My Beautiful Sisters!

Can I just say how much I LOVE my sisters! Can I just say it again?!!! I LOVE MY SISTERS! I am the luckiest girl in the world to have 4 AMAZING sisters! I am so happy that my girls have sisters to grow up with and make wonderful memories with! I tell them now, "just wait...you guys are all going to be best friends when you are older!" :) My sisters are all beautiful on the inside and out! I look up to all of them! It will be fun to get back to Arizona so we can be together again...until then...I am so glad for free long distance!

P.S. Sorry Mindy! Had to put the alone picture of you up! I know I am in trouble, but I LOVE, LOVE that picture of you!!!!

Wii Addiction

So Little Morgie's new addiction is the Wii. With a small apartment, I let her play whenever she wants, because at least she is up and moving with Wii Sports. There is really not that much room to do anything else. So a couple of weeks ago, she started playing with her sisters and they were frustrated because she couldn't even figure out the bowling. I am not sure if she took that as a challenge, but she now has mastered the Wii and plays CONSTANTLY when we are home! The other day I walked into the room and saw that she had set up a baseball game completely on her own. Her sisters were gone somewhere, so she took matters literally into her own hands. She had the Player 1 controller in one hand and the Player 2 controller in the other hand. She would pitch to herself with the one hand and hit with the other...and she was hitting the balls! I am not sure I could even do that! Kids are so technology saavy! It is amazing! I know that being proud over a video game is kind of lame, but how can you not be? Cute Morgan! Gotta love her spunk! Nothing stops her!

Happy Father's Day Jason!

Happy Father's Day to an incredible husband and father! The girls all decorated ties for Jason and his brothers to wear to church! Aren't they lucky! We are so lucky to have Jason in our lives! He always keeps us laughing and keeps his girls screaming! They LOVE their daddy! He always gives soooo much love and he is an amazing example of how a man should be! Any guy that my girls marry will have very big shoes to fill! He takes great care of his family! I love the little things that he does for me and for the girls. For example, at Sea World, Taylor got pretty sad about not riding any of the rides. At the end of the day, she had picked a small Shamu to take home. We were standing in line to check out and he hurried and traded her for the bigger Shamu. Her eyes just lit up and it made all the sadness from the whole day disappear! I think this is why he has all girls...he is so good with us and our feelings! He has been working so hard this summer and making huge sacrifices! We are so proud of him and the man that he is! We love you Jason!

Sea World

Last week, we had a bunch of birthdays and events to celebrate, so we went to Sea World with Jason's brothers and their families and our friends Kiera and Craig and their family. It was fun to be together! Sea World is just an amazing place! The rides are ok, but the shows are just magical! The Shamu show had a theme of "Believe" and it was truly inspiring! Taylor was so sad that she could not ride any of the roller coasters because of her cast, so she asked if we could sit in the splash zone. We tried to sit really close to the Shamu pool. When the show started, they informed us that we were in the "soak" zone. They weren't lying! We were completely wet, dripping from head to toe when we left! It was so fun! Felt great on such a hot day! We saw a water ski show and Rylee and Morgan went down with a bunch of kids to dance to a song...they just kind of stood there though...that's ok. A little stage fright I guess. During the Born to Be Wild song, Rylee grabs my arm and said, "Mom...I was born to be wild....really....wild!" Her eyes were just huge when she said it and I was laughing so hard! She just floors me all the time! We went to feed the seals, but you can't touch them, so we just watched them instead. After we were there for a while, Morgan said, "Mom...did you hear that otter? He said Morgan, give me a fish!" I love kids! They are the truest form of happiness! Rylee went on her first "big" roller coaster. I asked her if it was awesome and she said that it wasn't awesome...it was crazy! She was very scared, but went on it twice! I love that my kids love adventurous rides like their mom and dad! Adrenaline junkies. After her second ride, I held her up and said for those boys who are scared to go on this ride, my 5 year old girl just went twice! Ok, so I gloated a little! Can you blame me?

Feeding the Dolphins

We went to Sea World in San Antonio last week! It was a blast! It was fun to get a day with Jason since he has been working sooo much and doing such an incredible job! Right when we got there we lucked out that it was feeding time for the dolphins. We bought a couple of trays of fish and all got to feed them! They swim right up to you and you can touch them. I felt like a little kid! Jason was just laughing at me all through the line and while we were feeding because I was sooo giddy! He loves to see me happy! It was truly amazing to be so close to these incredible animals!

Library

We spend a lot of our days at the library here in town. It has a great kids section with computers, puppet shows, puzzles and of course, great books. The free movies have been great and the kids have loved having tons of books to read! I just loving spending the time with them. They are really great kids! I feel extremely lucky! Taylor has read about 10 books since we have been here. What a bookworm! Love it!!! They are getting so big!

Poor Tay Tay!

Two weeks ago Taylor was playing hide and seek with some friends and tripped over a curb and broke her right arm. It was very sad! It was sad to see her in such excruciating pain and it was sad to see her have to go through all of the emotions as the reality of what happened sunk in. She really did take it like a champ and really saw the positive side of everything...like she was glad it was just her arm and not both arms or her leg. Thank goodness for pain medication which helped her smile in her hospital pictures. It made her pretty loopy though! Entertaining, but loopy! :) Luckily, we were able to get her a waterproof lining in her cast, so it has not slowed her down at all! We have been swimming still almost everyday. She gets the cast off July 9th. She is very excited!

Splash Park

There is a great splash park next to a lake here. Rylee and Morgan had a blast!! There are trails to walk around the lake and it is very pretty. We have been a few times and have had a lot of fun! Jessie likes it when we go because we can take her. She likes all the attention! Don't we all though! :) Taylor was not too keen on dirt and walking around exploring. I had the idea to pick the wildflowers that were growing...(is that legal?)...and we all took turns making a wish and throwing the flowers into the lake. After that, Taylor was happy. She wanted me to delete the photo of her "before" the wishing...but it is way to classic to delete!!

Disney Dinosaur Restaurant

We went to the coolest restaurant in Downtown Disney. It had huge dinosaurs in it that moved. A room with meteor showers. An ice cave and aquarium. The girls got to dig for fossils while we were waiting for our table. Jason got a little hungry and thought he'd take a stab at jellyfish! :)

Downtown Disney

It rained constantly the whole last week we were in Orlando and I got sick, so we never made it to any theme parks, but we did take a night and go to Downtown Disney. There are a bunch of shops and fun restaurants and things to see. The Lego store had a fun place for us to build things with the girls outside. We had a lot of fun just being together and watching how big the girl's eyes got every place we walked in...and ok...so I cheated and put the M&M World picture in here from the Florida Mall. It rained so hard we spent a day inside at the mall! Fun!