School is almost in session!

Tyler looking thrilled as usual

Landon and Austin (Abbey is in the background...sorry I couldn't crop you out)

The whole crew

Landon...so willing to pose

There's a smile Ty!

Jonah and Landon hanging out

What a cutie!

Today we went to the park with a couple friends to celebrate the coming of school on Monday. We went at 8:30 (gulp) to beat the heat and start warming up to getting up early. My friend had the idea of taking a "before" picture of them at the start of the school year and then we will take an "after" at the end.

Broadway here she comes!

Cierra, Cierra, she is going to be a star. I just know it. She loves to sing, dance and entertain. And if I do say so myself, she is pretty good at singing. I need to get her into classes.

Here is a video of her and one of her favorite songs from Barbie:The Princess and the Pauper. She doesn't know all of the words and she,as Dylan so lovingly pointed out, gets really loud on the parts she does know. I especially like her little gestures that go along with the words. Enjoy!

Oh and turn it up loud so you can hear...oh and a bonus...I get caught singing too!! Just another embarrasing moment for the sake of my blog!

The rain came down and the floods came up...

OOHHH it is raining. I better grab my camera and the kids!!

Mom has lost her mind Jonah!

No Mommy!!

If I have to, you have to Landon!

Maybe if I close my eyes I can pretend I am somewhere else!

Just smile and pretend you like it...maybe she will stop!

Alright...seriously are we done?

Ccccan wwwwee gget wwwarm nnnow? (and yes...that is a Halloween shirt Cierra has on..don't ask.)

Tyler, Tyler. He narrowly escaped my plan. He was screaming too loud...didn't want to attract too much attention from the neighbors!

I am a post stealer...I admit it. I have seen this on a couple of other blogs and have just been waiting for the opportunity to do it too!! Well today is the day people! The rain came pouring down and I pushed the kids out into it and said, "You will play in the rain....I need a cute post for my blog!"

Am I serious?? You will never know!!!

Oh and the camera thing...yeah...the blonde is penetrating my brain. It needed new batteries. And yes I have apologized to the babies;)

The Hair...dun dun dun

So after all the stink I made about my hair, some of you have asked for an after picture...well here it is. It is a lot better. I went back to JC Penney to have it "fixed". The new girl put WAY too much brown in...almost black...so I had to come home and fix the fixed. I added more highlights myself.

So, I am pretty satisfied for now. Come another 6 weeks when it is time to retouch might be another story...but I think I will spare ya'll.

Bear with me

So, my darn babies (which many people have pointed out to me lately that they aren't really babies anymore) broke my camera....so I won't have any pictures for a while.
You will have to put up with cute things my kids say instead:

Jonah: Mom, we shouldn't share the gospel with bad guys. They won't like it.

Cierra: Ron was telling me that she and a friend had run up to him and the other little girls dad during football practice to give them hugs. She was listening to this and says, "Ron, please don't repeat that."
Ron says, "Why?"
"Well, it's embarrasing!"

Dylan: (not really funny, but a pat on the back for me;))
I had told them that we would be going to Sea World the next day and that in order for us to go they had to agree to not complain about staying in the toddler area. I said, "So I don't want to hear that you want to go to the wave pool, on the slides or that I am a mean mom because we have to stay in the toddler area."
Dylan starts laughing and says, "Well why would we call you mean? You're awesome!"

That has got to be the best thing you can hear from a seven year old boy. They are pretty hard to impress sometimes!!

So, that 's what I got right now. I really don't know what to do about my camera. Wish me luck!

Blonde Moment---touche!

Putting that hair picture on the blog....such a lapse in judgement. It is too late to take it off now...ya'll have seen it. I guess I was so busy looking at the color that I totally overlooked the one eye looking up as if to say, "Help me please." So not attractive. Oh well. I never said I was photogenic!!

Where does he come up with this stuff???

Jonah has been on a roll this morning. Here are a couple gems that I have heard so far today:

Mom, did you know that I got married in Tucson to Dad and Kim.

and

He was sitting on my lap and asked me why girls have boobies. I said so that they can feed their babies when they are mommies. He asked me if that happened to me. I said yes and then he started cracking up and said...You are like a cow!! Mommy is a cow, mommy is a cow!!

Very nice.