Alley Cats!

Last Friday the kids and I had 1 last "hoorah" before I started back to work. They chose to go to Alley Cats instead of the pool because it is just too blazing hot....even for the pool! The highlight of our outing was Ella winning the jackpot on one of the games. Above is what 1,000 tickets look like!! Little Miss Ellie was soooo proud!

Here is Cade playing the game where Ellie hit her jackpot. I believe he was trying to recreate the win...didn't happen!

Carson and Ella feeding the ticket machine

Mr. Carson

Miss Emma Claire
Boy, I'm going to miss hanging out with these guys every day! We had a wonderful summer!

One HOT Friday in August....

Emma, Ella, and Carson posed in front of the "control station" on their last day of Vacation Bible School.

2 cooperated posing for pictures, and of course 1 did not!

They sang in the end of VBS music program.

The only 1 I could actually get a picture of was Miss Ella, who was in the front row sporting the white bow.

Watching the sweet kiddos sing gave me goosebumps, it always does.

We headed to Rosemeade Pool to meet Grancie and Uncle Caleb, and Ella went down her very favorite slide.

Emma joined in on the water slide fun.

I actually took a decent picture of the trio, and bonus... Grancie was coming down in the background!! :)

We all circled the lazy river at least 45 times!

Carson met a new buddy.

Ella ate multiple snow cones.

Cade sunbathed.

Uncle Caleb was the best play toy ever!

Ella stood on her Uncle Caleb's back.

We snuggled with Grancie's new dog, Levi.

Grancie and Robin took us to a yummy new resteraunt called Cowboy Chicken.

We went to Willow Bend, played at the playground and everyone got prizes from Grancie! I bought this FUN game called Frog Tennis for 75% off!! The total for the game was $5!!! We have had sooooo much fun with it!

The girls each chose the prize above for their treat! Lots of fun!!

Car got a Hexo-bug or something like that...it is pretty fun!

What a perfect 105 degree day!!

Chop Chop!

The girls have been wanting their hair short "like Quinn" (their good friend) for quite some time. We finally gave in yesterday when we headed out to do back-to-school haircuts. So....the girls will head back to school in September with cute bob hair-cuts.
Here they are posing for their last long-hair pic. The hairs a bit messy because we pulled it out of a pony tail, and they were sporting gowns because they had P.J. Day at VBS.

Carson's back to school cut

and Cades

pics are out of order, but I was pretty sad when this beautiful hair was cut off

Ella

Emma

Ella post cut

twin pony-tails

Carson and I waiting on the girls to be done

Cade pretending he has a pony-tail

Cade and silly El with an arm full of tats!

Ellie holding her pony-tail


Emmy really loved her hair, but she was SICK of me taking pictures!

Emmy happy later that night at home!

Fixing the Fence

The other night Carson, Emmy, and Ellie helped Sam replace a couple of our fence posts that were in bad shape. They loved being outside with their daddy and taking turns holding the drill!

Ella, whose arms are covered in tattoos...


Daddy and Carson doing some practice with the drill.


Miss Priss Emma

so proud, and getting to be sooo big

Ella wearing her Christmas Crocs!

Emma and a BlueJay feather

sweet Emma girl swinging

My girls' legs are always covered in band-aids! They insist on covering every mosquito bite!

Mommy, Em, and the drill! :)

Mama and Carson

Cheerleading Swim Party

The girls had their cheerleading season kick-off party at the water park this morning. They are going to cheer on a team with Ashlyn this year. Their team will start practicing in August, and their first game will be in September. So to kick off the season they had some fun. Excuse Ella's swimsuit that always seems to inch down. I didn't notice when I was taking the picture, and it was the only pic that I took with Ashlyn!

Ashlyn

Ella

Emma