Sophie's Summer

Sophie's Summer pictures from my iphone! Several of these pictures have funny stories to them from our funny child who keeps us laughing!!

The Spring started with Sophie giving herself the mullet haircut. Here is a shot of her posing for a picture when I was trying to learn how to fix her hair when it was SO short!

This was a picture from our family Beach trip in May. We were not even out of Benton yet and Sophie had her life jacket on and was READY to go swimming. She rode most of the way there with her life jacket on or close by:)

This shot was from the Beach trip too where she helped me finish off my Snickers apple from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory-yumm!!

Fell asleep on her Daddy after swimming at the Beach and shopping-she had literally fallen asleep on his lap in the middle of Dinner and never woke back up!

Bed Head! When she goes through my pictures on my phone (almost daily) she asks me "Why is Sophie mad?" when she looks at this one-it's funny!

We have had a lot of watermelon this Summer!

This is how she insisted on going up to the pool one day this Summer-in last years cover up and rain boots. There were a few laughs at the pool on this day and my response was "I have to pick my battles with her-and this one was not worth fighting!

A trip to the Library to start the Summer Reading Program-she loved getting to do this like her big sister! She is so excited about starting 3 year old Preschool this year!!

Trying to go off the diving board at Longhills-she didn't quite make it off but she tried several times!

Fast asleep-I love my sleeping babies!

This pic was from the long drive home from the Girls Beach trip in July. She would get mad and cover up with a Beach hat so we couldn't see her (what is it about kids that think we cant see or hear them when they hide there eyes-too funny!) She rode home for about an hour with her head and faced covered with the hat!

This picture is SO Sophie- most mornings she comes in my room after she wakes up FULLY dressed! She thought that she needed knee socks on, this little girl has quite the personality!
I love that I have a camera phone and can capture all of these funny memories with our silly little girl-there are many more not included too!

Ella Summer

Here are some pictures of Ella that I took with my iphone this Summer. In the Spring I finally upgraded to an iphone with a working camera. So I've been using that camera a lot more since I always have it with me.

Outlet shopping during our May Beach trip. She loves to shop with me (when we actually get a chance to go) this already scares Tadd!

The Bird on her shoulder at the beach:)

Jumping off the board at Longhills

A trip to the Library for the Summer reading Program

Back to the Beach with the Big Blue slide that she loved!

Being buried in the sand like a Mermaid on the Girls Beach Trip

Summer short haircut (with her Birthday feathers still in her hair!)

Posing for pics

Such a little poser

Another big event for Ella this Summer was losing her first tooth! It was really exciting for her and the tooth fairy came and brought her $3, she is such a big girl now:)

Ella went to Super Kids at Church on Thursdays 5 times this Summer and had fun doing fun activities with kids her age. (Her friend Brooks rode with us one day.)

School supply shopping with me at Target! I gave in and let her get a Justin Beiber folder since I made her get the cuter back pack instead of a Justin Beiber one. She is all set for school and I can't believe she will be in 1st grade soon!! I text Tadd this pic and told him she is a first grader going on 16 and that we were in trouble-ha! She also picked out a lot of purple things with sparkles, which I know my Mom is up in Heaven laughing about-she always told me those were my favorites! Ella seems to be my mini-me at times. I have loved having her home with us all Summer and I'm not ready for her to go back to school yet:( or the early mornings!!

If anyone is still reading this and knows how to upload iphone pics to a blog please let me know! I had to email them all to me individually to put them on the blog-ha!

Black and Whites

Here are some MORE pictures of us all dressed up in our black and whites on our family Beach Trip! (I am going to see Gabby this week because she has been sick and she asked me to bring her some pictures from our trip so I ordered some of these that my cousin sent me!) I hope they help her to feel a little better! I thought they turned out pretty cute in Black and White!! We had a fun time on our trip and I miss the Beach looking back at these pictures!

That one didn't upload too well-hope it printed better

Cinderella, Cinderella

Last Sunday Gram and I took the kids to see our little local play, Cinderella. Gabby saw an article in the Democrat about the play and sent it to me to let me know about it-she thought the girls would really like it. It was cute and the girls had fun dressing up in their Cinderella dresses (although they didn't stay on for the whole play!) The girls liked it and were pretty good for the long play, including 2 intermissions! I was glad Gram went to help me with all 3 of them:) Here are a few pictures Tadd took right before we went...

I joked that Seth needed a crown or something:) He will have plenty of guy things like ballgames to go to with Tadd later but until he complains he's stuck with some girlie things for a while!

Little Cinderella trying to jump out of her carseat!!

Seth-8 Months

I say it every month but I cannot believe that my baby boy is already 8 months old! It is going by way to fast!! He is so sweet and happy and we are having a fun Summer with both of his big sisters home every day!

*He weighs 20.8 pounds and continues to be a good eater and a growing boy.
*He nurses 5 times a day and gets solids twice a day usually at 5 and 8.
*He doesn't have any teeth yet (normal for my kids) but he likes to eat crackers, cheerios, and the occasional french fry!
*He sits up all the time now and I recently put his swing and bouncey seat upstairs which of course made me sad that one more baby stage was over already.

*He loves the water and has enjoyed the pools and the Beach this Summer!
*He's a great sleeper still and naps 2-3 times a day and sleeps all night in his bed.
*He loves to pull hair and gets a hold of mine or his sisters hair daily.

*He laughs all the time and has the cutest little gut giggle.
*He is starting to scoot around to reach a toy when he is sitting up.
*He babbles a lot and loves to say da da!!

He doesn't really want to crawl or stand up for now which is fine with me! He does have a lot of weight to hold up:) He had a little ear infection this month for the first time but it didn't last too long!

We stood him up next to his ottoman/glider and he quickly fell down after a few shots!

He is quite the little Momma's boy and I love it!

He loves to be tickled and laughs a lot!

His precious big blue eyes. He looks a lot like his sisters did at this age.

Our sweet baby boy!!

Girls in Gulf Shores

We had our yearly Girls Beach Trip last week! It was a busy, fun trip with 3 adults and 9 kids. All of us who went were the girls in the family, except for Seth. We had a great time but unfortunately Gabby and Ginger were unable to make it because Gabby hasn't been feeling well:( They insisted that we go and have a good time, even without them. We sure wish they could have gone, the 2 of them and my Mom would have really completed the fun trip, they were all very missed!

Gabby's grandchildren and great-grandchildren

My 3 Beach Babies





The girls had such a good time playing in the waves, building sand castles, and in the pools! Sophie is already swimming like a fish. They also had a lazy river and a big blue curvy water slide that they had a blast on!! We ate some good food out a few nights but the kid to adult ratio kept us in the Condo a few more nights!

Seth did good too and had fun sitting up in the sand and in the zero-entry pool splashing and playing in the water. He only had one head dive into the sand:(

These were my ONLY good pictures from the whole trip. My camera lens broke and it would never focus and take the pictures. My cousin should be emailing me some from her camera so we will see if there are any good ones from hers. I also didn't get the chance to take as many pictures as usual because Tadd wasn't with us for this trip and I was a little busy taking care of the kids to be the photographer-ha!