Ideas/Advice Appreciated!

This little man will be turning 5 on Sept. 12.


Trying to plan his birthday party.
We've come up with a beach party theme.
The invites will say:

Your Invited to
Braedon's Beach Party Bash!

Come dressed in your beach attire!


Would love & appreciate any ideas/advice on decor, games, etc... for this theme!

So come on help a girl out!
Please!!

Allison

Wordless Wednesday - Brothers

Halloween in August

Last Saturday at my mom's campground it was Halloween in August.
The kids love this!
All I heard about for a week before was them trying to figure out what they were going to dress as.
And this is what they decided on:
Dalmation for Rye.

Black Cat for LuLu.

And Woody for Braedon.
Lauren didn't dress up this year.

Braedon & Isabella (my niece)

In the process of trick or treating.

Here all the kids line up to get their costumes judged.
Mine didn't win anything this year.
Isabella won for cutest though!

Colby (my nephew)

There was hayrides....

Arcade time....

Lauren, My sister & Braedon acting silly.

Then the Haunted House.
It's not really that scary, but the kids have fun running through it & trying to scare each other!

And of course they ended up w/lots of candy!

Have a great day all!

Allison

Popsicle Time!

One of the best things about summertime is.......

POPSICLES!

LuLu proud of her green teeth from her popsicle!

Do your kids love popsicles in the summer??


Allison

The Simple Things.....

Haven't joined in Rebecca's "Simple Things" photo of the week over @ her blog "Simple as That" in a while, so I thought I would this week.

Now head on over & check out all the other pics!

Allison

Rylan's 2yr. Pictures

Last week after dinner one night, I decided to take Rye out to do his 2yr. pics.
Laci & Braedon tagged along as well.
I tried to get Lauren to come to so I could get some updated ones of the 4 of them but she didn't want to.
Down the street from us, is the local community center & to the side of it is a water fountain that is really pretty, so I decided to try taking the pics there.
Here a few of the one's I took.

This one is the one I used to replace his 1yr. pic in my living room.

And of course LuLu & Braedon wanted to get in on some pics too!

My fav. of the 3 of them!

Have a great day!

Allison

A Catch Up Post......

Warning!

Lots of pics!!
Instead of doing a bunch of make-up posts I decided to put them all in to one!
These are all pics from the last like 6 weeks.

First up is Lauren's Graduation from 8th grade graduation & her party.

W/my mom

W/my dad

So proud of our baby girl!

Next up was the kids annual dance recital which was over Father's Day weekend.
Yeah I am pretty good at doing their hair if I do say so myself!

This was Braedon's first recital.
He took a tumble/pre-ballet class.
They were puppies.

Sisters.....

LuLu took 2 classes, ballet & acrobatics.

Lauren took a bunch of classes, 3 ballet, 3 pointe, tap, modern/jazz & 2 hip-hop.
She also was a teacher's helper for 2 classes.
This costume was the modern/jazz.

Hip-hop

Love this pic.....

Tap

1 of her ballet/pointe classes.

Teacher's helper

So so cute....

The other ballet/pointe costume.

Then their was 4th of July weekend....
Rylan all ready to head up to the campground!

Pool time!

My crazy girl!

Rylan checking the water out.

1 of my fav. pics!
My 4th of July cuties!

Braedon wanted a mohawk, so I gave him one.
All tuckered out!

LuLu wanted purple in her hair so I let her.

Can you tell she loves it!!
And last but not least Rylan's new do.

I tried to give him a haircut but kinda messed it up so we just shaved his head.
He was not happy w/us that night but at least he'll be cooler in all this heat!

Ok now I'm all caught up!
Hope everyone has a great week!

Allison