My kids ate fish!! And didnt even know it :)

I don't eat Seafood....and Mark eats everything from the ocean....I don't even eat Tuna anymore....and I don't want them growing up not at least trying it, so I bought fish nuggets from Trader Joes, and served them with Ketchup of course! I just told them they were "nuggets from Trader Joes" and they love Trader Joes :) Rowan ate 8 of them!
I did sprinkle them with a little Parmesan, every thing's better with a little cheese!

Ella watched me do an eyebrow wax last week and wanted to pretend with Ivy.....

I said,"let me go get the camera", and came back to this!

She watches pretty close I guess :)

Conversations with a Five year old (almost 5 :)

About 6 months ago driving by PHX airport, and watching the planes coming in, Ella says to Ivy....."Look Ivy, that's how babies come".

Today Ella says to me, "Mama, we've never been on a Helicopter, a Boat or an Airplane"... I told her we've been on an Airplane. She says "I don't remember". I told her we'd go on another one sometime..........Ella asks "when I pick up my baby?"

Tonight on the way home from the Ballpark to see Toy Story 3 with friends, she asks us "when I'm 11 will I have a baby in my tummy?" UH, NO !!! She says "18?, 19?, 21?, 22?" then "what if my tummy doesn't work?".....I tell her, then you can adopt. She asks me if God will make a baby for her, like he made her for us. :) Then she asks "was I in the clouds when God was thinking about me and making me". Uh, no.

I need to write down more of what this little girl says, I don't want to ever forget! Maybe I'll start using this blog for a little bit of journaling also, since I plan on having it printed for them anyways.

Foster went missing..........doesnt he look comfy.

Too hot to be outside, even swim! So, we played in the mud and shade.

Who needs grass anyways, right???

First Day of Pre-School

Miss Nikki

I THINK I LOVE YOU !!!! So what am I so afraid of???

Rowan wasn't that into being sung too! :)




LOVE Pandora!!!! I typed in Tony Defranco and up comes some great songs I loved from a LONG time ago :) The first was The Partridge Family...unfortuantely they didnt come up with "Write me a letter". So, I will have to pull out the old 45's for our next dance party. Oh these hot summer days are hard to fill !

The girls love Taylor Swift and Sugarland...here they are singing to them both!

Here's Ella singing and playing the banjo like Taylor Swift....she actually said "Mommy I wish we had a holder for the microphone"! I guess it would make it easier to play the banjo??? :)

Ring around the rosies...or is it roses??? LOL

Ella wanted to copy me after a client and pretend with Ivy...she did pretty good! It was funny to watch!

Indoor Pool...it was so hot outside the kids had to "dive" into the pillows!

This one is from Unlce Mel's at Easter, I just got the copy of it and LOVE it.

Slumber Party for Ivy's Birthday

Mark rented Tangled to watch, Ella loves that movie right now.

We told them they could sleep out in there sleeping bags.....but 11:30pm and still no one was asleep.....and we couldnt go to sleep without them being asleep. Now I know why my Mom never let us have slumber parties. I think that'll be our policy also! :)

Ivy's 4th Birthday

Cute pj's from Grandma

Adorable purple (her favorite color) glittered skirt and my little pony from Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Brad.

Ivy's "purple" camera from Aunt Lisa and Uncle Erik. She waited almost a year for this :) And asked about it ALL the time. She was so happy that it was just like Preston's!

Ivy's 4th Birthday

Ivy's Pre-School Backpack from Grandma and Grandpa.....now she can go to preschool! She's beyond excited.