"super batman"

I love the stage that Lincoln is in right now. He's starting to get easier as far as not whining soo much and learning so much from the older kids. But his favorite movies right now are "the hulk" and I dont mean the cartoon, the actual real one! But he loves anything superhero and loves to wear his cape all day and put his mask on, in these pictures hes a "super batman" haha. Ijust love how this sweet boy is turning out, he has his moments still but hes getting sweeter by the day.

summer fun

 Summer here in AZ is soooo stinkin hot its rediculous, but we did find some time one day to let the kids play with a slip n slide..Lincoln wasnt a fan but the other kids loved it. Mike would have them lay down and he would push them down the slide and Bailee thought it was soo much fun but Mike got pretty tired I'm sure from pushing and pulling the kids. Lyla is not afraid of anything except "puppies" any animal in her eye is a puppy but she is terrified of them but water or rain or the pool, she is totally fearless.

Bryce is soo skinny that he would go flying down the slip n slide and we would all laugh, soo funnyHeres daddy in action pushing Bailee, I bet he was sore the next day..haha

yummy cookies

I loved it when the other day I was making cookies and Lincoln asked me to turn the light on for the oven(which he does now ever since Amy was here for 2 mo because she always turned on the light..so cute) but then all of a sudden Lyla came up to me and said cookie so clear and looked into the oven just like Lincoln, it just makes me think these two peas in a pod will be such good friends.

 Here are the cuties in there aprons that gramma Porter made them, so they can help me in the kitchen making cookies

so much going on...

I really wish I would be better at blogging my life. I really do have so much to be thankful for and have such great, cute kids and so much happens in a day but I just despise computer "stuff" except for fb or googling something..lol. Any ways I am going to try and post more and try to remember cute sayings and stuff the kids do...

On that note heres a pic of where we caught lyla the other night..all the kids were outside so I wasn't being a horrible mom but I was getting dinner ready so I came in for a few mins and thats all it takes for this little teeny tiny stinker to climb

San Diego 2011

We go every summer to california, this year was no different but we got to stay at my aunt pams house in Del mar and it was soo awesome to stay there for free which made it possible to do other fun things like Legoland and shopping and stuff like that. we left on a friday and came home the following friday. It was so nice to be able to sleep in a normal house and be able to get ready in the mornings and the kids had alot of space to move in and not crammed into a tiny hotel. Took a ton of pictures of the big stuff like the beach and legoland but I guess I didn't get too many of anything else..so im just gonna post a ton of pics the best way I can and hope its not too annoying with the layout because I dont really know how to post on the site

the beach this year wasn't the funnest with a 2 year old and a 1 yr old.. Lyla was fearless and wanted in the water soo bad and didn't care if waves were headed her way but Lincoln on the other hand didn't want anything to do with the waves and mostly stayed in the sand. we lasted about 1.5 hrs and that was plenty for me. we had so much fun but next year we are going to go on a different week. we went over 4th of july and it was crowded and very warm but I have heard the week after is really nice so we will see next year

Now Bailee's birthday

 Bailees birthday was on a monday afternoon and since it's summer than we could have the party on her actual bday. we had about 8 girls come and go swimming and what kid doesn't love to spend all day swimming with their friends? these girls could have stayed out there all day and finally I had to get everyone in and eat cake, the best part of all..lol Any ways these girls can eat, I made a nrmal sized chocolate cake with whip cream as frosting and swirled choc syrup on it and it must have been a hit because those 8 girls ate it gone!! with ice cream too..I think Bailee had a good time, its hard for her to make friends because she is soo shy but the turn out was great and everyone had fun. I am soo greatful for Bailee in my life, she is such a great helper and is always trying to please everyone. She loves to help her siblings and has such a kind heart..we love this girl soo much

heres a few of the girls swimming

Heres everyone about to sing happy birthday and devour the cake

look how cute she is, this cake was my attempt to make it look like a zebra stripe( per Bailee's request) but I am not sure how zebraish it looked..haha

Bryce's birthday

Posting has been hanging over my head so I figure now that sunday church has turned into 8am church I should have plenty of time on sundays to post. I have to go back to June because Bryce and Bailee both had birthdays and I have only posted about Lyla's.

Bryces bday was fun, we had water balloons all filled up and ready for the boys and I had some fun games planned but that pretty much went out the window because the boys weren't interested for too long and they REALLY wanted to just throw the balloons. So I finally gave in and the balloons lasted about 5 mins, and it took Mike over an hour to fill them all up:( then we turned on sprinklers and that didn't last long either because they all complained that it was too cold..so then it was cake time and everyone at out side which was nice but the rest of the time was spent inside and I was definatley ready to have a quiet house when they all left..lol We had about 10 5-6 year olds running up and down the stairs and in the bedrooms and every where..all in all it was a success and Bryce loved every min of it. We are soo very greatful for Bryce and how sweet he is. He is extremely smart and understand very easy all the "school" stuff. He loves to read and never fights me on it, hes very willing to learn new things

heres one of the games I planned but I think it was a little harder than I thought it would be(look how smart bryce is, he figured out a way to go faster and not let the balloon fall)

here are some group shots of the boys playing..so cute

here are the cupcakes and goody bags we put together

Look at this handsome face, I love him soo much