Jill's 35th Birthday

My birthday breakfast.  Kids sang happy birthday to me at the donut place!

Alex's last gymnastics class for the summer.  I called him a upside down monkey, and he told me that he was a sloth, not a monkey!

Reese and Alex

touching the parachute with their feet

at dinner with friends

It was a wonderful 35th birthday.  The kids and I had breakfast together, where they sang happy birthday to me.  So sweet!  Then we headed to Alex's last gymnastics class for the summer and to the park for play and lunch with friends.  Then that night, Mike took me out to dinner with friends.  It was a great day and night!

Jax's 5th birthday!

Cassie made this awesome cake!

Kylee, Kate and the birthday boy!

Girls weekend away!!!

I took a trip with some of my friends to Gram and PawPaw's condo in Lake Whitney for a weekend.  The kids had a great time with Daddy at home and I had a great weekend doing NOTHING!!!  It was a great weekend away with good food, drinks and company.  I already can't wait for our next trip.

A pirate and Captain America

Our Captain America!

Our girlie pirate

using his new shield again the Hulk (or Daddy)

If you notice Captain America (or Alex) is in big boy underwear!  He is doing super with potty training!!

Kate's crown

Potty training Alex today

July recap

Mike and I were gone on a trip from July 3 until July 15.  We had a wonderful ime together, but 12 days was a long time to be away from the kiddos.  MeMe, Gram, PawPaw, Aunt Kristin, Uncle Blake, Aunt Jes and Uncle Brian all took care of your house, fish, dogs and kiddos.  I stole those photos from facebook of the kiddos on the 4th! 

Other photos of their time with family:

Mike and I are so lucky to have such wonderful families to take care of our babies!  The kids had a wonderful time with the family and we had a wonderful time away!

Alex at gymnastics with Reese and Aberlee

Alaskia cruise 2013

Mike and I left on July 3 to Seattle.  We drove to Portland and stayed a day and a half there.

Then we headed back to Seattle where we went to the top of the space needle, spend lots of time in Pike market and walking around downtown Seattle.

On Sunday, July 7, we finally got on our boat!!!

In Juneau, we went whale watching

this is a humpback whale.  We also saw bald eagles, a pod of killer whales, and sea lionss

Next we went on a train ride and gold panning on a beautiful day!

our gold! $21 worth!

Glacier Bay:

Lumberjack show:

Victoria Canada!  My first time to CA!  Beautiful garden and the most amazing fireworks show ever!!!

Alaska was really beautiful and we were very fortunate to have really great weather!  We really loved our cruise ship!  Lots of great food, games, shows and night time entertainment!!  Mike loved all the trivia games and was known on the ship for winning all the trivia!!!