Birthday Party

Kohen's friend Tate had a birthday party this past Saturday....It was early in the morning but already so stinking hot out there at 10:00...We met over at Weeks Park and the kids have never played on that playground...They both loved it....

Then off to the fire station for a tour...

Kohen has got to sit in the firetruck several times before....

It was Kresee's 1st time...She wasn't so sure....

Inside waiting on the "test alarm" to sound off over the speakers...

I had to take this picture...I know this young girl's momma and I was sooo hot and tired of holding Kresee...So she asked Kresee if she could hold her...Kresee said yes!!!!...I couldn't believe it...Now it only lasted a few minutes, but hey she let someone hold her:)...haha....

Trying to get a group picture of the kiddos....Look at my 2 just twisting their shirts....Kohen always does this and I guess Kresee does too....

Then Kresee saw me and realized she did not want to be up there with all those kids...

Walked back over to the park for some yummy cupcakes, kool-aid and snow cones....I can't believe Kohen actually took a cupcake and ate the icing off the top...He never wants the cake at birthday parties....

Kresee, of course, eats it all.....

Her favorite was the snowcone...She was disgusting:).....

We were glad to get home and cool off inside....We took a good nap.....

Silly Kresee

I took this one awhile back but played with it on my photo edit app on my phone and wanted to post it...Love her wild hair....

Kresee put on her cute little leotard the other day and thought she was just the prettiest little thing...Wanted me to take her picture....

Kresee came in the other day with her toy stethoscope on her head and informed me that she was a butterfly...."Look mommy, I'm a butterfly...I'm flapping m wings"

Sweet Boy

Sage rode in the backseat heading to the lake one weekend...And I snapped a sweet picture of her and Kohen...She is so old, but has been great in her old age.....Will be 14 this October.....

Sliding down

Kohen at the top of the slide waiting on Kresee to sit in front of him....

Going up and down those stairs carrying 25 lbs worth of Kresee wears me out...So I talked her into letting Kohen slide with her...She wasn't too sure about it at first...But gave in and I think was only a little scared:)

4th of July

We spent the 4th of July at PK like we do every year....It's always crowded, but fun...We got there Friday and didn't do much but unpack and let the kids play...I made 3 desserts that I wanted to get finished and put away in the fridge for Saturday.....

We headed out to Hell's Gate on Saturday to join the big 'ole party with all the kiddos (7 of them!)...They had a great time swimming around...We brought the huge island float that kept them busy and entertained.... The Berry's came over in their boat and joined us....Best Bud Reid:)

Kresee showing off her figure---haha....This swimsuit has lasted 3 July 4th's...We got this 12 mos swimsuit when she was just 4 mos old....And she wore it last summer and then this year...But I seriously doubt it fits next year when she's 3!!...

Last 4th of July in 2010....
The boys LOVED playing with their goggles...They would hang off the float and put only their face in the water to watch or see any fish....

Funny story about Kresee was that I tried to explain to her several times that there would be no potty and you just have to pee in the lake...So she really needed to go and Kerry put her in the water for a little bit...He got her back out and she started crying saying she really needed to go pee...Obviously she was desperate and just stood there and squated a little and peed all in the boat...Jayson got some water and just poured it on it to help water it down...Poor thing...
A partial view of all the people.....
Kenzie and Kresee raided their cousin's cheetos bag....

The kids played outside all evening until the fireworks that night.....

Kresee could play in the dirt and rocks all day if you let her....

Pushing Kenzie in the swing....

It's hard getting pictures of Kohen at the Lake....Kohen and Jaxson are always on some adventure and I feel like I just see glimpses of him every once in awhile...The only time we even seem to talk is during meals:)

Sunday we did absolutely nothing....I don't think Kresee even got out of her PJ's...To be honest, all us adults got up early and did not move from the TV the entire day...We were all too consumed with the closing arguments of the Casey Anthony Trial....I had not watched 1 minute of it until this past weekend.....

Getting ready to get out on Monday with the sea-doos....

Kohen tubing behind the sea-doo

Hell's Gate in the background:)

Then he got tired and fell off....

That's when the rope decided to get tangled up in the sea-doo....They were stranded and Jayson was on the other sea-doo and no where to be found....So Kerry, Shellie, and I decided to jump in and swim out there to them to push the sea-doo back in....It wasn't close and swimming sucks!...We were tired....Shellie and I got about 3/4 of the way there and a boat stopped and helped them, so we swam on back....
Swimming at the dock with Maw....

It was definitely a different 4th of July with no fireworks...I've never in my life known a 4th without fireworks....Today marks 35 out of the last 36 days that we've been 100 plus degrees...We are on track to have the hottest summer on record...It's crazy...So fireworks were illegal this year and I was happy about that...Besides the kids still got to watch the fireworks at Hell's Gate and it didn't seem any different to them...

Open for Business

Kohen was watching a TV show the other morning and it was talking about restaurants...So, like normal, he has to do what he sees on TV....He went into the study and opened up a restaurant...He was in there for quite some time perfectly setting up different areas and lining all the items up....

Then he set up a table and chairs in the entry way so that he could take Kresee's breakfast order...Then I took his and they ate breakfast...Pretty cute:)