Favorite picture EVER!

I love this picture and had to put it on the blog. The girls look so innocent and sweet and just like best friends:)

Happy Birthday Kennedy

Kennedy turned 7 years old this month. It is hard to believe she is so big! She started her birthday morning by opening her presents the second she woke up. Sydney and Delaney bought her a new wallet and they couldn't wait for her to open it. Don't you love all the bed heads:)

Kennedy got to have her first friend party this year. She had a mani/pedi party and it was so much fun.

Here are Braedi, Chloe, and Natalie getting their pedicures.

Aunt Christin giving pedicures to Sydney and Dyllan.

Manicure station. Nana and Grandma(who is taking the pictures) were in charge of the manicures and flowers on the nails. Kyra, Trinati, Kennedy and Whitney are having lots of fun!

After our nails were beautiful they decorated cupcakes. Kennedy loves to cook so she thought this was great fun.

Her cupcake looked like a forest fire. It was a lot of candles for one cupcake:)

And of course present time. She had a fabulous party and was spoiled rotten. Thanks again to everyone that helped out and lent us the foot spas, it was perfect. Happy Birthday Kennedy you are turning into such a nice, sweet, beautiful girl. I am so proud of you!

2nd Annual History Party

We had our 2nd annual history party in August. We are so blessed to have such great friends that we do school with and we celebrate when we finish our history program for the year. We home school year round so we finish around August every year. We use The Story of the World and this year we studied The Middle Ages, the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance. I am amazed at all the things I didn't know and didn't learn in school. This year we had a trivia game we played kids vs/ grownups to see who remembered the most. The kids killed us and everyone had so much fun. Thanks for making the game Ashlee! Every year we let the kids dress up in their favorite character they learned about. This year the kids decided to be Henry V and his 6 wives because we had friends staying her and they had one boy and two girls. There is a fun poem that went with Henry V that that the girls liked. It went like this... divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

Here is Henry V with his 6 wives. The girls loved that they got to dress up like queens and had fun making their crowns. We made name plaques for all of them so we could remember who they were.

Queen number one!

Sydney loved that she got to be Queen Elizabeth's mother so she carried around a doll all evening. Notice the red line on her throat to show she was beheaded:) She thought that was awesome.

Delaney had to have a way to show she died so we put gray makeup around her eyes. The girls thought she was the best dead girl because she is already so pale. They are so funny. Delaney just loved it because any time she gets to wear makeup is the best in her world.

Sassy Audrey need I say more:)

Here is the whole gang all dressed up. Not a super picture but what do you expect with 13 kids under the age of 10:) Such a fun night! Thanks Meechams and Joneses.

Grocery Challenge Update

Drum roll please............ Grand total for the month on groceries is $275.63. I spent $55 more dollars over the course of the month on produce, milk, bread, some coupon things and some camping snacks for our impromptu trip. Over all I am very pleased and will be doing it again this month. My favorite part besides the money savings is having all of my meals listed on the fridge. Dinner time was a breeze this month and I cooked everyday minus a few that we were gone. It was the most least stressful month of dinners I have ever had. So what are you waiting for, try it and tell me how it went for you!!!!

Museum for Youth

We went on a field trip to the AZ Museum for Youth in Mesa with our friends we do art and music with. It is full of hands on exhibits and they also had a Peanuts exhibit. The kids had a great time checking everything out.

They had a giant light bright wall the kids had fun making pictures.

Lots of computer art games.

Audrey and Faythe finger painting with ink.

Thank goodness it was washable:)

Here is Delaney's self portrait. Do you see the resemblance? Such a cute girl:)

Sydney doing a grid drawing.

Kennedy is making music. I never got to check it out but the kids liked it.

Rory was a super trooper staying in her stroller the whole time.

Sydney is my art kid and loves to draw so she had the most fun! On to the Peanuts exhibit. this was actually a lot of fun. They had it set up in different centers with costumes including a glow in the dark pumpkin patch.

Delaney and Dyllan open for business.

Audrey as Snoopy.

Sydney had a lot of fun dressing up and tried to got to do most pf them.

I think Ken's legs are a little long:) Oh well we had a great time. Thanks Ammanda for setting it up.

Summer 2011 Part 2

The summer continues...

We got to go to a play, in our living room. We had friends over and the kids decided to put a play on for us. They set up chairs for the audience, got costumes and rehearsed their lines all by themselves. It was super cute.

Sydney announced the play and she was also the lumberjack.

Delaney was Little Red Riding Hoods mom and Madeline was Little Red Riding Hood.

Kennedy was the grandmother and Ches on the couch was the wolf. He has already kicked her out of her bed and she is hiding in her closet.

Here is the cast. Lindy in green was the director and organizer of it all and Audrey was just crazy Audrey. The kids had a really fun time and I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Yeah again for good friends! Afternoons at our house look a lot like this....

Audrey is always hanging around Rory trying to be helpful. School folders are still on the ground behind her.

Kennedy and Delaney playing a game of chess and of course laundry on the couch.

Sydney with her nose in a book. Now that she finally reads well she is never without a book and her Christmas list consists of mostly books:) Such a problem to have! (big smile) And a few of cute baby Rory...

Rory waving part 1.

Rory waving part 2. She is such a messy eater.

Aunt Ashley gave her a Mohawk.

Sydney got her to fall asleep on her. She was so excited because she falls asleep on Kennedy but never on Sydney. It is awesome to have a cuddly baby. 5th times the charm:)

Last of all her first bath in the sink. She loved it and had a great time splashing and chewing on the spoons.

Seriously she is the cutest baby!!!

Summer 2011 Part 1

I have been a blogger slacker again:( So I will catch you up all you missed. In June we went to our 2nd annual family trip to the drive-in. We were extra lucky this year that everyone got to go. D.J. was there too somewhere. He got there late and couldn't find us. We saw Mr. Poppers Penguins which wasn't that great but we had fun anyway.

Our big crowd.

We put Papa in charge of babysitting the babies.

Goofy grown-ups!

In June Jerame, Rory and I took a weekend trip to Las Vegas. Jerame's team at work won the trip and who can so no to a free vacation:) Unfortunately it was hot, hot , hot so we didn't do a whole lot. Cute baby Rory ready for a night on the town. It is now 2 months later and I can't believe how much she has changed.

Family photo at his work dinner.

We did get to go to Serendipity's which was the #1 thing on my list. The lighting was weird there so excuse the pictures.

Famous frozen hot chocolate. Oh my gosh soooo good and worth every penny:)

The heat just wore Rory out and she missed out on all the yumminess. Oh well more for me:)

You can't have a fun summer with out an afternoon of playing in the rain. My best friend Lindsey was over with her kids so they got to join in the fun.

This is Audrey with her best friend Faythe. You never know what these two are gonna come up with next. They got the tongs out of the kitchen drawer and decided to go fishing for the magnets on the fridge.

They are so cute together and I am so thankful we have such good friends with great kids!!!