fashionistas

One of Adie and Eliza's favorite things to do right now is change clothes. They usually switch off between swimsuits and princess dresses throughout the day. On this day I told them to go get dressed so we could hike to the swing. This is what they came out like
Eliza just changed her swimsuit and put her hat on "so the wind doesn't go on my face" (there was NO wind). I made her put the pants on over her bikini bottoms. We were out the door and Adie had to go back and get her sunglasses "so the sun doesn't get in my eyes" (it was overcast).

The grass ended up being too high by the swing, and I was worried about poison oak so we ended up having fun walking around the property (Ashlynn was conked in the ergo).

Eliza was weeding with me the other day and I looked up to her walking into the house to go potty

Adie in another swimsuit/skirt combo (she's wearing a different swimsuit/skirt combo right now).

And this was today heading into town. She got a few smiles from people as we were walking around the farmers market.


And here's what Ashlynn has been up to

Telling secrets to her little friend Jason

It seems like she's just getting bigger and stronger everyday. She's still a happy little baby. I love when she first wakes up in the morning and from naps because she's so happy to see everyone. She's always got the biggest smile. Well, I don't always love it that she's waking up, but at least she's cute when she's doing it. Adie and Eliza are always poking her face and pulling her ears. I'm always telling them to be gentle but they tell me Ashlynn likes it. Sure enough, she's always smiling and laughing as they are messing with her.

PERFECT Day

Katie and I had one of these once, remember that Ben?

I think Adie and Eliza just had their perfect day. It started around 1:00 when we got to my parents, here's a rundown.

They played hard with all of the toys and with Grandma and a little on the swings. Grandpa got home and took them to the park. We all headed to McMinnville to go swimming - they were super excited all day for this part. We were about a half hour early so they got to play at the park again. Melissa, Kayla and Natalie showed up - after running to Melissa, Eliza ran back to me yelling "KayKay and NatNat are here, I can't believe it!" If she could have verbalized I think she would have said something like "this just keeps getting better and better" Then swimming for an hour, and finished the day with ice-cream with Grandma and Grandpa.

Thank you mom and dad!

Swimming

We broke up the drive to Ashland and stayed at a Hotel Friday night. We had a great time, Adie and Eliza were excited to stay in a Hotel, and LOVED swimming. We swam Friday night and Saturday morning. They couldn't stop smiling in the pool, Eliza kept getting water in her mouth because her smile was so big her mouth stayed wide opened. It's 8:00 Tuesday morning and they are both already in their swimsuits - Eliza just told me she's ready to go to the hotel and go swimming now.

We didn't pose them here. After swimming they got their pj's on and crawled into bed with a book. We did end up having to separate them for fighting (Adie touching Eliza's pillow just to bug her). It's a good thing we did separate though, they both fell out of bed during the night.

Picnic

The day after Ila's birthday Ian took the guys fishing and the rest of us went to the park for a picnic, and then to Yogurt Hut.

It's cute watching Adie and Eliza try to keep up with Ila and Natalie.

Ashlynn

She gets her own post from this trip

Ila's 4th Birthday

We headed down to Ashland Saturday to celebrate Ila's 4th birthday. This has become a fun tradition for our family to all get together down there for this weekend. Adie and Eliza had a great time with their cousins- they were too excited to eat or sleep most of the weekend. We missed having Gus and Vinny there but we're pretty sure they were having fun getting to meet their newest cousin. Along with having fun hanging out with everyone, Annie and Ian always have a pretty amazing dinner for everyone. This year is going to be hard to beat Ian. This is what Ian cooked us up for dinner! Ashlynn was a good little traveler. I almost missed her this weekend, I'd usually feed her and hand her off to someone. She did a lot of sleeping and smiling for everyone.

I had so many pictures of Natalie and Ila, they were cracking me up here. Natalie is making her funny faces...

more love...

Adie playing soccer with Les

Adie and aunt MiMi

Kayla REALLY missed Gus and Vinny...

Pretty little thing!

Birthday girl

It's fun for me to look back at her party from last year to see how all of the kids have changed in just a year. Click here if you want to take a look.

Then and Now

Here we are in college on basketball trips - I think this second pic. was in was Texas? We look a little too happy for just getting thumped...

Nicole with Peyton, Katie with Eva, Deb with Jace, Jill with Zoie and Tab with Ray and Luke

Now, here we are with our little ones. Quite a crew...Scott could have himself a good little squad in about 18 years (with LJ's girls who weren't here for the picture). We had fun getting together with some old friends and kiddos at Tab's house - looking forward to doing it again at our house! This little tid bit will only be appreciated by any former Bruins who read this. I've been cleaning out boxes in our spare room to make room for Ashlynn. I found an old mixed tape (yep, my car has a tape deck) that I've been enjoying listening to. The girls think it's funny when I sing along to If I, wanna take a guy, home with me tonight, it's none of your business...we must have listened to that A LOT because I still know all the words.