Choir

I've gotten behind on the blog again. Everyone's been sick in our house and things at work have been busy and sometimes it's just hard to keep up on everything! Rylee's been doing choir at church this year. She really enjoys going and her class did a little performance for the parents and families a couple of weeks ago. I've been trying to upload some of the videos but can't get any of them to upload (Any other bloggers have any better ideas on how?) but here are some of the pictures of her class performing.









And an ice cream treat afterwards for such good singing! Rylee sang and participated the whole time (which was much different from her preschool program where she just stood and bit her fingers the whole time!)

Birthday Party

This year since the girls birthday's are so close we decided to have a joint birthday party. They both decided that they wanted a Dora birthday party. Rylee wanted to invite a couple of friends from school and they both wanted a couple of friends from from down the street and a little girl from the gym and my college roommate's little boy Tyler who they love through his blog. So with 6 additional kids it was kinda a mad house but we had a really great time. And we even let the kids make their own cupcakes to eat and to take home! I think they all had a really great time. Here are some of the pictures...


Everyone getting to the party and playing outside




Birthday girl #1


Birthday girl #2




Everyone took turns on everything! Makenzie even took a turn attempting to drive the Barbie car...needless to say that didn't go so well...


making the cupcakes...the kids are Karley in black, Nate with his back turned to you, Tyler in the green and Makenzie


the kids are Olivia in yellow, Rylee, Zane in the blue Nike jacket and Baylin in the Carolina jacket (Baylin and Zane are the friends from school and Olivia is the friend from the gym. Karley and Nate live down the street and Tyler is my college roommate's little boy.)




Then a little pin the tail on the donkey...


checking out where the tail went






cake time!




and a few presents!


the boys sitting all nice and quietly watching and waiting...


some of the presents..


and a good picture of the cake

Thanks to everyone who made our party a great time! We really enjoyed it!

The Circus

This week we took the girls to a local circus. It was definately in a sketchy part of town but the performers were actually pretty good. I think it was only 2 families of performers but they did a really good job and my girls had never been to a circus before so they thought it was great! Here are some pictures from it...









Makenzie stealing all of Aunt Jessie's drink...