Insta Friday

This week was quite a busy week for us, Gavin went to his first VBS at our church and we had lots of Birthday celebrating going on for Miss Audra.  So lets get started.

Audra and Hadley enjoyed a bath together.  Audra enjoyed putting a bowl on Hadley's head, and she didn't even seem to notice it was there.  Then when I got them out of the tub, I noticed Audra trying to put Hadley's diaper on.  That's what the picture on the bottom left is.  It made me laugh.

Audra got her present from Nana, Gramps and Uncle Nate in the mail, a trampoline!  They were quite excited.  We had this knock on the door, so the kids went running of course and were peering out the windows to see what it was, when all of a sudden I hear them screaming, "MMMOOOMMM its a TRAMPOLINE!!!"  They were so excited.  I had pulled the large heavy box inside the house and they immediately started trying to rip the box open.  When that didn't seem to be working they ran and grabbed butter knives and were trying to pry the box open.  They couldn't wait to get that thing opened.  So needless to say by the time Kevin got home and we got it set up they were quite anxious to get on the thing.  They jumped as long as we would let them before it was time for bed.  The top left picture is Audra after her first night of jumping on her new trampoline, lets just say she was all tuckered out!  On Saturday we headed up to Cave Creek to the Thieves Market it was a little sale where we found a few treasures of course and they kids found sno cones!  They were quite content and happy the rest of the time.

Then we came home and they jumped off all their energy from the sno cones!

Miss Hadley is getting used to putting up with whatever the other two pester her with.  Gavin put his helmet on Hadley and Audra was sharing her new baby.  Kevin and I then went to dinner with some friends Saturday night, so Audra helped me get ready.  She is quite the immitator these days, so whatever anyone else does, she has to do to.  So I was putting on makeup, so she had to put on makeup too.  And Hadley enjoyed some time with Daddy.  I love to see her face light up when she sees him.  So cute.

Snuggles with Daddy and his IPad.

Miss Hadley can sit up all on her own!  Look at that big girl.

Audra got a very fun present from Grammy and Pops in the mail.  It was a new baby with matching outfits for her and her baby!  She was quite excited!

The many faces of Miss Hadley.  She is such a big girl these days and now can sit in the cart all by herself.  And we've discovered she loves all food and is quite a messy, messy eater.

The kids have been enjoying their little pool!  They have discovered its very fun to run back and forth between the trampoline and the pool.  Gavin has been playing lots with his "guys" (mostly his little super heros and buzz and woody of course) and Audra has her little Ariel.  I love to see their imagination.  Gavin was making them all surf on the flip flops.  It was quite funny.

Every morning this past week Gavin went to VBX at our church.  This was his first time.  He had a lot of fun, once he was there every day.  It took some cohercing him everyday to go, but he was always fine once he saw his friend Orland.  He's not used to having to go somewhere everyday either, so that was a little hard for him, he kept saying he wanted to go home.  But the games were always fun and on Friday they water day, even more fun.  Random side note, yesterday on our way to church Gavin asked, all excited, "mom is today going to be water day!"  I had to explain that that was a special treat for VBX and that today was church.  Funny boy, but at least he had fun.  It was nice for me to get a lot of errands run.  Its amazing how much easier it seems to just have 2 kids to run errands.  On Thursday at VBX the kids did a performance for the parents and then they  had ice cream for everyone.  Audra and Noelia were quite happy to join in on the fun!

On Friday Audra got to wear her birthday clothes she had picked out.  She had been waiting several days to wear her skirt.  She had been carrying it around for days begging to wear it.  The Birthday Gril in ALL HER GLORY!

On Friday night we had a little party to celebrate Miss Audra.  All our friends came over for pizza and ice cream!  Audra of course had a wonderful time.  And of course she loved her presents, especially this Ariel dress from Auntie Mandy.  Thank you everyone for all the wonderful presents and for celebrating and making Audra's birthday so special!

Miss Hadley is quite the scooter these days.  Any day she is just going to take off crawling on us.