Playing Catchup!

BFFs or Enemies????? Probably still BFFs. This picture is of Joldy and Chad right before the teams played for the #1 seed. They split but it still left the Bees sitting 1st. They then won and went to state where Joldy is at right now. Chad is also there because they take 2 teams. Anyway the team this legion season figured out how to win and just cant stop! Joldy is soaking up every minute. State is in Orifino (or as I say Tim-buck-to) so very hot with nothing to do. I am very pleased with my decision to stay home...............well kinda. I have always considered myself as a tough woman never really very needy until Joldy leaves and the house just about crumbles. Not literally but OMG. First a few pics from the parade. My camera is seriously malfunctioning and having issues but these will do. My Mom bought all the grand-girlies matching Tink dresses and they wore them to the parade.

Here is how my week minus my husband started out. Monday was okay. Tuesday I took my Mom in for surgery to have some of her cervix removed because she had cancerous cells. Wednesday I am at work for only 2 hours and I get a phone call saying I need to take Jaycee to the doc because her arm is most likely broke. WHAT?? I know right. It is broke, but can't cast it until monday cuz of swelling. She fell off the swingset and cusses it everyday for doing this to her. She has cried all night for 2 nights because it hurts so bad. Thursday I am getting ready to do Sissy's hair and I notice she had a large tic stuck on the back of her ear! I take her inside and show my mom put vaseline on it so suffocate it and then it released itself. It is now Friday and so far so good today!! Note to self "expect the worst when husband leaves town"

The girls are in this huge habit of leaving the doors open when they come and go so I have invested in some walk through gates. Although Aynslee thinks that it is jail and tries desperately to escape on an hourly basis.

Sweet baby girl

Beautiful girl full of smiles from day one! Looked completely like her daddy and does more and more every day!


There are a lot of birthdays in July on my side......Poppy, Me'Me', Aynslee, Roman, and Stephanie! So we decided to have a huge combined Birthday Pool party!! Lots of family, food, and fun. With our busy schedules we haven't really spent time with family since baseball season....so this was fun and YUMMY!

Happy birthday to everyone and thanks for all of the gifts. Aynslee thanks you from the bottom of her chubby little heart:) Her 1 year check up is coming up so I will have the stats update soon. Betting on the weight being around 100%. Lil' stinker!!! Shout out to the best and happiest baby ever!

Birthday Celebration

My baby girl turns 1!! Time really flies when you have kids. Since Aynslee's b-day landed on a day that Joldy had a double header we went and supported him and then had cake and ice cream with the Clayton family. I made a cotton candy cake and the kids ate it up!

Our trip to the ZOO

I decided to take the kids to the zoo while Joldy was out of town coaching. I think the girls needed a day off from baseball. Be ware...... cute pics ahead!

At the very end Aynslee decided to wake up, so she missed all of the animal fun for the day.
She has learned how to pull down the sun visor on her stroller so she was playing peek-a-boo. She really is as awnry when she wakes up as she looks in the picture!

Jam session

Any time music is played......this is my girls' reaction. Any yes, Aynslee has already learned to jam and thinks it is the greatest thing ever! PURE GIGGLES!

Firecracker Tournament...Park City, UT

Crazy fun July celebration! First we got to stay on the top floor in the penthouse (it pays to know people in high places:) A good family friend is the resort manager so we got a sweet deal. Anyway since I uploaded the pics backwards here is our weekend backwards!! Picture overload....sorry. So we were able to watch the fireworks from our balcony, here is the view.

Swimming with the Claytons opened up a whole new world for my kiddos. Since our last scare at the pool with Jayc we decided to MAKE them wear water wings and they were awesome. Jayc was swimming all over and I didn't have to freak out. Sissy took a little longer to get used to the idea. Aynslee soaked up the hot tub with mamma!

This is my final drama queen who has been walking for almost a month and is even harder to keep up with. Of course what would a road trip be without some sick kids??? You got it, Sicilee got strep right before we left and had of fever of 104. Aynslee caught it the first night we were there so go ahead and imagine how much sleep I got over the VACATION!

The activities that the hotel had was incredible. Carousel rides, treasure hunts, petting zoo with 4 day old goats, face painting, and arts and crafts. It was a crazy day. Actually Joldy started out with the older ones while mom and I hit the outlets! HE HE!

The weather was great accept for one flash flood hour. We took a canope so everyone ran and huddled under it while the field got rocked. Here are the kids clinging on to Joldy.

Our biggest bees fan sportin' some bees gear!

Cheer Camp

Jaycee had cheer camp this last week and for the first time in her life I think that she was wore out!!! By the fourth day she crashed as soon as she got into the car. I am really impressed with this new cheerleading thing. It is like gymnastics, dance, and cheerleading all in one. There are girls her age that were in it last year that are doing back handsprings, flips, complete splits, the whole nine yards!!! She is really enjoying it and it is more fast pace than her dance so she soaks it all up and works super hard. We are proud of her!!

Jaycers being such a goof ball. There is a surprise at every turn with this child. She will get the best of me sooner or later! I hate her attitude now as her mother but I also know that it will take her far in life, so I have to remember the flip side to it (that is what I keep telling myself anyway)

Baseball lovin....lovin baseball!

BASEBALL, BASEBALL, BASEBALL. That pretty much sums up what our summer will be about and our little fam loves every minute of it. Just got back from a tourney in Utah and this pic is be trying to entertain my exhausted kiddos at a late night game with suckers. You got it Aynslee went wild over her sucker and would not let anyone near it once I gave it to her. She was eating the grass stuck to her hands too!!

Thought that I would just throw in a pic of my man in uniform, what a hottie!!!

Jo Jo finding entertainment in the stands while soaking up the little sun that was there.

Jaycee and Sicilee ran free and I hardly saw them during the games.

There was a little "Price, Utah" flashback and we ran into some old friends. Here is a pic of good ol' Wad who is now married and has lost a lot of weight since his college years. He was impressed with the clan of girlies we have created!

My kids just can't get enough of the pool time! Although scary bad mom of the year moment, Jaycee almost drown. Seriously I think I will have nightmares for years. Water......biggest mom fear. Jayc was pulling herself along the side of the pool and she had done it for 2 days and some of the players moms came in and started talking to me. I was chatting away and took my eyes off her for like 1 second and Joldy yelled her name. I look up and she was kicking as hard as she could and I could only see from her eyes up. I jumped up and scooped her out of the water and she sat there and threw up water for some time. SCARY SCARY SCARY! She still has a hole in her ear from her tubes so I can't put her in swimming lessons yet. But we did make a deal that she will always wear a life jacket or little water weanies on her arms because I think it scared her just as bad. I really think that my heart didn't slow down for at least 24 hours. Whew, close call!
I promise that one of these times I will quit having "bad mom moments" because I am seeing a pattern when I blog!

For the love.......

I am the biggest slacker ever, I can't even find time to blog. So here is a little update........


Nickole took my kiddos to the little carnival in the Fred Meyer parkinglot. They had crazy fun!!

Joldy just had his 27th birthday and we were so excited to just stay home, eat pizza, and hang out as a family. Pretty rare these days so we took advantage!

My cute little Jo Jo who won't wear headbands but will keep a cap on all day!! She looks just like her daddy.......it is pathetic!

She won't let me feed her anything she has to be a big girl so most of the time it is from the highchair straight to the sink for a bath.

My little weed turns 1 here in a month and is so close to walking. She stands by herself all the time and her personality is blooming every day. She now says uh-oh and ow! She thinks she is pretty cool. The two older ones have figured out that the whole neighborhood is their age and they met many new friends. They just disappear and play all day....well when we are not at a baseball game! Joldy's team is doing well, I think they won the first 8 games straight up until this last tournament. They played through all the rain and came out 3rd. Sitting in the stands with cold children was a little difficult. I watch my sisters little boy Roman on Thursdays and he tags along. He just plays in the mud and gets dirty from head to toe and I send him home in little girl pj's:) He is the easiest kid ever to babysit, no drama like my girlies! I keep saying to people is this what it is like to have boys.....this is easy!!!!