Pictures from Ashy's 6th Birthday (three Birthday Parties)

I will let the pictures do the talking. I broke my hand the other day and typing one handed does not appeal to me. Enjoy!

Spring to Summer Update

Well school is out and for the most part summer is practically here. We have had an eventful year and have enjoyed it for the most part. The kids are growing and life is crazy.

Ashlyn just finished up Kindergarten. She struggled through a lot of it. She was not used to getting up early and moving quickly to get out of the house. She is a slow mover for the most part. She had a hard time with the fact that girls at the ages of 5 and 6 can already be petty and snobby. By the end of the year she had a complete turn around. She made some good friends and started to enjoy going to school.

When I would drop Ashlyn off at school she had a little 1st or 2nd grade boy who was African American wait for her and walk her in to the school. It was the cutest thing ever. If he was not there it seemed like she always had a boy there to walk her into school. I think we might be in trouble if she already has the boys wrapped around her finger. At the end of the year they do a music dance festival. Ashlyn was so darn cute. She loves to sing and dance and she had to have been the cutest one out there for sure. Anyhow my little girl is getting all grown up and I am so proud of how well she is doing and the person she is becoming.

Now there is Josh. Josh through the school year has kept himself entertained by making mess after mess. He enjoys playing with match box cars and having long conversations with those cars as he plays. He even named some of his cars after his aunt's and uncles. Toshya is a yellow tow truck and Craig is a purple race car. Ash is Lightning McQueen, I am sally, Josh is Mater, and Mark is Dinaco. He also loves playing with Ashlyn's Dora doll house and acts out the show as it is on TV with his toys. He has a good imagination and really cracks me up.

Josh is also quite the singer. When we are in the car he loves to sing any song he knows. He loves singing songs by The Frey, Carolina Liar, All American Rejects, and Taylor Swift. I must say he has a pretty good voice and holds out his notes pretty good for a two year old. He still loves trains and gets so excited when we see one when we are driving. He also loves to say fancy that to things he finds fancy.

Lastly I wanted to talk about the words No Fear. My kids, and mostly Josh seemed to have not fear. We took them to Lagoon last Saturday and Josh wanted to ride on the colossus but was too short. He was so mad when we said he could not ride it. He and Ashlyn both went on the mini rocket ride there. It is like the rocket but not as high. Still scary to Mark and I but not scary to the kids. Josh and Ashlyn just giggled as they rode it and watching them ride it was priceless. We had to take them on it 3 times before we could move to another ride. The also enjoyed the log ride and of course the children dragon roller coaster. So even if Lagoon is totally over priced and a total rip off, it was so worth it to watch the kids have so much fun and have an enjoyable time.