My little helper

Went to the Grocery store the other night. Went to the back of the house to put stuff away and found Mia doing this. My sweet little helper.

Sweet Family Friends!

God has blessed us with the sweetest friends here at our church. The Worthington family is one of those sweet families. We got in a habit of visiting our favorite snow cone place at the same time. So, we decided to make it a regular thing. We would start our nights getting snow cones, then going to their house or ours for dinner, dessert and Mexican dominoes. It doesn't get any funner than that people! We have a blast! Especially when I am winning! These pictures are from one night we went to their house for dinner.

Ms. Lisa sharing her snow cone with Mia

Ryan and Eli

Sweet Raylen

Sweet Katie (aren't these girls beautiful?)

Mia loving on Daisy, their dog

Some more love for Daisy

Eli and Mr. Earl swimming

Mia Beth all ready to do some major floating!

And here is a picture of Mia on the pot (literally).

I love this picture!

Thank you guys for all of the fun nights. Can't wait until we can all get together again!

We love you guys!

More Birthday Fun!

Yes, my birthday is in August and I am just now posting these pictures. We just stay so busy that I hardly have time to post. So, here are some more pictures of my Birthday weekend! First, on the morning of my Birthday, the kids and I went over to my sweet friend Kelli's house for lunch and some water fun. My friend Wendy and her kiddos came too. I was feeling really down that day. I have decided that I do not like birthdays anymore (well, mine, that is). But Wendy adn Kelli made it such a fun day! We had a fun day playing outside on the huge water slide. And yes, I did say "We". I just did not include the pictures of us girls going down. But it sure was fun. Even despite all the bruises. Thank you girls for making my birthday so special!

Eli

Miss Bo

Mia going down the baby slide

Maddy going down the slide

Lukey

Then that evening, some sweet friends of ours, Frank and Mabel, took us out to dinner for my birthday! It was a fun night visiting with them. They even got me a cake! Thanks you guys for making my night so special!

Frank and Mabel

And all their kiddos minus one

Diego, Austin, Alicia, and Julisa (Marina was not there)

I did post pictures of my kids too, but I accidentally deleted them and my computer will not let me post them. Ahhhh! Anyways, it was a fun birthday! Thanks guys!

Birthday weekend

For my 31st Birthday we went to the lake to spend time with our families. We were also celebrating my Mom's birthday and my niece Cait's birthday. It was so much fun, like always!

I LOVE cookie cake! My parents get me one every year!

GiGi opening her gifts!

Cait opening her gifts!

This is the cheerleading outfit we gave her.

She is really into high school musical right now!

Here is her ballerina cake! We had to take her legs off because the cake was too short!

So we had to stick them back in just for fun!

Here was many of the huge bucks we saw that weekend!

We finished of the weekend with one last boat ride.

Poppa

For some reason the boat always puts everyone to sleep!

Even Benjamin fell asleep

Thanks Mom and Dad and Dick and Sue for a fun weekend!!!!!

Time with Friends and Cousins

Ryan & I got so stay with my niece and nephew one day while they were visiting my parents. My friend Melissa let her little boy Hudson come over and play also. It was a fun day. Hudson even brought his dog Trooper. He was very entertaining!

Here are all the kiddos in the tent playing

Mia and Hudson

Cait holding the kitty that she named "Cuddles"

Trooper was afraid of the thunder and decided to sit with Hudson

It was a fun day!!!

Friday Funny

So tonight I am in a Home Goods store with Eli and Mia. They are both sitting in the basket playing while we wait in line to check out. A woman walks by and Eli points and says "Mommy, doesn't that woman look scary?". So, I immediately turn red and say "We do not say things like that. We do not say ugly things about people.". Immediately another woman walks by me on the other side and Mia says "Mommy, that lady is scary too!" So now I am really embarrassed and getting on to both of them. A few minutes pass and I happen to look over my left shoulder. There stands a huge life size witch! I immediately realize that Eli was pointing at that, not the woman passing by. So, I had to look over my other shoulder to see if the same happened with Mia. And sure enough, there was another witch. I died laughing. My kids just stared at me like I was crazy. I asked them both if that is what they were pointing at and they said "Yes Mommy". I felt SOOOOOO bad. We laughed about it for the rest of the night. Motherhood. I think it is making me a little crazy! But it sure is fun!

Summer Swim Lessons

This summer we took swim lessons with our good friends Madison and Luke. Madison was in Eli's class and Luke was in Mia's. Eli had a blast! He was swimming like a little fish. Mia on the other hand did not like it at all. She cried most of the time. But she did become an expert floater. As long as she did not have to put her face in the water she was fine! Here are some pictures of the lessons.

Luke and Ms. Kelli

Madison and Eli

Eli practicing his floating

Mommy and Mia

Miss Mia Beth