1st day of School 2010

Today was the first day of school for our kids. Kylie and Chris had to leave at 6:27 am. Madison headed out the door at 7:30 am. She is very excited to be starting 8th grade this year!

Avery started 4th grade and Kamryn started her final year at Pre-K.

Kylie's New Look

Today Kylie got 5 inches cut off her hair. After her hair cut she asked me to dye her hair a darker color.....match her roots. I was very nervous as we selected a color from Sally's beauty supply.

Ta-Da. A new cut and a new color for a new school year!!!

Kamryn Bobbi's 5th Birthday

Today we celebrated our baby girl's 5th birthday. Her day started with breakfast in bed.

Our birthday girl!

Getting ready to open presents.

Her favorite gift...a new bike.

After she opened presents we all headed to Chiles for lunch. CJ is in OC MD with a friend, so Kylie's boyfriend, Nick, spent the day with us.

The wait staff sang 'happy birthday' to our girl.

After lunch we all headed to Kid's Castle to play. Here's a pic of the castle just in case you have never been there.

The kids playing.

Since we had a late lunch, we decided to have her birthday dinner, tacos, another night. We went right to dessert. Kami chose a vanilla/chocolate swirl cake with butter cream icing.

Always a crazy photo.

Our Birthday Princess.

Finally, after a long, funfilled day, Kamryn put on her new PJ's and snuggled up to her new pillow pet. She didn't get to Disney World for this birthday, but I think it is safe to say that she had a FANTASTIC DAY!!!!

Look out Kylie!

Tonight Kylie's boyfriend came over. Kylie and Nick were watching videos on you-tube when Kamryn climbed up and cuddled next to Nick to watch the videos. Such a lucky guy to be sitting next to two fabulous girlies!

Cape May

This past week the 7 of us headed to Cape May to visit with NaNa and PopPop for a mini vacation. Our favorite activity is spending the day on the beach.

Our first day the water was cold and calm.

I just love it when my kids get along!

Chris and Avery went for a long walk.

We did so many other fun things together, but I failed to bring my camera along. We went to the promenade, got ice cream, went shopping, CJ, Kylie, and Madi met up with a bunch of locals and went out at night. Chris and I even got in a 'date night' after the little kids were settled in, the two of us headed out to a nearby restaurant/bar for a few 'kid free' hours! Thank you so much to my parents for another FABULOUS visit!!!!!!

Peaches!!!!

On Monday afternoon we took the kids to Linvilla Orchards to go peach picking. We got to go on a tractor ride to the peach trees.

Everyone had fun picking peaches.

And of course eating them along the way.

The kids took a seat while we went to pay for our 16 pounds of peaches! When 7 peaople go picking, it adds up quickly!!!

After we got home, we each ate a peach, took 2 to Gram, and we still had a lot.

So there's only one thing left to do when you have so many peaches......make a peach pie!

Camping 2010

Here are a few pics from our camping trip. Below is Chris and CJ making breakfast for everyone. On the menu.....bacon, scrapple, eggs, toast, muffins, and OJ.

Our camp site. These are not the tents we slept in, these tents just hold beverages and supplies.

After breakfast we went on a hike to a waterfall.

The kids thought they were so cool driving around the camp site in the jeep.

This is our view from our campsite.