Beach in Florence

Here are a few pictures I took of the kids when we went to the beach the next day on our way home from camping. I didn't get to walk along the beach because of my foot it was way to hard and hurt to much. But I wanted some cute pics of the kids on the beach.

Camping at Sutton!

So the weekend after Savannah's birthday we went camping and tubing. We went camping at Sutton Campground out in Florence on the coast. We went with 8 other families and we had a blast. Two of the friends have boats and our friends Aunt lives at Mercer Lake which is a little private community that has their own lake. So we all got to go tubing and the kids got to try it for the first time. Sierra didn't of course but Sage didn't even want to try but Cooper did and he loved it. I even went tubing but didn't last long I ended up cutting my foot on the router of the boat and it hurt and is just now finally healing. I didn't have to get stitches but had to get a tetanus shot and had have it cleaned really good. The kids had a blast and we were pretty tired when we got home! I just remember my favorite memories of trips we took as a family and they were when we went camping so I want the kids to have those memories too! And camping is not as expensive as other trips so we can do that now!

Savannah's Birthday!

Savannah's birthday was July 19th and I had this whole treasure hunt planned out all based around Selena Gomez because she is coming to the State Fair here and we got her tickets to her concert for Savannah for her birthday! In the collage the big picture is where she opened her gift and saw the concert tickets! Needless to say my treasure hunt got ruined when I woke up that morning to make sure the time of the movie was the same and saw that the movie is no longer playing in the theater! I was so bummed! The treasure hunt at one point lead to taking her and her friend and Sage to see the movie Selena Gomez just came out with called Monte Carlo so my plans had to change so I ended up taking them to get manicures instead. So it all worked out and the treasure hunt ended at Cold Stone creamery where we met Grammy, Niki, Ethan, Tiffany, Adam, Brandi, Daniel and Gracie! It was fun and the cousins had fun playing in the courtyard area by the ice cream place!

Catching up!!

So I am a little behind on posting so I thought I would take some time today and catch up! Tiffany showed a site called PicNic that Jessie showed her when she was in Canada for Grandpa's funeral and I love it and makes it so much easier and not have to download a bunch of individual pictures so I have a lot of collage pictures to share! So I will get started! I have been pretty busy with the kids out of school and still going to school myself. This Summer has gone by pretty fast so that is good for me anyway.

Cooper is turning 5!

Wow I can't believe he is five and will be in kindergarten. Oh and he gets to play football like Hunter which he is very excited about! June 2 Cooper joined our family and has blessed us with his very serious nature. He is stubborn little thing but he is sweet too! Cooper hope you have a wonderful birthday! He is having his birthday party this Saturday at the same place Sage had hers I will try to remember to post pictures I forgot to post any from Sage's.

Cooper's Preschool Graduation!

So it is very hard for me to believe that next year I will have four kids in school elementary school. Things will be pretty crazy with conferences and stuff more so than they are now! Well Cooper graduated from preschool last week he was pretty excited and says my summer has started. He is getting so big! Here are some pictures from his graduation night.

Visit to see Ashton!

Okay so I am a little behind on posting but I have been pretty busy between the kids and school. So we just got back yesterday from a quick trip to Redding, California we went there to see Robs son that he had from a previous relationship. We use to see his son every weekend until Savannah was born then his mom made it impossible to see him. So it is good that we have contact with him now and we planned a trip to go see him. His name is Ashton and he is 12 years old. This is the first time the kids have met him. It went very well and the kids had a great time. They can't wait to see him again! They shed some tears when we dropped him off. They were pretty all pretty sad. So here are some pictures from the trip. So we went bowling, swimming and to a park that Rob and I took Ashton to when he was 2 and played so the pictures are from those different activities. They loved being in the water the most!