Summer water fights!

A few weekends ago we celebrated my grandma's birthday. Considering the heat and all the children we had at her cozy house, my mother brought water balloons and water guns! The kids had a blast, even though it was hot outside and the adults, well they enjoyed the inside AC!!! Here are a few sneak peak photos, but more are attached in the slide show below! We filled over 100 balloons! Holding her little balloon They are all ready to go! Throwing the balloon and giving it her all!!! Hope you guys enjoy the slideshow and the end of summer!

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Mother's Day

Mother's Day this past year was all to bitter-sweet for me, thus this post shall be short and to the point! We celebrated this year at the park with family, friends, and food!!!

My earth girl running (from the camera) to play

My older sister and her daughter having a moment!

My sis and her 3 beautiful children! Happy Mother's Day sister! We love you!

Lilah and her cousin trying to play and pretend that they are not in desperate need of a nap!

"Mama watch me! Mama watch me!"

I want to make a side note that I did take pictures of my mother and my grandmother while we were there, but I know if I post them, my mother would find a way to delete them!!! Thus, I leave with saying I love you mommy and thank you for teaching me the values of family, faith, and love. You have given me something which no one else can, the heart of a mother!

Hutchinson Salt Mine and Underground Vault

Wow, I so much dislike when I get on a roll with posting blogs and then they fall to the wayside do to life expectancies! Instead of boring you with details of the past few months, I shall overload you all with photos! Besides, who really takes the time to read what I have to say, most want to look at Lilah anyways! 

In early May, we met up with the Sunflower Chapter of LPA for some food and fun! We met up at a local restaurant (the name escapes me because it has been so long!) for some great home cooking and conversation before heading to the Salt Mines.

Lilah and her friend Katie Scheer. Fortunately for us, the Scheers live close, and the girls are only 2 years difference in age, Lilah is 3 and Katie is 5. 

We visited the Kansas Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson, KS. Although I live less than 45 minutes from this place, this was the first time I had ever been here, and I was VERY happy that we made the trip to see this place! It was a great place to learn and explore. The girls had so much fun and looked so cute in their hard hats!

Look at that cute miner! ;)

This was one lesson in history. If you look closely to the left of the photograph you can see where it says "Our loss, Great National Tragedy, Death of the President" The price of this paper was 20 cents!!!

I thought this was pretty funny, having a Miss Salt Queen Pageant. How would you liked to be crowned the Queen of Salt, almost has the same ring to it as The Queen of Corn as held by Birdee Pruitt!

Taking a nice tour through the Salt Mines. We were lucky enough to stop and pick up some large salt rocks of our own to take home. This was the part I think Lilah enjoyed the most!

I don't think anyone wanted to be photographed wearing their hard hats! *Thus why I stayed BEHIND my own camera!!! Clever!*

Lilah looking for the rocks she wanted to take home with her. Side note: As an embarrassing reflection of my childhood, I used to collect rocks. It did not matter how plain they were or if they were cement, I would come home with my pockets full of rockets, which would then be placed in my junk drawer or if I really liked them, on my book case. I have since passed such collecting on to my child!

We had a blast hanging out with our LP Chapter and can't wait to get together again before the school year starts!

Drive-In Time!

It seems that I am completely OVER due on posting these photos or this post, no thanks to the daily reminders on my Facebook account from my sister! Without further ado, here are some sneak peak photos of our infamous annual Drive-In movie night with all the kiddos!

Please don't mind the dirty car! I wanted to get a photo of the LARGE movie 

screen and the kiddos playing.

Oh, look at all those TREATS! To make your own: Gather 4 car loads of children, approximate ages 1 year to adult, go to your local food store, do a grab and go down the snack aisle, load all the snacks into the car along with said children. Drive to your local drive-in theatre, throw a large blanket on the floor, empty food store products on the blanket: ENJOY!

Yep, of course the kids had to gather around the snack blanket! We had hotdogs, popcorn, candy, fruit, cookies, chips, juice boxes, and so much more there!

We're lucky enough in Wichita to still have a drive-in theatre. It has been closed on and off over the years, but we always continue to go each summer! We used to go as kids and I still remember having so much fun! The kids always enjoying going, even if we only stay for 1 movie! (They usually do a 3 movie showing!)

There are a lot more photos on the slideshow, so enjoy!

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Sunday Easter

To continue from the previous post, we spent Easter Sunday at my mommies house! Let the pictures roll!

My mommy made chocolate dipped strawberries, they

were sooo yummy!!!

The girls on Easter! They look so pretty

in their Easter dresses!!!

A little bit better pose, it's VERY difficult to get

2 and 3 year olds to sit still for what seems 

to them a 'long' period of time!

Also, for Easter, my nephew's got to read an Easter scripture

passage before we ate. Elijah did very well! 

I was able to get lots of gorgeous pictures of the girls outside...no captions needed!

I do realize that I am waaaay overdue on posting things on time, but we've been uber busy with life! As we all know things just get ahead of us! Yes, yes, I am trying to play catch up at this point, so the following post will be filled more with pictures than words!!!

Saturday Easter

We usually have two Easter Celebrations in my family-one at my Dad's house and another with my Mom's side of the family. The weather was starting to get a bit chilly and windy outside before we hid the Easter Eggs', so inside we went for the Easter Egg hunt this year.

Here come Syndey and Lilah all ready for the hunt! 

*side not, these are the outfits the girls got for Easter, thus the mismatching on their parts! hehe They loved the dresses so much they did not want to put their other clothes back on!*

And along comes Micah!

Sydney, I found one Auntie!

Lilah had a secret advantage this year-majority of the eggs were at her level! Yep, there is a benefit to being a Little Person besides being so darn cute!

Mom, look at all this candy inside the eggs!!!

Mmmhmmm, gonna have to figure out a way to eat this while Moms not looking!

Look what I found inside my egg Auntie!

Sydney asking if she can eat her candy!

Jayce is counting his eggs and comparing the number with his brother...

sibling rivalry, even over the number of Easter Eggs!

This is my brother-in-law Jerry catching Esater candy in his mouth! 3 out of 3!

Such a cutie here! Micah posing for the camera!

I know it's waaaay late, but hope everyone had a very happy and fun Easter!

Spring Weather Play

Since the weather has started to warm up this past month, we've taken advantage of Papa's deck and the interesting finds in his back yard! Lilah found this pink and purple car in papa's back yard, sitting all by its lonesome! Mommy had to take some water and a scrub brush to it, but it's practically brand new!

Ok mom, the sun in directly in my eyes! Hurry up and take the photo so I can drive outta here!

On this day, we stopped by the park for some play time.

My cool girl in her new Hello Kitty Shades from God-Mother Teresa!

She wasn't to sure about what this was or if she even wanted to ride this bull-dozer. She would walk back and forth about 5 or 6 times, look at, touch it then walk away. I finally convinced her to get on and she loved it!

I was so excited because she was going to go down the slide and was hoping for a great picture. Instead the slide faces directly to the West and the sun had been hitting the slide for the past 4 hours or so- no condition for sliding! She's pointing to the slide and saying "Mama it's hot!" You can see the "hot" face!

I love spring weather, all the pretty flowers and photo opportunities! I need to get some cute spring photos before the rain washes all the pretty colors away!