Taylor's 8th Birthday

My little Tay Tay turned 8 years old on July 27th!!! I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday! She has been an incredible kid from the start! Couldn't ask for a more sweet, beautiful girl on the inside and the outside! She is always so obedient and is such a great friend and big sister! We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE having Taylor in our family!!! Taylor is sooo excited to be baptized on September 26th! She has been preparing and learning her Articles of Faith! We are very proud of the good choices that she makes. Taylor is always turning to her Heavenly Father in prayer when she needs support. She already has developed that relationship and I know that will get her through all the craziness of life. She already has amazing faith and is such an amazing little...oh....oops! I mean big girl! :) She'll always be my first little baby though! :)

Taylor was very serious about her wish this year! She sat and thought about it for about a minute before she blew at the candles! I hope it comes true for her!!!

Auntie Shelby and cute Ella

Daddy being Daddy! I think Morgan took this picture!

We had a "Sing Star" party in the theater at our apartment complex! Here is Jaden, Tay and Lacey singing their hearts out!! All of the kids loved it...and I did too!!! I'm a huge Sing Star fan! In the theater, we could blast it as loud as we wanted and sing at the top of our lungs and it didn't bother anyone! Yay! Gotta love apartment life right!!!

Symphony Day at the Park

The Austin Symphony puts on "Symphony Day at the Park" every Wednesday in July. You only pay 50 cents per kid to get in and it is worth way more than that! We walked in to this amazing outdoor amphitheater through bubbles and music and were greeted by clowns and given free slinkies and balloons! It was so magical and fun! We loved it!

The theme of the show today was "Teddy Bear Picnic" After the show, they had a teddy bear contest for the biggest, smallest, etc. Rylee's "Grape Juice" teddy bear, (held by Morgan in the picture above) won for "Most Colorful" teddy bear. I am not sure if Rylee was more excited or if I was! So here is proud Rylee holding her new FAO Schwartz boy teddy bear with adorable pajamas! Rylee said that Grape Juice and this bear are getting married in the morning!! What should I wear to the ceremony?!!!

Here are the girls with their cousins Jaden, Jenna and Ella and London
Apparently, nobody wanted to look at the camera, but that's ok! This picture shows just how crazy it can be! :)

There was a instrument petting zoo there where the kids were able to touch and try any instrument they wanted. Pretty amazing! What a great idea!

Is this a sign of things to come?!

Taylor was focusing very hard on the cello!

Beautiful Aunt Summer and Baby London watching the show!

The performance was by "Cowgirl Sue" She sang the cutest songs and had the kids participate in every one of them. They absolutely loved it! The weather was perfect and even though they were in the sun on stage, we lucked out with perfect shade! The whole setting was incredible!

This is a yellow puppy dog...in case you were wondering!

The morning ended with face painting. Puppy dogs or kittens...tough choice! We had some of each! After the symphony park day was over we took our blanket and had a picnic in a cute gazebo with all the girls! This was a great morning!

Happy 4th Birthday Morgan!!!

I can't believe our little miracle baby is 4 years old! We love her sooo much! She is such a fun kid! We enjoy every second of her...even when she is acting very "3" or now "4"! :) She is always making us laugh! She has a very strong will. Morgan LOVES to run and skip and jump! She is very active and is adventurous! She still loves her snowman blankie and loves to suck her thumb! I love that she still loves to snuggle with her mommy! Morgan loves her sisters and loves playing pretend anything with them! We have not taken one second of her life for granted! I am so thankful to be her mom! I am the lucky one!

Thanks to Aunt Summer who made Morgan's adorable birthday crown...with the help of Taylor! We love you Summer!

Morgan was so much fun all day long! She kept asking if it was her birthday still! Then she would say, "Mommy, Thank you so much for my birthday!" What a sweet girl she is! We had a fun pool party for her before the dads had to go to work. It was fun to spend that time with family and friends Yummy cake and ice cream! Gotta love birthdays!

The Dad's decided to end the party with Chicken Fights in the pool! It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt right?!

Jason Skydiving!! SWEET GOODNESS

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LINDSEY Skydiving Baby!!!

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Skydiving Baby!!!

What better way to celebrate a 10 year anniversary than to go sky diving!!! Of course, this was Jason's idea...and after a couple of days....I couldn't wait to go either!! So, we went to this tiny little farm in Lexington, TX and jumped out of the last 10 years of our life and into the next 10 years! It was a very symbolic jump for us! It was crazy to realize that the place we were jumping was a little farm. There were llamas basking in the sprinklers and birds and chickens running everywhere! Then we looked at the tiny plane that we were going to be jumping out of and we thought we were in the wrong place! But...it turned out completely amazing! We had to jump separately because the plane would not fit both of us! Also, in the 3 minute instruction that we did get, we were informed not to pull on the pilots seat because it would probably break and then we would have the pilot in our lap! That was the one thing I did remember! It was awesome to do it this way though because it was very personal and just a completely different experience in every way! We will be posting video of our jumps, but here are some still photos! I still can't believe we did it! It is soooo surreal!!! What an adventure! But isn't everything an adventure with Jason! One thing is for sure...life is never boring being married to this crazy guy! You gotta love him!!!