Murder Mystery Dinner

So this year I decided I wanted to Host a Murder

Mystery Dinner...After a little convincing to James

he agreed!!! My friend invited us to one last year,

and we had so much fun we thought let's do it!!!

It was a lot of work, but so much fun!!!

Tana & Brody

Kelley & Steve

Jake & Ashley

Justin & Rachelle

An air fight scene between Princess Laya and Indiana Jones

(hilarious)

Jolley Boatley!!!

Tana & Brody

John & Holly

Sadly John was the murder victim and couldn't talk once he was murder!!!

Jake & Ashley

This was my attempt of a Candy Buffett Table!!!

Thank you so much to everyone that came, and playing your character so well!!! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time, we had so much fun!!!

Glitter Pumpkins!!!

We had lots of fun today "Blinging" out our pumpkins!!!

Let's just say our drieveway got blinged out to:)

10 Years Old!!!!

Happy Birthday to my sweet Marlie!!! She is 10 today!! I can't believe I have a

10 year old!! Wow how tome flies!! We had a really fun sleepover party for her

last weekend so I will post pics soon!!! Today she is going to Oregon with James' mom

to visit Unlce Jon, Zach & Jake!!! Until monday!!! She is so excited, but to be honest I am having a really hard time with it!!! I haven't been away from her longer than one night, and she will

be gone for 5 days!!! Such a fun oppurtunity for her so I am going to put a huge smile

on my face and than cry on the way home from the airport:) I love you Marlie, you are growing up to be the most beautiful girl!!!!

OOWWCCCHH!!!

So last night I let the kids go outside to ride there

bikes!! Ellie has just recently learned how to

ride her bike w/o training wheels, but of course

she jumped on her bike w/o her helmet, but I

immediately got her back to get her helmet on!!!

So we were only out for about 5 min. when I saw

Ellie start to loose control of her bike and crash....

HARD!!! Her head was literally the only thing

that hit!!! It was one of those moments when you

just can't run fast enough to get there!!! I picked her

up and saw this lovely wound on her forehead, but she

was not responding to me and then she started choking

because she got a really bad bloody nose and it was going

straight down her throat!!! I freaked out because she didn't

her nose, (of course James wasn't home) so I brought her

in the house and she was just crying and not answering any

questions and completely delirious, so I called the ER and

they wanted to see her, so we took her in!!! All I have to

say is that if you want to see a Dr. quick at the ER...walk in

with a 2 screaming children and 2 others that don't

want to listen!!! (gage had a fever and a double ear infection)

So...needless to say they got us into a room very quickly and

the Dr pretty much followed me right into the room!!! James got there

a little while later and things finally calmed down!!! They observed

her for a while and after coming to the conclusion that she had

a pretty bad concussion and was going to have a really bad

headache for a while they sent a home!!! I am so glad she is

going to be okay, but it definitely was a good scare!!! Hopefully we

can keep the wound from scaring to badly, they said that vitamin E

would help so we will see!!! O how I love my kids:)

And another Year begins!!!!

Wow!!! Its time for school already, we were just getting

used to school being out for the summer!!!

Marlie and Jaiden started 4th and 2nd

Grade last week!!! I will admit I wasn't

ready for them to go back yet, partly because

they were such good helpers around the house

and they kept Ellie and Gage entertained,

but also because we really were having

a fun summer:) How fast time flies!!! We still

have so much more planned for the rest of

summer, but we will just have to get a little

homework in along the way!!!! I usually take tons of pictures on the first day of school,

but are morning didn't go quite as planned...The girls got

up and got dressed, I got Jaiden's hair done and was in the

process of doing Marlie's when she said "mom I am seeing

things" and I pretty much caught her as she was about

to passout!!! She laid down for a minute then thought she

was going to throw up (but luckily didn't) was as pale as a ghost

and then laid back down and didn't want to go to school!!! So now we

were running way late and I grabbed Jaiden a pop tart and we

got in the car, when Marlie came running to the car and said she

wanted to come!!! I thought for sure it was just nerves!!! Although

when she has gotten really nervous in the past she has never passed out!!!
So we finally got to school and the lines were all going in, I made them stop really

quick for this pic, but that was it!! Luckily we got Jaiden in at the end of her line

and hurried to Marlie's class!!! I thought for sure I would get a phone call from

the school saying that she had passed out!! But luckily no phone call and they

were both all smiles when they got home from school!!! Gotta love those first day

jitters!!! Hopefully the rest of the year just gets better:)

Lovin' Summer!!!

My kids have pretty much lived in the backyard

this summer!! Everday they put on there

swimsuits and entertain themselves

with an old slip and slide, a small pool, and the

hose, and they just love it when I bring

down lunch:) We have had such a fun summer,

its crazy to think that school starts in a little over

week:(

I saw this cute idea in a magazine, you take a cupcake wrapper

and poke the popsicle through the middle of it so

it doesn't drip down your kids hand!!!
I have to say it worked rather nicely and

the kids thought it was pretty cool!!!!

Fun day in the mountains!!!

We went up in the mountains this weekend and the kids loved it!!!
I think we will be spending a lot more time

up there this summer!!!!

Ellie loved to climb on the rocks!!!

We really are so lucky to have this beautiful view so close to home!!!!


Gage just stood there and threw rocks into the water the whole time we were there!!!!

Two cute little buddies!!!

Love family pics!!!!

Daddy and Gage!!!!

MMmmmmm Smores!!!!

These two are going to be the best buds and I am sure get into a little trouble

along the way:)

Me and Gage throwing rocks into the water!!! It was so pretty

up there and the temp. was perfect!!!!