Insane Exercise

Mark and I have started the workout Insanity and it's every bit it's name-Insane. We have been doing it for 2 weeks and are already seeing results.

The boys love it. Alex does excellent keeping up with the routine.

But here, I heard him talking on his cell, in the middle of working out, to Aunt Stacy and Joey telling them that he was almost finished exercising and will be at the airport in 5 minutes to pick them up. It was sweet!

Exercise at 96 dgrs

On our way to the park which is about a mile away so it's exercise for us and then play time.

Getting eaten up by daddy.

They had races on how fast they could climb to the top of the slide, back down and then repeat. All while running from the baby monster (Aliana). Poor thing didn't even understand that they were running from her while she thought they were playing with her (awww! Momma had to say something)

On the way back home at 7:15 (look how hot their faces look); we should be having bath time right now.
Better hustle parents.

The boys had a lesson on how to walk by themselves on the other side of the street, crossing the street & safety. They were so proud of themselves that mom and dad weren't with them. When we did cross the street towards them Alex had a fit because he wanted to cross all by himself. Which he ended up doing ;-)

Pizza & Pool Party

We had a very trying day so we ended it nicely with a pizza picnic and a pool party.
It was cute to see them act independently. I put out all the pizza, the drinks, plates and napkins. They were to get their own plates, pick out the piece of pizza they wanted and then find their cup and sit by it. They had so much fun just serving themselves it was cute. Aliana on the other hand, thought that she needed to fill her plate up with as much pizza as it could hold and every time one of the boys went to get another piece so did she one for each hand. Although, she did do well serving herself and sitting down with everyone else (following directions). This ended up being a really great idea.

Alex and Tony had a spaghetti fight (threw water at each other from their firefighter helmets.)

Just cute

I just thought this was cute. She copies every single thing Alex does.
So Alex was laying down on this rug when Aliana thought she had to do the same. They both had their bodies on that little kitchen rug. This was her version as to how Alex was laying, which was on his back. (He's asking her, "LuLu what are you doing? This is my boat!")

I can picture her laying like this on her bed doing homework when she's older.
This is how I always find her on the floor when she's looking at a book. Girlie!

Hot Evening in the Water (100degr's)

Crazy Tony

Alex took this picture.

High pressure water drinking (well trying at least).

Giving the dinosaur a shower.

Tony had to try the drinking. He ended up chocking ;)

Look at the rainbow that was captured in the next few pictures :-)

Then it was time to take a shower himself.

Tony was trying to surprise Aliana with sudden bursts of water as he unkinks the hose.

She got her big girl swing and loves it but only if she has her shoes on. She can't stand the mulch to stick to her feet.

Puddle Play

We were letting the kids water the plants one evening, but instead Aliana watered the upside down pool to play in it.
(Alex kept insisting that she peed in it, since that's what it looked like.....but she didn't!)

Computer Work

We have been going to the library pretty regularly (like once a week) and they have really cute little computers for the children with rainbow keyboards. Well when we go they aren't able to play on them because it takes my attention away from the other children that aren't playing on the computer and since I have to sit with that child to do the explaining (sounds off and they have no idea what to do) it ends up being to much of a battle. So momma was thinking and came up with computer activity time once a day for each child for 20 minutes.

Dressing Elmo in a fire fighters uniform and getting excited by all the sounds that it makes.

LuLu's working on her txt'ing ;)

Trying to bother her brother.

She won and is in control of the computer. Quick learning little one!

This is funny, a little tid-bit. When Aliana does something rude (bodily noise) she'll say excuse me or sorry in sign language. Aww!

Playing After Dinner

Mark had to fix a sprinkler head so that meant that it was (unexpected) water-play time.

Last bit of birthday

Well this birthday ended up being 4 days long.
Wow gotta love that being the birthday boy!

Train Cake.

Reading what the train had to say: Happy Birthday Tony.

Excitement & Loving it!!

Birthday Surprise at Jumping Beans

Ok, 1st things 1st! Please forgive me for the layout of this post. I tried to use the left indent when uploading the photos. I gave up after 2 hours of trying to fix the layout. So just enjoy the many pictures of the Bounce Houses.

We were the only ones at the facility and it was so much fun. We all (everyone of us) laughed the whole time. Mark and I went in all the jump houses. We had just as much fun as the kids did :-)
















Jumping in one of the houses right before we went up the stairs to go down the slide. It was a good workout.

About ready to go down.














This was our favorite. It reminded us of the wacky show called "Wipe Out". All of us laughed so hard trying to get through it. I think I was the most comical. I got stuck so many times that Mark tried to pull me out, which made me laugh even more unable to help myself.

(I really wonder what the staff was thinking or saying to each other.)


































Priate ship with a huge slide.














Go Tony Go!


















Here comes LuLu with Tony at the bottom ready to catch her.

















Crazy Boys ~ Fun Fun Fun!!

















Here goes momma and Aliana.

















Alex's turn.


















There goes Tony and Aliana.

































Coming out of Wipe Out House.














This was the wipe out bounce house that LuLu was trying to get through. I had to hold them apart and Alex had to hold her hand to pull her through. OH, the laughter.








This is the section that I kept getting stuck in. Those darn tubes would attack you when you tried to walk by, making you fall at the same time while all the other tubes around you start to colapse at the same time pinning you to the soft ground. Oh, I'm laughing again.