Leah's big day

We've been on vacation in California for the past few weeks. My sister got married, there will be posts of that later, however we came home just in time for the girls to start school. Leah had her birthday while we were gone. We celebrated at home with a cake the night before her first day of kindergarten. I'm not sure if it looks like she's more scared or excited!
It was pouring rain this morning, so we headed up to the bus stop in the car and I wasn't able to get a very good picture of her getting on the bus.

But it cleared up by the time school was over, here she is getting off the bus. She had a great day, no tears, just smiles and she can't wait to go back tomorrow.

Way to go Leah!

Naughtiness

Everyone loves Shea, but sometimes she is the definition of naughty.Here she is after getting into some makeup and getting some help with her hair.

Leah and Shea pulling all the fluff out of a pillow and pretending it was shampoo. The pillow did have a little hole in it I was planning on fixing, but really taking all of it out?

Shea and Leah pulling their clean blankets of the clothesline and playing with them outside.

Is it possible to get this messy after eating a chocolate chip cookie?

At our garage sale, I promise they put themselves in the box themselves.

(Funny how Leah is in most of the pictures too! I wonder why that is.)

Just in...

"Mom this is looserish, who does flashcards in the summer?" ---Abby

Champaign trip

Last weekend we went down to visit friends in Champaign. It was a quick, but fun trip. We did some... swimming
playing with friends

eating some ice cream on our way down

Lilly got in a nap

Picking yummy blueberries

and some lunch

Then we headed home. Thanks for letting us come visit. We had a great time.

The Greatest Picture

Milwaukee Zoo

Over the fourth of July weekend, we went up to the Milwaukee Zoo. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed seeing the animals. Trent came with us, I think it had been 9 years since he has gone to a zoo. Checking out some sea lions

Shea all worn out, she had to eat her lunch lying down. She refused to sit in the stroller and ended up walking the majority of the day.

Leah had no problem sitting in Shea's abandoned stroller seat.

Party Weekend

We had a busy weekend. Friday Abby had a birthday party. We ended up having crazy weather that night. Black clouds rolled in and just dumped rain like crazy. Trent was at scout camp and they had tornado warnings and had to seek shelter. We had to move the party to the basement. Here they are playing American Idol (looks like Abby's sisters took over as the judges)

She wanted ice cream sundaes instead of cake, so we stuck the candles in the ice cream.

Saturday was Abby's actual birthday. I can't believe she's actually 10. She's growing up quickly and we're so happy to have her in our family. We finished up the soccer season on Saturday, Brynn had a team party. Then Sunday was Father's Day. Trent was able to eat salmon (I'm not a fish lover, Trent is, so he gets to eat fish on his birthday and Father's day) Monday was Shea's birthday. She is now offically 2! She is so fun to have around and can always make us laugh! She is talking all the time now. Sometimes when we don't want her to..Like when she's supposed to go to sleep at night or like this Sunday during Sacrament Meeting when she kept saying "HEY" super loud when any one else tried to use a crayon. Apparently she is the only one who can use crayons.

Grandma, she loves the shopping cart you gave her...thanks so much!