Happy 7th Birthday Madeline!!!

We have been celebrating Madeling's birthday for 2 days. Since her birthday was on Sunday, we had her friend party yesterday. She is definetly a girly girl and has loved the Fancy Nancy books the past couple years, so she had a Fancy Nancy Bday Party. It was held at Bare Foot Gymnastics and was a ton of fun. I think us adults had just as much or more fun than the kids. We played games and had fun jumping into the foam pit. (Chris did his flips into it.) They did lots of cute games with the kids. Then today, we had everyone over for dinner and WII tournaments.

It is amazing to me that Madeline is 7. She has been such a blessing to our family! I remember the day we brought her home and our home turned into a piece of heaven. She has always had such a wonderful spirit about her. I feel so blessed to be her mother.

Olivia's Graduation!

Olivia graduated from Barefoot Montessori Preschool and will be attending Kindergarten this fall. Her graduation was really cute and very entertaining. Of course anything will a room full of 3,4,and 5 years is very entertaining! Olivia has a voice that carrys well, (to say the least) and you could hear her belting out every song. It was a fun day!

Branson, Missouri

Last week we returned from our family vacation to Branson! This was a fun vacation because it was so different from anything we have done. We went to lots of shows and went to a theme park for 2 days. The theme park was called Silver Dollar City. It was all based on life in the Ozark's. We saw lots of hillbilly's the first day and started to get disturbing. The second day I enjoyed more as I accepted that fact that people can look like that. They had really fun rides! Chris especially liked one called Barn Swing. It looked to crazy even for me and I love roller coasters and stuff. We drank tons of frozen lemonade as it was so humid. We stayed up late every night watching movies, then slept in most mornings. The shows we went to were: The 12 Irish Tenors, The Duttons, SIX, Broadway, Dixie Stampede. It was awesome and fun for our kids to have so much culture in one week! They also has crazy miniature golf courses. We went to one with huge dinosaurs and a big volcano. The resort had a really fun pool area and crafts for the kids. We found out that it definitely is harder traveling with 3 kids. This was our first trip through the airport with all 3. Sophia did not like the plane very much, which made me a little nervous, but we all survived and had fun. This definitely was a trip to remember!

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