Crafts

The girls love to do crafts. They have great imaginations. But the best project has been the making of Robot 3000. Abbie found a large piece of Styrofoam and started gluing things on it. Everyday she would say "I need this for my Robot" and somehow add it. One day I gave them a bowl of beads and they spent hours playing with them and gluing on their Robots. The next day they pealed a bunch off and glued different ones on.


Meet Robot 3000 and 16,000

They played with their homemade binoculars all day after making them at the library. Wonder if they saw anything closer?

Girls in White Dresses

Again here are pictures from one of our fabulous family photo sessions. Some of you have seen these pictures of Facebook, but tough, consider yourself lucky to be able to see them again. I don't think a lot needs to be said, the girls look so beautiful.

Kendall and Justin hugging it out.




Yucky picture of me, but I had to include Cara in the post.

Summer Fun

Lots of swimming going on this summer. Abbie has passed the first two levels in her lessons, which is awesome. I have to drag the kids out of the water. Here is Abbie about to jump in the deep water at CeeCee's.


Kendall just kicking around all laid back.

The splash park was a big hit.


Yes, Abbie is trying to fill her bathing suit with water.

It's a Daisy

Because the cousins are so close in age mom loves to get them matching outfits, i.e. the zoo pictures. And because we make them wear them on the same day we subject them to photo sessions.

Abbie loved to love on Jessica.

Okay, I thought this would just be a fun picture. Because the girls are dressed like daisy's we made them into a flower with the boys as the stem and Cara as the middle. It was funny. Andi was the only one that took it seriously.

The girls actually almost cooperated enough to take a picture with me.

Cee Cee hosted a tea party.

The girls were invited to a tea party. Cee Cee hosted, and they had a blast.

Chocolate covered strawberries, cookies, brownies, cucumber sandwiches and tea, who needs dinner?



The girls laughed and laughed, especially because mom called them 'my lady' when she served them. After that Kendall asked for about 10 refills on tea (apple juice). She did it by saying, "hey lady, more tea please".

Funny Faces

I just think this is funny. Taking pictures of the kids is always an adventure. You just have to click and click and click and hope you get one that is good. Check out Andi's face.

Now Leanna's face.

Now Andi and Leanna's faces. Love it!

And then once in a while you get one where they all look good, even if Truman is asleep.

A trip to the Zoo

During our visit to Geneva we took the kids to the zoo with their cousins. It is so fun when they all get together. The first stop was the Bears, you can't see them but there are two on the tower the kids are looking at.


Then off to the sea lions.

The kids enjoyed watching the dolphins swim back and forth.

The polar bears kept playing hide and seek.

They older girls loved reading the maps. Here is Abbie figuring out where we are going next.

Inside the penguin house, the kids stopped long enough to sit on the turtle. This was the only place we lost anyone, it was Kendall and it was only for a few minutes I swear.

Who is this cheeky kid?