Thursday, July 30, 2009

Celebrating mom's birthday!

My mom's birthday was July 29th, yesterday, and she wanted to spend some time with the grandkids for her special day. We went to one of the city pools and enjoyed staying cool in this HOT weather and enjoyed each other's company. Jamie and her kiddos weren't able to make it today but we missed them.

I hope you had a great birthday mom, you deserve it!

Here's some pictures of our fun day!











Mom and my sister DeAyn


Me and my mom

I'm not sure why I feel like I need to show every single tooth in my mouth when I smile for the camera.






Monday, July 27, 2009

Slumber Party with cousins!


Maclaine has been dying to have a slumber party this summer so now that summer break is almost over we have to hurry-up and get them all in. We started with having Aubrey and Tanner, her cousins, stay over. Mallory was sad because she wasn't able to stay due to a doctor's appointment early in the morning. She'll hopefully be staying next week.

The little "party" almost didn't happen because our air-conditioning went out Sunday afternoon. But, thank you Jesus, we were able to have it fixed for the small price of $400. Living in Arizona, there is just no way you can go without air in the summer. I actually felt a little sad as we were sitting in our HOT home thinking about all the people in the valley that do go without air. Our house only got to 87 degrees or so but I'm sure they're living in even hotter spaces.

Once the air was fixed we were ready to roll....the kiddos ate pizza and root beer floats for dessert and played and wrestled the night away.

When they woke-up the questions started...
"What are we going to do today?"
"Can we go to the mall?"
"Aunt Lyssa, I brought my science kit, can we do a science experiment?"
"Mom, can you get us the sewing machine so we can make something for our sewing club?"

So, by 10:00 a.m. the girls had made their sewing projects and Tanner and I had done 2 experiments. We were going to head to the mall but my sister and Mallory got there earlier than we thought. Mallory and my sister got to have some fun singing karoake before they had to leave.

Here's some pictures of our busy, fun morning!

















Mallory and her mom singing their special song.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

God Bless America!

We spent the 4th of July at my Best friend Shannah's house. We had a great time hangin' out with all of her family. She's always the "hostess with the most-est."

Great food, great company, great fun!





The kids had fun with all the poppers and mess-makers...









We swam....




Then we went and parked on the side of the road to watch the fireworks, we actually got to see 4 different shows, it was great!




We got home and Maclaine and daddy were T-I-R-E-D....


Off to bed we went!