The kids love to play with photo booth on my mac they even included the dogs!!!!

Cole with his new bike that he has rode 1x since he got it in July. Just thought it was a cute picture.

Baby Gavin

Well he is not such a baby anymore.....He is at a really fun age I wish I had more time to spend with him. I had lunch with him and Julie yesterday and he just makes me smile what a cutie pie!!!

We are going to go to Renee and David's wedding today! Of coarse Mike will be shooting it so I will be attending......I am so happy for them both. I cannot wait to see her walk down that isle. Mike and I are betting on how long it takes her to cry. She is so happy and is one that shows her emotions. We are ditching the kids at grandma's and staying in Portland!! Other than that just busy with work, kids and getting ready to go to round up in Pendleton. I ordered the kids cowboy boots and they are so excited to see there cousins. Cole wants to ride the mechanical bull with Austin. We had dinner with uncle Pete who is here visiting from the Philippines and he is a wonderful chef and is teaching culinary school over there. I am trying to con him in to a cooking class or 2 while he is here. I hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend!

Macy's 3rd B-Day

Macy and her BFF

State Fair

Jake!! Let'er Buck!!


Macy having fun. Cole would not look at me on any of the pic's



Cole and Macy



Jake and Cole


Macy and Dad

Went to the fair last night with the kids! What a waste of money......Jake went with us since he is home from college. The kids just adore him. I will post some pictures hopefully tonight. Cole and Macy had a great time!! Cole has a ceremony to enter into leadership with his taekwondo class tonight! So if I get time that is to post some pic's...............

OK I know the Leona Lewis song is about a relationship but when I heard it. It made me think of how we should live each day to it's fullest because you may never have tomorrow. With the recent loss of my brother it really puts life into prespective and how thankful I am for all of my friends and family. Thanks to all of you for all of your love and support! I am so lucky to have you all.......

Hubba Hubba Ashley!!!

The girls got all dresses up and did a fashion show!

The girls playing slip and slide. It is so cool that they are all about the same age how fun for them! I had so much fun watching them play.

Still need to figure out how to post a slide show for the Europe vacation. But here are some beach pic's for now from August. The kids love the beach.

Well we went to the beach today. It rained off and on and all the kids got wet! Macy and Elsie were the first to call it quits because they were cold. Cole loved playing with his cousins and I think they all had a great time. On the way back stopped at the casino and had lunch and the best part of the day was winning $160 on a dollar machine. My uncle Gilbert and his brother Rudy joined us and we had a good time visiting. They also came over and cooked us spam, potatoes, egg and some jalepenos with red sauce. I must say I was skeptical not knowing what spam really was. It was delicious. It has been a lot of fun hanging out with Jaime and Jan and the kids!!! We had a fashion show for the girls tonight and put fake nails on the girls! I never knew they made them for 3 yr. olds! I will post some pic's soon......Party is over back to work tomorrow...................

Athen's and WOW it was hot..........I do not know how the ancient greeks built these ruins it was too freakin hot!!!!!!! Maybe we should have worn grape leaves!

Here is a pic of Santorini. I have a ton of pic's just on a diffrent computer so I will have to figure out a slide show. Kim and I took a cooking class in Turkey and it was so funny I have some pic's on my computer I will post soon..........

Ok here is one of the blue mosque in Turkey. I think they said 15 million people live in Istanbul and for that many people it was very clean and surprisingly the people were very nice. The history and culture is a must to experience!

Well I guess I am suppose to write in a blog and not just post random pic's. So here is what we have been up to......
We went to the beach last weekend! I think it was the first Saturday Mike has not shot a wedding all summer! That evening we had some friends and family over for dinner and it was drink beer, roast marshmallows and sit around the fire pit. Joe Gibson who is our cousin and amazingly talented played guitar and sang. It was so much fun THANKS JOE!!!! Work has been crazy busy and Mike has had alot of weddings and senior shoots in the past few weeks. Today Cole graduated another level of taekwondo he is now a cheetah belt!!!! Tonight it is off to costco with Julie and three kids....what the heck are we thinking? Sunday Jamie and Jan our cousins are coming to stay with thier 4 kids and we are busting out the water slide and I am sure roasting marshmallows. Monday off to enjoy the day at the beach with the kids and when I get a chance I can catch you all up on the rest of the fun we had this summer and eventually post the pictures from Greece and Turkey.

I can't believe our son will be starting kindergarten in a few weeks!

Good friends good times.......

I cannot believe that my baby girl is so grown up and bossy!!!

Duntley camping trip

Mom and Macy





Shawn and Ryder




Cole being silly


riding

My Husband and I