Sunburns, swimming and lots of smiles!

What can I say, a fun afternoon of friends and fun in the sun! The kids had a ball at Aunt Katys swimming and eating pizza. I hope there's many more afternoons like this to come!

Tim Russert

Ok so call my sappy or odd or whatever you gotta call me but I can't help but just say a little something about him. I'm a news junkie and I loved to watch him the best. He was super smart, well informed and great at getting the point across to dummies like me. He was unbaised and went with the facts rather than his own opinion. On an important issue Neil and I would often say "what's Tim Russert have to say about it?" I can't believe i'm actually going to say it but I have actually cried in recent days about his death and if any of you have watched any of the coverage of his death you'd know why. He was a great father, and a great son to a dad he adored so much he wrote a book about him. Some years back his son got a tattoo, his fathers initials (that also happen to be his grandfathers too) on his side...so he'd always have his father and his grandfather there by his side.

Sweet summer time!

YIPPEE YIPPEE YIPPEE!! School is out! Which means sweet freedom for us. At least that's what it means to me. It seemed like such a long year for us. I didn't take any end of the year pics of the last day but that picture of Seth was from his second to last day I think. They had a bug party, so that's a spider hat on his head. And that picture of Hope is from a week or so back with her Brownie uniform on.
Good bye teachers, good bye homework. Hello summer fun!

Hopey Hopey Hopey!!

Hopey had her end of the year field trip last week. First we went to the Field of Dreams in Kennewick (why they picked there I don't know) then they all went (100+ kids) to Go Bowl in Pasco. They all had a great time. The weather was nice, not too hot - not too cold. We all had a great day! Hopey loved being with all her friends from the different classes. Her best friend Jamie is in a different class this year and so she only gets to see her at recess and so Hope thought it was great to hang out with her all day. Today is Hopes last full day of school and she was a happy kid this morning on the way to school!! She only has two half days left then it's hello summer vacation! Which I am even looking forward to...even though both big kids will be home all day. I can't wait to get to spend the days doing whatever we want, whenever we want.

My Apple!

Meagans so funny when she gets a whole apple she is totally excited!!
And watch out if you try and take it away...oh my she gets angry.
That's HER apple and BACK OFF!! I guess I better stock up on apples...

more Baseball!

Here he is again. He's in a little bit of a hitting slump right now but he's still making big plays and improving all the time. He's really enjoying this season alot. I'm so glad too cause i'm the type of Mom who's like "hey I paid for this...your gonna play no matter what". This was a really good thing for him.

And of course my music is very fitting for this blog cause he is always playing the outfield and mainly center field!!

The Party!

For Meagans party we had a BBQ at the park. We had great weather up until right at the end and then it blew and blew and the sun went behind the clouds and it got yucky. But she had fun opening up her presents and having cake!

Oh and of course she had to have a princess crown!

Meagan really loved all her presents! But see her sister there beside her...well she couldn't just let Meagan try and open them on her own. She just HAD to "help" her. LOL

Then it was time for CAKE! Oh man she dug right in! And she even shared with most everyone!

Daddy got a taste.

Seth got his share.

And even Joe Joe snuck in and dipped his one finger in for a lick!

She had a very happy birthday in all!!

MMMmmm spaghetti!!

Last thursday night was Meagan's first birthday and even though we were going to have her big party on Saturday we had a little mini party for her at home. I made a cake and we sang to her. But best of all I made a huge pot of spaghetti which she LOVED!! And oh boy she made a huge mess!! It was everywhere!

She could not shovel the stuff in fast enough. Believe it or not I think she may have even gotten more IN her than ON her!