Out of Order Birthday Pictures

This should have been below, when the Waymeyers were out. This picture reminded me of the one we took at Christmas shortly after Julie and I found out we were pregnant with these guys-- behind the Christmas Eve spread in 2005.

Other Birthday Weekend Happenings

We had a shower-by-mail for Kathy at the hotel. Spread out friends and family sent gifts for her and we enjoyed her first shower with her!


The Gifts.

Mom, her Baby, and her Baby's Baby


Kenny and Kathy brought their Wii down again and before we left ouf place on Saturday, we got a couple of rounds in of bowling and tennis, I think.

Mom bowling.

We all got pedicures... except for Mom! We couldn't talk her into it, but she was a little tempted when it was over and she saw it included a leg/foot massage.

Food!

Some of our food stops for the weekend:


Chipotle.

Tom's Farms.

Cheesecake Factory.

Snack time in the hotel lobby.

And then there was Mom's birthday...

To surprise my mom for her milestone birthday (I'll leave the exact number out!), my Dad surprised my mom with a weekend in California with her four daughters. Mom and Laura flew out on Friday and Kathy and I picked them up at the airport. We spent the weekend eating and shopping and enjoying our time together. Julie said it was hard to know whose birthday we were celbrating since we all got so many fun treats and time off from our normal day-to-days.

The husbands were wonderful. Brad took on the Dray kids with some help from his family. Matt managed the 5 Waymeyers mainly by himself... all while trying to get his work done. Derek took our kids with the help of Kenny. Kenny was relieved to go home for some down time! We're just breaking him in for his #1 being born later this fall.


Mom, Laura, Kathy, Julie, Sandy at the hotel.

Birthday Celebration!

It has been a busy week! Last Wednesday night the Waymeyers were able to stop by for some hanging out and to help celebrate the boys' birthdays. Zachary turned 2 on August 19 and the 27th was Luke's #2. I find it hard to believe that our babies are so big... and they'll just get bigger! It was fun for the kids to play and for us adults to stay up (way too late) talking. Thanks for coming and giving up so much sleep!


The birthday boys.

My sweet baby.

Enjoying dessert outside. From L (Zachary in the background): Courtney, Jack, Caleb, Leah, Anna and Jessica.

Our multiplication: Courtney and Anna in front, Zach, Jess, Jack, Jake, Luke, Caleb and Leah on the back. I don't think I called one kid their correct name the first time all night!

They're still cute when they sleep...

One of the sweetest things about little babies is watching them sleep. Maybe it is partly because they aren't crying when they sleep, but they are especially adorable when they're all cuddly and peaceful. As they get older I've still really enjoyed watching them sleep. Here are a few pictures from the other night of them sleeping. Luke has moved into a big boy bed and Jack wanted to sleep down there with him. I was surprised how well it went and they're doing it again tonight. Leah looks like she's having an upsetting dream!

My posts have been a little lacking lately. I'm trying to commit to getting school going with a good schedule and regular patterns so I've been spending a lot of time on re-working schedules and grinding through with the kids to get used to this school thing again. We've been out of it really since April when we found out we were moving and had to take care of all the things that were involved with it. Praise God that things are really going well overall with the school work and the other things we've been doing.

We've had some fun distractions since school started, too! We were able to go with Derek up to Santa Clarita for a night and a couple of days. (That's where we used to live for those who don't know.) We hung out with Kenny and Kathy a little and also saw the Rolley's for a park marathon :) and lunch. It was nice to be in familiar places with familiar faces. Kenny and Kathy came back down with us that night to pick up some baby furniture that was in our garage and stay the night, then it was back to school work. On Friday we went to the PRCA Rodeo that was in town. The kids had a blast. Stier wrestling, stier roping, bronco riding, and other events were all hits with all the kids. We really like Norco for that kind of thing. Tomorrow, to celebrate the start of school, we're heading down to Disneyland. Derek took the day off and we're going to see how long we last. We decided to do annual passes since they're a pretty good deal for Southern California residents... I think we'll have a lot of fun there this year.

I have to prepare for tomorrow and do some laundry and paperwork so I'd better get off this computer. Good night!

School!

Everyone is sending their kids back to school about this time of year! Anna started 2nd Grade, Jack is officially in Kindergarten and the others are just along for the ride. We're still working out some kinks, but we'll get there.