Makinze's Mom

Ivy, Emma, and Makinze right before Jolie's 5th birthday party. Ivy & Emma came home with us after tumbling and got all "dressed" up for the party (notice the pretty crowns, jewlry, and purses). They were so excited to go to the party!

Here is the checkerboard cake that I made for Jolie!

I made the cake for Jolie's Mermaidia themed party! This was my first time to make a 1/2 chocolate, 1/2 white cake! It was a lot of fun!

They made beautiful princess crowns at the party!

This is by far one of my favorite pics! Jolie is talking to her Daddy! Josh is in the Marines and is training in California awaiting deployment to Iraq. They are to leave sometime in August. Pray for this family~they miss having their daddy around all of the time!

To wrap up the evening Jolie, Makinze, Asher, Hunter & Hayden went swimming.

Bubble girl! This was so awesome to be completely enclosed inside a bubble~!

This was by far her favorite part of the entire museum! She kept wanting to come back to it! I can't believe it b/c she got to pretend she was airing the news, drive a fire truck, turn a oil well pump jack, be a judge, teacher, artist, play in the bubbles...and MUCH more!

Grocery shopping is such tough work! A few weeks ago Heather & I took Dylan & Mak to the Jasmine Moran children's museum in Seminole! SO FUN for kids! They played so many fun things! Here is Makinze trying to ring up her groceries from the mini Homeland store!

Christy & Lindsay caught one!

Grandpa wanted to take the girls fishing at Sooner Lake last week. All of the super fish pictures were on my dad's camera. Hopefully I can post the picture of the big fish I caught! We had a super time!

Mak & Lindsay hang out in the shade of the umbrella!

After a long day of shopping with mom, Makinze decided she would like to go ride the tractor with daddy!

Makinze rode a second time after she bought some cowgirl boots! She wore those boots the rest of the day while we were out shopping!

Saturday morning we went to Krazy Daze with Lisa & Natalie! Makinze rode the pony! She named this one Spirit! She love horses so much!

Makinze, Finn, Sutton, & Maisy fresh from the bath! Makinze & Maisy have Finn's PJ's on--in fact Mak was a little sad that she had to take them back to him this week!

Saturday evening we met the Bergbowers & Inlows at Mexico Joe's for dinner. Afterwards the kids watched while they made fresh tortillas. The guy was great & put on quite a show for his crowd--even baby Weaver was enjoying the fun!

Ryan preached for us Sunday morning! It was so nice to have him here this weekend...felt like normal--even though he's been in Texas since January!

Our original plans were cancelled when Stillwater cancelled their Boomer Blast on Tuesday night! However, they were replaced with something even better! My dad called & we met him, Crystal & Lisa & her family at the fireworks stand south of Stillwater...little did we know when we got there we'd see Laura! Mak was screaming Ya-Ya Ya-Ya... Within minutes Laura & her friends came to join us at my dad's farm just north of the stand to shoot off some fireworks! We had a great time...and it was so great to see Ya-Ya! Laura babysat Makinze from 8 weeks-20 weeks old at our house! She bonded with her then through all of the crying...she was not a happy baby! But thankfully she has turned into a terrific little girl!

This was how Makinze had her fingers all night~in her ears! She was not happy about the noisy fireworks. She actually spent part of the evening in the truck with Lisa!

The gang singing!

Hanging out with some friends at Day Camp!

We celebrated Hunter's 16th bday at Day Camp! Makinze and I made birthday cake to share with everyone! Hunter was so excited!

She had a really hard time staying with her class when I was teaching other age groups! On day three of VBS she stayed and here she is SO excited to get to hang out with mom during sports time!

Jessica, Hannah, Micah, & Makinze! Climbing in the trees outside of the church building during free play time!~

Deidre, Makinze, & Rachel!

Several weeks ago we went to Nana's house to visit. Makinze loved seeing Sheeba & her puppies. She loved holding the puppies and naming them all! Oh, and I'm sure these puppies will be looking for good homes some time soon...