WOW!!!! Its been WAY TOOOOO LONG!!!!!

I cant believe that I have let the blog go for this long when there has been sooooo much to chat about!!! Where to even start would be a HUGE question!! Lets start with the BIGGEST news-- WE ARE FINALLY GETTING OUR BABY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Carter is due to join our little (well kinda big) family on Thanksgiving day!!!! What an AMAZING Thanksgiving present that will be!!! The girls are BEYOND excited!!!! They ask everyday when Carter will be here and when he's Birthday is!!!! They love to kiss "baby Carter!" John and I couldn't be happier. Now on to the little princess's!! Can we even believe that Zoey has started KINDERGARTEN and loves it. And to even think Natalie is already in 2nd grade blows my mind!!!! My little sweet Lulu turned 2 in June and is an absolute joy in our lives!!! And then there's Ava-- if you ever need a little laugh just talk to Ava and she is bound to say something funny!!!! I PROMISE to post some pictures later this evening or tomorrow!! Just a quick little recap on our ever growing family!!!!

Sisterly Love

Lydia has been my little monkey the past couple of weeks and I cant keep her off the table for anything!! The other day the other girls decided to get up there and hang out with her. Of course I took advantage of it for a full photo Op!

They LOVE each other so much and hope its like that forever!!

A DAY AT THE POOL

A couple of weekends this summer Tara, a good friend of mine, and I would try and take the kids to the pool for a couple hours in the evening. Tara enjoys taking pictures with her big, fancy camera and I was SO grateful that she took some of my girlie's. (Its so hard to take pictures at the pool since we have to be in the water the whole time.) Here a just a few shots that I thought I would post-- a few of my favorites.


THIS IS MY FAVORITE!!!!! That is a look of determination!!!


Lidi and Daddy

Big Jump

She LOVED the slide

Zoey peeking over the side


Thank you so much Tara for taking pics!! They were much appreciated and will be great memories for us!!

Beanie Is Off To Preschool

This year John and I were forced to find a good preschool for Zoey since she didn't qualify for Developmental Preschool at Brownsburg. I was on the hunt for a few months to find the perfect one with the perfect price(keeping in mind that I was hoping to find a job outside the home once school started). We found just the one for Zoey with a perfect class size and what seems to be a GREAT teacher. So with that said we got Zoey pumped for school starting with school supplies, then her (against my will) Tinkerbell book bag, and then last but not least MEET THE TEACHER....Ms. Pam!!! Zoey was set for school start and she was so excited! She told me all the things she wanted in her lunch box and how she wasn't going to cry. Needless to say Zoey walked into preschool this morning and never looked back!! WAY TO GO MY LITTLE BEANIE!!!!

Isn't this bag just lovely-- I despise Character things so this is a little much for me but she wanted it so she got it

And her shirt she picked out--Gotta love Zoey :-)

1st Grade=Big Stuff

WOW!!! I can't believe that Natalie is in 1st grade already! What a GREAT 6 years its been to see her grow into the little lady that she is becoming. Last year when I dropped her off for Kindergarten she cried and didn't want me to leave. Then 1st grade made it here and she barely wanted me to walk into school with her! I could only get one picture of her in front of her classroom door and she was ready to go-I guess this means that my baby is growing up and I need to let her go a little bit. She seems to be enjoying the responsibilty that comes with first grade; spelling words, weekly stories, and she got chosen to be "Feature Creature" this week.

My 4 little loves!!!!

A SUMMER MUST

AHHHhhhh.....the state fair-- one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE places of the summer!!! We look forward to the state fair all summer long but the downfall to that is that school is just a week or two away and that's always a very emotional time for me! Anyways, we were off to the state fair just the day after it opened and we could hardly wait. All the fried, greasy foods, rides, animals and best of all, the people that it brings!! So without further a do we were off to the fair!!

On the agenda, horses requested by Ava, ear of corn requested by Natalie, all Zoey wanted was rides, Daddy wanted a pork burger and I couldn't leave without a little bit of heaven:fried chocolate chip cookie dough!!


Zoey-- we couldn't have her any other way but being silly


Ava-- best seat of the house and cotton candy in hand

That's a lot of babies!!

She GOT it!!! Her ear of corn

The little girls and one big wheel!!

Our first trip the fair was a success and we had a couple more to follow!! We can't wait for summer to roll around next year for a trip to the fair!!

Our 1st Family Vacation to the beach

John and I have been planning on going to Cape May, New Jersey every year for the past three years and something always seemed to come in the way and we could never make it. This year we were going no matter what and we did just that. It was be far one of the best weeks of my life. I got to enjoy John and the girlie's for a week without the hustle and bustle of our daily life. And not to mention a week with my momma.

We left for New Jersey on Friday night around 7 and stopped right inside Ohio for dinner, gas, diaper changes, and jammies on. ( I have to say that traveling with 4 little girls 6 and under was not as bad as a I thought. They were such troopers.) We got back in the car around 10 and the girls feel right to sleep and we didn't hear anything from them until Saturday morning around 7. John and I had a great, stress free, kid screaming free 14 hour car ride to the beach!! That started our vacation out just PERFECT!!!! We arrived in Cape May around 9 Saturday morning!

WE MADE IT!!!!! and the fun begins


We went on a whale/dolphin watching boat ride. The girls LOVED it. We got to see lots of dolphins out in the middle of the ocean.

Lydia enjoying the beach

As I said in a previous post that Lydia is the BEST baby! We took her pack 'n' play to the beach and she would nap in there under the umbrella.

Ava, Nat, and Daddy digging a BIG hole in the sand

My 2 beach babes

The girls and daddy enjoyed the ocean so much

Me and the girls watching Daddy jumping the waves

Natalie

Ava and Zoey

Ava

My 2 loves

Natalie and Zoey on a walk on the beach at night

Future Jobs?

Exhausted from a day on the beach and a night on the town

I honestly didn't take as many pictures as I could have. I was just enjoying being with my WONDERFUL family. I hope that we get to have many more trips like this. It makes me appreciate what we have. Thanks for a GREAT time!!!!