Elizabeth is 7!!!!

Here is the flash back picture. This was Elizabeth's 4th birthday.

Look at how she has grown!

The classic Elizabeth face scrunch.

Now that she can read she read every card before opening the present.

But she got right on it when that card was done!Who knew seven candles could cause such a blaze!
This girl LOVES her cake.

Elizabeth had a special friend birthday this year. That means instead of a big party with several friends she get to choose one to do something special with (besides the family party). This year it was her BFF (best friend forever!) Sydney. I took the girls out for breakfast and then shopping for hair clips bands and lip gloss. We called each other darling and carried our purses. So fun. Then we stopped at See's candy shop were the girls picked out chocolate bunnies. It was a blast for all!

First Day of school

Tyler is in 3rd grade this year. He is in Mrs. Burger's class. She teaches a 3/4 split Quest class. Quest is our district gifted program. Yes we are proud!

Elizabeth is in 1st grade this year. Her teacher is Miss Mitterholzer. She is so smart. She has new reading glasses for this year. It took he forever to pick out her outfit. She LOVES cloths!!

July.....in a nut shell

July 1-July19

Well July started off with a bang!

Daddy took all the kids on rides. Connor kept asking for Dad to go faster!

Cody making sure he stomped all hid pop-its!

Ryan was so cute helping the little boys with their sparklers.

We spent the eaving out at Rob and Mary's as is our norm for the 4th. The kids had a blast. And besides lighting a tree on fire the night went great!

On July 8th:

Auntie (no my kids do not call them auntie lol!) Karen and Auntie Deb took Tyler and Elizabeth to Seattle for the day.

There are ton of these crazy pigs all over Seattle!

The main attraction for the day was the Seattle Aqurium.

I guess Tyler thought he otter take a nap. Ha-ha-ha!

Elizabeth playing Next Top Model!

This is on the train coming home. Elizabeth was napping. She looks a little out of it. LOL!!

The Next Day

Then the next day they took Connor and Cody to Point Defience Zoo & Aqurium.

Aunt Deb and the boys. (Connor yellow/Cody blue)

The big FISH!

Con-man peacking through the log! He is so fun!


The Next Week

The following week Tyler started Scouts with a BANG at scout day camp. He had a blast!! He made a flower box, shot bows & arrows, shot BB guns!! And oh so much more.

No pictures sorry.

That Thurday (July 16th) Tyler turned 8!!! WOW!!!

Again oddly no pictures. I know I took some....I will add them in when I find them.

Saturday the 18th Tyler was baptised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!!!!!! I will have to make a seperate post for all the gush on this!

We had a big family party afterwards. It was Tyler's b-day party, Karen's b-day party, & a Rhonda & Andy's "we got a little girl" party. It was nuts!
I thought I had pictures of this too, but all I can find are the pictures of KAren's birthday cake Dustin made!

On Sunday we went out to see the garden and beach by Point DefianceAhh She is so perty!

Tyler and Elizabeth climbed up the side of this big ole hill with Ben, Kristine and Aunt Deb. then they slide down. Dirty, dirty, dirty!

The gang.

Across the back: Ben, Karen, Deb, Michelle & Robert

Front: Aralee (Ben's friend), Karolyn, Grandma Shirley (try not to judge the pants LOL!) Elizabeth, Tyler, Me with Cody, Kristine with Connor and then Grandpa Dean.

So that is the first two weeks!!

Dinner Out Side!!!

Our first picnic dinner

On Tuesday night we had our first oicinic dinner of the year. The kids were pretty happy. Connor and Cody wouldn't sit still, but hey it was fun.

Cody and Elizabeth being cheesy for the camera!

Tyler and Connor are too cute togeather!

Puddle Jumpers

One day in the last week of March we has some awesome weather and some awesome left over puddles. The lil' boys had a blast. Tyler showed them how to throw rocks into the water and make big splashes. Cody sat his tiny hinney in the water and got a muddy bum but he didn't seem to notice. Tyler and Elizabeth had a blast riding their scooters up and down the street.

It was so nice to be out in the sunshine. Up here you never know when that will happen. LOL!!

Girls just wanna have fun!!!

Here are the pretty pretty princesses decorating their crumpets aka cupcakes prior to their high tea. Princess Sydney aka Ariel

Princess Evelyn

Princess Zoe

And here they all are it hats and gloves.

Can I just say four over giggly Princesses can be quit entertaining. We had a blast and they were so cute and fun.

A look back at Elizabeth.

This was just last week. She is so pretty!!

Here she is at Grandma's and Grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary party!

She can be bossy...telling Dad to stick to the picture she drew!!

Fair time pictures in the tree. Look at those baby blues.

Here is our Mutton Bustin' 1st place winner!!!! Yes mam' she is my baby!!!!

Just looking cute in the summer time.

Star wars it not just for boys!! Yes we have gone to the dark side. I am now raising Storm Troopers.

Okay so this is not about the boys but WOW Elizabeth looks SO stinking pretty in this picture!!!!

A few years ago at Aunt Michelle's. Well really Shoshone falls.

Fair time! She sure looks tiny in this picture. She was around 3.

Elizabeth was born before the world of digital cameras hit our house. So we have no cutesy baby pics, but with Elizabeth we never run out of cutesy pictures so enjoy!