Growing up!

I just have to post these pictures (for myself!!) My little baby girl is just so grown up! All tall and skinny and pottytrained...sleeps all night in her big girl bed and can write her name and sing her phone number! So so darling!

And this guy....! He just loves his dad and has now become a bit obsessed with watching football...even learning the rules and plays!! Wow! Sure love my kids.......................and the Hunk on the bike too!!

End of Summer and Start of School!!

We had a great summer! We hung at the pool a lot and played on the trampoline a lot! We didn't travel too much, but that's what we wanted this year. Ava loves to swim and does great in the water!!

Ava figured out how to wear flip flops this summer!!

Tanner started Kindergarten this year and really likes it so far. He has Mrs. Jones as his teacher and goes in the afternoons..........we are really enjoying our last year of sleeping in!
Im so proud of Tanner, he is one cool and smart kid!!

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Soocer Time

(His soccer team is the Pirates and they make a pirate hook are say arrrrrrrrr when they score.....so funny)

Tanner has started playing soccer this year and really loves it! He has a lot of energy and is fun to watch. He says he loves soccer ( I think he likes it so much because his team is undefeated.........that always makes it fun!)

Tanner and his buddy Kellan, they go to school and church together too!

Tanner striking a pose!!

I sure love you Tanner Boy! You are so smart and wonderful!

Steamboat Springs

We took a weekend trip to Steamboat Springs a couple of weekends ago. We swam, ate out, did some alpine slides, and hiked(a bit)! Great weekend!

Ava, Tanner, Kellen, Aidan, and Rick. Brandt was taking all of the pictures (with our new camera) so I didn't have him in any shots!

This kid loves loves to swim!! They could've swam all day!!

I wanna soak up the sun!!

We have been able to do some swimming lately!! The kiddie pool rocks, the kids can swim in there for hours without drowning!! Pool days are the best...(other than smothering sunscreen on my insanely adorably pale kiddos the whole time!!)

Ashley and Cody are one of the nicest couples....really! They invite us to come swim all of the time, and we love to crash their community center, it's way less crowded than ours!!

These days are always followed by a trip to Baja Fresh for diet coke and lots of yummo chips and salsa! I will miss these days when we are back in our coats and boots with the bun warmer blasting in the car... I don't love the cold....so we are really loving the summertime!

Ava is a natural little swimmer just like Tanner. It is hilarious to watch them constantly putting their faces in the water and then come up smiling and gasping for air....then they go back under for more!

Happy Father's Day Brandt 2010

We sure love our Daddy!! We celebrated Daddy with a sweet breakfast, lots of new clothes and dinner out at a new Mexican restaurant we like. Thanks for being so wonderful to Tanner and Ava....(and me). I am lucky to have a wonderful husband who makes it possible for me to stay home with the kids!

We also went to a car show that weekend. Tanner was in heaven!!!

Preschool Graduation

Tanner and Ava both went to Covenant Kids Day Out this past school year! It was our last year there, and they had a lot of fun. I am like 2 months behind.........

Their end of school performance was classic. Ava's teachers told me she could sing and dance to everything, but when showtime came she literally just smiled the whole time, no singing at all. It was so cute!!! Tanner did awesome despite the hyper problem child that he had to stand next to who kept jumping around and bumping into him!!!!

Tanner had Ms Rebecca(and a couple others before who couldn't handle the class) and Ava had Ms Angela....she was wonderful to Ava and even let her bring her flower blankie to school all of the time!! Ms Angela never even made me feel bad for having a 3 year old princess who still didn't use the potty completely at the end of the year............so Ms Angela rocks in my opinion!

We had a picnic afterwards with all the teachers and parents and then it was officially summer!!! Thanks CKDO for a great year and some quiet hours for mommy!