The WHOLE Summer!

Well, I know I haven't posted for a really long time , BUT with facebook, life, kids, work, I felt like it was a "time parasite". However, I just found out from a great friend at work ( that would be Cami) that there is a new program you can download for FREE! you can print your blog and pictures in a book for a really good price! Its called .....UUUmmm I forget, but I promise I will post it. Anyway, I decided to continue with the blog to make me feel better as a mother, for like a keepsake, journal type of thing that I normally could never keep up with.
So...here goes the summer.... Probably pretty much out of order!.......
Had Jessa, Aspen and Ashley for a while this Summer...LOVED it!
Jessa and Chandler dressed up, got dressed up, played, pretended and enjoyed bugs and the outdoors ! Here are some pictures Mackenzi took after getting them all dressed up ( I'm sure she spent the whole day curling hair and applying make-up instead of cleaning up the house, but I have to admit they look pretty darn cute!)

Yeah, by the way...that WOULD be my flowers from my decorative pots used to make the HALO! :)

Very blurry, but yes.....I TURNED 40!!!! Me...being surprised,,,,,EEEk! Ray and the kids made a great dinner, gave me great cards, and an awesome zero gravity chair!

Mackenzi and Ashlie doing a "fashion show" for the upcoming school year...... lights, camera, etc were all involved! Strike a pose! How stinkin cute are they?

Ash

Kenz

So this was probably the most funny and yet most frightening event of the summer.... I had to work, Mackenzi and Ash had a cold, were on cold meds and in lying on the couch, well unbeknown st to them their little sisters (Chandler and Jessa ) mad a "car" to ride down my steep sidewalk. I came home from work, just noticed the "chairs" in my way in the garage, had to park outside, walked up to them and then was like...OH HELL! Jill's GONNA KILL ME! But, then I thought it was pretty darned inventive how they had bungee corded 2 folding chairs to the wagon, and had put in tie down for seat belts!

I will admit I was giggling a little when Brendan came home and saw me taking pictures and he proceeded to say "Yeah, you should have seen them earlier, they had a blanket set up as a roof over their head!" and I was like "YOU actually SAW them and let them ride that?!!!!!" and he says "Well, they had their helmets on!" I'm sure the neighbors gave me high points on the mother scale that day!!!

I promise I am a good and very over-protective mother!

We went camping and got to float the river! We also took Paige. We had a great time!

A little 4 wheeling dirt will make anyone look rough! I don't know? Paige went to Hawaii the next day..what do you think she enjoyed most?!!

We also fit a family trip to LAGOON in there !

EEEKKK! Hot, Crowds, Hot !

Aspen, Paige, BrendAN

fAMILY...BEING HOT

mom, meredith, chandler

KIDS LOVED IT!!! Which looks funner? A trip to Lagoon or the Radio flyer made up as car?!@!! EXCATLY my point!!! Here are the twins sleeping....at lagoon!Twins making blueberry pancakes before the big day at lagoon!

Twins spending time reading with Chandler and Uncle Ray...more like snoozin with Uncle Ray while Me, Mom, Kenzi, Brent and Meredith went to Cirque-del-sol-li..Ray didn't want to go he took Brendan to CREW fest the week before

I don't have any pics but HOLY CRAP!!!!! Brendan also turned 19!!!!!!!! EEEKKKK!!!!Cripes!!!!!!CRAP!!!!!!! Im old!!!!

Biggest, Greatest thing of the Summer.....Mackenzi and Aspen went to Teen Leadership and did AWESOME, had a GREAT TIME and are EMPOWERED, ENTHUSIASTIC, LEADERS, and are ready to take on the world!! I really am so very proud of them both, it's a challenging, hard course and they did GREAT!!!

I know I am forgetting a few things, but all in all, its been a great Summer!