These pictures were taken the day before we went on vacation (June 14th..Flag day). Aunt Deb wanted to take us out to lunch and have a little "Schools Out/Summer's starting" celebration.
Being with Aunt Deb always makes my girls smile from ear to ear.
Megan and Paige making fish faces with Aunt Deb.

Megan's 6th Birthday Celebration Day Two.


Here are pictures from Megan's Family Birthday party that we had on Saturday, July 14th for her 6th birthday. We went to her favorite place for dinner, Don Pablo's. Then we came back to the house for cake and ice cream and presents. We invited Aaron to spend the night in the tent with Paige and Megan, Brittney didn't think her back could handle sleeping on the ground. I don't blame her at least she has the sense not to torture herself, unlike me. I only stayed in the tent Saturday night until Megan fell asleep, and that didn't take long. The Birthday Princess Megan Leanna age 6
Mike/Dad, Uncle Dave and Aunt Terry
Daddy and Megan having a snuggle.
Paige and Megan such sweet sisters.
Brandi/Mom and Megan getting a birthday hug.
The Cousins shot, Aaron, Megan, Paige and Brittney (Brandon had to work)
Make a wish!
Gifts from Aunt Terry and the gang, a beading kit, a "Klutz" Chinese Jump Rope set, and a cute photo matted and framed for her room.

Big sister Paige got her a Holly Hobby horse set.
Look at these adorable outfits from Aunt Shann, Uncle Steve, Cody and Chelsea. The blue fish shirt says "Schools Out", how cute is that?

Thanks for the pink Poodle Webkinz Aunt Shann, I named her Paulina!
A pretty ball glove from Mom and Dad, now we can all play catch!
"Bad Dog Marleay" from Mom and Dad


A Beagle Webkinz from Mom and Dad, she is either calling her Doodles or Biscuit?

Megan's Birthday Weekend

I always get my girls flowers on their birthdays. Nothing fancy just fresh flowers that I arrange myself in a vase, usually from "Trader Joe's". I don't know if they even notice them but for me it feels more special to have flowers to celebrate the day of their births. Maybe it's a "mom thing" but I think I need the flowers more than they do. So here are Megan's flower's this year...they are very colorful just like her.



Megan is 6 years old as of Saturday July 14th! We partied all weekend...at least it feels that way to me! We started the party at 5:30 p.m. on Friday the 13th (sound's like a crazy date to have a sleepover in a tent with three 6 year olds and two 9 year olds). I am lucky that Megan has such nice friends, they are all sweet girls and they listen well and get along with each other perfectly.
While the adults were getting dinner (mini cheeseburgers on Hawaiian rolls, corn, French fries, and water melon) the kids kept busy at the patio table decorating knapsacks with fabric markers. While the adults cleaned up after dinner the kids played in the tent (cops and robbers and the tent was the jail of course). I had to step in a make a few rules. Rule number one the doors to the tent stay open so we don't bust the zippers. Rule number two the bottled water stays on the patio table because no one wants to sleep in a puddle.

After that Aunt Deb supervised the making of the polished stones wrapped in wire necklace. This looked much easier in the magazine article then it really was. Who knew that there is an art to wrapping rocks in wire so they stay put when dangling from a leather cord.

Mike helped me with the tie dyeing of the t-shirts. We had the kids tell us what colors they wanted in what order so that we would have enough dye for all and so that all the kids would not have green arms and legs! The t-shirts turned out great and I want to have all the girls over in a week or so for another camp fire so I can get pictures of them in all their tie dyed glory.

We had nothing but good times and laughter, keep scrolling down for all the fun and pictures.I made the cake myself...can you tell? It is actually brownies, that is what Megan wanted..brownies and vanilla ice cream. So I made two boxes (two layers) of brownies (Duncan Hines milk chocolate chunk) and frosted them with Duncan Hines Milk Chocolate Butter cream frosting...they are Good with a capital G! I found the little frosting decorations at the grocery store. Megan was impressed she loved the bugs and flowers, I was partial to the frog because he reminds me of my grandma. Oh and the pretty rainbow sugar sprinkles are from Aunt Shann, she sent them in my birthday gift. Thanks Aunt Shann they were perfect...very pretty.





Cameron and Hannah pose with the birthday girl. Cameron and Megan have known each other since diapers. We met her sister Jordan when we were signing Paige up for kindergarten when she was five and Megan was almost 2. They have been playing together ever since and they are like two little peas in a pod. Hannah is our neighbor girl she lives across the street and she was in Megan's kindergarten class.

Megan picked her own outfit out for her birthday party. Her t-shirt was a gift from cousin Ann for her last birthday and it reads "It's All About Me But You Should Know That". I think it looks perfect with her plaid skort and "Birthday Girl" tierra.


Posing in front of the tent.
back row Abigail, Brandi/Mom, Jordan, Paige
front row Megan/Birthday Girl, Cameron & Hannah
Abigail, Paige, Jordan, Cameron, Megan and Hannah such sweet girls....
......until you tell them they can make crazy faces...and boy do they make some crazy faces!
#1 Megan considering her birthday wish.
#2 Megan wishing very hard.
#3 Megan blows out the candles and hopfully the wish comes true!
Aunt Deb enjoying some brownie/cake. Without Aunt Deb this party or any of my kids parties would never go as smooth as they do. She is the secret to my success!
It's time for gifts...."Junie B. Jone First Grader"...great book, thanks Abigail!
An adorable little handbag filled with candy...thanks Jordan and Cameron!
Abigail, Aunt Deb and Hannah.
Strawberry Shortcake dance dance revolution (it's a video game with a floor mat that you dance on to compete with Strawberry Shortcake. What a hoot, thanks Cameron and Jordan.
Paige got Megan a Disney Fairies 100 piece puzzle and a "Phlat Ball the original transforming ball" it goes from a flying disc to a ball...lots of fun.

Some gifts from Dad and Mom......
..............a "My Little Pony "surprizes Velour color and carry"
......."The Sneetches and Other Stories" by Dr.Seuss
.......and a "Webkinz" Pug that she named Mudge.
This is what a happy six year old looks like!

These are the last of our beach pictures they were taken on Tuesday 6-27-07. We decided to get up early so we could see the sun rise over the Atlantic ocean. We even let the girls go out on the beach in their p.j.'s . We took baggies along to collect shells and we took lots of pictures. As we were all standing in the surf together about to head back to the hotel for breakfast Megan started jumping around and saying "it stings, it stings!". It turns out that something stung the top of her foot, we were in ankle deep and we were so close our feet were practically touching and somehow this mystery stinger (we are calling it a Jellyfish since we had seen a few on the beach) chose the tiniest foot. Mike scooped her up and carried her back to the hotel, but not before I snapped a photo. When we got back to our room I gave her some Ibuprofen for kids and put some Burt's Bee's sting salve on it. That seemed to do the trick because the welts and the pain went away by the time we ate our waffles. I told Megan I hope you won't be afraid of the ocean now. I told her that I have been in the ocean lots of times and never got stung by anything, and that she got her sting out of the way early in life. I hope she believes me! The view of our motel from the beach. Our room was on the 5th floor and we overlooked the pool and the beach. It was so soothing to wake up to the sound of surf.

Looking for shells. The shells wer not that great but we found some with little holes that we plan to put on bracelets!

Mike found this little guy washed up on shore.