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A-dorable nephews and one of my stinking cute neices. Oh yeah, and my brother and his wife.

Uh- Mazing

This was an amazing sunset that I caught in August, isn’t it breathtaking? I can’t wait to get these pictures printed off and put on my wall!

Yachting! Does that make me sound rich?

In August, we spent a whole day out on Sister Gore’s (A family friend from church) 62 foot Yacht. It was so fun. We are so lucky that Kyle is such a skilled boatman to drive us around all day while we pretend we are fancy or something!

After finally getting attached to the boey thing, we ate some lunch and Dustin and Kyle tried their skills at getting the motor to work on the dingy, with no luck :(

I guess Crystal thought it was too cold or something, she brought her winter parka and made good use of it.

It was a nice day and was such a good way to spend one of the last days of summer!

Funny, Random things

First, meet Allie. Don’t even try to count her rolls. It is INCREDIBLE! Will I ever be so blessed as to have a baby as delicious as this?  Her legs are even better, at least 6 rolls on each leg. HOLY COW! I tried to document the leg delicious-ness but they were going to be a little scandalous for the internet :)

Second, Rylin is going through the “owie”stage. You know, the one where even the slightest bumps need a Dora band-aid? Below is some documentation for the insurance to prove all of the “owie’s” she has been getting.

Third, a little frog friend…is he alive? Or dead? Let’s just say when Ry and I tried to make him jump off into the sunset, he turned into a big melted glob. I guess he was too “sleepy” . I through the blow up pool on top of him so Zeke wouldn’t eat him and the next day he was gone. Was he really alive?

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Happy Birthday to the prettiest, smartiest, and funniest 3 year old we know!

Rylin turned 3 YEARS OLD on August 22nd so we celebrated. She got at least 10 books total (most of which are read one time before bed every night), an awesome toy kitchen that she never leaves alone, and some accessories to go along with it. Kendall had been sick all week and was NOT the life of the party but all in all it was a good night with at least one happy happy girl. She was SO excited to have everyone over and still cannot stop talking about it.

In the picture above, Camden (her betrothed) is showing what she will be expected to learn in her new kitchen in order to insure happiness in their future together :)

Thanks to my mom, Rylin had to have a princess Jasmine pink cake. YIKES! I try to stick to basic…one of my favorites being a polka dot cake so I just did that and tried to stick some princess pictures on top. Hey, it may not look like a princess castle but she loved it.

Good times and Great oldies

While our friends Nick and Amanda were staying with us last week, Amanda turned the big 2-4 so we of course had a smashing dinner/game night. Russ (with Amanda holding a cake as well) turned 92 so we were also celebrating with him, although the boys went to a Mariner’s game earlier in the week :) After rounding up the kiddos-all 8 of them put to bed- it was time to play!

Cranium WOW is one of the most fun games to play with a group of people, I think there were 10 of us and it was a blast. ps- I love our house because it is big enough to have everyone over and room for all the kids to go to bed, who could ask for more?

Usually after 10pm Nick is drunk. Seriously, ok not seriously because we don’t drink…but he may as well be because of the way he is acting. It is one of the best things about these nights…his crazy sense of humor and his old man laugh. Although, I think that on this night it started around 9pm.

Dustin and Russ can’t ever do a normal face in a picture, I think there are like 10 of Russ doing something weird, this is what I get for not being the one taking the pictures! They are weird!

Nick’s final drunk moment of the night, he told a joke that none of us understood, but it was worth it just to watch him dying of laughter :) This was such a great way to have one last sha-bang before our buddies moved away. We are so lucky to have had Nick and Amanda grace us with their friendship…it is truly one that will involve visits to NC next summer and summer’s to come. We miss you guys!

 

Here are some last few pics from when they were ready to leave. Russ and Aspen are next…if you don’t see or hear from me for a while, I may be in my closet experiencing a minor depression.