August Birthdays ALL OVER THE PLACE!

My family knows how to do a party right.. Last night we celebrated 5 August birthdays.. Holy Heck it was a lot of dessert, people, and presents. But I love my family more than anything in the world and I am so happy we live close and get to spend so much time with them! Happy Birthday Mommy # 2, Uncle Chaddy, John Boy, Claire Bear, and Wy Wy!!

There they are! All the August birthday babies!! Well Hayley Mae snuck in at the end, and she's not an August baby.. but she is too darn cute so we let her in the picture! 

First Day of School ALREADY???

I can't believe that the summer is already over and it is time for school to start already.. it flew by but we had a ton of fun all summer long. John is a Sophomore this year and Claire is an 8th grader. I can't believe how quickly time is passing! Pretty soon it will be just me at home!! What will I do with myself? LOL!

My 8th Grader!!

My Sophomore!

Tiny Dancer.. She ROCKS

Our good friend Larissa White (Claire's bestie) spent 2 weeks at the University of San Francisco this summer at a dance intensive, and on the last day they had a performance to show off what they learned. Claire and I took a day trip to the city to watch her perform, and we loved it! This girl is so talented and we are so proud of her!! 

The Girls

Love her like my own!

Besties!

Friends are the Thread in My Life

To celebrate my birthday, my girl Lora's birthday, and my girl Monica's birthday- which are all in JULY. We had a girls weekend at the house. They brought their daughters and we kicked John out at his dads house and we had a great weekend! We ate lots of good food, yummy desserts, A LOT of wine, took the girls to SKY HIGH, shopping, and then later on dinner out just us adult girls. It was a great fun filled weekend with some of my most favorite people! 

Love these girls!

Foam Pit at Sky High!

I was and still am very excited about this cool glass I got at Mikuni's for my Bday!

My girls Lora Monica and Heather!

Dessert and Leatherby's of course!!

Birthdays!

July is full of birthdays for me... My sister Sarah and I share the same birthday, my dad's in later in the month, and 4 of my closest friends all have July birthdays... CRAZY! Here are a few pics of our Birthday Month Madness!!

Joint Birthday means Joint Cake.. with Helpers of Course!

My GORGEOUS sister and I.

As I walked in the door from work on my BDAY John started playing Happy Birthday on the Piano.

 Love that kid!

Happy Birthday DAD!

Did someone say VACATION???

This summer the kids and I were lucky enough to take 2 amazing vacations. The first one in June with my Dad and Mommy #2 to Vegas, we had the BEST time. Oh my goodness, there is no way I can even post all the pictures and describe all the fun we had. This particular vacay, it was just my dad, mommy #2, me, and the kids, so we got some great one on one time with the parents and grand parents and had an AMAZING time. Here are a few of our fave pics!

 Then for our second major vacation my mom, kids, brother's girlfriend, and I all took a road trip to Montana! We were gone for 10 days and we stopped at Mono Lake, Bryce Canyon, and Yellowstone along the way. We stayed in Montana for 5 days visiting my grandparents and aunt and uncle who live there. I personally fell in love with the area and have decided that is where I am moving as soon as Claire graduates high school! Again, I took SOOO many pics on this vacay, so I am pleasuring you with some of my faves. Claire was our expert "selfie" taker on the trip, and I am so glad to have so many pics with all of us in them!

Mono Lake

Bryce Canyon

Yellowstone- Grand Prismatic

Garden Of a Thousand Buddahs

Glacier Park

Glacier Park

4th of July Making Ice Cream the Old Fashioned Way

On our Way home

BFF... STOP GROWING UP

Honestly I feel like a broken record.... these kids need to stop growing up, but I know they won't. It has been so fun to watch my kids grow up with my best friend's kids.. knowing that they will be life long friends like we are life long friends make me so happy:)

2010... They look so little

2014... two almost 8th graders and an almost Sophomore.. where does the time go!!