A New Teenager In The House!!

Levi turned 13 last week!!!! My laptop is acting up and won't let me upload any pics.....but I will figure it out and get them on here!!!

He is such a joy to have in our family!! Levi makes us laugh all the time. Oh, don't get me wrong....he is acting every part the teenager but for the most part keeps us laughing!! :)

He has passed me on height and weight and can probably finally beat me at arm wrestling, but I'm not going to let him try anytime soon!!

He walked into the kitchen the other day and it hit me that this kid is really growing up!! It's hard for me to accept that fact. For some reason I just always picture him as 10!

He will be an 8th grader when school starts and is looking forward to football starting next week!

He's still Jasmine's favorite and he makes the best chocolate chip cookies (or just about anything else, for that matter)!

We love you Levi!!! Happy Birthday!!!!

Thomas Has A Birthday!!!

Cute boys, waiting for the party to start!

The birthday present he had hoped for!!

In our home, some of the best birthday gifts are when your brother gives you his Nerf gun that you love! Thanks Tanner!!

"My new bike!!!!"

Happy Birthday Thomas!!!! We love you!!

Thomas turned 9 on Sunday!!! Hard to believe that's possible!! Seems like only yesterday he was the tiny little preemie in the NICU, covered in wires, fighting to live!

You have come a long way Tommy Tom and we are so blessed to have you in our family!!! We love you!!!!

Thought You Should Know......

After much discussion and thought, Vanessa has decided to give birth to "only brown boys" and will adopt a little white girl so that she doesn't have to "do" hair.

This is a constant topic of conversation whenever we are doing her hair. "Mama, I don't want to worry about doing hair when I'm a Mom. If I just have boys, then that's easy.....but I want to have girls too. But doing brown girls hair is sooooo hard and it takes sooooo long."

I'm looking forward to her only "giving birth to brown boys"!!!! That I gotta see!

Ahhh, Summer!

First day of summer vacation and the kids were just sure it was time to do Iron Chef again! Thankfully Nana is here and she helped clean up the kitchen when they were through.....what a mess!

But I have to be honest, these kids can cook!!! Vanessa was the only one that I got a picture of.....the boys inhaled too fast, there was no evidence left!


Happy Summer!!!!

Heaven Help Us!

"Isaiah, what are you doing???"

Long pause...........

"Um, getting dressed."

Actually, he was headed to some gum that I tossed up on my top shelf in my closet for safe keeping! He spotted it and made his way up the shelves on the side and across the top to the gum.

Now to find a new spot to hide the gum! Ha ha....

She Did It!!!!

Waiting, waiting, waiting...

The Senior members of the choir performed The National Anthem as well as Seasons Of Love. Sam is in the front row, first on the left.

Full house

The whole kaboodle of us with our Graduate!!

Samantha with her proud parents and little monkey brother!

Samantha with Nana and Papa!

She did it!!!!

Always need balloons for a celebration!

And of course, a cake!

Saturday was a perfect day for graduation! The sky was blue and there was not a cloud to be seen! We debated on finding a babysitter for the youngest 2 but ultimately decided to take the whole family. It just didn't feel right to leave anyone home. We did ok for a few minutes and then Scott ended up out in the hall, while the youngest two ran wild. Sabrina texted him to let him know when it was getting close to Samantha's turn.

We took a couple of pictures afterwards and then we took everyone home for a bbq and swimming.

It was a perfect day! It was so nice to have Scott's parents here to share the day with us. Family always makes everything better!

Congratulations Samantha, we are so proud of you!!!!!

Pre-school Graduation!

Ready for her big day!

Sisters!

Sorry Izzy, you got cropped.....well, only because you were making that really goofy face.

One of the cakes.....the one with her name on it!

Her cute paper doll self!

Talisha with her teachers!

Yay for pre-school graduation!!! Talisha did a great job. They sang a couple of cute songs and then received their certificates and that was it!!!!! She loved going to pre-school all year and is looking forward to kindergarten in the fall. She is quite the little social butterfly!