Happy Birthday
Lily is 3!
Okay so I have a story to tell. When I was pregnant with my first, before I knew what sex the baby was, I saw a little girl in a tutu at the store. I broke down and cried. I was SO scared to have a little girl that was girly and needed to wear a dress to the grocery store. Pink, and dresses, and little bling outfits were petrifying to me.
And here comes Lily. She is the best little sparkly pink princess EVER. She has converted me to the world of being a mom of a true girl. When she was barley a year old she would wake up from her nap and point to her closet demanding to wear a dress. Everyday at bedtime or just to go to the library she frequently has a dress on over her clothes. I LOVE and ADORE my princess Lily. She is so very special and I'll go pink for her any day.

Anyway so when it came time for her birthday there was no question. We had a princess dress up tea party.

She had a couple of her little friends over to be princesses.


Angelina and Marti LOVED decorating the castle cake with hearts and sprinkles all over the pink frosting.

We painted their nails.

We put make-up on.

They completed their outfit with earrings and tiaras. We sat down to milk and cookies.

And talked about how COOL it is to be a princess.

Lily loved her little princess party.

Charley at 10 months

Jensen at 6 months

So a couple of big things have happened.


JJ started preschool and he LOVES it!
He feels he has learned so much he felt he could cut Lily's hair.
It is the PERFECT mullet. Tiana is coming in to town to try and fix it.

And we got 2 wonderful exchange students from China for the year. Angelina and Marti. We had to do some creative moving about but we are glad to have them with us.

And we went to Pikes peak! That was pretty Awsome.

JJ of course loved the train.

Celeste took pics of my kids while she was here. Here are some of the awsome ones.

Jensen has been very concerned with what boys like and what girls like. Boys like peanut butter sandwiches girls like hot dogs. Girls like sneakers boys like sandals. Anything he likes now belongs to the realm of boy. And anything he doesn't enjoy- girls must like.

Dialog this morning-
Jensen finishes going potty
Dave comes up to him and says-
"Are you finished? Do you need me to wipe your bum?"
JJ- "No Mommy needs to wipe me. You are a boy. Boys don't like bums, girls like bums."
Dave-" Nobody likes poopy bums son."

On the Move. Charley is in full fledged "I can move by myself mode" She is pulling herself up on couches and stairs. Last night she discovered she could pull herself up in her bed. Yeah for little baby Independence.

I love what she does when she eats she gets excited and does this little shake it is so cute.

Trip to Utah and Celeste in town
We went out to Utah for a Hogan Family reunion and got to meet Don's girlfriend now fiance Leslie. She is awesome and we are so excited to have her join the family in November.


Have you noticed most of the "Family activities" revolve around food?

Hunter giving Charley a kiss

The kids all tuckered out- All 5 out like a light

Hunter chompin' on some cherries

Playing games- It was dad's favorite. He kept asking us to play again:)

After Utah Celeste came out to CO and it was super fun to hang out with her and her kids for a week.

Hunter and Charley

Jensen carried these train around the whole time we were at the pool. He didn't really play with them just carried them around and wouldn't put them down. Ah my train loving son

Mom paid for us girls to go get pedicures. And what did I do? I smashed my toes and made them all mangled and ugly the next day.

Dave and I slipped away to go up to Breckenridge for a weekend.

It was nice to get away and chill out a bit.

Lily always finds the "puppies"

JJ making train tracks in the sand.

So we have hit an AMAZING milestone.

Jensen and Lily are PLAYING TOGETHER. they aren't just playing side by side or fighting. They are actually playing TOGETHER. I am in mom heaven. It is like my direct supervision ie,pulling them off each other while they try and claw each other's eyes out, has gone down by 50%. I LOVE IIITTTT!

Superheros

Bed time. Nap time is pretty funny. Every single day Jensen goes to sleep in his room while Lily sleeps with me in mine. But everyday he complains" I need girls in my bed. I need my girls." And he begs for Lily to sleep in her part of the bunk bed. But they would never sleep so I don't let it happen. MY GIRLS! I NEED GIRLS!



Turning couches in to a car/boat/ hot lava shooter



Swimming

Charley is testing out crawling from her knees instead of the usual army crawl. Most of the time she just ends up on her head.

Angry face

Crawling

10 year Reunion

So It was my High School Reunion this weekend. And since it was 5 minutes away I went! It was really fun to see a bunch of people that I had a lot of fun with. It was nice to see most were happy and doing good. I won a prize. I HAVE THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF KIDS! I'm proud of that one:) Abby Olsen (Stone)
Mike Coneen- now a broadcaster out of Colorado Springs

Kimsey, Lauren, Venessa, Amy and Mike

Clayton Early! Lost a ton of weight looks great and is an actor in New York

John Harvey a hardware engenieer with CRAZY facial hair