Family Time

A few years ago we started a fun little tradition called "girls night" where all the little girls come to my house and we do girl stuff like nails, face masks, eating candy, watching chick flicks, and dancing. It has been so fun to get together and hang out with those three cuties. The girls have been begging for another girls night- so on Saturday we tried to get one together. Unfortunately I wasn't feeling great (damn gluten in everything) and Sam had his comp all day. Things just were not coming together- so we had to settle for a "mini girls night" with boys too. We made some muddy buddies and painted our nails and did face masks. I think it was still pretty fun- just a little different than usual. Stockden is such a funny boy, you can tell he has grown up around girls. After we painted nails he came in and said "Oh cute nails girls" "Oh Stae, I love those colors" hahaha. After all the play time it was time to get ready for bed, but Stockden was still being so crazy. Luckily he got his "jammers" on pretty easily, the only problem was that his "jammers" has wings and he wanted to "fly". I couldn't help myself and I "flew" him all around my mom's house. I am not sure who had more fun- me or him. The girls walked into the house right as we were flying into the kitchen. They are still making fun of me :). I love spending time with my family. Man, I am so lucky to have them.

I told Stock I wanted to give him a kiss in this one-- he decided he wanted to give me a kiss too :) 

This is more of what I had in mind when we took the first one. I told him I am going to show him these when he is 16 so he can remember how much he loved me back then :) 

4th of July

Happy Independence Day!! The fourth of July is such a fun holiday. I usually love to sit in some water to celebrate our beautiful country, but this year we headed up to the cabin ( I actually think we usually go to the cabin, but I always want to go swim) We are so lucky to have such a nice place to escape to that is not too far- but just far enough. The cabin has so many fun memories- man if those walls could talk. We had a barbecue and this year we decided to go try to fish as kids pond. I had never been there before- which is weird because its literally up the road from our cabin. It is super cute there. One tradition we have is that we always eat See's Candy on the Fourth. It started one year at Christmas time. Our family has received SO many boxes of See's candy. Us girls would have been happy downing all of them without even worrying about it, but my dad said no. He took a box and put it in the freezer. We all freaked out and asked when we would be able to eat them- in true parent fashion he said The Fourth of July. So, that's just what we did. We opened up the frozen box on the fourth and enjoyed. Ever since then its not the fourth without some frozen See's. 

 We are so blessed to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth. I am glad we got to spend the holiday enjoying this beautiful part of the country and our amazing family! God Bless America!