My Sweet Maile

Maile is six! Life is speeding by and my baby girl is growing up. I am feeling a few emotions thinking about her, I am looking forward to all the exciting things that come with getting older but at the same time I wish time would stand still so I can keep her my baby forever.
At age six Maile is becoming my helper more and more. She helps me with Natalie and tries most of the time to teach Lexi and Becca how big girls behave. Maile loves to swim, she loves to dance, loves riding her bike, loves being silly, love her big brother and to wrestle around with him, loves to please Mama, and adores her Daddy. For Maile's Birthday Grandma, her sisters, her brother and I took her to lunch at her pick Metro Pizza. It was so nice sitting and reminiscing with my Mom about the day she was born. Such a scary but happy day for all of us. Maile was such a little fighter! Maybe that is why she is so stubborn now :) Later that evening we had all the family over for ice cream sundae's. Maile's told me she didn't want cake, just ice cream so we did our own little ice cream bar. Maile got everything she had been asking for and was especially excited to finally get her Happy Napper!

"Great"

I am incredibly lucky to have such a big family and I am also so lucky for the love they show my kids. On this particular day "Great" Aunt Susan planned a whole day for the kids. First a very yummy lunch followed by an afternoon of making goodies. The kids each got to pick out a cake that they wanted to make and then they spent the afternoon baking and decorating away. They were so excited to have their own cakes and they turned out really cute! Thank you Aunt Susan for a really fun afternoon!

Summer Time

We had our friends come over to BBQ and watch the USA World Cup Final and we had a lot of fun but unfortunately USA lost. It was pretty disappointing but they had a really good tournament and as usual are such good role models for little girls everywhere.

Saturday we drove out to Boulder City with some friends and started our day riding the Boulder City Train. It was a cute little ride, not going too fast, a perfect speed for Mommies with kids who want to look out over the edge. I am pretty sure Natalie enjoyed the ride the most out of my girls, she like the wind in her face and wanted me to stand so she can look over the rail. The older girls had fun hanging out and chatting with their friends. After the train we took the kids to A&W Root beer and got some lunch and of course root beer floats. After lunch we headed out to see good old Hoover Dam. I enjoyed seeing the new bridge and we got to walk out onto it. It provided a perfect view of the Dam and a good spot for more photo's. By this time all the kids were hot and tired so we knew they had enough. That is probably why when I asked the girls if they had a good day and they pretty much told me that looking at stuff is boring and they didn't even get to play. We had a good chat on the way home about being grateful for things we get to do and see. Hopefully they will look back in a couple of years and have good memories of the day.Friday was "field trip Friday" and we went bowling with friends. This day I had no complaints from the kiddies, it was bowling and then lunch at Burger King and then they got to play in the play thing. They played really hard and had lots of fun!

This was a fun day with just me and my girls. We had to go pick up our car from the shop at Carmax so I was trying to think of fun things to do in Henderson. That's when I thought of Ethel M. We got to go in and see where they make the chocolate, taste the chocolate and then we finished it off with some ice cream. All the girls were on their best behavior and I always love days that I spend with my girls.

10 Months

-Natalie is my funniest baby, she is a mini comedian and knows how to make us laugh.

-If you ask her to "show me what you got" (poor English I know) she will open real wide and stick out her tongue.
-Natalie loves to play peek-a-boo and hide her face.

-Natalie will wave hi and bye and also claps her hands.

-Natalie screams for ice cream.

-Natalie will be walking before we know it, she took her first real good steps last night.

-Natalie is talking, her official first word is ma-ma and that was quickly replaced with ba-ba and a few times da-da and if she really wants something she will say ya-ya-ya-ya!!!

-So over baby food, she wants to eat chunky stuff so she eats toddler food or what we are having if it is soft enough. Her new love is watermelon, she screams for that too.

We are all in love with this girl, she is going to be pretty spoiled with all the love and attention she gets but that's okay at least for now :)

Back Yard Pool

It's more like a puddle than a pool but the girls had fun sliding down into it. It was good old fun until a bee thought we put it out there for him....seriously like an hour after we went inside he was still hanging around it. Maile already got stung this summer and I am not looking for a repeat of that.

Independence Day

I am proud to be an American. I am so thankful to live in The United States and to have the freedom to live my life the way I choose. I love to celebrate July 4th and I want my kids to love it too. We had an amazing day yesterday. We started our day off watching the Summerlin Parade, went home to rest and then had a BBQ at our house with some family and friends. We ended the day in Boulder City watching a SPECTACULAR firework show. I am never disappointed, it is seriously the best fireworks I have ever seen year after year. I love a day that my kids play so hard all day long that they pass out at the end of the night and I can just tell they just had the most fun ever. Those are really good days.