Build a Bear

When Cassidy came we went to Build a Bear. It was fun! The kids all had a great time I think.

Here's Dora filling the bear with stuffing. The two big girls didn't really want the stuffed animals that weren't stuffed yet. They were pretty upset to have those until they saw the stuffing being put inside! They wanted to just get the sample animals.

My dad met me and Cassidy up there. We had a great time seeing him. He kept his snoopy mask on the whole time. Impressive.

Eli and Carter picked matching dogs.

The photos were all pretty yellow so I liked the sepia shots and black and white... That made me start tinkering around with my editing options and I'll admit I went a bit overboard. Most of my attempts were pretty bad. But I had fun with them!

Dora named her bear Sprinkles for its multicolored spots.

Haha--this edit was weird. Not a frequent option, I think. It basically makes everything but one spot blurry.

I loved (and totally misused and overused) the black and white with one color area option. This one looks terrible. Haha.

Again, I did a terrible job. Oh well! It was kinda fun.

I thought this one came out pretty good. Made Carter in the foreground the focal point.

Dora loves her Papa.

This could be an ad for that ladybug. Haha.

Emmy got a tiny Halloween bear. That's Megan in the background.

Cassidy's Visit

While my sister Cassidy was here visiting, the kids, and us by extension, spent a lot of time in the bouncy house and out in the pool. Since it was hot, we set the bouncy house up in the Entertainment room (the room between the main house and Whit's man cave that has the mini-kitchen.) The kids had a great time. Once I actually remembered to take a few photos.

We were really lucky. Our kids played SO well together, even from the very beginning that Cassidy and I just sat back and did nothing all week. (So maybe it wasn't that easy...kids do tend to encourage each other to make messes of course.)

We had a great time in the pool too. It's pretty easy to see who's most willing to pose for my photos but I think I got a cute one of everyone but me in here somewhere. I swear I was there the whole time--just no one ever gets me in the photos! HA!

Thankfully the orca, when we finally blew it up, worked much better than the dolphin.

Best buddies!

Okay now this next shot is of Dora, NOT EMMY, on her 4 month birthday. Yes, that's right. This is DORA.

Now here's Emmy. Best as I can tell this shot was taken around Emmy's 4 month birthday (give or take a few days.) Now, tell me they don't look the same. So it's not really my fault I call Emmy Dora and Dora Emmy on occasion.

Here's Dad playing with the kids in the pool too...

Adorable little Megan wanted to stay and live with us but her mom dragged her back. (Or something like that.)

My little bee!!
Carter is getting so big! Eli misses him so much.

Cassidy and Derrick were there too!

Oooh, I'm a hipster. See my hipster artsy photo?

Little Megan again...

Love love love that Dora Baby.

SO I'm not very original. Ah, well.

One more of Emmy so she doesn't feel left out...

Oh and Derrick really wanted Emmy's bottle. Sorry buddy, your mom doesn't pump. You have to juice your own. :-)

We miss you guys!! :-) Come back again soon.

Chuck e cheese

We love chuck e cheese.








The kids had a great time and Emmy did pretty well too. She sucked on my thumb for like 10 minutes.



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Catch up

I have some photos to upload on my nice camera but had some to upload from my phone too.

We did a girls night (without Emmy. Sorry Emmy.) while Cassidy was here. We had dinner at panera and went shopping. Here are the girls-they were really excited.


Also Emmy and Derrick played well.



We went to target and to meet Jackie at chick fil a all together in one car. And to the park and build a bear. No photos on my phone but one of the car. That's one full tahoe.



The kids are loving the rain. I told them no playing in it in their church clothes and went to put the baby down. Came back to find this.









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Dora's first pedicure

Me and Dora went to get pedicures today as a special treat since Dora stopped biting her nails.

They had special chairs with butterfly wings.


Eli sat on my lap part of the time.


Dora was so excited!!


Eli played on the iPod like a champ.


So cute!!


Dora got her nails done too.


Here's the finished product.






Dora was also pretty excited that I have sparkly flowers on my toes.


They were so good we got frozen yogurt afterwards.

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