Bethany, the tent trailer

 We have been playing with Sydney and Maggie this week because my sister Natalie had her Gall Bladder taken out.  We did lots of fun things to keep them from missing mom and dad.  They slept at mom's up until last night when we popped up our tent trailer, which we haven't used for a while due to a lack of vehicle to pull it. We put all four kids in one of the pop-outs and they went to sleep great as you can see from this picture.

 Here's Sydney and Maggie.  (proof that Sydney was peacefully asleep)  Soon after this picture was taken, a case of homesickness and a tummy ache woke her up and she spent the rest of the night at Grandma's.  Maggie on the other hand loved the trailer and slept in til nine even with my noisy kids in there.

 Linden and Sarah were so excited to sleep in the tent trailer with their cousins.

 Mandee slept great in her snuggle bunny as we call it.

 Morning pictures of the kids!!

 The twins at breakfast.  They are 8 days apart and are quite alike.  Maggie wanted to sit by Sarah.

 Sydney and Maggie have had me for a hairdresser and I'm not very good at all.  Today, I made the three girls twins with rainbows.  I had to get a picture.

And we can't leave out Linden.  The kids had a great time playing with their barn and animals. They also had a great time with dress ups!  I love these kids.

Our Sarah Babe!!

 When you have twins with different birthdays as we do, birthdays are really close and as you will tell from the picture, they both wanted the same things:  a bike, a swimming party, and hot dogs for dinner.  They crack me up.

 Sarah's face when she saw her bike was priceless.  She was so excited for her birthday to come.

 She got a bouquet of balloons and noticed right off one of them was purple.  I think she has some Grandma Woodward in her.

 We have been going to Library day at the school, which has been awesome and Sarah has really gotten into Fancy "Mancy" as she calls it so she got a book for her birthday and she told everyone she gets to keep it.

 She put Mr. Elephant into her basket on her bike and wanted daddy to push her around the house for a minute.

 We have a fun birthday plate given to us for our wedding and Sarah had wanted French Toast on it because that is what brother had, but when I asked her the night before her birthday what she wanted on the birthday plate, she said Captain Crunch, so we put the bowl on the plate.  They don't get Captain Crunch very often.  Grandpa also gave her a famous breakfast sandwich from Woodward's Country Store, which she ate the sausage out of.

Riding her new bike.  In the morning she needed me to push her, but by aftenoon she had it down.

 The birthday girl got cold.

 I couldn't resist including this picture of Amanda.  She is so fun!!!

 Waiting for the Birthday cake.

 Blowing out the candles.  We made some really cute Mickey Mouse cupcakes for a joint Sarah, Maggie party, but I don't have pictures of them so Sarah just got a boring cake for her actual birthday.  

We are so glad to have Sarah in our family.

Celebrating Linden!

 Yes my little boy is 4 years old.  Time flies way too fast!

 He got his first two wheel bike on training wheels of course.  When everyone showed up for the party, I told him to show them what he got.  He said, "You'll never believe it!"  He was so excited.

 When I took him out to ride it, I let him ride on the road.  He kept saying Woo, Hoo.  He loves his new bike.

 We had a swimming party with a bounce house provided by my neighbor.  I wanted to rent one but it as too expensive.  A few minutes before the party began, our neighbor came over with a bounce house that they have.  He heard we were having a party and brought it over.  We have the best neighbors and the kids were way excited.

 Here's the girls posing in the bounce house.

 And the boys, plus Taytem.

 And the Birthday Cake.  I thought it turned out pretty cute and it was very easy, with Ryan's help of course.  He is our cake decorator.

 All the kids posing.  they are so cute.

 We celebrated Linden and Tanner's birthday's together because they are only three days apart. 

Linden was so excited to be 4 like Tanner.  I didn't have the heart to tell him that Tanner would only be 4 like him for three days.

New Babies and Rice Cereal!

So Mandee had her first rice cereal on Saturday night.  She loved it.  She has been longingly watching us eat for a few weeks and we decided it was time to feed her.  She was so excited.

 This is the first smile, I have been able to catch on camera because she is so mesmerized by the camera.  It was taken right after eating rice cereal and while mom was playing peek-a-boo with the camera.  I don't know if it was the happiness of eating rice cereal, playing peek-a-boo or a combination of both, but I'll take it.  I love her smile!!!

 I got this one the next day when I had a little photo shoot with her.  She is such a fun baby.

 

Sophia Waldron is here.  Yes, my little sister Whitney is a mom and a very good one, too.  This is a picture of her and Mandee together.  Mandee looked so huge next to her.  Isn't Sophie so cute?

 So I am frustrated with the new blogger because I can rotate and save my pictures, but they still come up on blogger sideways.  I'm sorry.  But, here is Linden and Sarah holding Miss Sophia!!

And Natalie had her little Ruby Melissa.  This picture is of Mandee, Ruby, and Maleah (cousin on the Murdock side born a month after Mandee.)  We couldn't put Mandee and Maleah close because they were mauling Ruby.  She is so cute with tons of dark hair.  Sorry, I don't have a closer picture.  I failed in the picture department at Natalie's house.  These babies are four days apart.  So fun!!  I'm so glad they are both here.  My kids love their new cousins!!

Warning: Picture Overload!!

It's been a while since I posted picture and I decided that I needed to add some of Amanda for Erin and those who haven't seen her for a while.  She is five months now and is so fun.  She is the perfect baby!!!

She has noticed the T.V. and will do anything to see it this picture and the next one are her position in order to see the T.V.  It makes me laugh.

She has the cutest smile and I haven't been able to capture it on camera.  Here is half a smile.  When she smiles it melts your heart.  By the way, I turned this picture and saved it but no matter what it comes up sideways for the blog.  Sorry, you'll have to turn your head.

We went camping with Scott and Carly and found two snakes in our campground near our tent.  It did not please me, but the kids thought it was great.  As you can see, no fear at all.

Hanging out with cousins around the campfire that they made.  They gathered the rocks and made their own fire pit.

Linden and Sarah filled their warm fuzzy jar (a jar we fill when they Choose the Right) and wanted to go fishing.  Here are the fishing pictures.

I couldn't resist this picture of the three kids in the tub. 

Here is Eli and Mandee noticing each other.  They are so cute.  I know they will be great friends.

Memorial Day in Franklin.  These cousins love each other.

Another memorial day picture at the fun house.  Uncle Rex and Aunt Betty have a cool backyard and my kids didn't want to leave.  They are posed with my cousin Brad's kids on Rex's homemade tractor.

We planted a Linden tree.  I have wanted to since Linden was born, but we got one from arborday.com and it died.  Anyway, Linden was so excited to have his own tree.

I love these three kids.  Linden didn't want his picture taken, Sarah is loving curly hair right now, and Mandee is way into toys.  She gets excited and grabs at everything.