Buliding the Playhouse - The Walls

The Bosses!

Having Fun!

The Ground Work.

Shawn Jr. making the measurements..... :)

The first wall is done! The girls are excited.

Matt and I are seeking approval from the inspectors.

Aliyah can hardly contain herself.

Family Shoot August 2009

Some Catching Up....

Alot has happened since our wonderful Cancun trip and I can't believe it's already August. Summer is wrapping up and the girls will be starting preschool Sept. 1st. They're growing up so fast. Shawn is almost 17 months old. At his last wellness check up he weighed 20 lbs and his height was 30 inches so that puts him in the 5% for his weight and 20% for his height. He can say mama, dada, uh oh, hi, and bye. He can give kisses and wave hi and bye. He loves to play with Scout and tries very hard to keep up with the girls. The girls are speaking so well. It's getting easier everyday to have conversations with them. The girls love to play dress up, sing and dance, they enjoy watching the Barbie movies, they know every disney princess character which they've learned from their panties and not the movies. Aliyah is getting to be so independent. She wants to do everything by herself. Such as putting her own clothes on, bathe, putting her seatbelt on, brushing her hair, etc. She also loves to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by herself and have us listen to her. Kailee loves to make up her own songs. She doesn't care who is listening she just enjoys singing out loud. Just this morning she was singing something about Scout being a bad dog. She too is getting to be independent but also enjoys us helping her on occassion. Kailee owns a backpack that she thinks is very special. She keeps all her meaningful pocessions in this backpack and carries it around with her every day. Right now in her backpack she has stickers, a James Avery catalog, some jewelry, a dress, and some panties. It's quite cute to see her carry this back pack around with her. It practically weighs as much as she does. A few things we've done this summer consists of splash parks, pick your own strawberry and blueberry farm, Drillers baseball game, water park in Muskogee, birthday parties, playgrounds, daddy's softball games, Shawn's parents and sister visiting, and the zoo.

The Girls 3rd Birthday Party

The girls just turned three and had an awesome birthday party. We celebrated their birthday with an evening party at the Splash Park. We had pizza, gatorade, water, capri suns, and lots of lollipops and cake. It ended up being a perfect day. We really could not have asked for a better day. As you know, the weather here in the summer is extremely hot, humid, and unpredictable. I had been looking at weather.com all week to see what to expect on the day of the party. Some days it would say isolated storms and other days it would say sunny and clear. All week it had been in the high 90's to low 100's but on the girls party day it was only 86 degrees with a light breeze. So to me it was perfect. The girls had so much fun opening their presents and playing with all their friends. They talked about their birthday party for days afterward.