From the beginning: Ouch, it's been 5mo since my last post.... OOPS

Ok I lied, this year won't be the year I stay on top of blogging ;) So here's a few highlights of the last 5mo.
May just flew by. Every weekend was busy with SOMETHING or other.

Kaeden up at bat

My baseball player

Kailer up at bat


I love his face when he realized he hit the ball and it was time to run!

June~
June 1st Steven and I were married. It was a beautiful day and we had a lovely wedding. So many of our friends and family showed up to make it the perfect day. I cannot thank everyone for their help in pulling this all together enough!!!!! I plan to make a wedding album someday so I won't bombard the blog with pics of that day :)

Ok onto July :)

Birthday Season begins! Tatum turned the big One Three! We have an official teenager in the house. We also had two big camping trips in July... both of which had some crazy accidents. We had a blast, enjoyed every moment with our friends and family and I'm also pretty sure we were "camping cursed". First camping trip July 13th Steven and Kaeden had an accident on a four wheeler causing Steven to gash open his knee and end up in the ER for 5+ hours in Ellensburg. Thank god things have worked out for us and he is healing nicely, the bill is taken care of thanks to the state and I can finally breathe again! Kaeden had no major injuries, just small scratch and a big bruise...However it did scare the crap out of him to see his Dad like that. Two weeks later we went on a camping trip with a huge group of people up above Cle Elum and for the most part it was an awesome trip.... But my bestie Lindsay managed to fracture her ankle while going off the beaten path in the dark against Kayla's advice :p So July was most definitely an interesting and busy month for us! The summer just flew as we were always busy with friends family and injuries ;)

Happy Birthday Tate... You crazy kids.

Twas the summer of mohawks around here!

Awesome campsite at the Clockum .

The kids were OBSESSED With the four wheelers.

We ate well :) The men were great cooks.

This baby hummingbird kept hanging out on our camp chairs! We even got to see it's Momma come feed it!

My hubby home and not a happy camper..... Literally LOL

Camping trip #2~ Had an amazing river with these great rock walls that were built (We added another) so the kids could go play without floating away. It was awesome. Kaeden did lose his flip flops though ;)

Part of the campers and campsite. We had many families here this weekend and were spread out all over :)

My Kinleigh is ALWAYS into something... even while camping... Looked over and this is what we see.....

August ~

Birthdays and Back To School...

Triniti turned 12 Aug 5th, Riley 11 August 7th and Kaeden 11 August 29th. I have no photos of Triniti or Riley's birthday, they were taken on Steven's Cell Phone. Joint birthday party for the boys labor day weekend. Went great. Did it at Lyons park for a change this year and got to have a pinata again thanks to trees! The kids had a great time and I baked the cake and Gramma Vicki decorated it ;) The kids first day of school was Kaeden's birthday. Oh yes and we found a dog at the park on Triniti's birthday and brought him home to keep him safe while we looked for his owner. Next day I located the owner.... and they asked if we wanted to keep him!!!! He's the best behaved dog ever. Male Boston Terrier named Buddy. Kinleigh named him Buddy Rogers and it's stuck ;) Our whole family is over the moon happy with him in it. He's an older dog 8-9yrs old, but amazing personality, manners etc. My girl dogs could take some lessons for sure!

Annual Back to school photos

Gramma Vicki brought Kinleigh Tap Shoes.....

Decorating her masterpiece.

Figured I should show off at least one picture of myself since you so rarely know that I'm even around for my childrens lives except for the fact that I'm the one taking all those photos you see.

After the birthday party we went to our last day at Splashzone before it closed for the season and Kinleigh showed off her fish like swimming abilities. She does spins, and mermaid swims and jumps in over her head as long as someone is there to catch her after she pushes back up from the bottom. Her skills amazed me how quickly they grew this year. Maybe next year I'll have more days with a book at the pool and not worrying about my brave little swimmer!

And she was pretty much obsessed with Goggles.

Showing a trick.

My nieces on the first day of school

Love this

My kiddos... How I love them... oh and the famous photo bomber Taylor in the background there LOL

And now we're at the end of September. The boys are both back into sports. Kaeden is playing tackle football and Kailer is playing Flag Football. Kailer turned 8 on Sept 8th, he thought it was cool that it was his "special" birthday. We had a crappy incident so he's back in counseling again. I'm also working on having him evaluated for ADHD. I worry about that boy and want to give him every chance in life to succeed! Steven and I have fought allergies the last month something TERRIBLE. I could smell ZERO for almost a whole month. I have never been so happy to smell things both good and bad in my life!!!! Steven was hit with asthma like a mac truck ran him over. Thank god we currently have insurance cause he's been in the Dr more in the last month then he has in the last 12 years we've been together! He's still not up to 100% but at least he's doing better. Working when you can't breathe, physical labor, is definitely a challenge. We are the luckiest family ever to have him. He does so much for us and we can never repay him. Even while sick and not able to breathe after a 10+ hour work day he takes kids to practice and sticks around to watch and help if at all possible. Seriously amazes me. I thought I was losing my insurance in August but found out I get it for another 6mo.-1yr. So I decided to use it as much as possible. I got my tetanus shot updated, got myself a flu shot, and got the fibroma cut off my tongue. That wasn't a fun process, but I was relieved to get the results saying yes it is a fibroma and not something dangerous! :D Now if it grows back I won't have to have the fear I have tongue cancer. Photography has been picking up and now that Lindsay finally got that boot off her foot it will make photoshoots much easier ;) This weekend is Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkston concert YAHOO!!!!! 5 friends in a minivan with Trish as our DD.... it's gonna be epic!!!! And then in two weeks Steven Lindsay and I take off for VEGAS. Holy cow this is all coming up so quickly!!!!!! If I don't update again before the year is over I promise to come back for a years end summary before 2014 ;)

During the Seahawks game on the 15th we got a HUGE storm through here and our tree was laying on power lines and sparking!!! That storm gave Steven some great overtime.