My birthday, woo hoo

I had a great birthday. My husband got me beautiful flowers.
And we went on Mt Graham for a picnic and a very fun day
we played baseball, went on a hike, ate a lot
of food, and enjoyed the campfire and scenery.

My kids picked me a whole bunch of wildflowers, Olivia
just kept picking and picking as we were hiking
she had her hands so full and everytime she dropped one
we would have to stop and pick it up. I loved just spending
time with my kids and my husband, and nothing else to
get in the way.

Blow birthday girl. This is horrible,

but since I put pictures on here that my

husband hates of him I figured I could

spare just one....

Oh I am getting OLD

and Last but not least, my yummy chocolate, major chocolate

Birthday cake that I ate for three or four more days.

mmmm mm good:-)

Friends at the 24th

Olivia and her best friend Emma
Katelyn and her friend Lindsay
Emily and her friend Sarah

24th of July Celebration

We went to the rodeo for the first time, and it was fun but a lot of people.

Hunter did the Stickhorse race and the pig chase.

He enjoyed them both, He didn't win but that is ok

because we would have had to keep the pig if he caught it.

We were in the parade this year for the first time.
We painted the famous *Crazy Cart*
that Chris's Grandpa Stauffer and his Ag boys
made many moons ago, and then he handed it down
to My husband for our kids to enjoy.
Grandpa also loved parades and Chris grew up being
in a lot of them with his grandpa, so it was fitting for us
to put it in the parade in memory of DB and Beth Stauffer.

Three little amigos enjoying the Bar BQ.
My Nephews

some of the family enjoying the festivities

OOOOOHHH
wow

Bang

We loved the fireworks

The grandest bakesale EVER!!!

YUMMY YUMMY TO MY TUMMY
These two were swindling deals all day!

I will pay you $5 of Sarah's money for that glass of lemonade

The boys had their own lemonade stand too, and did very well and got creative.

Olivia went and stole some of Sarah's money out of her room

and was buying things left and right at a very inflated price.

Yummy Cinnamon rolls

Three hard working girls:)

we made cookies, Cinnamon rolls, Bread, and rice crispy treats

This was the funnest and these girls made a lot of money, way more than we expected.

My friend Beth Green came up with this idea to help make money for school clothes for our kids,

and it worked out so well I think we should do this every year.

Thank you to all the family and friends that came to our bake sale

and made it so successful!

My little CHEFS

2 yards of fabric, 3 hours in front of the sewing machine, one terrific memory and happy kids priceless...

I have been promissing Emily that I would make her an apron, I finally got around to it and all the kids wanted one, so I spent an entire morning in front of the sewing machine and this is the outcome...MY FOUR LITTLE CHEFS...then they had to cook lunch and dinner. They did a very good job and I am so glad that I could make their day.
My girls do a good job using the stove, Emily is a pro:)

Olivia never wears clothes

Hunter was so carefull with the knife

Love the hot dog oli...

~We LOVE you Uncle Trev~

These are the best pictures...My kids absolutely love their uncle Trevor and we are so proud of him and all the good examples he sets for them, these hugs are priceless and so are the smiles, thank you Trevor:)

*Texas Vacation*

We traveled to San Antonio TX for Chris's little brother Trevor's Graduation. We had so much fun and we did a lot of things I have so many picture that I had a hard time picking ones to post, so here are a few that I took,but it is still a Lot.
This picture didn't turn out I am bummed it was Trevor walking across the stage.

Trevor, Chris's little brother, before his Army combat Medic graduation. We are so Proud of you Trevor and for this accomplishment. This was a neat experience. I loved all the chants and things during the graduation, they were moving and emotional. I want to thank the soldiers who sacrifice their lives for the cause of our freedom. May we not take any of it for granite.

They had these signs on the base each had Virtues on them I thought this was neat so I took a picture of course.

These are pictures from the banquet dinner the night before Graduation on the base. Trevor taking an oath and Trevor.

My kids loved this Jacuzzi tub, we couldn't keep them out of it.

I took these picture in the yard, they turned out cute

we were so mixed up on the time change that Emily was eating breakfast while grandma was cooking lunch.

just chill'axin

HMMM George what do you think, how's we make this thing work...

This is my Favorite picture ever, Hunter picked me wild sunflowers my favorite and Olivia wanted to play with them it was so cute so i grabbed the camera and started taking pictures, glad that I did.

The house we stayed in was huge, 6 bedrooms and 5 baths here are some pictures...every room had 2 double beds except for one. It was nice to have all the space for the kids to run around and be free after a 12 hour drive. Each room had its own flat screen TV which was nice to there wasn't much fighting.

This was the biggest bathroom ever, and this is only half...

We went to Sea World, San Antonio. It was fun, but very very hot. Olivia had her face painted because she couldn't ride any rides and it melted off her face within a couple of hours. They had all kinds of shows and rides. They had these huge roller coasters..OMG I got so sick on one, that was it for me. Some of us watched the fireworks on the grass by the lake, and the rest watched them (Emily and Katelyn) on one of the roller coasters.

Grandma and Grandpa with the girls waiting to see Shamu

the Family at one of the shows

this was a neat show to watch

Texas Sunset

This video is some of the soilders creed, the sound quality isn't the best but it was so loud and awesome...