Playing With The Girls

Gabby and Chuck, the dog I named after my father-in-law, have been the best of friends the very moment we brought him home as a puppy. The first thing she does in the morning is go outside to let him lick her face. He brings her any toy he can find in the yard, and she plays with him for what seems like forever. He has grown to be so big and is still not even a year old.
Now Chuck is not always an active participant when they play. He has figured out that if he lays down, Gabby has to pull him around the yard to try to get the toy out of his mouth. It's good exercise for Gabby at least.

Sometimes your kids are so beautiful its frightening. Hannah takes my breath away. The best part is that she doesn't even know it yet. Even though she is 14 she still doesn't mind being goofy with us on the trampoline.

We worked so hard to get a mid-air shot and she was quite proud of herself in this one.

One day Jaime and I left the house for a few minutes and as soon as we were down the street, Autumn calls me and says, "Mom, Gabby is in a little bit of a bind. Her hair is caught in the trampoline net zipper.. We might need to cut her out..."

I, of course, told her to wait, and I would come right back. But, it was too late. Hannah had already cut her out...Needless to say, Gabby has her hair a little shorter now...Sisters take care of each other that way!

Sprite is growling at her. Its a stand off.

The Three musketeers. We have been having our house painted. So Jaime put up the "tent house". Its so big, it has a living room in the middle of the bedrooms. He bought it thinking it would tempt me to want to go camping with them. It hasn't, but at least they have more room when they go without me! The girls have enjoyed sleeping in the back yard for the past week.

It is finally hot enough to go swimming! Autumn has never really enjoyed wearing clothes. I knew I should have tried harder to keep them dressed when we were in Africa!

We spend alot of time in the hammock. The weather has been so beautiful the last week or so. So today we thought we would go out and just swing in it for awhile.

Take a few goofy pictures of me...

Of ourselves....and it was fun until....

Chuck wanted a picture too....IN the hammock with us..

This is where the fun ended, because he quickly realized that he was stuck and panicked to get out, and that is how Gabby and I were dumped out of the hammock!!

My kids have always made me laugh with the silly things they do and say. They are so random in their humor and it is so honest and pure, that it just really makes me laugh outloud...













There are those rare moments though that I can return the favor..Gabby said she couldn't smile, so I told her I would tell her something funny...

Our plan back fired though because she kept laughing, until she couldn't breathe and her eyes starting tearing up....











Over all it was a pretty great day, just hanging with my girls. WE needed some time as a family. I don't spend enough time with them and time is so precious at this age. Girls need their moms.