Good gracious I have a lot of catching up to do. Elliott has been asking me for the last week when I'm going to update the blog. We have been so busy around here! Pretty much every spare minute I've had on the computer has gone toward working on my NEW photography website. I'm so excited! It's a lot more professional than the one I'm using now. I'm almost done putting it together, it goes "live" whatever that means hopefully this week. That is, if its not too complicated to get onto my domain. I know all kinds of geeky computer things after getting this thing done. It is awesome though and I can't wait until I can share it!
So here we go- we went to the lake with our neighbors - we had so much fun being out on their boat. Berkley did surprisingly well for someone that basically hates the water. I bribed her with a barbie doll to get in with me. First she had to get a contract ironed out about where it would be from (Target) and what kind it would be (a mermaid). Lucky for her we ran out of time before I could force her to take a ride on the tube!
All the kids on the front of the boat. Such a cute sight from the water!
We borrowed a kids wake board from one of their friends at the lake- both the neighbor girls were able to get up! Elliott was excited to try it too- but got a little nervous way out behind the boat waiting to go. I understand- no matter how many times I have skied that is always the moment that I wonder what I've done. I tried the wake board too- it was so fun!
So much fun on the tube- half of them were saying they wanted to go faster and the other half were saying slower. We just ignored them all and did what we wanted ;)
Taking a break for Popsicles. I think I'd like to build a store on the lake- it is basically legalized robbery with what they charge for stuff.
P Money with his teething necklace on. He looks like a surfer dude- when you can see it underneath his chins.
Elliott showing off some of her crazy moves
I can never get enough of these legs. He looks so big with his shoes on!
I got a new bean bag for newborn pics- Patton was eager to try it out. He was showing off some of his modeling faces for me.
Then Elliott had to get involved- he wasn't very happy with her.
That's better- all about the baby!
The girls got the slip n slide out to test it out before the big birthday bash
P and Chris hanging out. I think he was petting Chris's face, but I distracted him trying to get a pic.
Patton loves popsicles. This probably isn't the best picture to show that- I think he'd just finished screaming because someone had taken it from him, you can tell by the red rimmed eyes and desperate look.
This is my whole side of the family- plus my cousin from Michigan and her boyfriend. They are working at a camp in TX and they came to visit us. We had a lot of fun!
Strawberry shortcake nights always end up with a little of this
E is dangerous- she knows how to work the can now so you have to keep an eye on her!
Dr Berkley. She has flown through an entire box of princess band aids within 3 days. She plays Dr in the closet and gives the babies shots- then they get band aids put on their eyes for some reason that is still unclear to me.
EBop turned 6 this past Wednesday! She was so excited (Patton wasn't). She even let Berkley unwrap the present that she had gotten her.
Our Happy Birthday breakfast cupcake.
She got her very own Nook Color. We realize this is very spoiled. Very. In our defense- this kid reads ALL the time. In fact, it came loaded with a Junie B book and she read the whole thing that morning. In addition to being able to read books on it, she can email (she updates Chris hourly on our whereabouts), she can play games and listen to music- which means she can leave her sticky fingers off our cell phones! We showed the nook to her a few weeks ago at the mall to see what she thought and she has talked of little else ever since. I called her our little walking talking nook commercial. It was so cute that she was so excited. We tried to throw her off the trail by telling her we weren't sure if she could get it and putting it in a huge box loaded down with old books so it was heavy. She never lost hope though. She even got some gift cards from her birthday party to load up on books!
PJ looking like a little man
Eating his baby mum mum. He is DYING for table food. He watches me eat and starts mimicking the chewing motion.
Playing in the sprinklers at our neighbors house. We are on our 30th straight day of over 100 degree temps down here. We are on our way to having the hottest summer in TX history- I think we have to get to 42 days or something close. I say lets do it.
Patton is now sporting a Mohawk. We think he looks super cool.
So does the neighbors dog
I'm telling you I can't get enough of these legs. He looks like the marshmellow man from Ghost busters.
Whew! If you made to the end you have a lot to look forward to next time I post- we had a fantastic party on Saturday for our favorite 6 year old!
