Happy Birthday Bryce!

Happy 9th Birthday Bryce William!

It's hard to believe he is 9 already.

I remember sitting on the couch and crying

thinking "I'm never going to have this baby."

He was a week over due and the hospital

was to full to call me in to be induced.

They did finally call and we got our Baby Boy!

Bryce is our one and only son...

...a great brother to his three sisters...

...loves to play baseball...

...a great student...

...kind and caring...

...loud and 100% all boy...

Happy Birthday Bryce!

We love you ♥

In Memory...

Big Girl Bed Part 2

It's been a week now that Aubrey has been in her toddler bed.

She is doing great! She cried the first couple of nights

and came out of the room a couple of times, but now

I can just lay her down. I check on her every night before

I go to bed to make sure she is still in her bed. A few

nights she's been asleep on the floor, so I've put her

back in her bed only to find her on the floor again in

the morning. I'm sure she'll stay in her bed someday.

She has been the easiest one to move into a toddler bed.

I'm so glad for that. Now I have to decide when to move

Ally out of Ashley's room into the same room with Aubrey.

I now this won't be easy because Ally won't go to bed

without Ashley in the room. If Ashley isn't home she'll

cry for an hour " I want my Ashley! " I think I'll wait for

Fall Break in October so Ashley can still get some sleep for school.

Happy Tuesday ☺

Big Girl Bed!

Yesterday we moved Aubrey out of our room and her crib.

We put the toddler bed together and set it up in what will be

Ally and Aubrey's room. We put her in it last night ready for

the many trips of putting her back in her new bed, because

we have done this with three others and know the drill.

Well, much to our surprise she didn't come out once.

We can only hope for the same tonight.

But this morning when Guy went in to check
on her this is how he found her.

They have all done this but not the first night.

I'm just glad she didn't wake up and couldn't get out.

We've had that happen with the others.

I will keep you posted on her moving to her big girl bed.

Happy Monday ☺

Lunch with Papa!

Today we went and had lunch with my dad.

He works at Honeywell and they have a pond with ducks.

He brought out some popcorn so Ally could feed the ducks.

She wasn't happy that they would leave

because she wanted to feed them.

She was determined to catch
them and give them some popcorn.

Here she is chasing them with some popcorn in her hand.
I think she wanted to give them the popcorn.
We kept telling her that she couldn't walk up to them.
She didn't care she was on a mission.

Aubrey enjoyed watching
Ally chase the ducks.

Aubrey liked the ducks from a far.

It was a fun time, still a little Hot but it was nice.
I think they had a good time,and I know
Papa loved spending some time with them.

Happy Wednesday☺

Sweet Girls!

These two have been so different since Ashley and Bryce went back to school. They are playing more with each other and getting along. I took these pictures of them the first day Ashley and Bryce went back to school. I just haven't had time to blog.

Ally comes out saying something about Aubrey in her bed.
I didn't understand much of it, then she says "come on mama!"
I went in the room to see what she was talking about.
She got in the bed and asked me to cover them up.
Then they both started saying "Ni-Night" over and over.
I had to run for my camera quick
before they didn't think it was fun anymore.

Then it was time so sing to me.

I love them so much and days like this.
It makes their bad days a little easier.

Happy Tuesday☺

It's that time of year again...

Back to School!
Today is the first day of school.
Ashley is starting 5th grade and Bryce 3rd.

This means the house will be a little quieter
during the day but the evenings will be filled with
Math, Reading,

Practice Spelling Test,

Dance Classes and so on.

I guess "Summer Vacation" is over
for Mom and Dad too!

Happy Monday☺

Money, Money, Money!

So Ashley and Bryce both want a laptop.
We keep telling them NO! that
they can use the computer we have.
Well now Bryce has it in his head
that he will save his money and buy one.
We told him OK but they aren't cheap.
This is how we found him Saturday afternoon.

I think he was counting his money and fell asleep.
He was looking at the sale ads Sunday morning
and saw that Target has one for $300.
Now he wants us to buy the laptop and
he will pay us back as he gets money.
We had to tell him that wasn't going to
happen either.I'll let you know if he ever
gets close to saving enough money or if
he decides he would rather have more Legos.

Happy Tuesday☺

Our 4th of July

We had family over for swimming and a Bar-B.Q.
My mom, step-dad and sister came down
from Las Vegas and stayed for a few days.
It was nice to visit with them for longer than a day and a half.
Here are a few pictures from our 4th....

All 4 together which was almost impossible to get.

We took pictures of each one in front of the tree
and used a towel as a backdrop.
But as you can tell two looked better by the tree
and two looked better with the towel.

This is how she was acting the whole time.
No big surprise, she's a 2 year old.

Then it was time for the pool...
I took all of these before everyone got here for the party.
I didn't get any during the party there was to much going on.

Heather & Ashley

Ashley, Heather & Ally

Ally & Heather

Ally relaxing on the raft.

Bryce going after Ashley.

Ally singing to us. I think she will be the next "American Idol"

Aubrey standing on the first step by herself.
My favorite picture of the whole day.

She is getting better about getting in the pool,
but she still doesn't like it that much.
Maybe by the end of the summer she will like it more.

After the party we went to my Grandparents
house in Apache Junction to watch fireworks.
They live on the south side of the US60 and
Apache Junction High School is on the north side.
They set the fireworks off at the high school, so
we get our chairs and sit in the street and watch the show.
We have done this for 3 years now.
It's great we don't have to wait in the heat all day to watch fireworks.

Happy Tuesday ☺

7-4-2008