My girls and our activities.

In the middle of July we took the girls to Yakima for the annual convention at the Sun Dome.  It was great to be with them and have a little break from the family, although I am not so sure that those left at home would agree.

For five days we hung out together, attended sessions, and had a blizzard a day.  That’s what you get when your hotel is across the street from a DQ and you are with four teenage girls.  It was never the adults idea….really…..

Nothing like a little dancing in a formal or long dress!

Look close, Seri is in there somewhere.

My girls, aren’t they cute?

And while the girls were in the pool what were the adults doing?

Trying to catch up on some sleep!!!  It’s tough hanging out with teenagers!

 

Of course the added sugar they consumed really helped I am sure.

Also notice the blue nails.  We stayed up really late (past curfew, but don’t tell anyone) Painting every ones finger and toe nails the same color to match our dresses.

Shortly following Grand Assembly we had our Installation and Seri was elected and installed as Faith, the starter leadership position.

Me and the girls.

We knew it was coming, Matt was asked to be Rainbow dad.  He is not excited at all. Yeah right…

After that we walked in the Covington Days parade and had a booth.  It has been a busy month for us!

Our booth was right next to the nuns and so I had to capture this moment on film, cracked me up…

The day before I had been putting all of my information on the brochures that we were handing out.  The next morning Matt awoke to find Sariah with about three hundred of them, “helping mommy”

Just like mommy, she had only written in the yellow boxes!   

Michael turns ten

Michael turned 10 on the 19th of July. Since it was not a "big" birthday (ages 4,8,12,and 16 are celebrated with parties) he choose to eat at the Rain Forest Cafe. It has been decided that it is not really any cheaper to eat here than it is to throw a party, so for future birthday dinners if the recepient decides to eat here we will be going just for dessert. The food has been declared not worth it. However watching Sariah snuggle up to daddy because she is terrified of the animals did somewhat make up for the lack in the taste of the food.
Somehow I feel that I have missed him getting more mature. Maybe I was too focused on Seri maturing and entering teenage doom, or maybe I was paying too much attention to the babies, not sure what it was but one day I turned around and saw a mature little man who was closing in on my height.
Michael has turned in to such a great guy. He has learned to deal well with some of his anger issues and has turned into a fantastic helper. He no longer balks at doing chores or things that I ask him to do. He adores the babies and I love watching him get down on the floor and play with them.
He comes up with the greatest one-liners and responses. The other day Matt was slightly miffed with him about something and Michael very casually walked up and said "Hey Dad, it's me, your greatest accomplishment in life". Now how can you stay angry after that?
He is the comedian, making the best funny faces, the funniest sound effects and the snippy little comments that you just have to pause with your mouth open after hearing as you think "wow, that was really good".
(I think I may have read somewhere about the middle child being the comedian in a birth order book or something).
As he matures he is also becoming incredibly handsome. No, I am not biased, not even a bit. He reminds me so much of his father in his looks and I often think of him as a little Miny-me for Matt.
His trademark long hair is gone. It has been quit long for awhile now and mom went to cut it a little for pictures and accidentally used a very close blade. We then had no choice but to buzz it. No, I did not do it on purpose.
I love this boy so very much and am excited to see the man he is becoming.
Happy Birthday Mike!!!!!

Isaac has lost his trade mark

When Isaac was two he had his two top front teeth capped in silver. Since then he has had so many comments on his two front teeth they have become his trade mark. He doesn't remember ever not having two silver teeth.
So now that he is six it is time for those precious baby teeth to fall out and he is slightly miffed that he will be losing his "bling". He really thought that his permanent teeth would also come in that cool silver color and was dissapointed to hear that they did not.. poor guy... I think he is having a small identity crisis.
However he quickly recovered and asked if the tooth fairy would pay more for silver teeth.

Seri's SAT results are in

They are posted in our homeschooling blog, http://hiwohi.blogspot.com/. I am so proud of that girl!!!!