Clare's Salon Party

For Clare's 7th birthday, we took her and 5 friends to a salon to have hair and nails done. The party lasted two hours, but it seemed more like 15 minutes, and it seemed that everybody had fun.

Clare and Theresa were first in the chairs.

Heidi and Anna

Then it was "Nail Time"

Sarah, Grace, Scott and Theresa

Glamming it up - Mary, Clare and Heidi

The Cousins - Addie, Clare, Anna and Theresa

Addie, Clare, Heidi, Anna, Theresa & Mary

Have you ever seen this much glamour in one place?

Amber, Heidi, Mary, Clare and Theresa, Addie, Anna

Happy 7th Birthday Clare!

Brian's Birthday Picnic

Brian's 12'th birthday picnic...we forgot candles, so he blew out a flaming stickMost of the kids were from the swim team, so it became an informal practice

Alexa caught two different fish without using anything for bait!



Videos of the chicken fight tournament

Summer videos

So this is how it goes...I don't post for 3 weeks, then I post 5 times in one day. ANYWAY, I tried to upload videos to Snapfish to share with my mom, but there was no audio attached, only static. So I'm going to post them here instead. Snapfish can stick it in their ear.

This is going to take a year.....

These first ones are of the kids at swim practice:

Brian's breast stroke


Conor's freestyle




Clare's breast, back, free and handstand




Clare's butterfly






Theresa





Theresa & Twins




Oh, and I was right . . . it DID take a year.

Video: Ring Around the Rosy

Sarah tried to teach the twins how to play Ring Around The Rosy a few months ago, but this week it just clicked with them and they started to play by themselves.




Speaking of Sarah, this was taken today. She's usually a pasty white, so she just lives for the first weeks of summer to finally get some color.

The twins were sitting together today, holding a small bottle of lotion and taking turns licking it off their fingers. Check out the look on Noelle's face when she got caught!

This is me (Michele) and Theresa yesterday after swim practice.
And this one, of Clare and Theresa, was taken a week ago at Knoebel's, our awesome local amusement park. www.knoebels.com