No.More.Babies!

That includes puppies! We looked in our neighbor's back yard and we saw this little white thing, rabbit? Rodent of some type? Nope, it was a 6 week old Westie! Camryn was in love!






Bailey was a litter of 9 puppies raised by a dachsund! The mom was sold before they found out she was expecting and they didn't want puppies so they stayed behind. She was 6 weeks old to the day when we met her. Sooo tiny, and in dire need of a bath after being stuck in a kennel with all of her brothers and sisters LOL! but still cute!

Arrgh Matey!

Logan came downstairs and said "Mommy, I'm a pirate! I'm Captum Jack Sparrow!" I turn around and look as he is coming down the stairs and sure enough, he's got his pirate gear on and nothing else LOL! All I could think of while I was snapping away is "boy, this kid is gonna hate me when he gets married and these pics show up in his slideshow" LOL!
He makes a pretty cute pirate though!

Happy 4th of July/ Canada Day!

I always take pics of the kids at this place where they have hundreds of American flags set up over for Memorial day (and through the month of June) and send it to family for Canada Day ha! It gets harder and harder each year to get all the kids to cooperate for one good pic, but at least with my DSLR I can take as many as I need to get that one.good.pic.

Swimming

The kids were invited to swim last week, Addison was not pleased! She loves her baths, but not the cold pool water LOL!

She was much happier poolside with me!

Sean is still a little chicken when it comes to swimming, so he went "surfing" instead

Camryn is a friggin fish, so she is all over the place doing belly flops, cannon balls -- everything! She would live in the water if she could!


Logan on the other hand, sits on the stairs of the pool the whole time.... Until he has to pee that is LOL! C told him he could just go on the grass, he thought that was fabulous.... Thumbs up!

Water slidin' fun!

We have not had rain in FOREVER! it is hot, humid and I.don't.like.it.
The kids at least are enjoying the weather (unlike my grass *hmph*) on this ginormous inflatable waterslide! This bad boy holds up to 400 lbs! Not that I would be tempted in ANY way to join in on the fun, but just sayin'!

Sean gets a little bounce to his slide, it is rather humorous!

Logan does not like to slide on his bum, he prefers to go down on his belly, feet first. Then splash around in the pool. Once it got full, it was too cold, so he did a little more sliding before quitting.


And then, after the hours of being outside, my kids decide to come in and make themselves a sandwich--- Not the kind you're thinking of though! Poor Logan, he was too scared to be on the top, so he'd rather get the life squshed out of him LOL!

My babies have been Inked!

Well, this year's birthday bash for Katie and Megan(who turned 5) was great! They added airbrush tatoos and face painting to the pony rides and silly safari.
The kids were soo excited to get tattoos! I even had one put on Addison. It was hilarious to see her facial expression as the air was pushing her skin. She had this look of sheer horror (or as we refer to it as "deer in headlights") when the lady was waving the pen back and forth across her arm. She wanted to grab the tool as well, but no such luck LOL


Look at my little biker babe with her cool little shades (that she REFUSED to wear) and magnetic earrings! Of course, she had to steal some of the hamburger bun that Aunty Carol made the mistake of setting it beside her HA!

Camryn got a koala on one arm and a dolphin on the other:

And Sean &Logan got the same 2: Flames and a dragon:



I just finish getting shots of the tattoos when I see Jeff get volunteered to man the sno-cone machine, so I get a quick snap of him (well 2-- one is a scowl on his face for taking the pic, the other is a forced smile because I yelled at him to smile for once LOL!)

I only got a shot of Camryn on the ponies (bad mommy!) but was so busy snapping shots of everyone else, I didn't catch them. I can't make them wait to do their own thing, I need a second set of hands and eyes on the back of my head so I can take pics at both ends of the action!

But, there were 3 cameras going on and I know for a fact my kids are in their shots, so no worries!
The kids are worn out! We get home after 9 hours of festivities! They always look forward to this party at the end of the school year!

Teeth and Toes

Well, Addison has 6 teeth now! She has cut the top 4 in the past 2 weeks! If you look closely, you can see a couple in there-- she seems to be getting a rash from drooling soooo much, but oh well, it will go away soon.



I decided since I have an obession for painting my toes, I should give Addison her first pedi! Look at those piggies!

Pokemon!?

When I worked in the school system years ago (like 1999) I had kids I worked with that were OBSESSED with Pokemon. Well, I hated it then, and I hate it now. My kids are loving the cartoon, cards, books -- anything Pokemon! ARRGH!
So, Sean has decided he wants a Pokemon birthday this year and he wants his invitations to have him and the Pokemon characters on it. Ok.fine.
So here it is:

From this --


to this:

I no longer control what they like anymore (insert sobbing smiley) I guess it could be worse!

Blog Challenge: Mosaic

This week's challenge is to create a mosaic. My mosaic is of just random pics of our family and a few friends from the past few months. Enjoy!

Weddings!

I love weddings! I actually got to photograph my first wedding (YAY!)
Anyhoo, it was only immediate family, so there were 8 people there, but it turned out great! They are going to have a reception in September, so hopefully they liked the pics enough to ask me back!
Here are a few shots:




Thanks Casey and Dishon!