Happy Labor Day!!

This was the fruit of my labors today. I put these together for my back porch. They sit right outside of my bedroom door. Ahhhh.....

When I was opening the hardware packaging for the table I pulled too hard and the washers and screws flew everywhere and fell down the tiny cracks in the porch. I screamed, "Oh Fudge!!"

No, really. I said fudge.

Then I had Haley and Jason crawl under the porch to get the washers that flew underneath. Everything got put together and I did not get any spider bites. Thanks kids!

P.S. Lewis put the trampoline that you see in the background together today. Good job honey!

Don't you love it when you catch the kids playing nice together and they don't ever have a clue that you were there?

Doggy Paddle

Mojito jumped into the local pond and had a swim. He loved the water, but he was disgusting after he was done. We had to take him home and have his first home bath. He was so cold afterward that he ran and covered himself up completely with the blanket in his bed. I had to uncover him a little to take this picture. So cute!!

Sneak Peek

I know that there are no curtains, and I have put up pictures since I took these, but I have had so many people ask me to see pics of the house I thought that I would give you all a little sneak peek!!

Gymnastics

First Day of School (for the rest of us)

Abigail started all day kindergarten this past month. She is so grown up! She was so excited to get to school and be there all day with the big kids. Look at how cute she is in her little uniform! I had the hardest time finding her school clothes. She is still so tiny that even extra small is too big and falls off of her. I ended up getting her clothes in the baby section at Target and Walmart. She is wearing 4T pants and skirts with 5T shirts from Old Navy. With that said I took her to the doctor last week and she is on the charts! She is in the 4th percentile for weight and the 14th percentile for height! Yeah!!! She has never been on the charts before. (And guess what? She is actually TALLER then one other kid in her class, even though she is the youngest!)

First Day of School (for most of us)

H, 1st grade; J, 3rd grade; A, 6th grade

They are getting so big!!!

Last Meal

We have started this fun little tradition with our friends the Wiggins. On the last day before school starts each fall we take the kids out to eat for breakfast. The whole idea was that we would get them up early, like we would on a school day and take them out to eat so that they would have to be up and ready for the day early.

Last year we took them to Mimi's Cafe and that is where they wanted to go again this year. They did not want to go there because of the food. They did not want to go there because of the ambiance. They want to go there because of this:

They want to go there because the bathrooms are gold. The girls talked about the gold bathroom for a year. Abigail was so excited to go this year (since she started kindergarten this is her first year going). So here it is for all of you to see; the golden sink. I will spare you the picture of the toilet. Now you do not need to go to Mimi's for breakfast. I have shown you the best part.

(the food is actually good too, but all they care about is the golden bathroom)

We Love Cowabunga!

Slluuuurrrrrppppp!

Look at Jason! I must have caught him in a really good mood. He never smiles for the camera!
Cheese!

I know what you are thinking. OH MY GOSH! KENDRA IS UPDATING!! Well yes, it is true I have finally loaded all of my pictures onto the computer and I am ready to give my wisdom and stories to the world. Well, stories anyway. I don't have much wisdom. :)

So first of all I would like to introduce you all to the cutest quadruplet cousins ever. (Olivia is actually Lewis' cousin but since she is the same age as Haley, they all just call each other cousins.) They had the best time at Nick's (Lewis' cousin) wedding in August. They all wore the same dress and had a great time playing, climbing to the tree house and eating ice cream sundaes.

Did you notice that my girls do not have shirts under their dresses but the others do? When we were shopping for the dress Allison asked the girls about the dress and one of them said that it was not modest to wear the dress because showing shoulders was not good. Allison and I tried so hard not to laugh. She is a good girl and she is so honest to say what she has been taught.