Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!

Yesterday we spent the day at the lake. I forgot my camera, but mom had hers. She is going to email me the pictures and then I will post them later. Today, for father's day, we spent the day at JT's parents (even though they weren't there) so that JT could use their awesome kitchen to prepare a great dinner! I thought it was a great time for a photo op.

James and Mormor started the day (at our house) with a few games.

Skylar wanted to dress up today for her papa!

OK, everyone look here, PLEEEASE!!!!!!!!

Two seconds later...

Then Mormor joined in the fun!

The winning shot...

Time for Agricola!

Mom is in town visiting. So, what do we do? Go on bike rides and play games. Agricola is the game of choice for this visit. I actually was going to post yesterday, but mom said the picture was bad of her, so I had to wait for the next night to get the picture. Then of course, my battery was dead so I had to wait to charge the battery. I finally got a good picture that I was allowed by all parties to post:)

Rain, Rain Go AWAY!!

We are so sick of the rain and cool weather. It is supposed to be warm and sunny and we have not had a sunny day in weeks. It is getting rather depressing.

James gets a piggy back ride from Skylar.

Hold on James, I'm going to drop you!

Kellen, could you please put on some clothes?

I'll think about it--No!

A Rare Moment of Peace!

Something caught all four of their fancy. It was so quiet, I had to peek around the corner and lucky my camera was close by. Even Brennen (in Skylar's lap) was hooked! It only lasted about a minute, but it sure melted my heart.

Brennen got some good news today. Hopefully his ear infections will be a thing of the past. He will be getting tubes placed in two weeks!

Kellen's Favorite pastime!

Kellen loves to play in the water. I have to tell him about 10 times a day to turn off the water. At daycare, his teachers have said to me, "boy, he sure is obsessed with water. He just plays at the sink all day."

I think my water bill will halve when he grows out of this phase.

Skylar's Party

Skylar was so excited for her party that she told me that she could not sleep the night before. She woke up rather early and asked me about every 10 min. if we could set up for the party. Finally, the time came to set up and she was so happy with how it turned out!

There is so much going on, it almost makes me sick, but Skylar loved it!

When the girls arrived, they all got a LPS (Littlest Pet Shop) tattoos.

Happy with her tattoo.

James wanted nothing to do with the "girlie" tattoo's, but Kellen was game for everything.

Skylar chats with the girls as they go through their party boxes!

Next we played Pin the Candle on the Cupcake.

Of course, Kellen wanted to play.

Next came the pinata. It was raining outside, so I had to get a little creative in hanging the pinata. This worked out well and I don't think anyone noticed the exercise machine it was hanging on.

Skylar did make the breaking hit and then I helped the rest of the candy out. As you can see, the girls all dove to the ground for the candy.

After the pinata came the Decorate your cat portion of the party. Last year, I made the mistake of getting paint your horse kits and the paints were not washable (which I did not know until after I bought them). That was a bit of a disaster, but this year the cats were great. The girls just loved them!

Brennen was not pleased with the amount of noise that 11 girls could make.

Party destruction.

Then came cake.


And presents.


I think Kellen had just as much fun as Skylar!

Poor little James got a little abused by the girls, so he mostly stayed out of the way.

Skylar turns 7!!

Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Skylar, happy birthday to you!

What?! It started up again!

This should do it!

I love my new outfit! Thank you Annie!

Skylar has been begging for an Ipod for a couple of months now (in pink) and she finally got it! She was sooooo happy!

Have you seen that I have four teeth? Pretty cute, huh?

We are back!

On the day we were to leave for Nashville, Kellen woke up and still could not open his eye. So, I called first thing in the morning and they checked on his eye again. It was rush rush rush because we were suppose to leave for the airport at 9:00. Turns out he had a large piece of glitter in his eye and he had lots of scratches on his eyeball. They got the glitter out, but his eyes were really sensitive to light. He actually wore his sunglasses the whole day and here he finally crashed after a long flight with no nap. I felt like a hero flying down to Nashville with four kids by myself. However, I begged the kids to be on their best behavior and they were!

My mom got a couple of new games for the kids and here they are with Susanna playing on of the new games.

Gammelmormor lovingly watches her great grandkids.

Then the three oldest went and spent the next two nights with Auntie Lena and Big James. They did all kinds of fun things. They went to the zoo, bowling, played at parks. They had so much fun (of course I have no pictures since I was not there)! Then they came back to mom's house and Big James and Lena set up the volleyball net.

The kids waited patiently for the games to begin.

Finally, they got tired of sitting so they decided to play some baseball.

Skylar got a little carried away and fell on her butt!

James has a nice swing and a hit!

Lena and Big James finally get the net up, so it is time for a little Badminton.




The cheering section.

Byron came home from class and the kids attacked him!

Brennen finally woke up from his nap and he was burning up with fever and really in a lot of pain. (He had been feverish and not eating well for the past two days). So, we decided to take him into the ER and sure enough, another double ear infection. They gave him some IV fluids, IV antibiotics, stuff to make him stop throwing up and he seemed to perk right up.

On Monday we had a Nashville birthday for Skylar. She spent the day shopping with Mormor and Susanna and had a nice lunch and ice cream. This was her favorite outfit that she got during her shopping trip.


Then we spent the evening at Chucky Cheese. The kids all loved that!
Time for us to head home. The kids watch for the airplane that will take us back to papa!