Lots

This summer has been so crazy busy.

Always somewhere to go or something to do.

A few weeks ago, we headed to Oregon for my grandpa's 95th

birthday bash/reunion.

It was awesome.

7 days on the beach in a really nice condo,

hanging with my brothers and sisters,

seeing awesome cousins, catching up and spending time at the place I spent my

childhood summers at.

While we were there, my sister took some pics of my kids.

Here's one of each

(Amy's is closer to the bottom)

I love the ocean.

Marin, Mike and Blake and Jared and I went whale watching. We were sitting up front and were getting drenched. Jared wanted to go inside the boat and that was a huge mistake.

The minute we did, I got sick and he got sick.

Needless to say we shared a bucket and lost our breakfast at the same time.

We got to see a whale though which was really cool.

here you can see how wet we are.

Here is a pic of the reunion.

I lost my camera and only got a few.

Then I found it, hidden in the back of the diaper bag while we were driving home.

It rained this day so we took our pics at the church.

The handsome man in the chair is my grandpa.

The lady to my right is his little sister,

my great aunt.

Here's Amy's picture.

She had her first birthday on the 28th and the good mom that I am

didn't take any pictures. I guess thats what happens to the 4th child.

Mady had her 4th birthday on the 25th.

I've decided I don't like this 3 day apart birthday thing.

Anyway, she wanted burgers and french fries and pink cupcakes

so thats what we did.

This is what she wanted for her birthday.

So I took her on a mommy/daughter date and got them done.

She sat on my lap and let them do it.

They did both at the same time.

She jumped when they went in and then cried.

oh and the little princess phone hanging on her pants, she got that too.

Lorelle wants hers pierced too.

She cried when Mady came back.

Thats about it for now. We didn't do much for Amy. I still haven't bought her her present.

It's a little weird and wonderful that she is 1 and I am not pregnant.

It'll be nice to move on to the next stage.

I know I still have a few more years yet but it's nice to get a glimpse.