PARTY DAY

The twins had their 4th birthday party on Saturday. They were so excited when the Tumble Bus pulled up in front of our house to entertain them and their friends!!! They each were able to invite four friends (totally their choice). The Tumble Bus staff entertained all the kids for an hour and then we had a pinata and cake in the garage. So not only did I not have to clean my house before the party.... I did not have to clean afterwards either!! Owen and Emma had a great party!!

Owen and Emma on the Tumble Bus

Can you guess who had trouble blowing out the candles? If you guessed it was Emma, you are actually right..... took her about 5 tries to get her aim right!

Here is the Tumble Bus at the end of our drive!

Emma's 4th Birthday cake...... (my black icing finally turned out... thanks to my sis for the tips)

Here is Owen's Mickey Mouse

BARRETTES, BARRETTES and MORE BARRETTES

What is the most barrettes your little girl has ever had in her hair???? Emma went to Myah's to play while I took the boys to the dentist and when I went to pick her up she had some REALLY cool hair!

What cute little girls!!!!!!!!

Myah had 39 barrettes in her hair and Emma had 38!!!!!!!

(Man, Myah has lots of barrettes)

PREPARING FOR THE OLYMPICS

Are you tired of pool pics yet??????????? Read below the pics to see what all I taught the kids to do this past week!!!Camden learned how to do a back flip (although I was trying to teach him to back dive)

Owen learned how to dive!!!!!

Emma can now swim without her floaties!!!!

Emma showing off that she is #1, even though she has only been swimming without floaties for about ten minutes!!!

Owen, working in his surfer boy tan!!

CONSTRUCTION

Exciting times In our "backyard". Or so the kids think....... They are making the road wider behind our house, which means backhoes, excavators, bulldozers and dumptrucks. The kids, especially Owen is very interested in what is going on. So Neal told him they would scale the fence one morning and watch for a while. This is the cute sight I came home to.

You can see how close the excavator is to our fence!!

Camden ready to become a construction guy in his bare feet!

OUR LITTLE BALLERINA

The time has come for Emma to try out her skills in tap and ballet!! I must say I think she is a natural! I was very proud of her.... she went right in with out hesitating and did EVERYTHING the teacher asked her to try. The class is really neat because it is half tap and ballet. Next month we will add a tumbling class to that. If you are in Wichita Falls this fall or next spring you can see one of her first recitals!!

T-38 TIME

While my sister was here, we went to the base to see the T-38 up close! Owen thought it was the best day EVER!!

Do all of you former T-38 guys miss this jet? What about getting home EVERY night for dinner, no pilot meetings, no TDY's and no deployments?!?! Oh, wait, that is every wife's dream!!!!! Life is good in the T-38 world.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

Hope you all had a wonderful Fourth!! I know we did! My sister and her family flew in for the week. We spent one night in Dallas and went to the Knights Tournament!!! Then we came back to Wichita Falls and had the Gordon's down for some traditional Fourth chili dogs... (not really a tradition, just sounded good) The fourth was complete with family, friends, swimming, food and of course fireworks!!! THANKS JENN and JENN for spending the Fourth with us!