OK before you completely freak out, no I am not changing Lyla from formula to Diet Coke YET! This is the funniest thing. We were at Nana and Grandpa's lake house out playing in the yard and I took out a Diet Coke. Before I could get it open Lyla grabbed it and started playing with it. She knew exactly what to do with it! Just had to grab the camera!

Early Start at Crafting...

If you know me very well you know that I really do enjoy doing crafty stuff. Anything really! Well so far my girls really enjoy crafts as well. Chloe kind of just goes along with it for now but Paige asks to do crafts! So this was our latest. We were at WalMart the other day (big surprise!) and they have these Martha Stewart craft kits. We did one a long time ago with puppets. They are great because they include everything you need and are pretty easy to do. Well we passed by them and they were all on SALE!! We grabbed a bunch of different ones and this was the first one we did! They girls really enjoyed it!

Chloe's 1st Day of Gymnastics

Today was Chloe's 1st day at gymnastics. She has been going and watching Paige for some time so she was VERY excited about this day. In fact she has slept with her leotard for a week or so! She did a great job and her class is small like Paige's so she gets lots of teaching! Enjoy the pics!!

AHHH the Beach!

We had a wonderful time at the beach!  Not quite as relaxing as our single days, getting three kids changed, sunscreamed (as Chloe calls it) and down to the beach with our massive amount of toys, floats, snacks and such is quite a job!  I am including a slideshow of all of our pics...a ton so skip through if you need to.  I went through and selected certain ones but then hit something and lost them so you get ALL of them.  Also, there are some that look exactly the same...when you have three little sets of eyes you are trying to get to go in the same direction multiple shots are a must!  Why we love our new camera!  Also, we didn't adopt the sweet little boy in some of the pics, that is Ethan.  He and his family joined us on our fun trip.  It was great for the kids to get to play together and it did allow a little time for some of us to read and others to get to catch the waves on the boogie board - Derek!!  Lastly, there are some pics of us on the beach in the traditional white and khaki...great idea but that was the evening that the wind was blowing so hard it would about knock you over and lets just say we were all very well exfoliated by the time we were done...we will have to try again next time!  Anyway - we are in full swing of summer now and enjoying our time at home!!  Love to all...

5K...WE DID IT!!!

Here are the pics from our 5K this past weekend. This last picture is of me right at the finish line...I was running as hard as I could to get finished. As you can see in some of the pics the weather was threatening but we made it through. It had been pouring and then cleard so it was VERY humid but it was great! I finished in 33 min 38 seconds. I was pleased with that considering it was my first race. I learned a lot...stick to dry fit instead of cotton t-shirts...I always wear my dry fit stuff and they wanted us to all wear our clinic shirts so we would stand out and so I did but not again...check your ipod prior to running to make sure the volume is good and eat a little more for breakfast. But all in all we made it. Thanks B & J for running with me!!! Now onto the next race...we can do it!

Muffins for Mom

Today was Muffins for Mom at Paige's school. It was a lot of fun and super yummy. The kids all made muffins for us and then served us. They made all kinds of art for the table! It was super sweet! Enjoy the pics!!





Also, think about me tomorrow...it is our "graduation" 5K...I am so excited and will hopefully post some pics from it tomorrow! Pray for good weather! : )

Why you need 9 volt batteries...

in your house at ALL times. You know how every now and then you are dreaming only to wake up to a sound that was in your dream and in real life? Well that was me this morning at 3:00 am! I was having a dream about our smoke alarm and it was making some sort of annoying beep. Once I fully came too I realized it wasn't a dream but rather our smoke alarm making an annoying beep in real life! Joy, low battery. Now I have personally been through this before with our crazy smoke alarms. When Chloe was a brand new baby and Derek was back at work our smoke alarms went off in this house for no apparent reason...FOREVER. Loud and long enough to have to pack Paige and Chloe up for a drive because I was loosing my mind in here. Now I am sure it is the safest thing to have a smoke alarm just inside and just outside of every bedroom, BUT when they are all screaming at you for no apparent reason it is a little unnerving! Anyway, back to this morning. I knew that beep and before the craziness of the alarms I mention before that is just how it started. Now at 3:00 AM I wasn't exactly wanting all of the kids to be awake, so we tried to figure it out. Well, basically they all run off of electricity BUT they have backup batteries just in case the power goes off when there is an actual fire! Being the thinker that I am I thought hey we have those 9 volt batteries in our clocks as back up for when the power goes off so we don't miss our alarm. Since I don't much use my alarm any more I knew that mine was out but I figured Derek's would work. He got it out climbed the ladder and put it in...then the beeps started again! Well, long story short, he ended up running up to the 24 hour gas station to get a 9 volt battery to put in so we could get back to sleep! ( to the tune of $7 for one battery) Can you believe it! Needless to say we now have 9 volt batteries on our list and will ALWAYS have an extra on hand! Just one of those crazy stories that we just had to laugh at!!