Beach Fun

Our first day at the beach! We got some new scooters so all the kids would have one to ride. We got across the street & about half way down one block & Makayla hurt her toe. I took her back to the hotel & got it cleaned up by the time we got back Troy & the kids were ready to go.

Troy looking out at the ocean.

I love these burried pics. Lathan added the seashells although Afty was protesting against it because he was a Merman not a mermaid.

super sandy Addy!

Rylynn hated the water & the sand.She pretty much wanted to be held the whole time.

Lath getting ready to get burried by the other kids. He looks super excited!

Here he is Lathan the fish!

Super Ry! Troy always has to take these pics of the babies. We walked down the beach to these rocks to looks for sea life on 2 seperate days.(Once with Daddy & once with Grandma.)

Linki had to wear his life vest he loves it. Thank goodness he got a lot of swimming in on vacation before he broke his leg.

Ry with Daddy she didn't wander too far off any blanket the first couple of days.

Here she is on the last day when she finally decided the sand wasn't all bad. Her swimsuit still has lots of black sand in it , if anyone has any idea's on how to get it out let me know!

building sand castles

mermaid Addyloo

Sand Angels!!

Grandma told us about a story from when she was little & her & her 2 sisters were burried like this with only their heads sticking out of the sand. A little crab started biting on her toe & everyone had left them there. She said she screamed & cried for a long time until someone came back & dug her out. Her toe was sore for a long time after that. So Lathan decided that he had to be burried the same way. Makayla helped him to get all the way under. He stayed in there for about an hour.

here he is looking more sphinx like

my pretty baby

Grandma & the kids!

Fun family pics

We Loved the beach this year!

Vaca

 For vacation this year we went to Carlsbad, Ca. It was so nice we think we would like to stay there every year!

Shrek Rylynn!

I gave all the kids a Shrek twinkie & turned around to find this. We all had a good laugh over this.

Here we are in Vegas at Circus circus playing games. We stopped in Las vegas on the way out & stayed the night . It was super hot!! The kids had a ton of fun. The pool at the hotel felt sooo good. The buffet there was not that great & was expensive, we would not recommend it. The dessert was the best though.

This is the view from our hotel room! That is the ocean past the umbrella's, we were so excited to have an ocean view.  Our hotel was right across from the beach. We loved it!! It was cloudy the everyday we were there except Friday when Troy's Mom was able to come & join us. It wasn't cold & it wasn't too hot either so it was good most of the time. We were not warned about June Gloom.

Here is a pic of some of the kids in front of our hotel.

This was the living room of the suite we stayed in. The kids all slept on the pull out couch except Ry who slept in her pack & play. And Troy & I got a king size bed. ( which I have missed ever since we left.) Our suite had this livingroom, a kitchen, bathroom & bedroom. We mostly came home at night & watched whatever movie was on Disney channel. Well that is all for now more vacation pics to come.

May Days

 May is always such a busy month with it being the last month of school, the kids always have a lot of programs, awards & fun end of year activities. Every year I think it gets busier, & I am always happy for school to get over & for it to slow down again. Here are a few pics of the stuff we've been doing this month.

This was from Makayla's Hope of America program. She was on top of the flag in the yellow. They sang a bunch of songs & had dances & stuff. She did really good, we are so proud of her . The kids all enjoyed the program, they just weren't to happy about sitting there for 1 & 1/2 hours before it started.

Addy & her teacher when she got student of the month.Me & the boys got to go to the school & see her receive her award. Her teacher had a lot of nice things to say about her.

It was also dress as your favorite book character day, so Addy dressed as Sky from the Rainbow Magic Fairy Book series. You can kinda see her wings  behind her. She has worked so hard this  year. She is an excellent student she is always on task & is helpful to other students that need help. She doesn't just give them the answer she helps them find out how to get it. She is very friendly & always happy. Addyson is a great speller & good at math also.

The kids playing with Laynee's dress up the day after she got her teeth pulled. We will have to use this one to blackmail Lathan when he gets girlfriends.

They had so much fun! they all wanted to wear something. Silly kids!

Lucas pulling Rylynn in the wagon at Mom's house one weekend that Cory had the twins.It was super cute!

Troy had these pretty flowers delivered the day before Mother's day. I was so surprised & excited to get them. He is so sweet, I am surprised he was able to keep it a secret though.

The kids giving my Mom a Mother's Day doggy pile! They love her so much!

Another view of the pile.

 This is Nic's 4 wheeler from when he was little. My dad got new batteries for it & brought it over for us to use. The kids were loving it! Linkin was a little bit of a crazy driver & ran over a couple of the kids. But they still had fun!

Less than 2 weeks of school left now! Yay!! I only hope I can think up enough activities to keep 8 kids active & happy during summer vaca. We will have to do fun away from home things on Troy's days off & do stay at home activities when he is working.

Cleaning our phones

We cleaned up the photo's on our phones & put the ones we wanted to keep on the computer this week so I thought I would share them on here.This one is the cover pic on my phone.

This is the kids raking leaves in My mom & dad's yard. They were so excited to rake them & play in them!

Linkin Had so much fun!

Even Laynee helped!

When we drove up & saw Mom's nutcracker the kids couldn't wait to run up & give it a hug. They had to have their picture taken with him.

It turned out kinda blurry, but this is one of my favorite pics of all time. I love how excited she looks! Too bad she will be too big this year.

Chuck E. Cheese at Christmas time!

Chuck E. Cheese for Rylynn's birthday. The kids Love going there.

This is a pic of our racoon's in Pine Mountain. They were so cute the kids loved watching them. They did drive buddy crazy, though.

I always love how kids fall asleep. So funny, he looks like a sleeping cat.

Zac put his jacket on his legs. I thought his tail was super funny! Sometimes we take pictures of whatever we are doing & send them to Troy at work, so that is where a lot of these are from. 

The kids were playing hide & seek  when I got this cute one of Lath & Ry. They fell asleep in the closet waiting to be found.

Playing outside.

Linki loved his spiderman costume, this was his first time trying it on. This is one of Troy's all time favorites.

Another time I will have to put all of Troy's celeb pics on here. There just isn't time for that today. I love all these spur of the moment things that just make you laugh. I am so blessed to have all of these sweet kids in my life, they teach me so much, & make me laugh.