August so far...

it started out with my favorite - GIRLS' NIGHT OUT. We ate out at Johnny Rocket's, then we shopped, then saw "Mama Mia". It was so much fun, and even Ellie Girl got to hang out with us. I loved the movie and even more I loved hanging out with my best friends in the world! Dinner was hilarious, we were doing anything we could to get more milk-shakes (for free) when our child-size shakes were gone. Mmm, they were so good. The best was when Auburn asked the waiter if something was burning (it really did smell like it) and we thought that would get the manager to ask what they could do to make it up to us (we would have had a quick answer - more shakes!) The workers knew what we were up to and our plan failed (dang it). I think it's one of those "you had to be there" stories.

Imitating the girls who thought they were hot stuff at the beach...
Oopsie, I cut Alisse out of that first one.

Ellie & Noah are a crack-up. They wrote these letters to Brad and said they were going to mail them to him... so they walked out to the mailbox and put them in, hoping the mailman/lady would know where to deliver them to even though they weren't in envelopes.

The kids miss Brad but love the sticker chart with his picture on it.

Taking all the kids to Stapley Pool was fun too.
This picture is typical of Noah - he's all talk about doing scary things but when it comes down to it, he just can't. He must have walked to the edge of the diving board 3 or 4 times, and turned around every single time. But don't worry, I went off and it was a blast. But next time I need to wear a speedo brand swimsuit that stays up when you hit the water.
I wish I had Noah's brown skin - he's so lucky.

We were all so tired by the end of the day.

Last weekend was great too - Suzanne, Jennifer, & I got some scrapbooking / projects done. And who took this picture of us? Oh, Jennifer showed me that I had a self-timer setting on my camera. That alone made my night. It was so fun to set the camera, run to our seat, pose like we were getting important stuff done.... notice we're all laughing in this picture. But if you're a blogger - you KNOW that you have to get a picture to document anything important that you do so you can blog about it. Nobody else in the house was awake still to take a picture of us. Since I'm the only adult in my house most of the time, this self-timer setting is going to come in handy!! (just kidding)

Well I don't have much to show for 6 hours of scrapbooking, but keep in mind that some of the time was spent eating Costa Vida (yummy), talking about who knows what (actually Jennifer & Suzanne, you KNOW exactly what we talked about most of the time), staring at all my pictures and figuring out what to do...

Yes, the next 2 pages are all I got done that whole night - pretty pathetic but I actually like how they turned out. (Thanks to Angie for the inspiration on the first page!)

Finally, here's some random pictures of Noah from the past few days...

Some day he is going to kill me for putting pictures like this on my blog, but every time he dresses up I have to take a picture.

In this picture he's running away because he's too embarrased to pose for another picture.
With long hair he might pass for a girl in this one.
And... he's running away again. He loves dressing up but at the same time, knows to be embarrased that he's dressed like a girl. Especially when there's other guys around the house.
I love when he sleeps holding on to something, it's so cute.
Is he a fireman or a policeman? I just took this one as I was doing this post - he's keeping himself entertained!

We're excited for more fun this weekend - we get to celebrate 2 birthdays in my family - Happy Birthday Dad & Bryan!