The butterfly pavillion

We went to the butterfly pavillion with Naunie yesterday and had a great time. We saw tons of butterflies and cool bugs. Some big ole tarantulas! The kids, well not Indie even got to hold it! Even Olive and I held it!

Rosy the Tarantula!

The boys trying to hold still so a butterfly will land on them

Caught one!

So did I!!!

Indie was very excited to hold this one

Naunie and Olivetta

The butterflies loved this guy's shirt!! They were landing all over him

Here is a picture of Olive's new face.... real adorable. (Her eyes are during a hazel/green color! You can really tell in this photo)

My brother just went on a 4 day painting hike in the mountains. Besides it being one of the best experiences in his life, next to me beating him in arm wrestles when we were kids, of course. He has painted some of the most beautiful paintings that he will be selling at an art gallery next month. Some of the proceeds will go to the area where he hiked to help preserve it so the miners don't come in and destroy it. Check them out HERE....

Sea World

Ok, I really don't feel like typing so here are a few photos of Sea World... More to come!

The cool glass tank
The cousins

This Shamu was HUGE!!!

They do some really really amazing tricks. It makes you wanna just jump in and swim with them. Sadly I don't think my doggy paddling would make the cut.

This trainer was pregnant she did a cute little routine with this baby whale and its mama!!

Colorado

I have so many pictures to post on my blog it is ridiculous!! We spent all last week in Orlando with Paul's family spending every day either at Sea World of Busch Gardens. It was so much fun! Thanks granny and grampa! I haven't been able to load those photos on my blog because the computer won't read my 4GB card.... boo! So when I get the pics be prepared to see some roller coasters and some very tricky whales! Mean while enjoy some photos of us at my mom's house!
My uncle Terry has over 600 cars... yes, that's right 600!! Needless to say Tadhg was in HEAVEN!! Here the two car boys are lovin every minute of it! Tadhg just kept asking him so many questions and he would answer all of them. It was adorable!
Here he is by his favorite car the Hornet..... the yellow one, of course!

Lex had a lot of fun checkin out all the cars as well. He is so cute with Tadhg. He was a wonderful big brother!

Here is Olive's first haircut! She was so funny! Grinning the whole time, big surprise! When Naunie was done she was going to trim Tadhg's hair and Olive just kept running back to the chair saying "my turn, my turn!"
Every time I tried to take her picture she would show me her hair like this
Thanks Naunie!!!!

Silly Indie int the pool. That girl always pulls a crazy face...what a nut.

Some old pictures

I found two of my old camera cards and had to put some old school photos on

Tadhg around 5 months or so

What a cool Uncle to paint a rockin tiger on Lex's baseball helmet!! There were some very jealous boys on the team.

Hey, Aaron remember when you hurt Indie's arm?? Then after that they only person she wanted was you! You had to brush her teeth, help her with her PJ's, and put her to bed!


Look at these adorable boys!!! I can't believe they annoy me now!! Wait, yes I can.


The only way to eat pizza...

Happy 4th Birthday Tadhg!!!

Here is our handsome sweet little boy who turned 4 today! FOUR!!! I can't believe it!

We had a party at the church with a bunch of his friends. They basically just entertained themselves but we did play the classic pin the tail on the donkey.... Tadhg was just a little off.




Present time!! Tadhg was in car heaven! Everything he got was either cars or Monster Trucks! He couldn't have been happier.

We got him a new bike. It's a little small but he has a one already but refuses to even sit on it! It's even a Hot Wheels one! He has a Diego tricycle that he adores but it's broken. Every time I try and throw it away he breaks down in tears. So we just keep it for the redneck collection in our yard. So I found a small bike that was the exact same as is trike and had to get it! Just look at that face! He hopped right on and rode it all over the gym!



I didn't get a very good picture of the cake but it of course had to be a monster truck. The above picture is blurry but I wanted to just show how big the cake was.

Happy 4th of July Ya'll!!!

Here are the cute outfits I made the kids... you can't see them very well but they turned out pretty cute!

And a punch to the......face! One of Tadhg's favorite quotes from Nacho Libre.

The big Cheese doin her thang

No fourth of July would be complete without shootin cans with the
BBgun!!


We had our own little BBQ.... Lex's idea of course! It was a blast just hangin out with our kids!

Olive and Lexy boy chillin on the swing

Tadhg and Indie had fun swimmin in the pool

Mom and her favorite fireworks.... sparklers! I could do these things all night!

And Paul could light them all night long!