My Little Dancing Queen

Berklee was just in her 4th dance concert! She loved it! This year she was in a Jazz/Hip Hop class! She was the youngest in the class but had lots of fun in it! They did their dance to a Cheetah Girls song. She was probably not the best dancer on stage but we thought she was by far the most fun to watch! She was smiling and you could tell she was having a blast up on the stage! Her favorite part of the night is when her old teacher surprised her and showed up to watch!!! Berklee was so excited!! She really misses Teacher Brynn!!!! We got to see her little girl also, who is adorable and chat for a little bit!! This picture of them is from 2 years ago at Beenz dance concert! I can't believe she's been in dance for 4 years already...pretty fun!!

CInderella Ballet....

Last Saturday me and my girls decided to have a girls

and night and went to dinner and to see the Cinderella Ballet. We were so excited to see all these fun, adorable girls there! The play was adorable my girls loved it! It's so fun to take a little girls night some times!!

Now I think I need a big girls night....!

Girl Time...

All in all we had a really good time, just the girls. It just seemed to be real laid back...left overs for dinner, last minute trips to the park, things like that! We did so much in the couple days the guys were gone, it was lots of fun! We laughed a tun and just enjoyed being together! We went to 2 parks, had picnics at both, went to a movie, went to Wild Life Images...which was really fun by the way....went to a tea party, played games, and did a little shopping! I was grateful for this time to get to know my adorable little nephew Logan better(who I hope to see again soon) and for my kids to get to hang with Grandma, it was fun!! Maybe we should send the guys aways for a couple days every time! By the was Grandma...I'm still finding popcorn in interesting places...?....and Aubum....I don't know that I have ever seen a movie so stinck'en funny!!

Love you Girlees!!

Tea for 7....kind of!

There is this adorable little Tea Party place called Eve's Garden...It is super cute! I've been before and was so excited to take all the girls there! They have a huge dress up room full of hats and dresses and jewelry and gloves...so much fun stuff! Well I'm sad to say that I did not get one picture of all of us dressed up!!

The day before this I got 2 wisdom teeth removed, I woke up that morning in so much pain and took 2 vicodin...yuck!!! I have never taken that before and come to find out ...it does NOT like me!!! I got so sick, in the middle of our tea party I could feel the nasty coming up in my throat and started stripping off my dress ups and SPRINTED to the parking lot barley making it in time and threw up all over , I was so sick I spent most of the time sleeping in the car and throwing up in the parking lot a couple more times! I was so bummed to miss it, but glad that every body had a good time!! I'd have to say my mother's get up, wins the prize, I wish I had a better picture of her hat....so funny!!!!

Boyz HIKE!

Thursday of the week with the in laws, the boys left to hike the lower Rouge River, the girls stayed home and missed these handsome guys!! I don't know about the rest of them but Chris loved it!! He loves this hike, he thinks it's beautiful!! I'm so proud of them, not only did they hike 40 miles but they carried 50 pound packs!! I could barley carry Chris's in from the car!! Boys are strong!!

The Hellgate...

How fun is the Hellgate jet boat trip....!!! I think it's one of the most fun things to do in GP!! We took my mother and father in law, who we've taken one time before and also my sister and brother in law and their 4 month old little Logan...who Mason calls his friend Ogan...they had never been before! We had so much fun, the ride is awesome and beautiful! We did the dinner trip, we rode down the river had dinner and then rode back! The kids did real good, Marlee and Mason slept most the way down, on the way back we thought our boat driver was going to throw Mason off, he put rocks in his pockets at dinner and while we were driving...pretty fast....Mason throw them over board!! They made such a loud clank as they hit the side of the boat!!!

We got to see some fun wild life and had great weather!!

Ok, Pocahontas....I took your little quiz
and I am definitely cooler than you (haha!)!! I'm Aurora!!!

Welcome Bennett's!!!

Last week Chris's family came to visit. His parents flew out all the way from North Carolina, and his sister and her husband and their adorable little baby boy, drove down from Madras OR. We were so excited to have all of them! What a fun and quick

week it was! They all arrived on Saturday and then Thursday the boys all left for a hike down the lower Rouge, while the girls had fun just hang'en out! We went and picked up the boys

Sunday after sacrament and they all left later that day.

We are always so excited to have them come and so sad to see them go!!!

It's crazy how fast time goes while they are here! The kids have been counting down the days for months, I can't believe it's come and gone!

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for once again making the long journey out west! You guys are troopers! We miss you lots already, and can't wait until we can see you again!!!

I going to put a few posts about some of the stuff we did while they

were here...really fun stuff!!

Love'en Summer!!

I just love summer!!

We have been having so much fun...the kids sleep in, we've been doing crafts, going on walks, just doing whatever...when ever and I LOVE it!!

Most of all we love swimming!

Nana and Pa have a pool and the kids have a blast in it!! My mom set up this little pool this year and it has been a huge hit with our little Moosee!! (aka marlee)

Keep bringing on the Sunshine!!

Fun Summer Craft..

Berklee, Mason and I made these fun little Bird Feeders, a little messy but fun!

1st, you find some pin cones

2nd, cover then with peanut butter

3rd, roll them in bird seed and cover all the peanut butter

4th, attach string and hang them in a tree!

We used bright green string so we could find them easily! The kids had so much fun doing this and we have seen lots of birds on our little feeders! FUN!!

PINK PAIN...UNDEFEATED LIVES HERE!!!!

Beenz GOAL!!!

So Berklee is on a U-8 soccer team called the PINK PAIN..

(i wanted them to be the pink ladies, but since the are 6, 7 and 8 they didn't get it and were not interested!) Well they have the GREATEST U-8 soccer coach out there...UNCLE JOEL!!!

He is so AWESOME with these girls, and it's not just

because he is my brother...he really is GREAT!! He had all the girls last name put on the back of their uniforms...they looked so cool, it's such a Joel thing to do!! In the spring the same 9 girls were together so it was a super fun group of girls that all know each other well and had such a fun season! These girls are GOOD! They are the only U-8 team I saw who's coach could yell out 1,2 or 3 and they knew right were to go! They played 9 game and

WON EVERY SINGLE ONE!

My little Beenz is not the fastest girl on the field...but has

become a pretty dang good little defender! It has been so fun to watch her the last couple of years start to understand and get better at the game! So, last fall was her first time in a league were they keep score....real soccer, and she did not make one goal all season!

She was bummed, so this spring she kept saying,

"If I could just make one goal...at least one!"

Well you'd NEVER believe it, I'm not kidding, it was straight out of an after school special movie...The very end of the last game, Alyssa (my niece) passes

to Berklee and sure enough she

SCORES!!!!!!

It was so cute, she went crazy and her whole team knew how bad she wanted to score and were running up to her...handing out high 5's, so cute! I'm the lamest "soccer mom" ever I was seriously tearing up!!! Coach Joel told the girls they could have a slumber party

at his house if they were UNDEFEATED, they were super excited! Chris and I made a slide show of all the girls this year and it turned out really cute...the girls loved it!! This was Berklee's 1st time spending the night any where but Nana's! I was pretty nervous, but she had fun! What a great season, I hope next season, is just as good!!

We love our little soccer player!!

Bennett Boyz do a 4 day 40 miler ~

Enjoy~

Who Da Thought

Today while I was trying to get ready...(trying being the key word there!)
Mason and Marlee were playing outside my bedroom,
I heard her laughing so
hard and looked out to find this adorable sight!
How cute is Mason!
He was pushing her back and forth...surprisingly gentle I might add...and she was cracking up!! Sometime there are huge benefits to having a 2 year spread!
He is such a good Big Bro to her, very protective!
It's pretty cute!