Sleeping beauties

 

Tuesday nights I have a bible study so I don't put the girls to bed.  So, coming home and seeing them asleep is so sweet.   Leah on top, Bella on the bottom.

Funny Stuff

 

So, Bella asked me to video her performance of Let it Go from "Frozen".  I tried everything to download the video, but couldn't get it to work, so I just put it up on youtube.  You have to turn it up to hear her, but the best part of the video is Leah's comedy act behind her.  That girl cracks me up...and when we went to watch it back, Bella was laughing because she didn't even realize Leah was doing all that.  Crazy girls!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yffKMeVB_Q

July 4th

What a fun July 4th weekend we had!!  We started off with no real plans and ended up doing so much that the girls went to bed EXHAUSTED every night!  July 4th morning, there was a parade in our neighborhood.  We went to watch, but ended up just joining in and riding in the parade.  The girls were SUPER tired, so this picture below is pretty much what they looked like the entire time...until they got a lolipop at the end...then they perked up a bit :)  After the parade, we went home and I forced the girls to nap and they (and I) slept for 2.5 hours.  It was pretty awesome!  Then we had a BBQ at our neighbors and we put out a bounce house, a crazy sprikler, and other fun stuff for the kids.  After we ate, we lit sparklers, which ended up not being a great idea as Bella burned her thumb pretty bad and is now terrified of them.  Oh well...anyway, then we went to the Costco parking lot with our neighbors and some other friends to watch the fireworks (which we could actually see pretty well this year!).  All in all, it was a GREAT day!!  Saturday and Sunday was full of time with neighbors, pool visits, fishing trips, and time as a family.  Best weekend we have had in a long time!!

The girls playing "I spy" with Kathy

More sparklers at the fireworks

Notice Bella's "sparkler"...she was using a sand rake!

The ice cream man came right before the fireworks went off...Cesar (the biggest kid of all) bought everyone popsicles the kids & adults all had a treat as we watched!

Silly Family

Bounce house at the BBQ

Sunday we went to a local river to play (the girls), fish (Cesar), and read (ME!).

Silly girls...not looking at the camera

Six Flags round 2

Friday the girls and I went to six flags!  It was the perfect day.  The weather was great, the girls were so happy, and Cesar ended up meeting us half way through the day after he finished work!  This was the first time we went to the water park this year and the girls LOVED it.  We went on a bunch of new things that they couldn't go on last year (and that I was too chicken to let them go on...but Cesar insisted and it was awesome).  Great last day off before I go back to school for the summer!!

 

The girls have an ongoing battle with our nanny about who is better...he patriots or the redskins...so the girls were SO excited to take these pictures in front of the flags!!

Dancing on stage...it was hot so they didn't last very long!

Leah was so happy when Cesar came becuase he goes on all the rides that mommy and Bella don't want to go on :)

Cesar had to go to work as soon as we got home, so the girls and I had dinner on the deck and the decided to have a picnic in their playhouse!!