Picture time

Some new pictures the kids had taken.

Universal

The pirate show at Universal...lots of skeletons that Logan loved.

The 'stunt men'--Jake just wanted to stand next to the hot girl.

Lucille Ball, my mom's hero and Marilyn Monroe.

Raegan's cheerleading

Raegan has started cheerleading for the Y soccer players. It is very cute to watch them. Hopefully it will cool off so they don't sweat to death out there....Brielle had also had it that day. It was hot and all she wanted was to play with the camera. She doesn't take no for an answer, the little stinker!

Cruising to Cozumel

We took a cruise with some friends to cozumel last weekend. It was great! Very relaxing! I could get used to being waited on and being lazy!










I loved this little dog.





Mayan Ruins and the gorgeous beach

My limits on creativity

Logan loves the movie the "Incredibles" ever since we were the family for Halloween last year. He got a little figurine of Mr Incredible and has been pretending to have the monster that attacks him. So I went to Joannes and we tried to recreate this monster. Needless to say, my creativity knows no bounds.....or something like that. He doesn't care and have fun decorating the body and he is having a ball. That boy sure can entertain himself.

PS.....he got the toy for pooping on the toliet!!! Yeahh!!!! It's almost been a whole week without accidents!!!!!

Savin' some for later

We went to a beach birthday party the other day and Brielle managed to steal 2 cupcakes. She was looking at both of them in her hands and decided to smear them on her face in case she got hungry later. Good thing there were showers there!

I love this little smile she has!

Thanks grandma and grandpa for the fun shirts from Alaska!

Like mother like daughter

Logan's outfit today for chruch is an Uncle Ben outfit right down to the shoes. Ben, eat your heart out over his shoes.
Brielle's outfit is one of my old ones I was going to have her wear but then it turned out to be more like a long shirt....I must have been really short! Who is who is the pictures? We can tell who lives in Florida and who lived in Utah! I am pasty white

Mormon mover

Behold, the long awaited and exceedingly "whined for" van! The Land Rover finally got to a point last week that we felt it no longer met our reliability criteria so we sold it and bought this today. No easy task since bank bureaucracy is even worse than government bureaucracy (oh wait- doesn't the government own most banks now?), but it's ours. Kids are ecstatic about it, and Mom & Dad are deliriously overjoyed that kids can't poke/whine/cry/scream/pinch/kick/smack/gouge/bludgeon/beat/strike/batter as easily since they are no longer physically on top of each other. More room for any and all of you to come out and see us too!

Summer's over

A few pictures for the grandmas.....they don't know their grandkids don't change that much ;)


We had a ward party the other night and went on a cruise...this was us with the captain embarking on the ship.

Classic bath shots

Raegan is quite the fashion designer now. This is a shirt she made. It is even decorated on the back.

Quote

I was reading I am a Mother by Jane Clayson and she had this quote by Joseph F Smith that I really liked for some reason so I thought I'd share

"To do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or statesman."

Raegan's first day

Raegan started kindergarten today. She was very excited. She is most excited to ride the bus and eat school lunch. I hope she isn't disappointed when she finds out it isn't chocolate covered fries and candy. It is like the food mom cooks. Oh well, hopefully she won't learn too many naughty things on the bus.

This was Brielle while we waited.

Cute little stinker

Brielle's hair is long enough now to pull it back. She looked like a little 50's girl at church yesterday. I just had to post how cute she is! I wish I could freeze her right now, I think she is so funny and crazy.

Wade's visit

Wade visited last week and we had a jammed packed few days.....he and Jake went to the Tampa bay game and lucky for them it was 50 cent hot dog night.....gross!

Raegan and Logan at an aquaruim at Sea World

The beach

A nature trail that had alligators but more importantly, scary spiders! Watch the video.....yuck!

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!

She lost another tooth tonight....

Grandma gave her some flowers to decorate her pants and she is quite the little fashion designer.

thunderstorm

We had the coolest thunderstorm today. Florida always has great lightning and thunder and today the rain was blowing sideways and the rumbles were great!!! I just had to take a video because I am so fascinated by these storms. You probably have to be here to appreciate it, but I thought I would try to capture it. The crazy thing is that we had to go to the church tonight for a meeting and those at my meeting didn't have rain or thunder.....we live a little ways out, but not that far away.