McKinley

McKinley by far is my best napper!  She is generally more than happy to go down for a nap-bedtime however is usually a different story.  If she is tired and I haven't put her down yet (usually 11 is her nap time) she will either climb in bed herself or I will find her randomly on the floor.  Usually we have our routine down so this isn't generally a problem but she definitely likes her naps (for now). 

Learning to count!  This is when she should have been in bed sleeping.  If you say "night, night" to McKinley she will say, "No!" and usually start crying.  She hates bedtime.

I've been trying to get her laugh on tape but I can't ever seem to get a good belly laugh.  It's more forced when I try to get it on tape.

Sleeping babies are always the best!

Blakely preschool pics

Blakely's preschool pictures turned out really cute!  It's just too bad that they cost an arm and a leg!

Blakely's birthday party

Blakely had her birthday party at Jump n Jacks again this year.  I think she was probably one of the only people (possibly the only person) who ever had their party there twice!  The family that opened the company only stayed in business for about 13 months.  They were doing really well with business but they didn't realize how much time it would take to start a business.  I think they were exhausted and wanted more family time.

I didn't get any pictures of them bouncing because I was too busy talking to parents and holding McKinley.

Eating pizza and cupcakes

Opening presents! 

I think she had a wonderful birthday week!

Ward Family Visit

Roger promised Blakely a year ago that he would come to town for her 5th birthday. He made it happen!

Blakely and McKinley went with the Ward family to their hotel for Thursday night.  The three oldest had school the next day so they had to stay home.

Eating breakfast

Getting spoiled!

Blakely just loves Mr. Roger!  It's probably because she gets spoiled by him.

The next night we all joined the Wards.  The three oldest got spoiled by going on the zipline and rock climbing.

Easton

Blair

She didn't know they were taking a picture of her.

She told me afterwards that she was really scared!

Dyer

Rock climbing

And they're off...

Dyer and Blair didn't get very far...

Easton reaches the top

Dyer and Valerie got picked to go on stage to try and get hypnotized.  I had to laugh because Blair was trying to go on stage and the man told her she was too little but then he went on and picked Dyer.

Of course it didn't work for Dyer or Valerie...

So we left and went swimming.

Blair, Blakely (even though you can't really see her), Valerie, McKinley, and Dyer

Easton stayed at the hypnotist show with William.

Blakely

Happy 5th birthday Blakely

Blakely had a great birthday!  Actually I should say a great birthday weekend!  She had a lot of fun spread out over a couple days.

She requested donuts for breakfast.

She went to school and brought cookies to share with her class.

All my beautiful girls!

As soon as her siblings came through the door she opened her gifts.  She was super excited about her bike but once I tried to get her outside to ride it she refused...She told me she needed dad and his belt to ride.  Let's just say that her bike sat there for a whole 6 months until Nathan got home.

She wanted cheesecake.

Storytime

I took the girls to storytime and on this particular day they had the "bee guy" come and talk to the kids about bees.  He even brought some bees for the kids to look at.  Blakely loves all things animals.  She always knows weird/interesting facts about animals.  Blakely kept talking to the guy during his presentation to tell him all the interesting facts she knows about bees.  I think he was impressed but annoyed that she kept talking.  I tried to tell her to be quiet but she doesn't listen.  I almost think she could have been the one up there presenting.  

He even picked Blakely to come up and put on the beekeeper's clothes.

Grandma's visit

My mom came into town a couple weeks after Nathan left.  

We went mini golfing.  It was fun but really HOT!  I played with Dyer and Blakely.  My mom played with Easton and Blair.

Dyer

Blakely

She hits the ball more like someone playing hockey than golf.

Easton and Blair

Gma

Someone wasn't a happy camper!

My mom ended up cutting my hair to about my chin while she was here.  I forgot how long it was!  I was going to donate it again but when I looked into it they weren't really taking donations anymore.

Painting banks that Gma brought for all the kids.

Blair

Dyer

McKinley

KK

Easton

I'm not sure why I didn't get one of Blakely.  Oops!

While my mom was here she got interviewed for the local paper!  I had to laugh because she was complaining earlier that day about her hair.  The whole time she was here she would fix it but the humidity would end up making it it flat so she didn't even bother to do her hair that day.  Haha Mommy!  I also had to laugh because when they took her picture she purposely was holding McKinley so people would hopefully look at the cute baby instead of her...They obviously zoomed in on just my mom or cropped McKinley out.