Sleeping in the closet

I went to check on the Ethan and Amie before I went to bed and this is where I found my crazy little boy. He was fast asleep in the closet.

The Princess turns 3

Amie turned three this last Tuesday! I can't believe she is getting so big. We also reached a huge milestone. She is in big girl panties! YEAH! She loves the color pink so we got her a pink scooter. She is so cute on it.

She wanted a pink princess castle cake. So here is my attempt at that. It was fun to make.

On the day before her birthday we got together with some friends at a waterpark and had a party. She has a friend who's Birthday is the day before her so we had a combined party. Here is a picture of the two birthday kids.

She loves the camera! I am so glad to have her in our family, she is such a joy. There is never a dull moment when she is around that is for sure!

4th of July fun

We had a nice quiet 4th of July this year. Nothing too eventful. We hung out at my parents and the kids played enjoying the nice warm weather. Then we went and watched the Fireworks that the city put on. I do love the 4th of July and am very proud to be an American!

Family Activity

Nathan got a pink 22 for the girls when they get bigger, much bigger. I still don't quite understand why he thought he needed to get it now. Anyway, he wanted to take it out shooting the other day so of coarse Amie needed to be in on the action. She can never be left out, especially when the color pink is involved. Here are some pictures of the event.


Ethan was a little reluctance to touch something pink. Right now his favorite colors are all the colors except pink.
Amie is such a daddy's girl! If either her daddy, her grandpa, or her uncle Ty Ty are around I pretty much don't exist.

Our Rock Crawlers

Nathan got home from AT this last weekend and we were able to spend Father's day with him. The kids are so happy to have him home. The day he was released we actually went back up the the place he had been working. It is up past Naches on a lake up there. His unit was repaving a road and putting in a rock crawl coarse. We wanted to go and check it out. The road they put in was really nice. They did an awesome job. We took a lunch up there and had a picnic and then the kids went and played on the rocks. They had a blast.






And look who is working on sitting up. She is growing up way too fast!

Graduation

Ethan graduated preschool! Wow I can't believe he is getting so big and will be in Kindergarten this fall! He is so excited but is sad to be all done with his preschool. He has really enjoyed going to this school. Nathan was able to get leave for the night to come and attend the graduation. Amie was all over him and didn't want him to leave and go back. She is such a daddy's girl!





What a BIG BOY! He is so handsome, Love you Ethan and I am so proud of you!

Our Trip

Nathan has been gone for his Annual Training, so I decided to take the kids on a little road trip. We went to Utah to visit my sister and brother. It was a long trip. On the way there my soon to be sister-in-law road with us. It was nice to have her ride a long. She is so sweet and helped out a ton! I really missed having her on the way home. I was either brave or just plain dumb, haven't decided yet. I went home by myself with Ethan and Aubree, Luckily my mom and dad took Amie with them on the plane home. We left Utah at 8:30 and didn't make it back till 11:30 that night. It was a long trip! But Ethan was such a trooper and did help a lot.

Here are some pictures of what we did....

Here is Ethan and Amie at the pool. We went swimming with my sister and her girls and Tyler and Brittany. The water in the pool was a bit chilly so we hung out in the hot tub.

Here is a classic picture of Amie. I don't think I need to say anything more about this one.
My Grandparents on my Mom's side both turned 80 this year so we got together as a family and Celebrated this milestone. It was fun to see that part of the family again. They had fun glasses and even a drawing for some stuffed animals. Ethan won this Army bear, I think it was fixed a little so he would. (But I wont tell.)
Here is my dad holding Aubree. She was so good through our whole trip. She is such a wonderful blessing in our family. She brings so much joy.

Here is Amie in the car, she is such a crack up. Anytime she saw the camera aiming towards her she would tilt her head and say "cheese".

We had such a fun trip hopefully this next week will go by quickly and we can have our man back home. It is never fun when he has to be away.