Saturday, May 26, 2012

Painting

For the past 10 days we've been repairing, replacing, patching, sanding, spackling, painting, organizing, and cleaning this house to get it ready to go on the market. The girls have asking on a daily basis to help paint. They finally got their chance when we painted the garage. Such happy girls.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

80s party

How rad does my daughter look. Scared me a little actually. She looked so mature with that hair and makeup.
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A fun little edit.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

graduation day

My sweet little Ava graduated from kindergarten.
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Posing by her self portrait. PS. She is dressed up like what she wants to be when she grows up.
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Any guesses?
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Translation: "I want to be a store clerk because you can make money." Nice.
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Later on in the day we went to my neice Jodi's graduation. Congrats Jods.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Solar Eclipse

We procrastinated and didn't make or purchase the glasses to view this. Paul grabbed his 2 welding masks though and they seemed to do the trick nicely. It was pretty awesome.
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Ring of Fire, which is green in this shot because the welding masks had a green tint.
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Our entertainment while taking turns with the masks.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

on the lake

We spent the majority of our time on the lake on Saturday since our camp became crowded out by the finest white trash vegas has to offer. It was great though, everyone got up and it was so fun watching everyone wipeout.
Lainie on the shark. (I think that's what it is called.)
She and Ava did so well on this. Ava went in and out without even getting wet. Her pics are on Paul's phone which I'll upload later.
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Anna tried the shark, but was too heavy. So then she tried to wake board. Only took her a few tries to get up and she LOVED it!
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Paul and I surfed. I never let go of the rope, too nervous! Nothing like a face full of water!
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The babes just hung out on the boat with no complaints.
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It was a fun weekend, but a lot of work and travel for one night. Next time, we'll spend the day on the boat and then sleep in a hotel. Much better than enduring the 2 hours sand storm in the middle of the night. :) Thanks Hirt family!

Friday, May 18, 2012

Lake Mead

We met the Hirt family at Lake Mead for an overnight camping/boat trip.
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The kids loved swimming and playing in the sand along the beach.
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No camping trip is complete without smores.
Lily waited so patiently.
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And it paid off. See was so happy.
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Making smores with BIG marshmallows proved difficult to eat!
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

performance

Lainie was one of 5 girls that made the splits club for the year.
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A shot of her dance group after their hip hop performance.
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Friday, May 11, 2012

dang technology

um, no words.
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District Track Meet

She did awesome, but I was relieved she didn't make it passed districts. Way to go Anna!
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Dance Pics

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I have a really hard time paying for pictures that I feel I can take better of my own children. However, I did want a group shot of the dancers and thought it would be rude if I jumped in with my camera. I snapped a couple quick shots right before I dropped them off, but had I known the group shots would come out so terribly I would have taken more time and got some better shots of these girls.
This is the group shot after I worked on it a bit in photoshop.
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Cute girls, just wish Brin wasn't blurry.