a slumber party and eighteen

Heath has been gone fishing for the last four days so the boys and I have been staying busy to make the time go by a little faster. Last night we decided to have some fun and have a slumber party in my bedroom. The kids thought it was great sleeping on the floor and I just loved the fact that they slept all night!

Of course Cody still read books before bed

Luke and his Alvin

Ryan snuggling with his stuffed Ruby

Ryan got his own jammies on. He loves the shirt part and calls it his coat!

We celebrated a couple of family birthday's today. It's so hard to believe but my niece Brooke turned 18 today! We also celebrated a little early for my sister in law Summer's birthday.

the birthday girls

the proud mamma who really can't believe her baby's 18

Matt and Summer
Our sympathy to Summer who has to live with Matt everyday

Proud Grammy and Papa

again our sympathy's to my mom who has to live with my father everyday

like father like son

just a few of the reasons why Matt and my Dad can be so darn annoying

they can find a way to ruin any picture.

I have to say that Matt is great at entertaining my boys since he is still a kid himself. He is a super fun Uncle, the boys love him! Matt was pushing up the trampoline with his feet and then dropping the kids down and then would smack them on the butt, they seemed to love it.

So what does an 18 year old want for her birthday?

Her belly button pierced, that's what! She had gone out yesterday with the family to have it done but passed out before they had even started doing anything.

Money is always a good present too. Ten dollars for each year! Can't wait for my birthday!

I made her up a candy gram to go along with her present from us, she loves candy!

It says...

Once upon a time there was a princess named Brooke who lived in a castle down a Rocky Road in the small town of Watchamacallit. She lived there with Slim Jim, her Red Hot momma, Airhead brother and Sweattart sister. Her 18th birthday was coming soon and she was in a crunch to find her prince charming so her parents hired the 3Muskateers to find her true love. So Heath, Mike & Ike set off in search for him making sure they didn't bring back any nerds, duds or complete zero's. After a good & plenty time of looking they skor big and find her an extra special guy. At the wedding there were no snickers from her peeps when she married her Big Hunk and lived happily ever after.

It's always fun when the family is together, we spend most of our time laughing! One of the things that kept us laughing was a game that Hailey told us about. You have to try and eat 7 saltine crackers in one minute without taking a drink in between. It's so much harder than it seems, we couldn't do it!