Slumber Party!

I wanted to share some pictures of the fun slumber party that Gracie had for her birthday last night! She had four friends come over to celebrate with her! It was really so much fun! I even enjoyed myself! They were very busy getting pedicures and manicures, tye-dying tank tops and watching movies! Oh and of course they ate lots of pizza, cake and popcorn! All in all it was a great night! What a great bunch of girls these are! I feel so blessed that my daughter has such terrific friends! Hannah, Jordan, Gracie, Faith and Hope

Aren't their fingers and toes pretty?!

Tie-dying fun! I was so pleasantly surprised at how these all turned out!

Hannah brought Gracie a balloon bouquet to school and we wrote special birthday wishes to Gracie on the suburban windows!

Happy 8th Birthday Gracie!

Our first born, our baby girl is 8 years old today! Wow it's amazing how fast time flies! Scary to think that she is half way to 16! Yikes!! She is growing up to be such a beautiful girl inside and out! You make us so proud Gracie! We love you! Gracie is sure lucky to have such special Grandmas! Thank you Mimi and Grandma for making her bedroom such a special place to "hang out"! It's so girly and pretty and pink! She absolutely loves it!
Mimi took Gracie out for her birthday for some special Mimi Gracie time! They went shopping for the cute bedding for her new bedroom, got a manicure and pedicure, and an "up-do" and also out to dinner at Red Robin! What a princess!

I wish I had older picture on my computer, this is the oldest one I have of Gracie. She is 21 months old! What a cutie! Look how much she has grown.... :)

Mike and Katy plus 7!

Avery and Joe spent a lot of their mornings cruising the back yard in the Jeep! I wish I would have gotten some video of it! Poor Avery spent a lot of time running after Joe as he drove off smiling! What a stinker he can be! For some reason Avery did not want me to take her picture!

Layla is a fighter! She was an absolute angel all week, but you try to take a toy from her or she wants something you have and you better watch out! LOL

Okay this picture makes me laugh so hard! All the kids are playing around and I say "Say Cheese!" and Avery.... points the gun at me and smiles! LOLOL

Gracie and Sage!

What a pretty girl!

I love Mal's cheesy grin! :)
Well, I may not get my own reality show because I sent three kids home on Friday, but I sure felt like I was in a crazy one all week last week! Em and Chad went to Las Vegas for the week (okay it wasn't a week just Mon. night through Friday night) and we kept the girls! The hardest times of the day were bedtime and dinner time, which is no different when it's just my kids. They are great little girls and I love them to death! It was really fun getting to spend that much time with them! I grabbed my camera a few times over the week and here are some of the pictures that I got! I had to take advantage of having little girls in my house that couldn't fight me when I did their hair! I miss that so much! Gracie wants to do her own hair and really just gets mad at me when I do it! So poor Layla and Mal had to be my little projects every morning! But they were such troopers and sooooo stinking cute! :) My cousin Mia came over on Thursday afternoon and spent a few nights! It was fun to see her and Sage! Sage got her taste of being in a big family! Hope we didn't scare her to much Mia!

First Wrestling Match!

The middle picture is after his three matches! What a fighter! :) Bottom left is weighing in and bottom right is waiting to get started!

Cole's first wrestling tournament! Actually it was a practice tournament, but to him it was the real deal! We got up early and headed to Walla Walla where he weighed in at a whopping 52 pounds! He wrestled a group of 5/6 year old boys who weighed from 50-75 pounds. I think they tried to keep the smaller one's in the group together because they all looked like they weighed about the same. It was nice because they set it up so the kids wrestled three other kids in three one minute rounds. Even if they got pinned they got to get up and try again! The first match Cole got pinned three times, went straight to his back. It was pretty funny to watch. The next match he did a little better but still got pinned. This video is from the last match where, although he got pinned, he fought hard! I know the video is a little long, but totally worth watching! There is one part in the video where he waves to me and it just cracks me up! The look on his face is priceless! He is loving every minute of it! I thought after he got pinned every time he may not like it so much, but he says he loves it and is having fun and right now that is all that matters! Mike was so intense, it makes me laugh! It was like Cole was wrestling for the state championship! He was one proud Dad after that last match though! :)