Swim Lessons

Aubrielle and Benson both took swim lessons this summer. It was so fun to see them get more confident in the water and to see their personality differences. Let's just say Aubrielle still had to be coaxed into jumping in the pool at the end of 4 weeks of lessons, while Benson on the other hand decided that sitting on the side of the pool and jumping in was too easy and decided to stand up and jump in all by himself. He was very confident in his abilities and kept telling the teacher to "scoot back further" so he could swim all by himself. They both had a blast though and are working towards being water safe. I was fortunate enough to have my mom here helping, and then my sister Emily here helping so that most days I got to stay home with Kimball and nap :) We loved our visits from both my mom and Aunt Emily, they were such a HUGE help to me, I seriously don't know what I would have done without them. Feel free to come back and visit anytime Aunt Meanie :)

Aubrielle loses her 1st Tooth

Wow, I can't believe my little Aubrielle is old enough to be losing teeth already! It seems like only yesterday we were at the Grubbs Family reunion in Texas and her 1st little tooth poked through. Now, 5 years later, the day before she leaves for the Grubbs Family reunion she lost that same tooth. Where did all that time go!?!? Anyway, Aubrielle showed us her loose tooth on Sunday, and Camron worked on trying to pull it out every night all week long. Finally, Friday afternoon (after a long night of Camron pulling on it) I gave it one good tug and out it popped. I was surprised how calm she remained. I think the first thing she said was, "Now Dad said I get an otter pop to stop the bleeding!" What a trooper. She even made the tooth fairy a card and gave her half a stick of gum (the other half went to her Uncle Tyler for his 19th bday) and a breath mint. It must have paid off though because the next morning she had cash to buy goodies on the trip. She bought nerds and sweetarts and informed me she was going to share with everyone, what a sweetie.

Hugs from Jaycie

I just had to post these pictures of my little Jaycie. She might refuse to talk (although rumor has it that now that she is away on vacation with Granny and Papa she's decided to break her silence) but her facial expressions are worth a million words. When she goes to give you a hug she throws her arms wide open and gets the happiest look on her face, it just melts my heart. She is such a bundle of joy, we are so glad she's in our family. The kids have all been away for the past week and I'm so looking forward to seeing them again tomorrow and getting a hug from each and every one of them!

4th of July Fun

The 4th of July was awesome this year. We bought the kids a kiddie pool and couldn't get them out all day. They had so much fun.

Then we got dressed in our red, white and blue and went to the church for a bbq and to watch fireworks. We were able to see a lot of our friends we hadn't seen in a while and the kids got to run around and get any remaining energy out. The weather was awesome and we had a great time.

Sometimes you are just too tired...

Benson got up one night and said he had to go to the bathroom. 15 minutes later I had not seen him go back to his bedroom yet so I went to investigate and found this....

Poor guy.

We love Kimball!

We are so glad to have Kimball home finally!

Kimball doing what he does best...sleeping (and being incredibly adorable might I add :)

What great helpers. I walked into Kimball's room to find these two girls with chairs pulled up to the crib checking in on their little brother. So cute.

Grandma's visit

We absolutely loved having our grandma here helping! We sure have missed her and can't wait to have her come back for the start of school!