This is for you Brit!

Ok, I need to catch up once again... I promise I will do more once the kids finally get back to school and I have a little more time. First Makai's First birthday just past on Aug 12.. we didnt do anything big yet.. just a small 'Happy Birthday' at our house.. here he is enjoying his first cake..

As you can see it was long gone before I could get a chance to take a pic..







Happy Birthday to my BABY... I am so sad.. he isnt a baby anymore... He is walking, has full on conversations with you (through babble, so freakin cute) and copies everything the big kids do.. The older kids love him so much and he is so spoiled by them.. especially Gavin.. they have such a great bond!

We have had tons of activities going on this summer.. but the last few weeks (since Brittany decieded to ditch me, and kayla has started school) I have just stayed around the house and relaxed while the kids play outside with the neighborhood kids... This is what 7 boys came up with last night....

They decided to make a tree house in the tree in the front yard... They all went collecting wood from eachothers housed and came back and made a little hang out... I have to say it was pretty awsome.. They made a "bed" up there with cushions from a couch and they have a few seats up there.. there is 7 of them... one kid brought his radio and they were bumpin' music and singing, then another boy decided to bring a dvd player and they watched Transformers... It was awsome! (these kids are only 7-10 years old)


Then their "ladder" broke so they decided to use the pieces (rails from a crib) as light sabers... I wasnt too sure I thought someone would get hurt... but .... I thought well I will just let them be... they were having lots of fun!


The boys still playing star wars....

Until..........................

I knew it..... they stopped playing on their own and I wasnt the bad guy....
I love having the neighborhood kids at my house.. I hope it is always like that until they are grown... I would for my house to be "that" house that the kids always come to, to hang out..
They are getting so big.... :(


We also redid the girls room... I re-painted it and put another bed in..

But as you can see they still like to sleep together...

Seriously... I would love to have a bed to myself...

Little miss Aniya... dont ask.... I dont know where she gets her poses from... she just said.."mommy, take my pic" then posed....

Then of course Kalaea had to copy her...

And today Aniya found her way up the tree... I hadnt let her go up because I am afraid she may fall... she is too little...

She soon found that out on her own.,...

(am I mean for taking a pic while she cries?)

Then a bit of relief on her face as I help her down...

summer is almost over and I can not wait for school to start...

Gavin is going into 2nd grade

Zae to kindergarten

Aniya to preschool....

That mean I only have 2 kids part day

and 3 all day.... (sigh)