him and he was great! We had a great time. The girls got to go to Grandma Patsy's and Tatas for the afternoon and they had so much. Riley was at scout camp and he had a great time as well.

Riley's nail phobia.

Okay - When Riley is a young man and has his own family and has a child who doesn't want to do something, hopefully he will be able to look back at this scrapbook and appreciate this story. Riley hates to trim his fingernails...actually hate is putting it mildly. Today, I finally broke down and told him he would not leave the house or do anything until he trimmed his nails...I have been asking him to do it for 4 or 5 days now and he just doesn't care, he does not want to do it. He said, "they are my nails and your are not the boss of them, I am and I don't want to trim them". His other argument for not wanting to trim them was that if he trims them he wont be able to grip things as good anymore. Can't wait to tell his first girl friend that :-).