Happy Birthday Alexis

Alexis turned 13 this year.  I have a teen...... so crazy.  She talked me into letting her have a friend party this year.  She was great to help get the house clean and get it all ready.  

I wasn't sure how many kids to plan on having but I think there was 23 girls that showed up for the party.  Then Elizabeth had 2 friends and Brytlee had a friend and Adison had a friend.   There was a lot of kids....

I made a huge pot of taco soup for the party and I ended up not having enough for everyone.  I was so shocked that we had that many kids at our house.  I had to make five of them hot dogs and get them a few other things to eat..... I felt so bad. 

It was really nice to get to know Alexis's friends and I was impressed with a lot of them.  She has such a sweet group of friends and they were all so nice and fun to have over.   It was funny while they were on the tramp doing tricks I went out and showed them the tick tock and they all couldn't believe I could do it.  "for my age...."  Ryan went out and set up a target and let them all shoot the bb gun and took score and they all just played and ran around.  It was a great day outside and the weather was perfect.  We were so nervous about it raining sense it had rained the whole month of may.  

Alexis had her real birthday on Sunday this year and so we made her a yummy dinner and some of her favorite things.  She had prime rib, spinach salad, with rice.  Then a cheesecake.  

Alexis has been asking me to cut her hair all school year.  I loved her long hair and it was so dang pretty.  But she wouldn't stop asking and wanted it so bad that I gave in.  It is still cute and looks very healthy.  

cute kids.

Adison loves to have her pictures taken.  She is so fun and always comes up with ideas on how she wants her pictures done.  

Max is at a stage that he doesn't really like having his picture taken and tries to fall and hide. 

this little boy sure knows how to melt my heart.  

Max loves to go down the slide so we put one on the stairs thinking he would do it all day long, but instead he will only do it if you are with him.  

We had a crazy wind storm that blew down trees, and killed a family in a boat at bear lake.  It was so fast and such hard wind.  We didn't have anything bad happen but it did knock the satellite off the roof.  

Last weeks of school

Elizabeth had to do a big oral book report for one of her projects at school.  She worked so hard on it and did a slideshow for it.  She was so good about getting it done as soon as she found out about it and did all of it all by herself.   She did a great job and got a A.

Brytlee had a talent show for her end of the year program.  She did jump rope and did it along with music.  She was so excited all week long for it.  They did the cutest songs and poems and just had a great program.  Brytlee loved her teacher so much this year and did so great in all she did at school.  She Is such a smart little girl 

Grandpa and Grandma are always so good to come and support the kids.  (Even when I told them it was at 2.... when it was really at 12.  Ooops.  )

Brytlee loved playing with Landon at school and always asked if he could come and play.  He is a cute little boy and they play together so cute.  

Alexis had her end of the year concert and she did great.  We have not had a ton of time to practice with all the sports she is doing and it has been hard, but I was so impressed with how well she did.  We were thinking about not doing it next year, but after I saw how good she was doing and how great the group sounded I told her she needed to keep it up.  

back to first of May

I am so behind on my pictures and what has been going on in our family.   I am going to try and catch up a little on what we have been doing.  We have been so busy that it is hard to think of all that we have been doing.  A lot of it has been just yard/garden work.  It is crazy how much work it takes to keep up a house.  

Max loves to be outside.  He is a big helper and is never clean about it.  He is such a boy and loves to get his hands dirty.  

And his face dirty also,.  

Max is at the stage that he is into everything.  He loves to get into the flour and throw it on the floor and then rub it in his hair and all over the place.  He also loves to get into the spices and shake them out onto the floor.  

Max is such an outside kid.  He can open doors and loves to sneak out as soon as someone unlocks the doors.  

Elizabeth was at Basketball camp and came down on her big toe funny and hurt it really bad.  She had a softball tournament that next weekend and so we didn't want her to hurt it worse.  We borrowed a boot from our friends the Marlows hoping it would help it heal.  

These kids are so sweet.  The really do love each other and it is so great to see the moments when you can see it.  

Max is growing up way to fast and it is making all of us so sad, but at the same time he is just getting so funny, and learning to play new things.  He brings our family so much joy!