Some many pictures...not enough time!

Okay, so here are a bunch of pictures from the summer. I am way behind, but if I don't post some of the pictures then it will never happen. I promise at one point I will be completely caught up.


Mia and Jason...at the parade.

Beautiful sisters!

Auntie and my kids!!!

Me and Kaleb!

Me and Jewels!!!!

Another funny picture!!!!!

Julie was having fun taking pictures of my kids!

The boys!!!!! (Kaleo, Jason, and Silver)

Teave is thinking......"Julie is the best auntie!"

It's limbo time at Terri's!!!!

Go Alex, Go Alex, Go Alex....

Silver was teaching Alex how to dance. Sooo cute!!

Jason is the only person....other than her momma (Cristine) that she would go to. I can't spell her daughters name so I am not even going to try!

This picture is for Cristine....cuz she loved it sooo much!

Having fun at Terri's!!! We were trying to catch Cristine....hehe!

Shhhh!!! Julie is sleeping!!!

Teave sure likes to climb trees....hehe!

All the kids eating popsicles at Terri's.

Tami and Kaleo watching the parade.

Cute brothers picture!!

Watching the parade....Tami, me, and Jason.

Hi Terri!!! (You look soooo cute!)

Watching the Freedom Festival Parade.

They all won swords at the Freedom Festival....how exciting for the parents!

The 3 amigos!!! (Tristan, Silver, and Kaleb)

Mia and Alex....after the parade.

Jason and Teave....how cute!

Freedom Festival Parade.

So we stayed at the Anniversary Inn for our 13th anniversary. Terri and Silver watched our kids for us. Thank you soooo much!!! The theme of the room is Swiss family Robinson.

This is the fish tank that kept me up all night until I hunted down the tank light switch in the middle of the night.....also we were looking for the blue fish that was suppose to be in the tank...I think it was a joke to keep people looking for it?

These are the steps up to the bed.....

Jason is way up high in the tree bed.

This is the waterfall tub in our room. It was sooo cool!!!

Kaleb was playing around with his letter tiles and this is what he created. He was really careful. The dogs kept messing it up.

This is on Jason's birthday....June 28th. Me and the kids made him a yummy breakfast to surprise him.

Mommy and Tristan....this took a million takes.....Alex and Jason were taking turns to see who could get the best picture.

Kaleb and Daddy....this took a million takes to get it right!

Hehe....this picture is for my cousin Melanie. You might beable to water ski and kiss....but we can kiss under water.......

Hello....can you see me?

Gracie under water......peace out...

Alex under water.....glub...glub.... Kaleb thought that he would have a poolside snack....not just one....but the whole bucket.

Alex and Grace.....scuba diving in the pool.

Kaleb is pouting cuz he is in time out.....from the pool. I thought this was a funny picture.

Pool fun!!!

Do ya think he is enjoying this cupcake?

Kaleb and his soccer coach....he loves his trophies and medals!

Here is a group shot for the fashion show.

Tristan had his friend Aaron spend the night and Alex and her friend Lily were conducting a fashion show. So here they are....

Alex had to join in on the fashion show!

It's scarey how much Kaleb enjoys dressing up in his sisters stuff!

Tristan looks soooo cute!! He looks just like Hannah Montana!

Kaleb wanted to dress up like Hannah Montana too! Just like big brother!

Jason and I were trying to take a picture one morning....below are all the attempts. My husband loves to screw pictures up.

These are out of order because at one point I decided to jump in and mess a picture up too.

He looks like a character on that movie "Water Boy". He thinks it is sooo funny to cross his eyes in pictures.

Another great attempt!! I love my hubby....he is sooo funny!

This one might have been the first attempt. Who knows....

Kaleb loves to let his sister play dress up with him!!

He is wearing her fancy headband. Unfortuneatly he looks happy not upset that she dressed up his head! One day he won't be proud when these surface and he is sixteen with a girlfriend that gets to see these pics.

Practical Joke on Alex!

Alex went to a sleepover with girls from her softball team...of course they all stayed up till 3 am and then got up at 6 am. Soooo....when she came home she sat down on the couch and immediately closed her eyes. We could not get her up at all....so we resorted to SHAVING CREAM!!! Please watch the whole video to get the whole effect!

Many hours later....when she still wasn't up...we decided that she needed some MORE SHAVING CREAM! Watch the whole video...hehe!

Random Pictures and Thoughts....way overdue!

Here is a picture of Tristan and his soccer coaches Steve and Bill. (see Tristan's forehead...he got a rug burn because he tried to do a summer sault...we joke that he has a 3rd eye...hehe)

We had a pool party at our house to celebrate school being out....Tristan, Aaron, and Aden

This is Tristan's friends parents...their son Aaron was in my kindergarten class....they are best buds!!!

My friend , Karen (kindergarten teacher at my school) and her husband.

The men (Jason and David) talking in the kitchen...while grilling! (outside grill stopped working...ahhh!)

Tristan and one of his best friends Micah (from school).

Marisol (she was in my class and her mom teaches 3rd grade at my school) and Kaleb.

Yolanda (her mom) and Marisol.

Alex and Morgan (morgan is Tamara Tilley's daughter. Tamara Tilley was Tristan's kindgarten teacher and of course my friend.)

Tamara enjoying the sun!!

Cole (in my kindgarten class) and his mom Amy...we got to be good friends.

Tristan on his Kindergarten graduation day! There is a video at the end of this with Tristan walking down the aisle for the kindergarten procession.

This is Tristan and his friend Aaron standing infront of the first grade sign....excited about going into first grade!

Tristan and his teacher Mrs. Tilley.

This is where Giselle and Sunny like to lay while we are swimming.

Okay so we had a water fight oneday and Jason threw us all into the pool in our clothes. Obviously the boys could just take off their shirts and continue to swim...but Alex didn't bother to go and change....she continued to swim in her clothes.

Tristan wanted to use the fishing poles and plastic fish...he wore glasses....he was pretending to be an old man fishing...no idea where he got that idea....movies?

Kaleb at his end of the year preformance. He is in the front row....looking so bored....hehe! The kids did dances in small groups. At the bottom is a video of Kaleb's dance.

Here is kaleb and his teacher...as you can tell it was a 60's theme!! It was sooo fun!!

Here is a picture of one Kaleb and one of his best friends JJ.

On Kaleb's other cheek was the peace sign.

Alex eating her breakfast outside...enjoying the weather!

Allana and Tristan playing checkers (sorry the photo is a little blurry)

Here is the other half of the gang eating breakfast outside...yummy!

Okay....so to make a long story short...my sister (Tami) decides she is going to pop in and see us. My house was a mess and I was sooo embarrased and too busy to clean. My life was CRAZY! So bless her heart...she just started cleaning and I couldn't stop her...she would make the best maid!!! (hehe) Anyway, I love her sooo much!!! She cleaned areas that "no man has gone before"...go Tami, go Tami, go Tami! I hope that she gets more blessings than ever!!
I call her...."Tami 911".

Kaleb's group did a dance to "Ain't No Moutain High Enough". He is the 2nd to last in the line. As you can tell he doesn't know the dance very well. I feel really bad because they were learning it during our "very sick time" at our house. That's okay because he did his best and he looks soooo cute!

This is Tristan walking down the aisle for his Kindgarten procession.

Getting Dressed

So...in the morning I ask the kids to go upstairs and get dressed, brush their teeth, and make their beds. Many times I have to tell them to go back upstairs and try it again (different outfit). So today...I am in the kitchen and I hear them come down the stairs. Here is how it went:

Tristan: "Hey you look good. You look like Halloween. Go show mom."

(I'm thinking hmmm...Halloween)

Kaleb: "I did good Trist"

Kaleb: "Hey mom...I look good"

Mom: "Wow Kaleb, you do look good! (kaleb smiling huge)

I was actually amazed because usually he comes downstairs wearing mix match colors or like a snowsuit and it is 100 outside. So...when I heard "Halloween"....I didn't know what to expect. (Alex has been taking pictures of his crazy outfits) I was pleasantly surprised to see he looked appropriate to go out in public...if we were to actually leave the house. Then they went straight to playing the Wii.....

Finally Better!

Okay, so our house has been sick FOREVER! Now we just have lingering coughs that are going away. Today was the last day of school!!!! Yeah!!!! However, teachers still have to report tomorrow. Good News is: today was a half day. Bad News: I had to have a root canal today. It was on a tooth that had already had a root canal done it...maybe 4 years ago. So, when they numbed me up...I panicked silently for a little while because I felt like my tongue was the size of a footbal and I couldn't swallow. Once I silently calmed down....I was fine from then on. The doctor did a great job!! He did a 100 times better than the first time I got a root canal...by another doctor. Now I have to go and get a new crown made too. Also the doctor figured out that I need to have another crown on the tooth behind it because it is cracking on the top of the filling. Ahhhhh!!!!! I promise I take care of my teeth!!! Anyway, I've got some cute pictures that I will post soon from Tristan's Kindergarten graduation!!!

And the Puking Continues!

I need an exterminator to come in and get rid of all the bad germs!!! 3:30 in the morning I hear, "MOM!" I jumped up and ran into the boys room. Kaleb has puked all over his bed and PJ's. Ahhhhh! I changed his clothes and sheets. Then went down stairs and got a barf pan for him. Tuked him back into bed and left both of our doors open....just incase.

He slept through the night. No more throwing up.....until the morning.....and it continues! Jason stayed home with him so that I could go to work and Tristan went to school. Alex went to school and she is afraid that it is going to hit her next.

My good friend (who teaches kindergarten also), Kristine, was so sweet and said that she would dismiss my class for me so that I could go home and play mommy. I started feeling icky about 12:00 anyway.

So I called Jason on the way home and he said that he was soooo glad that I was coming home because Now.....he has it full blow!!! The throwing up and the runs!!! He can't be a good caretaker if his head is in the toilet also. He said that he was thinking about calling me earlier and asking me to come home to take care of him and Kaleb. Kaleb's hasn't thrown up as much as Tristan and I did, however he had alot coming out the other end. So...I have been running around my house with Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer...cleaning everything!!!!

Who will be the next to be attacked? Alex is the only one who hasn't had it yet......
This is the worse time of the school year for me to be out....we have a million different tests to be giving our students before the end of the school year!! I need a miracle!!!!! Keep our family in your prayers!!!!!

Our Not So Great Weekend!

Friday:
It all started on Friday...we were at the Sock Hop and I got a call from Jay saying that Kaleb had fallen at McDonalds and he was bleeding all over and he didn't know if he needed stictches....so we left to go home and check it out. We couldn't tell through the hair...but we made the decision that he was fine. So we go to yogurt and we are eating inside, when Grace, Alex's friend yells out..."I thought you were on a diet!" Gee thanks Grace for announcing that to the yogurt shop (that part was just embarrasing...Grace if your reading this....don't worry....I still love you)

Saturday:
We were at Kaleb's soccer game and before the game starts he falls and hurts his finger....he refuses to move it or bend it...even while he is playing I could see him babying that finger on the feild. It started to swell and bruise....I thought he had broken it...but eventually we decided he just jammed his finger. Onto the next kid....we are going to Costco. Tristan keeps telling us he doesn't feel good...so we tell him to drink some water...maybe too much sun. We stop at the gas station and barf...barf....barf.....all over himself and Jason's truck!! He wasn't very happy with that. We clean him up...he says he feels okay to go to the store...we get to the store and he barfs...barfs....barfs all infront of Costco. Then we go into the store and he barfs....barfs.....barfs in the pharmacy trash can. The pharmacy people are so nice they give us this barf bag for him...Thank goodness because he barfs again in the bag....when we pulled up in the driveway. From that time on....Tristan throws up every 5-10 minutes (I started timming it). He can't keep anything down. When he had thrown up 16 times I began to lose count. He also had the runs...how fun for him and me. I was going to go to the ER but he finally fell asleep and I slept downstairs with him (on an air mattress) just in case. I coughed the whole night with my own cold.

Sunday:
We wake up and Tristan is still nauseated but still has the runs (he went through a number of pairs of underwear...by accident! I told him he wasn't aloud to toot unless he was sitting ont he toilet...just incase). About 7 am....guess who starts throwing up....Yep...me! Jay was sick too...he never threw up....but had the other end of it. We were such good parents on Sunday. We both layed on the couch or the air mattress (Tristan too) and let the kids ransack the cupboards. Kaleb: "mom, I'm hungry" Mom: "go get something out of the cupboard" Kaleb: "can I eat cookies?" Mom: "Sure, eat anything you can reach and want". What a bad day!!! At least Kaleb and Alex are not sick.

Monday:
Still not feeling well! Kept Kaleb home too because I don't want to have to leave the house to take him and pick him up from school. I know, I know...how lazy! Thats right! Ya gotta do what ya gotta do! Alex went to school (that is because she is a big girl to get herself ready and walk across the street to her friends house to catch her ride). Anyway, we are hoping for a better day tomorrow! Cross your fingers!