I Love these girls!! :)

daddy camp!

Our church's "daddy daughter" camp was a couple weekends ago!  The girls were SUPER excited to go to "daddy camp" and could not wait ALLLL day.  

I took this picture before they left...it's all fuzzy because one of the children had it before me and got the lens all gooey and i didn't have time to notice! hah

And THESE are the only two pictures that came back from daddy camp :)  good effort.....

They did have a blast! Me and the boys came up the next morning, and we went on a hike, we went swimming, then we picked some huckleberries! Awesome weekend in the mountains :)

skirts!

These are some of my girl friends from church.  We made these skirts and they turned out SO cute!!!  I made a pattern from another skirt and it actually turned out!!! I was pretty excited. SO we all wore them to church one Sunday to show off our mad skills :)

New best friend!

Lane made a friend the other day.....

Beachy!

I'm really bad at taking pictures while we are at the beach because i am either A. swimming  B.holding a baby C. swimming AND holding a baby  or D. eating.

BUT i did manage to take some pics at proof of what we do with 90% of our summers :)

There you have it.....everyone accounted for as proof that we are all there.....minus pic of mama cuz...well.....NObody needs to see mama in a swimsuit :) haha

and daddy because he is busy at work!!! 

yay for the beach!!

Independence Day!

Some of our 4th of July festivities.....and the only ones of the day that were photo-documented :)

we don't really buy real fireworks.  We got some poppers and little party hats, called it good and headed to deer park for "real" fireworks!  I love it, and the kids get so excited about anything that makes noise....and a mess.......win win :)

 Lane cracks me up.  How can you not smile at this face! hehe

 Macy's about to teach this popper who's boss

 Lucy's not sure what's happening :)

The mess

 Luke thought the mess was cool too......that is a band-aid on his head BTW....don't ask...:)

 Then pop-its.  Classic

 Luke soaked it all in....

 The pop-it dance

 Family photo....via self timer.....somewhat excruciating....:)

 The boys

 Meet the kitties.  These are the survivors of the litter of 8!!!! sadness....

And a little bouncing to end the day....:)  Good times! Love hanging out with the family in our wonderful country. Happy Independence Day!!!