Pictures from our night at Tempe Marketplace...

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY CLAIRE!!

"Jennifer has the same birthday as me" -claire

playing monopoly with Mamo

Mike "uncle" brought claire flowers

matching butterflies

claire's choice for her birthday dinner was RIBS from El paso!

she loves her ribs:-)

so excited to open presents

claire loved her Human Body Book... she will be a doctor one day!

mommy and claire

Claire telling Dylan the names of all the songs on her new cd!

being goofy

the aftermath

The first thing she wanted to do was read her Human Body Book with Papa

i look goofy

dancing with dad

I made him take this one with me...Im never in pictures:-)

Dylan and grandma coloring

claire's butterfly cake that her mom made for her

so cute!

kisses from papa and mike (uncle) are the best kind!!

Claire with Papa and Mamo

Claire with me and Mike...dylan was doing his own thing in the other room

Me and Claire:-)

Mommy and Claire!

blowing out those candles!!

Dylan reading with Papa

THE END

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY CLAIRE!!

(pictures to come, we are celebrating tonight)

TODAY IS A VERY SPECIAL DAY!!

Claire turns 7 years old today! We will all go up to mikes parents house for a special dinner celebration tonight. Today she is so excited to be going with her mom to "Build a Bear" to make a hannah montana bear! "With the song inside and everything", she says. Dylan has been saying "Happy Birthday claire" and "claire 7 years old" all weekend. We went to church this morning and the rest of the day we're just relaxing until claire's birthday dinner tonight... have a great sunday everyone!!

Tempe Marketplace!!

We had so much fun last night at Shane's show. We had never been down to Tempe Marketplace, but we loved it. It reminded us of the cool outdoor malls in California that we miss. The entire shopping mall is outdoors, but also has misters they go throughout all of it. It was so nice to walk around and not be miserably hot. We ate dinner at California Pizza Kitchen then headed over to the place where Shane's band was setting up. It was such a perfect environment for the show. They had comfy couches and chairs all set up and behind the band was a huge waterfall fountain. It was really laid back, even the kids enjoyed it. Shane was awesome! We are so happy we went and got to see him play:-) It was such a fun night. Amy and claire came, phil surprised us and charisty was in town so she was able to be there too. I hope we get to do that again...me mike and dylan had a great time!!

MORE PICTURES TO COME...

Tonight (saturday) all of us are going to see Shane's (mike's cousin) band play at Tempe Marketplace! Claire and Amy are going to be going to. We are looking forward to it!

THIS WEEK:

Well me and Dylan got out of the house for some playdates this week. On Thursday we went over to Natalie's house and Dylan got to play with his friends chloe, tess, and jack. Angela (jacks mom) is pregnant with a little girl and due any day now. I couldn't believe she was out and about! We always have fun with that group. Then on Friday we went to play at Danielle's house for the first time. Dylan got to meet some new friends and had a blast playing with Mckays train set. Danielle has a little boy, McKay, who is 3 and two little girls who are 7 and 9.

So me and Dylan got out of the house this week!! And of course went up to grandmas for dinner on wednesday and friday (friday night taco tradition)! Dylan goes and plays with grandma and Claire a couple times a week to get in his "grandma time":-) We had a great week!

PHIL'S 56TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

GRANI'S 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

GRANI'S 80th Birthday Celebration

VICTORIA IS THE STAR IN THE PLAY "ANNIE" AND WE ARE SO PROUD!!!

OFF TO HAVE SUSHI WITH LITTLE BROTHER:-)

SPA FACIALS

TRIP TO TEXAS

RECENTLY:

I went on a trip to visit my family in Texas! It was a great weekend full of fun dinners, movies, new tattoos, spa facials, take-out, church conference (which was the purpose of the trip and well worth it!) and just enjoying being with all my family. It is not very often that we are all in the same place at the same time. Now we are all back to work and school. Nick heads off to Arkansas for school today!! Im so excited for him to be going to a University and getting to have the college experience he needs. Im so proud of him. Then elizabeth is off to Auburn. Mom and dad both helped her get moved into her new place! She is going to be living in a townhouse with 3 of her friends. She is so happy to be getting back to school. She had a summer full of summer school and work. I am back in Phoenix looking forward to school starting at the end of August. Both mom and dad got new jobs and are keeping themselves busy! They both took weekend trips to Seattle to see the Gersch's and especially to go see Victoria play the lead role of Annie in the play "Annie". We are so proud of her!! Wish we could be there!

OUR NEW BLOG

We started our new bog today! We thought it would be a good way to share photos and let you in on whats going on with us:-)