Shelbi's Dance Recital

Shelbi had her first dance recital on Saturday. She was a little nervous getting on stage but by the end she was really getting into it. She even added her own little dance move when she ran off the stage... she jumped and did the splits in the air just before she got to the curtain. My Grandma Mary and Jenna came to watch, and so did Rich and Mary, they brought Shelbi flowers and afterwards we went to Dairy Queen for ice cream. It was a lot of fun! Here's a picture of Shelbi in her tap costume.

What am I supposed to do with this???

The last couple of days, the girls and I have seen this stray cat in the back yard once in a while. Any way the girls call it a kitty...so when Nate called the other night I was like, "We just saw the kitty again." Of course he had to tease me about calling it a "Kitty" and he asked is a kitten or a cat? I was like "shut up, it's a cat okay!" Then the next day I walked in the kitchen and I heard Harlee telling him about the KITTY and then he asked her "is it a baby cat or a big cat?" and she was like "A real baby one...two ob dum". He looks up at me and I'm shaking my head whispering it's a cat, stop teasing us already!

So later that day, after Nate went to work, I pulled into the garage and sure enough there are two baby kittens staring at me, and Harlee snoring in her carseat didn't even get to say "see, I told you".

Now what am I supposed to do? We hate cats! I heard they do eat scorpians though and the girls love them....One is kinda mean and hisses at you if you go near it, but the other one is pretty sweet.

How Many More Birthdays???

Happy Birthday Ashley! Its a good thing you were born in May, you fit right in with the rest of the family! Hope you had a fun day.

Happy birthday to Elyse and Tori also... They were a few days ago, at least thats what I have written on my calendar. I hope I got the dates right and I hope you both had a great birthday.

I've been pretty busy lately. Last week I finished up my Anatomy 202 class and I barely got an A and I finished my Developmental Psychology class the week before. Then, I was shopping at Costco, and I came across "The Host", and since school is done, I had some time so I got it and I finished it already. I liked it, but don't trust my opinion because I think pretty much everything is good:)

Here's some pictures of the girls when Rich and Mary came by with fireworks, they kinda look like they are doing some kind of tribal dance or something but it was fun watching them run around the yard and hang out. We didn't even have any accidents! Unlike last time when Nate almost burned his hand off lighting the sparklers.

Happy Birthday Ryan...and Mike

Harlee and I got the pleasure of waking Ryan up this morning when we called to sing "Happy Birthday"....I think I actually heard a mumbled "Thanks" out of him, which is much better than the usual reaction of waking him up in the morning (He's 16 if that explains it, and who could get grouchy to Harlee's voice when you wake up:) ).... Poor guy didn't get his licence though..... No, not because he failed the test.... He just has to wait a week....Good luck, and Happy Birthday!


Happy birthday to Mike! Who is also 16....wait.. I mean 25 tomorrow. Don't worry you'll get your wakeup call from the girls too. Hope you do something crazy for your 25th birthday..it only happens once and it's the last time you'll be just as close to 20 as you are to 30!


When ever I clean, the boys follow me around with wash cloths and they love to wash the walls or whatever....so today when I decided to wash the car I thought "oh..I'll bring out extra wash cloths and that will be a cute picture".....Well this is what I ended up with!





Way to go Jen....Now not only do I have to wash the car but two dirty little boys! At least they had fun though....That Trex is fast, he was in that mud puddle before I even realized it was there!

Meanwhile, Shelbi was busy turning her sister into a Princess!

It's funny I remember dressing Emily up when I was little too.