I can't believe he's 8!

But he is! Today is his birthday, but we celebrated with some friends Friday night.

I was crazy enough to think taking 7 boys to a movie was a great idea...

Thanks to my friend Sarah, she offered to come help (since she did the same thing a week before, so she knew it wasn't going to be an easy task to corral 7 boys!)

We went to see "How to train your Dragon" on opening night, so that too made it a little crazy...we managed though, and the boys loved it, and had a great time!

I still can't believe Taylor is 8, he is looking forward to becoming a boy scout and getting baptized. He has to wait for Dad to come home in June before he gets baptized, but he is OK with that, because it is important to him to have his Dad baptize him.




Little Miss helped me make the cupcakes for the party while Taylor was at school. She wanted "one of those things with the light on them that you can blow out" so she got one...she cracks me up!

We will share more of Taylor's birthday fun later...he is out riding his new electric scooter right now...sure hope I can get him in soon to get ready for church!

Happy Birthday Buddy!

Our Spring Break getaway.

We headed down to Houston for our 2nd annual spring break trip with our cousins!

It all started here...and obviously Taylor had a blast!

Maddie just hung around and watched the boys on the 4 wheelers...she was too afraid to get on and take a ride.

She enjoyed visiting with her cousin "Lollie"

Uncle Jared gave all the girls a little lesson on fishing.

Maddie got some one-on-one time too!

Taylor loved playing in the fire...it was making me so nervous! I kept having visions of someone getting burned with all the sticks those boys were playing with, I know I'm a nervous Mom!

I just loved this picture of Maddie laughing with her cousins.

Then the bonfire was lit...you can only imagine how high my blood pressure shot up when I saw Taylor with his big stick playing in the fire!

Maddie always has so much fun with her 5 cousins...it's a little girl's heaven going to my brother's house! I caught them playing "make-up" here...

She even got some hoop time!

...and some storytime! (if you know Maddie at all she loves books and is always "reading" them to whoever will listen)

We got rain one day, so the kids ended up doing a lot of this...(my brother has an awesome set up with the video games out in the workshop...genious!)

and this...

Thankfully the sun came out again and the games were on again!

We also took the kids swimming and Jennifer and I got some retail therapy with and WITHOUT children! We can't wait to see our cousins again this summer!

Maybe...

I will get around to blogging again...

Just not in the mood lately...

Just give me a another week or so, and hopefully I'll be back...

I will leave you with a little eye candy...

Maddie had to have this new swimming suit...Ok, maybe her Mom had to have her have it :)

I will have a lot to blog about after spring break...

Have a Great Week!!!

Oh, I almost forgot...you need to check out this give away my friends sister is doing on her blog...

some cute stuff ladies!
Check it out here.