Marble visits our house

Christopher is in the Monkey class at school and they have a stuffed Monkey named Marble thats gets to visit the families on the weekend. He was so excited for his turn.

Christopher playing superheroes with Marble and Dora looking on....

on Sunday we decided to head to the coast to Grills for lunch

Tired out...

Thanks for visiting Marble!

Happy Birthday Christopher

I cannot believe Christopher is 4! He is such a joy to our family and really makes us feel complete. We had a small party for him at our church playground with friends from his class.

First we celebrated during school....

Yummy cupcakes!

The party was a batman and batgirl party!

Christopher wouldn't smile because he told me Batman doesn't. I finally won him over...

We played "Batman, Batman, Joker"

His friends ready for cake!

Gracie looking pretty!

Christopher and his buddy Nate....

The whole gang!

We had a great time. We love you Christopher!!

Happy New Years

Hope everyone has a wonderful 2011!

Merry Christmas!

Our annual Christmas PJ's

Locks of Love

On December 23rd Rylie donated her hair to Locks of Love. This is an organization that helps disadvantaged children suffering from medical hair loss. She has been waiting and waiting for it to get long enough to donate. It had to be ten inches.
Before:



After!


She absolutely loves her new haircut and has been telling everyone about her donation. She has such a sweet heart. We love you Rylie!

I am returning!!

I don't think anyone reads this site anymore but I am coming back. I have felt overwhelmed about catching it all up so I decided I will just start new and not worry about that stuff! I hope you come back to read and see what's going on in our world

Darcie

Back to School

This summer sure flew by! The girls were so excited to go to school.
My big first grader...

and cutie Kindergartener....

Christopher wanted to go too....


Sweet sisters....

They allow you to walk Kindergarteners in on the first day but by the time we got to school there was absolutely no parking spaces so Rylie just got out of the van like a big girl and I told Gracie she needed to make sure she got to where she needed to go. So I never got any pictures at the school, BUT it made for less tears for Mommy too because it all happened so fast.

Bahamas

Okay so these pictures are very late but I just couldn't skip them. This summer we went to Atlantis in the Bahamas. It was a first airplane trip for the kids. We had a blast. Sorry for picture overload but I couldn't resist.

Ready to go...

Christopher loves his space shuttle....

technology keeps them all busy....

Boarded on the plane....

So excited....

until we got in the air....

We made it....

The hotel had the Miss Teen USA pageant going on while we were there. We saw the pageant girls everywhere we went. First we ran into some at the airport.

The girls loved it!

Beautiful....

Cheesy smiles....

Looking for the pools....

We loved all the fancy aquariums...

Lounging in our room....

If you don't know Rylie is VERY afraid of the pool. We were shocked but thrilled she was this brave.

One of the nights we decided to let the girls go to the kids club. Christopher wasn't old enough so he stayed with us. At first Gracie wasn't too excited about going but Rylie couldn't wait. After we picked them up they both asked to go again but we told them once was enough.

The night they went was a Willy Wonka theme...

Mommy and Christopher....

One day we chose to leave the hotel and do a Dolphin encounter. We took a scenic boat ride there to Dolphin Lagoon. The girls loved it. We tried to get Christopher down too but once the dolphin splashed him he wanted no part of it. Our dolphins name was Salvadore.

Some more pool time....

The next day I took the kids to the beach for a bit while Chris played golf. Christopher entertained himself with this water bottle.....

while the girls got a hair wrap....

Loungin....

sliding....

feeding some sea turtles....

they have a waterslide that you can go on that takes you through the middle of this shark tank. Here we are waiting for Gracie and Daddy to come through. After waiting in the long line Gracie was told she wasn't tall enough. She missed it by about an inch! I think secretly she was sort of happy as she was pretty nervous.

brave girl again....

Love the view....

Finally a family shot even if its dark....

Christopher and his shark face on the way home....

It was such a fun family trip. I am so glad we decided to go!