Birthday Fun!

I celebrated a birthday this week and had a great time.  Doug and the girls spoiled me rotten.  I got chocolates and a blender (we really needed one!) form Doug and a bunch of awesome homemade gifts from the girls (and a orange nerf ball - from the our toy box - from "Lewis".  He's so thoughtful).  One of my favorites was this friendship necklace from Sophia. There's one for each of us.  Here's the front (sorry it's sideways)

 and the back.

Doug and I went to lunch at Olive Garden - so yum - and then we came home and watched Oz with the kids. My nice friend (and VT) brought me these awesome pina colada cupcakes.  They were delicious!  Thanks again Kriste!

The next day we went to my friend Lauren's house for a playdate and b-day get together with our other friend Erin.  We all have June birthdays and love an excuse to get together!  We all had babies within a month of each other.  They're so cute!

Here they are in birth order. Cute Jacob (on the right) is the oldest and was born a month before Lewis.  Sweet Hazel was born 2 weeks later and then little Lewis came along 2 weeks after that.

We were cracking up at how none of them had control over their arms and kept getting them all tangled up or they'd keep hitting each other in the face.  It was pretty funny.

We had such a fun time and our kids all played great together.  They spent a good few hours destroying Lauren's basement (sorry again Lauren!) while us moms chatted.  When it came time to clean up and go Mabel was nowhere to be found (surprise, surprise).  The kids said she hadn't been playing with them down there and I knew since it'd been awhile since I'd heard from her she was most likely sleeping somewhere.  We looked around for her and sure enough, she was upstairs sound asleep.  It totally cracked me up how she rounded up some friends and got herself a blanket and everything.  This poor middle child sure knows how to take care of herself.  She cracks me up!

Here's all of our kids together. 12 in all!  Totally crazy!  We joked about hanging this picture up in the dorms to warn the students there of where they could be in 13 years!

Here's the 3 birthday girls (and new mommies!).  Thanks for the fun day Lauren and Erin!

Daddy's Day!

We had a great Father's Day and sure are grateful for this daddy of ours!  He's pretty strong too to carry all of these girls at the same time!

We had a good day even if he was at church from 6:30 am - 2:00 pm.  I felt bad that we couldn't make him breakfast in bed so we made him some peanut butter and chocolate cookies for when he got home.

The girls made him these awesome ties in Primary (Mabel made a cute thing with her hand print upside down on a card that said "Hands down you're the best dad around!").  It was pretty cute too.

We got him some pretty fun things including a fun fire pit.

We took it outside last night for FHE and enjoyed some yummy smores!

This little cutie enjoyed hanging out in the swing.

This is kind of a random picture but last Friday Lilly and Sophia were lucky enough to sleepover at a cousins house.  Doug was at Girls Camp until late and this one was feeling a little sad that she didn't get to be part of the sleepover.  Fortunately it was nothing a little ponies on the ipad complete with popcorn in mom's bed couldn't fix.  Love our little princess!

Dancing and Summer Camp

Last week the girls had a dance recital.  They were pretty excited to get all dressed up in their costumes and put makeup on!

This one desperately wanted to be part of the action so I let her wear one of Sophia's old costumes...all...day...long.  She even wore it to the recital and was mad when she didn't get to go up and dance on the stage.  She did not want to just watch!

This is kind of random but this was the cutest little boy preschool class that danced to "Macho Man".  It was seriously the cutest ever.

 Here's Lilly's flower dance

 And Sophia's class dancing to "Dream of You".

 A few weeks ago these two started going to a summer camp two days a week (so that I can have some sanity).  Here they are on the pirate day.  So far they've had a great time!

Once again, this one wanted in on the action!

Fun at the Park

Doug took the girls to the park one of the days he was home with this new baby and they got some pretty good shots.  Why does his phone take better pictures than my camera?!

 Silly girls.  This picture totally cracked me up!