Daddy Time

The kids and I go swimming all the time in the summer.  Daddy is always working and always misses out of the fun so when he can make it the kids are pretty darn excited!  I am pretty stoked too, it gives me a second pair of eyes and they don't beg me to get in and play, I can just be on the side where I like it best!

Love Zach's summer buzz, kinda hot if ya ask me!

The girls are getting swim lessons this summer, I have slacked with them so hopefully the water wings will be gone by the end of the summer!

Rebecca still shouldn't get water in her ears, so she stole Natalie's boat. Her skinny butt is a perfect fit!

Big brothers at the pool are an added bonus!

School Carnival

The girls school had their annual end of year carnival a few weeks ago, it was a Hawaiian themed carnival so my girls fit right in!

 

Two seconds after this picture I was cleaning up that smoothie off the ground.

Can't believe Kindergarten is almost over for them!

Surgery in the morning, carnival in the afternoon.  Pretty productive day!

More Tubes

We have noticed for some time now that it seemed as if Rebecca couldn't always hear when we were talking to her and she always wanted the TV volume blasting. Not only was she having trouble hearing but she was also suffering from chronic ear infections.  With all that was going on with her I finally asked her ped for a referral to the ENT.  Our appointment was a Thursday afternoon and Dr. Ng was shocked at how bad her ears were.  Literally one of her eardrums was "deflated" and laying against a bone in her ear canal and the other ear had an extreme amount of fluid on it.  He scheduled her surgery for the very next day.  Dr. Ng warned us that if it wasn't taken care of she could loose hearing in the ear that was worse.  Yikes!  Not to mention he said her hard of hearing was probably because all the fluid on her ears, the fluid would make it seem like she was underwater.  Poor baby, I wish I knew sooner!  Anyhow, Friday morning tubes went in, eardrum was inflated and Rebecca claims she is hearing better.  I am looking forward to her post opp appointment to make sure everything is going well. She was a trooper and only wanted Daddy!

This was from her first surgery for her cleft palate and ear tubes...two things haven't changed, her love for Daddy...

and her love for her Doggies!

My Beautiful Friend

 This is my stunning friend Molly and her two adorable blue eyed boys.  I took this little mini photo shoot to fulfill my final project for a beginner photography class at CSN.  I knew I would get some good shots with this little family, and I was not disappointed, what good little models they were.  These are the 10 I am going to turn in, thank you Molly for letting me have some fun with you and your sweet boys!

Our Teenager

Well it's official.  We have a teenager to call our own.  Yes,  Zachary turned 13 on May 8th.  It is really hard to believe that he is not a little boy anymore!  For his birthday I took him and two of his friends out to dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen and then when Daddy finally got off work he took the boys to see the Avengers.  It was fun just me and 8 kids out to dinner and Zachary has good friends who are nice to have around.  They even are sweet to my silly little girls who like to bug them.  I wish I remembered my good camera but I didn't, it was a crazy day so all I have are iPhone pics.  Oh well next time. 

My Honey

Feeling pretty lucky today to call this guy my husband.