Adriana got her ears pierced!

Yesterday Adriana was playing in my jewelry box and putting on all my necklaces and bracelets (I really don't have any expensive jewelry). Well she started looking at all my earrings and started talking about how she would love to have her ears pierced. Well we talked a little more about it and she decided she wanted to get them done today. She asked me if it would hurt and I told her yes but only for a minute. So we called up MawMaw and told her we were heading to get her ears pierced, so she decided to meet us up at the mall. I thought for sure she would chicken out, but she didn't. So her is the pictures of my big girl getting her earrings put in.

This is the girl working there cleaning her ears.
Here they are putting the dots on her ears where the earrings are going to go.
Here is her last before picture with no earrings in. She is such a goofball!!!!
Here they are piercing her ears. We had them done at the same time so she wouldn't chicken out after we had one earring in. She did awesome and only said ouch. She never cried.
Here is her looking at her ears after. What a proud little girl!!!!

4th of July pictures

I took the kids to the park to have their 4th of July pictures taken. They all did great and I got a few good pictures out of it. Here is some of the pictures.

Camping at Carlyle Lake

Last weekend we went camping at Caryle Lake and took my niece, Kaitlyn, and nephew, Jacob with us. We had a great weekend. The weather was great. The Lake was a little high so Kaitlyn and Jacob were bummed that they couldn't go to their secret spot. We spent Saturday playing around on the kids scooters and at the beach on the Lake. Here is a few pictures of the weekend.






Here is a picture of Joey sitting up, he is such a big boy now!!!! Doesn't it look like he is pointing to Andrew and saying "See what I have to put up with"

These are a few pictures we took down by the Lake as the sun was setting. Doesn't Adriana look a lot older in this picture?

Here is all the kids enjoying the sunset. They just got done throwing rocks into the Lake and trying to have a contest on who can make them skip.

Here is a picture of Kaitlyn doing one of her cheerleading poses. She just makes me hurt watching her.

Here is a picture of Kaitlyn and Adriana watching the boats go by. Don't they look so sweet together.

Here is Adriana and Jocob looking at flowers together. Its hard to tell there is 4 years difference between the two of them.

Jacob wanted me to take a picture of him by the sailboat, so here it is.

Here is all the kids and their scooters. Andrew was so proud of his. He kept saying "I go fast like Kaitlyn".

Here they are enjoying their strawberry shortcake desert.

This is down on the beach. Kaitlyn and Jocob both said they wanted to be buried in the sand, so here they are.

Adriana dancing in the water at the beach.

Kaitlyn and Adriana on their scooters.

They were bored so they decided to have a water balloon fight. I think Adriana lost, but she was a great sport.

Vacation Bible School

Last week Adriana attended Vacation Bible School at St. Elizabeth Ann Setan where Kaitlyn and Jacob attend school. Kaitlyn was a helper for Adriana's class which Adriana of course loved. Jacob also attended. Adriana had so much fun and was sad when it ended. Here is a couple of pictures of the last day. They all released balloons into the sky which I had just missed. Then they all sang and danced outside. A great end to a fun week!

My boys!

Last night I was putting Joey to sleep and Andrew crawled up on the bed and layed down next to Joey. This is how they both fell asleep. I thought it was so sweet!!!!

Strawberry picking

Today I took the kids strawberry picking. This is the first time we had actually been strawberry picking. We didn't get to go last year because the late freeze caused a bad crop. The kids seemed to really enjoy it, especially Adriana. She picked so many strawberries. Andrew was more busy eating them or trying to feed them to Joey. We did get a big box of strawberries to bring home and we are going to make them tonight so we can bring strawberries and ice cream to Paw Paw to help him recover from his surgery. Here is a few pictures of them picking.

Our camping trip at Hannibal

This past weekend we took a camping trip to Hannibal, MO. We went and camped next to my parents. We had a great time. We got down there late Thursday night so we basically set up camp then went to bed. We got up early Friday morning, had breakfast, then headed down towards the town of Hannibal. We took a train ride tour through Hannibal, Andrew loved riding on the train. It was neat we got to see all the houses of Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Molly Brown, and all the other characters of the books and learn a lot about the history of the characters real life. Then we ate lunch and walked around down town. We then went back to the campground to go swimming since it was getting really warm out. The next morning we got up early again and went to Sawyers Landing. There the kids got to bounce in a bounce house, play bumper boats, feed fish, have water balloons wars, ride a small train, and play miniature golf. Needless to say it took up most of the day. We then went back to the campground and went swimming again. Adriana stayed in the pool for 4 hours!!! We took shifts watching her. Another little girl Adriana made friends with taught her how to swim under water (you can see the pictures in an earlier post). We had a great weekend. I posted a few of the pictures of some of the activities we did.

Andrew posing in front of a Hannibal sign
This is a picture of Chris and the kids posing in front of a statue of Mark Twain.

Here is a picture of Andrew standing in front of the train we rode on.

Here is a picture of the kids riding on the train with Maw Maw and Paw Paw.
Here is Adriana playing miniature golf (notice how her hands are....hehehe)
And here is Andrew playing

Here is the kids jumping in the bounce house.
Here Chris and I are taking the kids on the bumper boats.

Here is the picture of the kids all cleaning up in the bathtub together.

Adriana's swimming underwater!

My little girl is already starting to swim under water. She learned this weekend while we were camping. It seems like as much as I want to teach her something I never can, but when a 12 year old little girl makes friends with Adriana she can teach her in one day. It really is amazing what kids can learn off of other kids. Here is a few pictures I got to take of her swimming. Now of course she wants to go to the pool everyday to practice her new skill :)

Happy Jack!

Here is a couple of cute pictures of our little happy jack "Joey". I don't think there is very often that there is not a huge smile on his face. Such a happy baby, I had to share a few of his smiles!

swimming

I managed to make my way down to the neighborhood pool for our first summer swim. We had to stay in the smaller pool because I wasn't brave enough to attempt the big pool by myself with all three kiddos. We did really good except for Andrew almost drowning (he is fine now just a little mishap with his swimming tube). The kids all loved it even Joey enjoyed splashing in the cold water. I told the kids they had to wait for Daddy to come with us before we could go in the big pool, so from there everytime a older man walked into the pool Andrew had to ask if that was Daddy. I had to keep reminding him that Daddy was at work and he would come with us a day that he was off. The next day Chris came home from work for lunch and Andrew was all excited thinking we were going to the "big pool". Soon enough we will be there!