My Birthday Rocked

Okay, that was pretty bad. But seriously, I got rockers for my birthday. Aren't they cute!

And it really did rock! My mom came up for the day. A sweet girl from church baby-sat the big kids. I got to have lunch with my mom and this cute guy...After lunch we did a little shopping. Then my mom stayed with the kids so I could have a date with this cute guy...
Sarah took our picture before we left, it's a little blurry! We went to the Cheesecake Factory, one of my favorites! The next day he and the kids had a little party for me with pizza and ice cream cake. AND the next day my parents had a BBQ with the rest of my family. I just got spoiled all week! It was great! On Saturday I took my gift cards and birthday money and had a little shopping spree! I got lots of fun new decorations for the house! I'll show some pictures when I get them all put up.
Thanks to my sweet family for making my birthday (week!) so fun!

The Garretts Have Talent

In the summer we love to watch America's Got Talent. The kids have gotten really into it this year. Now they like to play America's Got Talent. They are always up to something creative. They have been singing and playing instruments. (Even Chase!)
One day they painted pictures. Then they made up a story to go with them about Aliens Attacking the Earth.

And of course, they always have fun with the dress up clothes! Poor baby Chase!

A Few More Pics from the 4th

Happy 4th Of July!

Summer Update!

Sorry it's been a month since I posted here! I actually tried to add some things a few weeks ago and was having trouble getting them to post. They are up now but now Chase is almost 8 months old. We've been having a good summer. The last few weeks were really busy and we had something going on most days. This week we have not had one thing planned. It has been nice! Hope everyone has a nice July 4th weekend! Our neighborhood had an Independence Day Celebration last weekend. I didn't get very many pictures but we had a parade, pool party and fireworks! It was fun, I love our cute neighborhood!

A Day In The Life

One of the blogs that I read (Kelly's Korner) is doing a "day in the life" series. I thought it would be fun to keep track of what one of my days looks like. This might be super boring for someone else to read but I thought it would be fun to look back when my kids were older and see what our days were like. So...here's what we did today!

We have been staying home, and mostly inside all week. When Adam woke up today he asked if we could have donuts for breakfast. I told him we could walk to the donut store before it got too hot. I fed Chase, fixed Jake some lunch and coffee for work. We said good-bye to him, got the stroller and took off on our walk.We got our donuts and took them to the park to eat and play. We love this little tree house playground!

I was wrong, it WAS too hot already! About half way through I decided that wasn't my best idea but it was too late at that point! We got home and cooled off for a while. Chase took a nap, I checked my email and facebook, Adam watched tv, Sarah played "tangled"...notice her long pink hair!

Next we had lunch and I got that cleaned up. After lunch we read some books together.

This is Sarah's reading log for the library. I thought it was cute how the books she picked are so her!

We had some playtime upstairs. Chase watched as the big kids and I put together the Geo-trax and played with those for a little bit.

When he got sleepy I rocked him for a little bit and put him down for a nap.

I sent the big kids to their rooms for some quiet time. I came downstairs and had some quiet time too! (one of my favorite times of the day!) When rest time was over the kids played in their little pool in the back yard. I forgot to take pictures but they had fun out there. Chase & I were the lifeguards. Then it was time to come in for dinner.

Chase had squash and bananas. (He had two other meals today, I just forgot to take pictures!). The kids helped me make calzones for dinner. By help I mean Sarah poured a whole bag of cheese on hers.

After the cheese incident I sent them off to play with Lego's while I finished dinner.

We ate dinner and got the kitchen cleaned up and got everyone ready for bed.

I put the kids to bed and could have gone to bed myself! I didn't though. I waited up for Jake to get home, he worked late tonight. Somewhere in there I did some dishes and laundry and picking up around the house. It was a busy day! Now I can go to bed!

Girls Day with Sarah

Sarah & I had a fun day out. We went to Grapevine to a fun girly boutique. They have dress-up clothes and tea parties for little girls. Sarah had so much fun trying on all of the different fancy clothes. You know she loves a good tea party! She drank real tea with sugar cubes! We had fancy pink cupcakes too.

It was so much fun to get away with my girl! I love that she is so girly and I love our time together!

7 Months Old!

My happy boy is 7 months old now! He has started doing the "army crawl" to get around. He is especially happy to crawl if he sees the remote control or that doorstop thing that makes a funny noise. He really likes to stand up (with help). He has really strong (cute, chubby, little) legs! He's tried lots of different fruits and veggies and pretty much likes everything he has had. He is still just as happy and laid back as ever. The only time he really is unhappy is if we leave the room when it's time for him to go to sleep. He likes to stay up with us and he gets his feelings hurt if we leave him! Sweet boy. He likes to be rocked but now he fights going to sleep. He'd rather play than sleep! Everyone comments on what an easy baby he is- we are so thankful for his good natured personality! He's just a joy to our family!