stinky

Since all the girls sleep in the same room now I have to be super quiet when I wake Sam up for school. I crawled in her bed and gave her a kiss and she told me to go away. I said "Dont you want to snuggle with your mama?" She paused for a moment and said "Get a breath mint!"

flower girl

All the girls are going to be flower girls for Alexa Kay and Bernts wedding in February. They are super excited and talk about their dresses all the time. The other day Sydney and I were waiting for Sam to get home from the school and Sydney decided to practice being a flower girl. She was singing the tune and everything!

crab licenses...

we got our licenses to catch crab a week from last Thursday. We got about some crabs over the weekend. we kept going out and checking the pots...this past Thursday Papa had them all in his pocket and he ended up walking out deeper then he thought and they fell out of his pocket. So Friday he felt bad and bought us duplicates (more expensive then the license was originally because all the prices went up on the 1st) then Jon went out Saturday morning and he ended up losing all the licenses...ugh! My dad ended up buying one of his own so we can at least now get 5 a day...but then today we went out to check the pots and something went wrong with the engine and now it doesnt go forward. Thankfully it was just me and him out there. He ended rowing us back into shore! And we only got one crab so we kept it in the pot to get later!
What an adventure! Next year we will be carrying a big tackle box and keeping the licesens in there gallon ziplocs are to easy to lose!

father's daughter...

Yesterday morning ...

Sydney woke up first and was snuggling me in my bed, Courtney walks in a few minutes later. All Courtney said was "Sydney pull my finger!" Sydney did and nothing. Courtney giggles and said "that was just a little toot."

FIRST GRADE

Samantha started her first day of first grade today. She was so excited! Last night we made the twinks sleep downstairs on the couch so Sam could get some sleep but she was so excited she couldnt fall asleep. We started reading "Alice in Wonderland." I read her the first chapter and turned out the light at 8:15. I went downstairs and started doing things and I was thinking wow she went right to sleep. I didnt hear a peep from her...until 10:15 when she came out of her room and said "Mom I have tried everything I jsut cant get to sleep!" I told her to go back in and try again!. At 10:30 I snuck in her room to see and nope she was still awake. Poor girl! I went to bed (I couldnt sleep either last time I looked at the clock was 12:45!) Jons alarm went off at 6:15 and Sam yelled "is that for me?" Finally at 7:30 she got up. Pretty easy morning of getting ready. Jon came home to go to school with her. She is going to love this year!

our First grader!

Giving Mrs. McDonnell, her Kindergarten teacher, a big hug before heading into Mrs. Brandts 1st Grade class!!

SHE GOT RIGHT TO WORK!

Sand castles and flying

On Saturday we spent the day on the tide flats making the biggest sandcastle so far this year. Sarah and Emily were up for the weekend and help out too. We had a blast and my back even got a little sunburned!

their hands can touch!

hard at work!

wee!

our biggest sandcastle of the year!

Having a 6'8" Uncle sure makes for happy kids!


Our biggest sandcastle of the year!!

2 days later!

After the day on the tide flats we went and checked the crab pots (4 more I think) and then headed over to Lex and Leahs for a yummy party...crab salmon and bunch of tasty food! Good day!!

Sand fight

The girls love a great sandfight every once and awhile! This went on for about 30 minutes!