Soccer Stars!!

Last game of the season!  Ky's team got "gold medals!"

Johnny's team had a pizza party, as you can see on his shirt... and got trophys! 

Mae Mae has hair!!

Maeli's first pony tail!!  She has just enough hair to do a Cindy Lou Who pony... so cute!!

How she rolls...  Mae is a climber, not walking yet, once she realizes she isn't holding onto anything she sits down, but climbing is another thing, no fear!  

First Day of SCHOOL!!

Johnny and Kyla started school this Monday, they were so excited they were up at 5:45!  They had lots of time to play before school.  

They are really happy to be going to school together... I am happy about it too!  Having each other at recess and lunch is going to be GREAT!

Before I know it Leo will be going to school with them...  I'm feeling sentimental about my kids childhood and they are only 6 and 5!

1st grade ROCKS!

Who is excited for Kindergarten?!  JOHNNY!

We miss them but we are excited for all the fun they will have and learning they will be doing this year!

Birthday Days!

Miss Maeli is ONE!!  Hard to believe!  She is such a sweet beautiful girl she has brought so much love and laughter to our home!  

We like to drag out our birthday celebrations around here...  birthday months really.  

Friday night opening the present from Daddy, the Lorax! 

Mae's funny cheeser after her breakfast cupcake!  

Maeli had lots of "help" opening her presents!  

"What is this thing on my head?!"

"Serously... it is still there... almost got it... lean...!"

Birthday day cupcakes!  

She knew just what to do with that cupcake!  

Mae's party cake!  I made it between taking kids to school and picking them up... in the rush I didn't let the cake cool and it CRUMBLED!  Lots of frosting to glue it together and you can only kind of tell... :)

Birthday girl! 

Yum, good cake...

REALLY GOOD CAKE!

Happy Happy Birthday to our sweet little Mae Mae!!

Snack Attack!

Maeli is always trying to play in the fridge... anytime it is opened she races for it and usually just entertains herself pulling out all the condiments from the door.  This day she found something better, something edible!  She loves fruit, especially strawberries!  

Soccer!

Ky and John have had a fun summer playing soccer!  The rest of us have had fun playing at the park during lots of practices and games...  Johnny's team is the Sharks and Kyla's team is the Lavender Lightning Bolts.

35 candles!!

SURPRISE!!  kind of...  I tried to throw a surprise party for Steve, thanks to family and friends it held together, he only "kind of" knew there was something going on...  It was a fun night anyway.  35 is not usually a milestone b-day but since he was working in Flagstaff and I was playing in Island Park when he turned 30 I thought I would try and make up for it...

Blowing out so many candles takes help... Mae and lots of cousins were on the job!

High school and college friends...  

Thanks to everyone who came and helped to celebrate our favorite guy's birthday!!  

Walking

Mae is on her way to walking!

Standing!

Why not stand for the first time on the stairs while playing with a plastic bag?!  Mom of the year award is on its way!

Way to go Mae Mae!!

Sparkles' New Home

After our fabulous 2 week vacation we came home to a turtle stink that we are still trying to get rid of...  5 minutes away from home Steve and I were saying how happy we were that we cleaned the house so well before we left, nothing like coming home to a clean house after a long vacation.  Well that was foiled by our stinking turtle!  So after cleaning carpets, washing walls, and washing ALL the linens upstairs and everything that was left in the boys closet, we decided it was time for Sparkles to have a new home.  One of the nurseries in town has a pond with fish and turtles and they take turtles... perfect for us, we convinced the kids Sparkles would like the BIG pond and "friends" much better AND we can go visit him.

Ky took this cool pic of Sparkles and their reflections: Steve, Ky and John.

Look how happy he is... actually Steve said he was snapping and hissing to the end.  Our grumpy stinky turtle.  At least all that is happening out of our house.   

We are hoping the latest trick for getting smell out works... if not we will be repainting the boys room on Saturday.  My dad was smart to not allow pets in the house!!

Island Park

We spent another day in Yellowstone on our way to Island Park.  We saw some of my favorites...

Tower Falls!

Mammoth Hot Springs.  It has changed a lot, the active spots I remember are dead and new ones have formed.  

Grandpa took the kids to the driving range, they hit 4 buckets of balls and didn't want to stop...

What a view!

Grandpa, Kyla, Johnny, Leo and Steve

We went swimming everyday, my water babies were in heaven!

Maeli loved to sit on this spot, such a big girl!

Floating the river.  

Feeding the fish at Big Springs... we almost fed Leo to the fish...

Big Springs big fish!

Our day on the lake... Maeli ate a lot of mud, by the fist full!

Leo loved swimming in the lake.  The little band-aid on his cheek is where he got caught... by Kyla... with a fish hook...  Luckily I wasn't there to freak out and Grandpa kept a cool head, he pulled the hook right out.  

Sunning on the raft to warm up

Mae and Grandpa

Steve and Caroline decided to row the raft across the lake to the dock!

Their reward for making it?  Johnny and Leo attacked them with water!

West Yellowstone with the only bear we saw...

Old Faithful, 10 days later, minus the rain!

Miss Ky!

Grandma and Grandpa Seamons!

Buddies!

Look another bear...

We thought the bug was cool...

Grand Prismatic Spring

Ky and John picked out a post card of this hot spring, we had to go see it!  

It was a super fun week with Grandma, Grandpa and cousins in a beautiful place!