Friday, July 25, 2008

Almost there

Remember my post on Keigan getting his permit? Keigan had his 1st of 2 driving sessions today. This is great, along with his class, he gets two 3 hour drive alongs with an instructor. He did awesome. The guy says he does not need to work on anything. I signed him up for another one in a week and a half assuming we would have something to work on. We don't......


GOOD JOB Keigan

Thursday, July 24, 2008

The braces are off!!!!!

Miss Kilean had her braces taken off today. I have to say her teeth look gorgeous!!!! Her smile is so wide. She is amazing.

For all of you that do not know her braces story....she won them. Yes folks she wrote an essay in 6th grade. Her essay was picked and braces were free thanks to Dr. Larabee!!!




As you all know she loves to make faces when I take her picture. Since I wanted pictures of her teeth, I guess she felt she must cover them!!!


Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Mexico....Part 2

PICTURES!!!!!!!!



Our condo was really nice. As you can see we had a wonderful view of the ocean. The view from our view was breathtaking!!!! We also had a view from every point at the resort.....










Kyler Kelsey and Brenlie loved making sand castles. Notice Kyler always had sand ALL over him. It was Brenlie's job to knock it down. And Kylers to build. Kelsey was in charge of telling everyone what to do:)



I thought this was cool. I love the ocean.


Brenlie loved to run on the beach. It was not crowded at all since it was a private resort. So she could run all over!!!


Brenlie would stick the hermit crabs on her finger. Then watch Kelsey freak out!!!!It was funny to watch both girls reactions.


Our bucket of crabs. We spent the evening watching them, then put them back in the morning:)


Kyler loves to skim board. He talks about it all the time. Mexico beaches are not the same as San Diego. Kyler did not get the same opportunities to master his art of skim boarding. But as you can see he did get into the moment!!!!


The girls took the camera down the beach and came back with these pictures....

They are a cute group of kids

Keigan and Bryce......they do not love taking pictures like their sisters!!!

Oh this is my favorite. We got really good mangos this way. Most everything came to us..Thank goodness!!!!

Brenlie loved Frank's hat. I love her big blue eyes!!!!



I bought these dresses in hopes of a great family picture in Mexico. Not so sure. The girls look great, but the camera put some pounds on me!!!!



Kelsey is adorable!!!

A little cheesey but we bought hats for the boys!!!! Oh of course on the last 2 days the wind was blowing so hard, pictures were difficult to take. My luck of course.



I love the dresses on the hanger. The girls look adorable....me I'm not so sure:)


Brenlie....What can you say? I love this dress on her!!!!!



The pool was so awesome. There was 3 of them right off the beach. My favorite was the endless pool that looked right into the ocean. It was heaven...








I am so lucky to have kids that help so well. Now I will not lie and say it was perfect...cuz it was not. But the big kids took the little ones to the pool daily. And they loved it. I did too.


We road the banana boats a few times.We paid 5.00 a ride. I am thinking it was an ok price....But who knows? The kids loved it. The guys in charge got to know us and would give us longer rides.





This is a cool story. On the first day,there were pelicans every where. They would dive into the water straight down and eat fish. There were probably 50 or more of these big prehistoric looking birds. We spent a long time watching these birds eat. I assumed it would happen every night but it did not. We feel fortunate to have seen what we did.



This is kinda a funny story. So we see this guy on the beach. He is selling kites. Now it is really windy, so we buy 2. Kyler and Kelsey can not wait ot fly them. They are a little different. They have guys on the end of them with parachutes. They look fun. Well they did not work. But we are in Mexico and who are we going to return them to? So the kids played with their broken kites on the grass. Then we cut the guys off them. The guys broke(because they were cheap) and we threw them away!!!







The highlight of our trip for the bigger kids was jet skiing. We were only able to do it once due to the weather, but the kids loved it. We rented them for 1 hour. They were sore when they got back....







Where's Brenlie?

Where's Kyler?

These silly hats were so big you had to make sure the hat was tilted back to see their cute faces!!!

Mexican cowboy!!!

sleepy Mexican....


I can not believe these are all my kids...

Getting them to stand still for one picture is nearly impossible. Trying to get them to face forward and smile is another....

This is the best we get on a windy summer day in Mexico.


Frank and Jodi...parents of 7 wonderful,smart,bratty,energetic,sassy children!!!!