A day at the aquarium!

We spent the day at the Albuquerque aquarium yesterday! It was so nice to spend the day with grandma Shelley. Ella was entranced with the fish. Jaxon STILL loves it, too. I love being home.

Mary Poppins

Rich and I took Jaxon to see his first play this week! Jaxon started telling people "we are going to see Mary Poppins in HUMAN"...just to clarify that we were not seeing the movie. :) We went into LA and had a little one on one time with him. We had a great time!! We had wonderful seats,too! I think he loved it as much as I did!!

4th of July

We had a WONDERFUL 4th of July!!  Sarah and her family came to visit, so it was super fun!
My kids ADORE Sarah and her family...so they were in heaven.  We started off the day with our town's little Main Street Parade. 


She is all ready!

Olivia and Ella...These girls LOVE each other so much!

Cute kids ready to catch candy!

Ella has a MAJOR crush on her Uncle Craig.

 Then we pulled out the Slip N Slide for some hot summer day fun! Ella jumped in in all of her clothes...She is too fast for me!  ;)

She loves to be sopping wet.

Olivia showing us how it is done!



Jax has perfected the Slide....or maybe the Slip.



Getting warm with Aunt Sarah.

 The fireworks show is done at the park, just on the other side of the main road by out house, so you can see the fireworks PERFECT from our front lawn.  So we pulled out the blankets and the fire pit and made s'mores.  Everyone in the neighborhood was out in their yards...it was so fun!

Everyone grabbing their spots for the big show.



I think Ella was the most excited.



Maybe Jaxon was. 



I think it was WAY too late for Ella...She just lied down on the bricks!  HAHAHAHA



S'more makin'. 

June

So...you can probably tell that I have been called to Girls Camp again! How can you tell...I haven't blogged in so long! I have been a super busy little bee...but let's get caught up! 
June was awesome!  Jaxon finished first grade, and I have to brag a little bit.  He was awarded the Rotary award at his school.  This award is given to the kid that has a great attitude, awesome in school, working hard at everything, and is just overall wonderful!  They only give it to one little kiddo in each class!  We were BEYOND proud! 

Ella has to be in on every pic these days. 

We are so proud of him!!  I was sobbing my eyes out!  :)  Such a sap!

 The week before school ended, they had an Olympics at Jaxon's school.  They got to do a Mega Tug of War which the WON!!!  They beat out all of the other 1st grade classes!  He was super excited!

Jax lining up to Tug-o-War with his best friend Alex.

Getting ready!

 Jaxon has started doing BIG TIME chores in the house.  He has a certain jobs every day of the week and he has started learning to vacuum.  He was saying it was too loud, so Rich fixed that for him.  :)

Jax vacuuming with his Indy Car race ear phones on.

 Ella has been such a little ham lately!!  She LOVES to put on a show for everyone!  We went into Jaxon's class the other day (remember...he has year round school), and she started dancing for the entire class.  She loved it when they all started clapping. 

She was waiting for Jaxon's awards ceremony...she was entertaining the waiting crowd.

She wants to go to school with Jaxon almost everyday.

We went to the LA Flower Market...I love how she looks at him.

I think this is one of my favorite pics EVER. This is Sunday after church.  I love it.

Ella finds every water puddle.  She had piggies in her hair and decided she needed them out...great hair, huh?

Puddle baby

 Of course we have been hitting the beach quite a bit.  Jaxon has been getting so brave!  He now goes WAY out with Rich and dives under the oncoming waves.  It scares me death!  But, he loves it and Rich is right next to him and I am so happy he loves the water.

He NEVER comes out of the water.

Ella loves the beach, too.  She says "Beeeeeee"!!!

This is what happens to me at the beach.  ;(

Curious little Monkey

Ella is super curious!!  She gets into EVERYTHING!!  It is pretty stinkin' cute.  She keeps me on my toes for sure!  Here are a few things she has been up to!

Toilet Paper Bandit

She tries to sneak up the bunk bed.

Helping reorganize the food storage.

Making sure the Tupperware is all in the right place.

Helping Jaxon re-arrange his books. 

Mother/Son Dance

I BEGGED Jaxon to go to the Mother/Son Dance with me.  He finally said he would.  When we got there, he refused to dance, but then he lightened up.  We had a GREAT time!  He can boogie down!

I love this pic.

Summer is on it's way

Last week it was CRAZY hot in SoCal.  We had to break out the water toys for our first official dip into summer!

Cutest. Swimsuit. Ever.

Who needs water toys, when there is a hose?

Water bombs anyone?

Slip n Slider

Summer fun!