Merry Maids

Lauren's Photo Shoot

One evening last week while the kids were getting ready for bed I heard Hadley & Lauren playing & giggling for the longest time. I found these pictures on my camera and realized how they were occupying themselves . . .

First Day Of School - 2011

The day before school started Gma Tigger & A.Molly came out to make the day extra special. Vincent had Kindergarten orientation and the kids went to see a movie while others napped. After dinner we went to the school to check the class listings. How fun to all do it together, come home for back-to-school cake & get blessings from Daddy. Morning time! (Even Gentry woke early - unlike the rest of the summer :(
To say Vincent loves Kindergarten is an understatement. He was so excited and was all about wearing collared shirts, wondering when they're going to get homework & best of all, sitting next to his friend Charlotte, here & in primary - they are great buddies.

End of Summer

Thanks to Chris' appendicitis we got a couple fun family days the last week of summer. We went to the beach, the movies, fishing at the trout ponds and took in a Quakes baseball game.

Each of the kids got to catch one trout. Gma & A.Molly met us up there in Mt.Baldy. We went back to their house for a BBQ & Chris tried cooking two trout.

Happy 2nd Birthday Gentry!

Guess who's 2?

Gentry had a rather cranky morning but her siblings were excited to shower her with gifts so that helped. Fun day planned: go to church, go to Upland to celebrate Gentry & Mom's b-day, hang out and have fun. Chris had other ideas on how to celebrate. This guy is so sentimental that he decided to commemorate my two-year anniversary of having Gentry by c-section by having an abdominal surgery of his own at the same hospital and everything! He was only off by about two hours but he didn't bring home a baby as a souvenir . . .

p.s. It was an appendicitis and he is doing fine.

Happy 7th Birthday Hadley!

I lost track of how many times we actually celebrated Hadley's birthday this year with different groups of our family. The Kings were in town a week before her actual birthday so we had a pool party with them. This is the picture of A.Molly and Hadley getting a huge display board of clothes for Barbie! 

Another celebration of all August birthdays (in attendance). U.Brookie, Chris, Hadley & Gentry. And it wouldn't be a party without a guy wearing a yellow wig - Ethan was all over that.
And then, Hadley's actual birthday morning. Favorite item has been the Unicorn Pillow Pet that I find Lauren sleeping on every morning.

Table For One