Sienna's first ManiPedi.....

So I have been waiting a long long time for this.....drum roll......Sienna and I went and got our toes done. It was just as fun as I though it wold be too....she was so excited. I just love how girlie she is! She really loves all the same things as I do. It's very fun.


She was really enjoying herself.....

She picked purple with white flowers.....

Carmen and Holly...it was a girls day!



The finished product!
The first of many fun trips with my daughter...I hope!

The Princess Party...

So our neighbor always has very elaborate birthday parties for her kids...I always feel like I must be the worst mom when Sienna gets cupcakes at the park for her birthday....
So Sienna got the invitation and carried it around for weeks...very very excited to go to Tiffany's party. It was a Princess party! Sienna is very into the Princess thing right now.


Sienna couldn't believe her eyes...it was the real Cinderella!


I have to say she had it down pretty good. She sounded just like her...



Look at the cake...Sienna was in heaven!

So she left with a huge goody bag and feeling like a princess...hopefully she won't compare when her birthday rolls around in May!

So behind!

I don't even know where to begin I feel so behind on this blog! I keep putting it off because I am so backed up. So I have to start somewhere right.
So I will post a few first day of school pictures...mostly just for myself to remember because this is a weird feeling...I have one in High School, one in Middle School, one in Elementary School and one in preschool! Ahhhh....although Sienna doesn't start till next week. I am actually feeling sad about it. Weird I know because I will have a couple of hours to myself, I think I am just gonna really miss her. I think when it's your 4th child and your last you just know how fast it goes....

First day of school breakfast (don't get too use to this Jackson...cold cereal tomorrow!) :)


Jackson first day of Fourth Grade....9 yrs old.

Almost missed the bus on the first day! Ahhh...it's hard getting three off at different times!

Cooper first day of 6th grade...12 yrs old.

He is saying Mom your not seriously following me to the bus stop are you....Oh no Coop...just going to the next mailbox....

I some how made it all the way to the bus stop and he didn't even notice I was taking pictures once he got there. I am so sneaky!

My Cooper is growing up! Sad...

Hunter's first day of 9th grade...High School! How in the world do I have a son going to High School? Really... I swear I was just there myself!!!
There are no pictures of him going to the bus stop because well he missed the bus! I still love him though even though he made me late for spin class!

Sienna didn't want to be left out...she too wanted me to take her picture on the first day of the boys school she said....Sienna 3 yrs old.....

Home again! It's funny how much I miss them after spending all summer with them. I always feel sad about school. I hate that they are out in the fresh air everyday, exercising...swimming, riding their bikes, playing with friends, and then they go to school and have to sit at a desk all day long...with what a whole 15 minutes of recess...
Well so far we are off to a great start. Everyone loves school. I am knocking on wood!

Lazy days of Summer....

I get sad every summer when it starts to come to an end. I love summertime! I love no schedules...hanging out at the pool, spending time with the kids, going to bed late, sleeping in, walking out in shorts and flip flops, listening to the crickets, watching the lightning bugs, looking at the sunsets in Ashburn. Everything about summer I love!
It goes way way way to fast every year. January never goes this fast....

We have one more week....ONE more. SAD!

Is she my daughter or what? Kind of scary!



This is how Jackson spends break at the pool....

Coop

Okay Jackson I think I can get it this time....seriously after 20 times.....

Um....not sure yet Jackson.....let me check...

Um....no......
I could not for the life of me get Jackson's actual flip in the picture.......


Sienna has this fear of hair this summer....if she ever finds any on her she freaks out...even if it is her own. She is showing me there is a hair on her hand that I needed to get off...
Funny girl.

She has become quite a little fish this summer with the help of her brothers. It's funny how fast they pick it up! She is almost ready for the swim team.


So I am going to soak in every single second of this last week of summer.....hopefully my vertigo will cooperate!

Vertigo...almost worth it.....

Ok so Sunday morning I woke up and felt like I was on an airplane. You know how when your ears are all muffled and you try and plug your nose and blow out...well that is what it was like except it wouldn't pop. I couldn't figure it out. So went to church like that and it stayed all day. I remembered Hunter had some ear drops from his swimmers ear a few weeks ago so I decided to try them. Then I thought hmmmm maybe that wasn't a good idea to use someone else's prescription so I asked our good friend Andrew Florence who is a Dr. ( sooooo nice having a good friend that's a Dr.!) he said it would be fine. (Thanks Andrew!)
I said Phew since I had already used them! Any who...the muffle went away, but Monday morning I woke up and got up out of bed and almost fell over...walked sideways into my bathroom and it hasn't gone away since. So not fun. This is why I don't drink! :)
It really makes you reflect on how grateful you are for your health.
I feel so lucky to have a healthy body, then when something like this happens and I can't just get up and go about my normal day it really makes me stop and think about how blessed I am.
So the point of this story is that today Cooper and Jackson gave me these...I had to go to the store to get a prescription and they somehow sneaked around me and got these....

Cooper got me a payday because I was telling him after I gave birth to all of the kids I'm always starving to death and for some reason always craved a payday....

If you read Coopers card.... he and his brothers have been fighting a lot lately..so when they start again I will just whip out this card!

Jackson's came with a "free" back scratch.....I LOVE back scratches and can't get anyone to give me one very often. A lot of times it comes with bribes...and even money!

So I hope and pray this goes away soon....these today made it almost worth it!

Growing and Eating!

So Jackson has been eating me out of the house lately. He is totally on a growth spurt. He has been loving scrambled eggs lately. I don't know if you all know this but I hate eggs! The smell...everything. So I rarely make them. I have to hold my nose. So Jackson who is 9 has been asking for them a ton lately, decided the only way he would get them was if he makes them himself. Well I have to say he has gotten pretty darn good at making them! (He can only make them when I am home of course...which doesn't really help the smell....oh well) he also knows he has to clean the pan after. Is there a pan out there worse to clean than a scrambled egg pan? Not to me.



This is Jackson saying to me...Oh no your not putting this on your blog!! Well Yes Jackson... Yes I am! Thanks for the idea!

Can't have eggs without pouring a half a bottle of ketchup on them! And I love that he uses a paper plate!

And I also have to say....I am loving the ages of my kids right now. Sienna is so content just playing with her little princess figurines. She will play for hours with them all by herself...quietly! Such a difference from when the boys were her age.
Caught her this morning...right out of bed....just playing by herself. Love it!