Summer Summary

I've been so bad about taking Pictures this summer. But a lot has happened. Chris and I got to go on a cruise in June, Kylie turned 7, Reagan turned 5, Kinsey potty trained, and Chris is teaching next year, oh and we're having a boy we found out! Just some fun summer stuff, like movies, beach, Go Karts, water park, mall, friends, pool, girls camp, and youth conference a bit, temple, Library, Face Painting, Mascot Games, shooting, camp fires, ice skating, bowling, VISIT FROM HOLLYWOOD, etc.
Kinsey was wanting to learn to swim until I found her jacket I had stored away and now she realizes she can be so much more independent (which is probably her most fav. thing!) She did get stitches. Mom calls me when we're helping at Youth Conference and tells me not to panic but they are going to the hospital, Kinsey needs stitches. So calmly we go but it took 45 min to get there, luckily we got there before she went back. She did GREAT! enjoyed time with just mom and dad, but not getting
the stitches when she saw them. She even was singing her favorite song, Jingle Bells, while fighting the tears as they were on the 3rd stitch and Adams the nurse joined in. Not a fun experience and she got 5 of them! But she didn't bother them at all and was so wonderful.
Kylie has ants in her pants and is always wanting to play with a friend or go buy something with her money she earned or found or got for her birthday. But she's really good about getting her chores and homework done before she goes because she really wants to go! Also really good at Hoola Hooping. She's won the last 4 contests she's been in, and catching Lizards is alos a new passion. We're getting her signed up for the swim team when school starts! M W F for that. She's excited to find out who else is in her class for 2nd grade.
Reagan is so spacey sometimes it's just too cute. Not spacey like dumb, just off in her own happy world. She's so happy and sings all the time and is just so sweet and precious. She does get emotional and can get pretty upset, but we're working on being 'Calm and Kind.' She shared her birthday presents with her sister so well and most everything else for that matter. She has gotten her confidence in the pool back -Yeah!- She's excited to have the same K teacher as Kylie did and go to school with mom. She has a harder time concentrating than Kylie does and hasn't learned as many sight words as I would have liked but is getting her numbers down.
Kinsey, is potty trained, which I already posted about, but talks so well and has a blast with her sisters. She loves Barney and Dora and getting treats for going on the potty. Her friends Ella and Jack Jack from church she talks about all the time! She loves wearing princess dresses and her minnie shoes she got for going potty so much. Sweet mama's girl, and will miss me so when I go back to work this school year, but at least it's still part-time!
Chris, finishes his old job this wed! And since he's staying in town for work, back at the Middle school teaching Spanish, and the Jetta is on it's last leg being 10 years old and having 185k miles on it, we opted for a smaller motorcycle payment instead of a car payment. We'll have my mom's car for a back up, but he's super excited about it and so are the girls, especially Kylie and Kinsey, they LOVE it!
Me- feeling big, but that's expected having only 11 weeks left in my pregnancy, and eating treats everyday, so most of it's my fault. Can't wait to do Weight Watchers again and setting goals. Yeah, I know I could have done that during my pregnancy, but I'm too far gone now LOL! Love that summer dresses are now coming on sale cause that's my school wardrobe :0) I don't mind Kinsey's pool jacket at all because she is independent and easier at the pool and park, and I get to swim some laps to counter those cookies. But would like her to swim on her own too for safety reasons. Looking forward to going to the last horrah for the summer and heading to Weekie Watchi Springs for the mermaid show and small water park.
Ok, that's us in a Summer Summary! Hope you had a blast and enjoyed your family :0)

Happy 5th Birthday Reagan!

It was all about the Donuts for this girl! She LOVES Donuts. That's what she asks for when we go shopping and only eats the icing off the cakes, so got an idea from another friend who did it for her son, and we had a donut hole tower! She asked if Santa could come to her party and bring presents but the real Santa not someone in a suit. I suggested that he give the gift bags as the presents, but that was shot down. So we had an Egg hunt instead. :0) We were supposed to have a pool party but with the storms we had it at our house instead. We were able to tidy up in time cause it wasn't too bad and most everyone made it. YEAH!
+ Thanks for coming out. It meant a lot to her :0) She is into dancing, singing, singing, MAKEUP, dancing, being loud, dressing up, and so on. Just ask our neighbors, they hear her and even new Just what to get her for her birthday! Cause she has had a make over shop on the front porch most of this week. But when she started painting her nails in the car we put our feet down about that! We also went to the Polynesian and rode the little boats there. She had won tickets with Chris when we visited some friends there and they played a Disney trivia game. Good times! HAPPY BIRTHDAY REAGAN! ps Kinsey is potty trained! (sorry pictures aren't in order)

Happy Birthday Kylie!

Kylie turned 7 this month. Next month is Reagan's 5th Birthday. My how time flies! Kylie is a FABULOUS reader. She is a tom boy and Loves to wear the same 3 pairs of shorts over and over again. She got a new bike for her birthday that is just slightly too big but she has learned to manage just fine! She is a great big sister, especially to Kinsey, still haven't figured out why is comes and goes with Reagan though. She enjoys hanging with her friends and playing on the computer. Her favorite color is light blue and her favorite singer is Taylor Swift. We all love Taylor Swift so we made a little trip to Ft. Lauderdale to check out her concert for Kylie and Reagan's birthday presents! We happened to be gone, again, for Kylie's birthday this year so we took her out to dinner with a couple of friends and ....Got her EARS Pierced the Wednesday before. I'd say she had a very exciting birthday. Love you Kylie!

What a Week-end!

Monday we went to Dwight Howard's Picnic for Memorial Day after we went to the pool party here in Harmony. Tues. Chris and I both had productive meeting at the church for the youth programs we're blessed to be part of. Then Reagan had a Water Day with her class on Wed. that we got to go to. That night we all went swimming and then Chris and I went on a date. Thursday was Kylie's fun water day that I got to go to too with my class! Friday I got a Job part-time again at Harmony after a great Father's Day Celebration with my class! Teaching 2nd grade this time :0) Then Friday night Chris got a really good deal for tickets in Ft. Lauderdale for the girls birthday. To TAYLOR SWIFT! Their first concert! What a blast! Gram was so kind to watch Kinsey, who I took to the Dr. on Sat for her ear infections, poor thing. She's acting like everything is fine though, only difference is a fever. What an AWESOME Kid! Then Sat. night we got free tickets to the Silver Spurs Rodeo! Wow. We actually found time to pick up the house a bunch. Today I got to teach Sharing Time for the kids at church and then a yummy potluck. I haven't made dinner all week! Crazy! Reagan has her graduation celebration in the am so I'm excited to see that and go to my first Dr. appt. in my 20th week of this pregnancy. I'll get scheduled for my ultrasound then. So exciting. Gotta go get ready for the last week of school! Then potty training, birthday celebration, and CRUISE coming up.

Gator for Dinner?

Yeah, so I hear the dog barking and see she's facing the neighbors yard, when no one is over there. Thinking a cat is out there I say to her "Oh Zoe is there a cat out there again?" I look toward the neighbors deck and don't see anything then about one foot under Zoe's nose my eyes turn to... Yep, the Gator! Of course it goes under the deck right before the neighbors come out. I show them the pic. I took for proof. Some nice men who work with the neighborhood came and got it out. The Conservation center said to just let it move on. It probably would have skimmed on by unnoticed if Zoe hadn't have been out there. But better her then the kids!

Spring Break!

So glad that the rains came this week and not last, during our Spring Break. So sad Chris couldn't join us. :0( I did have a WONDERFUL time with the girls and hardly spent any money. Kept the house clean because we were out so much and started off on Monday with a heavy cleaning day, First Thing First. Then off for Ice Cream and bathing suit shopping, for my mom and Kinsey only. Forgot to bring my camera there with us, but this place, which I had been hearing about, Literally Makes the ice cream right in front of you and you can even wave the fog from the Liquid Nitro. away. We got two to share between the 5 of us and didn't finish it all. Tuesday it was off to The Magic Kingdom, for our next to last time there. The girls were able to trade in their broken parasels for new ones. They had saved money and used Christmas money to each buy one, but they broke before we even left the park. So glad Virginia remembered us and gave them new ones. Wed. we went to the movies, nothing great, Rango, had to look it up I had forgotten, with a friend of theirs and then the beach which was FABULOUS! They stocked up on shells too. My mom met us there. Then Thursday we hit the water park! And Birthday dinner for Chris and my Mom and Benihana's. Yum. Kinsey had a fever but with the power of the priesthood and some peroxide in the ear's, she's doing GREAT! Pool Party in the hood on Fri and naps for Kinsey and chill time for Kylie and Reagan. We all got to hit a few golf balls with Chris that evening.
The girls did so well that week. Kylie started to get a little greedy, but she got over it quick thank goodness. Sat. We went to Studios at Disney with Chris then a b-day party for Kylie's friend from school, and then Chris and I got a Date! Dinner and a Predators game. They played well. And sharing time went well on Sunday after a wonderful Sacrament meeting. All in all GREAT Week. But again, wish Chris could have been there Monday through Friday. I'm extremely grateful for my job which allowed me to have that opportunity and the support Chris gives me.

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So this really isn't working out how I thought. The pictures are not posting in the order I'm uploading and describing so hopefully you can make sense of my descritions. Also it only shows the most recent post so go back to the older posts to see the other 2 I did tonight. I'll post more later this week.
In this post we have John Kruk, Frank Thomas, Urban Meyer, Dick Vitale and the girls with Stuff the magic mascot.

More ESPN photos

Teddy Bruschi former Patriot stud
Me and Dr J. Yes I was snapping the pic myself so it didn't really work out so great.
Tebow as he's signing Kylie's poster and I'm trying to get my hat to him.
The girls standing next to a Dwight Howard cut out
Kylie hooping it up.