The Arizona Diamondbacks Game!

On Labor Day we went with my parents and the kids to a D'backs game. It was a blast! Mariah loved all the clapping (and sipping Sprite from the straw!) I think she had the best time out of all of us. The pitcher for the D'backs is named Brandon Webb- maybe you've heard of him? For Brandon's b-day back in July I wrote in and was able to get THE Brandon Webb to autograph a pic. and send it for MY Brandon Webb.

My Girls....

Mariah loves to ride her bike- and Ethan's motorized Police ride-on. I don't think she has any incentive to walk, now that she has an easier way to get around.

I thought I'd document her crawling- I love that her tongue is sticking out, like she's concentrating so hard.

Hayley's in a Fairy Tale Ballet class, each week they learn a new dance and dress up like a different princess for the performance at the end. This is her practicing her twirls at home and then below is a pic. of her in her "Ariel" costume. I'll have to figure out how to post the video of her dance and I've also got a great video of Ethan and Mariah wrestling. Hilarious!

1st Day of School

Ethan started Kindergarten on the 6th- does that seem way too early to anyone else?

Here he is posing in his "back-to-school" duds infront of our house. (He would have been wearing shorts, but that's a story for a diff. post)

Luckily, he's only in half-day, but we still missed him like crazy!

I LOVE....

I love Mariah- and her cute little pink shoes. (Thanks, Andrea!)

What is it about girls and shoes?

I love Ethan and the cute things he does- Ethan's been really into reading Calvin and Hobbs lately. Here is is as "Space Man Spiff"

And here is his with "Hobbs" his teddy bear and he's digging for dinosaur bones in the back yard. He did find some rocks that looked like T-rex teeth. It's cute because sometimes at the dinner table, or in the car he will chuckle to himself and say, "You know what Calvin did......" and he'll just laugh and laugh.

Splashing in the Sprinkler

We went and visited my friend Aika and her cute little family- who we live close to know. Hooray! The kids played on the splash pad and had a blast!

I like how this picture shows Ethan's tan line... he,he,he.

Her little girl, Emi. She's sucha cutie!

Little Pioneer Children

We had a 24th of July Pioneer Celebration at the church and the kids dressed up like pioneers. This is the closest thing I could find for Mariah- our amazingly talented cousin Mariah (who's name we stole) made it. I think it's soooooo cute, it's reversible and has cute little bloomers.

Ethan had me make him a horse from an old mop handle and Hayley's riding a sock horse.

I made her bonnet from scrapbook paper and ribbon- she looked so cute!

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Here's Ethan, or should I say "Peter Parker" shooting some webbs from his b-day toy.

Hayley and Ethan did a 2 wk. swim lesson class- their instructor was so fabulous!

On the 4th there was a sandcastle building contest at the clubhouse beach pool- here's our train going through the tunnel (of course we didn't win, but the awesome VW van next to us did).

Some part thingy in our freezer was broken, so Brandon ordered a part and my handsome handy man saved us 300 bucks!