4th of July 2010

okay so this post is 9 months late, however the date on the blog is correct :) I was getting misty eyed posting these pictures, guess that is why I should blog regularly. I miss our friends, the weather, the kids schools..on and on. anyways, we had a great time, since the 4th was on a sunday we had two days of fun! Sat we had treats and fireworks at the house then went downtown and watched a show with Joe and Katie. Then Sunday night we did fireworks with the neighbors across the street. So fun!

Abagayle loved to lite them Lorelei and pop its :) She liked to stomp on them.

The girls and Joe watching dad do some fireworks.

Yum!

And more Yum!

Fishes

My little fish! The kids have been living in the pool! It has been so nice having a pool so close and free :) Jackson can almost swim, he does such a great job! Lorelei always has to wear googles cause Jackson does.
Sidenote, so Lorelei calls Jackson JaJun and Abagayle Yahyale. so cute!

Abagayle turns 5

Abagayle turned 5 last Sunday I can't believe it. I wasn't emotional at all until I started to upload pics for the post. She is so big now. She is amazing! She is so smart and sassy and stubborn which I remind myself will be a good thing one day:) She will be in kindergarten this next year! She is such a good helper at almost everything, when she is in the mood. Aren't we all like that. She really wanted a Rainbow Brite for her birthday and she hasn't let go of it since, exceptto shrae with Lorelei. Here are some of my favorite Abagayle shots!

This was at the bounce house for her party earlier in the week.

The group of girls at the party!

This was like a year or a year andhalf ago, she was being "fabulous" Sharpay from HSM2.

Rock Star day at preschool, with dad concert shirts on

Tulip festival in Woodbridge.

Passed out at the ocean hotel I believe :)

My princess

I love this picture of her!

This was our first Christmas in Portland :)

We were making some pumpkin roll. I think she was about 17 months here

The pumpkin patch

So tired at the family reunion.

This was at Tahoe. She was crying so hard cause she couldn't see over the edge of the bowl that she still have food left. Third helping that night.

This is the all time classic/favorite Abagayle shot! She loved her binki's soooo much. One day she shoved two in:)

We love you so much Abagayle!

Kindergarten Grad!

Jackson graduated from Kindergarten a few ago! This is his teacher Mrs Clayton. I really believe she was the best thing that happened to Jackson throughout his two kindergarten's this past year. She was really loving and sweet which is what he needed most!

This is the kids performing their little program so adorable!

What a cheezy kid! I love you dude!

Fun times around the house

The kids really wanted to camping a few weeks ago. So we went camping in the house. Brandon set the tent upinthe kids room and Jackson and Abagayle slept in the tent all night. After a full night of giggles and shadow puppets:)

Crazy girl!

She loved to be in the tent, she played till she was ready for bed. Then came out to mom and dad and passed out :)

We set the pool up in the backyard sometimes. Lorelei went out one morning, yucky day before pool water, and took off her pj's and diaper. Naked crazy baby! The water was really warm.

This is our lizard friend the kids have names Zippy. He hangs out on the front rail and sometimes runs along theback fence. The kids love him, from inside :)

The Gunters

We went up to Salt Lake area last month. While we there the Gunter's were gracious enough to let our crazy crew stay with them. We got to celebrate Sydney's first birthday with them. She is such little cutie! She loved us, some of the time. It was fun to watch her and Lorelei, they are only 7 months apart! Lifelong best friends I am sure of it, like their moms :)

Sonnet made up some cute goody bags with awesome glasses!
Sydney with her awesome new present from her parents, she (and Lorelei) loved it!

Everyone was so "helpful" when Sydney was opening her gifts.

Averie, I love this girl. She is such good helper to her mom. I can't believe how grown up she is. I remember her being so little. She has grown into quite the young lady, already. We love the Gunter family and are so happy we live much closer, only 4 -5 hours away, or if you drive like Brandon 3 hours and 45 min. :)

Poor Poor Lorelei

On Sat the 8th Lorelei reached up on the counter and grabbed an open can of peaches. Brett left the can right on the edge :) She then stuck her finger in and got it stuck between the can and the jagged lid. When she yanked it out it was bleeding everywhere. I have never had to take a kid to get stitches yet, but I knew she needed them. Three stitches in her pointer finger. Then Sunday morning she takes a nose/penguin dive into the soaking tub, smashing her nose on a pitcher we use to rinse their hair. We took her to the urget care however they said it wasn't cut so the they couldn't sew it, she just crushed it so bad it made a gash, nice.

We had to keep the wrap on over the stitches for 10 days. She tore it off probably three times a day on a good day :)

During Saturday's joy Jackson started puking and then Abagayle started that night. Lovely. Jackson is puking in a bowl at the urgent care while Lorelei is screaming from stitches. Later that night I have to leave the monitor on because Abagayle is so tired she is sleeping through puking. As soon as we hear here cough we run in sit her up, while sleeping, she pukes with clean her up, change the sheets if we didn't get there in time, and lay her back down.

I got sick the day....Mothers Day. It was a great weekend :)