Elephant Parade

Today at lunch Nicolle and I took the kids and a few of there friends to see the elephant parade for the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus.

It was a beautiful day to be outside. The kids loved the clown noses and hats that they were handing out. The clowns were exciting and of course to see elephants cruising threw the city is pretty cool to.

Kendall thought it was so cool that people were riding the elephants.


Gretchen with her clown nose on.


I had so much fun today going to see the Elephants. I did not know we were going to do this today it was a big surprise to me. My mom says sometimes you just have to shoot from the hip. I did not get that at first but she said that sometimes life is fun when there is surprises along the way. I like that.
Charly

Carsons Birthday

Happy Birthday Carson

I wanted to wish Carson a happy birthday on my blog since his family does not have a blog.
Carson I hope you have had a great day. You are an awesome kid! I love to watch you with little kids. Kendall loves the attention you give her. I can remember the day you were born I can't believe that you kids are already 13. I am very proud of the person you are growing into. I wish I could be around you more. I love you and hope you have a great day.

Love, Aunt Andrea

Happy Birthday Carson You Rock! Love Kendall


Carson I hope you had a good birthday.
Love, Noelle

Carson Happy Birthday! Did you do anything cool for your birthday? Did you get a party?
Have a good one
Charly

Dude, How was having a birthday on Sunday? Happy 13th hope you had a good one. Love, Marsh

TWO WHEELS AT LAST!

After a whole summer of trying to teach Noelle how to ride a bike on two wheels she can finally do it. Saturday after a good half hour of her Dad running behind her she finally did it. Chuck was starting to get a little frustrated because the other two kids where riding a two wheeler by the age of 4 and 5, I keep reminding him that its alright I could not do it till I was 10 well maybe closer to 11. (That did not reassure him at all) I am a total spaz on a bike. I hate people to ride to close to me and Chuck and Marshal find it rather hilarious.




I love that I can now go on bike rides with Marshal and Charly and I don't have to sit in the bike trailer when the whole family goes. I love riding my bike. I also think my new helmet is so cool.
Noelle

Noelle's Birthday

Happy Birthday Noelle

Noelle had such a wonderful birthday. We started the day with getting her ears pierced. She has been wanting her ears pierced for so long that she could hardly wait for the mall to open. She was very brave and just sat there with a big smile on her face. After the lady was done and she was picking out some earrings she told me that it hurt a lot more than everyone tells you.
Instead of a friend party she and her best friend went to lunch together. They picked Wendy's. They had a blast laughing and goofing off all during lunch.
We always take our kids out to dinner for there birthday. As you can see Noelle has High end taste (lol) She loves golden corral. I mean why wouldn't you when your favorite foods are mac and cheese and mash potato's.

After dinner the girls played at the park until Marshal was done with football.
Then we headed for Miniature golf. This was a little challenging for Noelle because they gave her the smallest club they had and it was still to big. The kids had a great time. Kendall had the lowest score thanks to Mom.
We then headed for home to open presents and have cake. Noelle received High School musical barbies from her Marshal and Kendall, that alone would of been enough she was ready to stop opening gifts and go play. Charly gave her a purse loaded with everything a little girl needs. And Chuck and I gave her a new bike helmet 2 singing High School musical dolls and enough pet shops for the whole

block. She had a really good day.

I can not believe she is 7. She is such a fun little girl that keeps everything moving just right. I love her little giggle. I love how different she is than my other children. She already knows who she is and what she stands for and watch out for the person that tries to tell her any different.

I love You and hope you had as much fun on your birthday as I did.

Mom

First day of dance

Yeah this day has finally come!! Kendall has been looking forward to taking dance since she could walk. She loves watching Charly and Noelle at dance. When class started she almost ran the other scared little girls over trying to be first in line.She is an absolute blast to watch. A definite upside to my week. She is a little to talk a tive she thinks she needs to tell her teacher everything that happened the day before.

The Last couple of weeks

The last couple of weeks I have done some really cool things. I started 7Th grade and I love it. It is so much better than elementary school and the lunches ROCK!! My favorite class is CTE and History. I have been playing football which of course is the bomb. We have only won 1 game but I have had a good time sacking a few quarterbacks. I got my first interception last week. I also got the Defensive MVP for my game last week. Just before school started my Mom and I stayed up all night watching an eclipse. That was really cool although I was so tired the next day. I love that my Mom would stay up and do things like this with me.

The fire station by our house had a scheduled burn on a house that was about 80 years old. It was so cool to watch My Dad and Mom and my sisters came with me to watch it. It was kinda weird to see all the firemen letting it burn. They kept water spraying on all the stuff surrounding it so only the house burned.
It has been a good couple of weeks, Chat with ya soon.
Marshal

Nutcracker & Daddy Daughter

Last Saturday I tried out for ballet west Nutcracker. I was trying out for party girl. 106 girls where trying out. We had an hour to learn three dances, then we would be taken in groups of five to dance in front of the judges.I made it past the first cut where they cut 50 girls. Then they had us dance in front of the judges again I was doing really well until the last combination of the dance where I messed up. I knew I was going to be cut. I was the 35th girl and they only needed 32.



It was so weird to see all the girls crying. My mom said it was very nerve racking to watch each group come out. She said all the moms were crazy.

I liked trying out and it was a good experience. i am looking forward to next year to try out again.

Later that day was my daddy daughter date we had so much fun we made rockets and launched them. My rocket was awesome I think it went the highest. and of course the cutest. We had ice cream sundays it was so much fun.

Charly