Blakes Birthday at the Ellis house

It's something about when we all get together, we are goofy. We have had two cake fights, yes in the middle of Lori's kitchen and she was in it too! Well, maybe not the first one. We just always seem to cut up and have a great time, even when melting toy soldiers and sticking them to the balcony posts at Russ and Lori's old house. So even just having a birthday dinner was fun! It all started when we saw the brownie cake ready to be eaten. I believe Beau and BJ were making a smiley face with their fingers. Beau was trying to cut something so I "fixed" it and made into a star.

I sat down and showed Blake. I pretended that I was going to put my whole hand into it. That's when he proceeded to smash my hand in it. Yep, that would be my handprint.Russ took the cake away from us, but then tricked Carleigh some how and got some on her head. This picture is also funny to me because you can see that BJ has taken ownership of her little drumset! I'm guessing she was being a bit loud!Tarynn adding her print!

Uh-oh, Lori's comingShow the cake real fast!Lori, "What did y'all do?"
Happy Birthday Blake!
And, yes, we still ate the brownies!

Iowa Trip

Beau's grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and we went up to Iowa for the anniversary party over 4th of July! It's always neat getting to see everyone again! I definitely married into a wonderful family! So with all three kids in tow we drove the 13 hours to get there. The kids did great! Here are some of the pictures from that weekend!

This was a night on the town:
Uncle Bob, Aunt Shelby, their gorgeous daughter Megan and her honey David

Me and Beau's Aunt RhondaMama Ellis and her amazing daughter-n-lawsOh good grief, the engaged!
Blake acting like we are just too crazy to take a picture with!Me and my Sister-n-law (Tarynn) in a week!!From Left to Right: Cousin Taylor, Tyler (Jenna's bf), Cousin Jenna, and BlakeAll night long, it was fun to try to mess up any picture I took. I only put a selected few up, but I had many more.
BJ's Hand

Thank you BlakeOh, and thank you BJAgain, BJ, and what, no smile Lori?? Look at Blake smiling and looking all normal in the background!
Oh sweet kiddos! They really do love each other!

Watch out, Carleigh is driving by herself!Sweet Ava serenading us!Beau and his Aunt HeatherAunt Shelby and Baby KThe humidity really brought out Carleigh's curls!

He didn't know I could capture his goofy side so fast with my camera! He was pretending that was his pacifier!

Me with Grandpa Ellis! Love him! Sad I didn't have a picture with Grandma Ellis :(Watching FireworksCarleigh saying, "Wow" after every firework!She liked using the little Norwegian cup!
Apparently Carleigh gets carsick! She looks so pathetic. We of course were a few miles away from the nearest gas station.Got her cleaned up and she was fine!

One of those "God is truly amazing" moments. Isn't this so pretty?

I know, it's like I disappeared!

So be very prepared for lots of pictures! I feel so behind on blogging. I guess I'm just not one to stay caught up as others. Here it is, almost 3 in the morning (I couldn't sleep, thanks to my nap earlier this afternoon) and I found myself just looking at other blogs, facebooking "stalking", when I realized I could actually be updating my blog. So now I'm at the fun part, when I think, how far back do I really need to go, because I'm just that behind! Kiersten has changed so much, and we have just had a LOT of stuff going on lately. I will try to go in order of what I remember to have taken place first. This was a random visit out to my Aunt Robin's house before we left for Iowa.

Here is Kiersten with her GiGi (My Nana)

Smiling with Great Aunt Robin

Worn out some other random day!

For some reason I just love the carseat pictures!

The next few pictures were after church one Sunday! We were color coordinated so of course had to take some pics.
Carleigh cheezin' it up!

My Sweet Caleb!Gotta love a squishy baby!!