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Lorelai got a very sweet dress from Stella for her birthday with a tea pot and tea cups all over it. When we got home from lunch with Stella and Aliya and Landon saw the dress, they were inspired to have a tea party. They prepared all the food and got all the coffee cups out. They took them into the playroom and set it all up. Then they all got into their nice clothes and of course, Lo got into her tea party dress.

Lo and Grant swirled their suckers in their tea.

Lo was dipping apples in ranch, this is Aliyas reaction... not too thrilled.

Here is Landon refilling everyones tea. I haven't had this much success getting Lo to drink straight water in a long time!!

And let's have a toast! To new toys, having friends over to play and most of all... to long and healthy lives. Ok... they may not have said that, but they thought it.

You can't ever expect Landon to stay put for too long. Didn't take him much time to be under the table being crazy.

Grant needs to be famous because he loves having pics taken of himself. He kept doing different poses and telling me to take pictures of him. Then he'd make me show him every single pic. He's a nut!

It's been windy the last couple days, so yesterday the kids decided to fly a kite. After a lot of work, they finally got it up.

We let them fly for a while and then looked out and they were all sitting in the stroller. hahahaha
The things kids come up with are so funny. I couldn't ever figure out if they were hoping the wind would carry them away or if they just got tired. If you look close you can see them on the left and kite up on the right.
After cleaning and spending the day at home yesterday, the kids needed to get out of the house. It was supposed to get stormy today, so Nancy and I decided to take the kids bowling. It ended up to be a nice day, so we could have gone to the pool... oh well. Maybe tomorrow. Here are some bowling pics! Nancy and I decided to put the kids on one lane and us on the other. It was fine, but the ball took about a minute just to reach the pins each time, so the one game (actually only 7 rounds) took about an hour and a half. Next time we figure we will divide the kids up between us... or better yet the whole family can go and we could probably take up the whole alley.

All of you know by now that Amy broke her pelvis and has been down for a few weeks and prob has a few more weeks to go. I decided to fly out here on the 6th and help take care of her household and kids while she recovers. Here are some pics of what we've been doing this last week... These are from Thursday. We went back to the pool, prepared this time! Trey likes the water until he gets sleepy. He is so cute floating around in that thing.


Caydence is so cute and is so comfortable in the water. It's so fun to watch all the cousins run around and play.

And here's the gimp herself! She finally got the ok to do very minimal activity to try and start rehabing the pelvis. The doc recommended swimming, so we brought her with us. Even though it was super hard for her to get in and out and up and down, she felt pretty darn good floating around with her hippo.

Lo refused to play in the pool too much, but probably the last hour of the 2nd day in the pool she let me put floaties on and actually let go of her. Of course someone was always right next to her, but she got a kick out of floating around by herself.

So that's what we've done so far... at least the fun stuff. This morning we are going to Josh and Ashley's pool at the hotel. Better get the kids up and at em.

Lo was at Nana Sandy's house and tripped and fell and rocked her head on the coffee table leaving a giant goose egg on her forehead. A week later I just stepped in the shower and heard a loud thump and then screaming. Came running out and Lo was bleeding from her mouth. I grabbed her and started to clean her up when I noticed the goose egg was more than back. Bigger than last time and there was an outside ring of yellow from the week before's incident with a giant blue inner lump from this time. 2 days later her delayed black eyes showed up from that crash.

We took Lo to Chuck E Cheese for her actual birthday. Ty's parents, Gramma, Paul and the Holts met us there. We took Lo to Chuck E Cheese not that long ago and she hated it! She wouldn't ride any of the rides and kept signing and saying "SCARY!" So we weren't sure how it would go over, but she actually LOVED it this time! I think we all had a great time and she even got more gifts the lucky duck!!

This jeep jerks around from side to side and forward and back. She was playing peek a boo through the windsheild.
I'm not sure you are supposed to THROW the ski ball... but she had fun doing it!
Grandma Lyn gave her this mermaid that she has ocd with and the hair has to always be perfect and she gets really mad when you mess it up.
She hasn't rode on this since last year because it has been too scary. And again, she's fixing the mermaids hair. hahaha

I finally added a layout that suits me, actually used some of the apps blogger has to offer. I added the blogger feed so I don't have to go to every single blog I follow to see if there's new stuff... it posts it now for me and I added a slide show from my picasa web albums that I have started to post to. I also added a music player with a few of my current faves. Wow... I feel to savvy.

East Coast peeps... bottle that heat up and send it this way! I have 2 inches of oil left and can't afford $5/gallon to get anymore!!