Kya is a Youtube addict

Ok so we knew Kya had a gift when she could log onto the internet and check the weather before she was 3, by 4 she's surfing all the preschool gaming sites so what did age 5 bring... I found her on youtube looking up videos, mind you she's done all this without parental help, she's even picked up some German by singing to videos. These are some of her favorite videos...

4th of July Week of FUN!

These last few days have been a blast. It started Thursday when Emily and I took the kids to the Zoo. They lasted 5 hours it was crazy we got to see a lot. The weather was perfect and the kids loved getting soaked in the misters. Friday was pretty quiet I was still recouping from the Zoo trip but we did manage a trip to the park after getting to the library only to find out it was closed. Saturday started early with an 8am Breakfast in the church parking lot. It was so much fun the food was good and they had lots of activities for the kids including a giant sling shot for water balloons and a rocket launcher that launched 2 Liters with water in them and let's not forget Boston's favorite the Firemen with their Big Truck. After the breakfast we swung by Home Depot so the girls could make their monthly project a picnic caddy which was great because I used them later that night for our BBQ. After home Depot it was naptime, followed by a Gorilla Glue incident I'll explain later but just know you should always read the label before using and wear gloves! We ended the evening with a small BBQ with the neighbors and some friends. Than we had smores and went out front for fireworks. I had gotten the kids glow stick braclets which I have to say was the hit of the night. Next year forget spending money on the fireworks I'll just hit up the dollar tree again for more glow sticks!

Buddies at the Zoo

Baby Mia was chilling in her stroller so she missed this shot
Kya thought driving the truck was pretty coolBoston's Heaven
Our little Patriots

These two were eyeing the brownies
Getting the fire ready for Smores
Yummy Smores
Um I'll take that
Back off Kaprice

Our Neighbors The McCubbins

Getting ready for the fireworks

We ended our weekend of fun with a visit with some friends from Law School today the girls were really escited and it was a great visit Thanks Janalee!

Short Stories of June

The Library where we go to story time had a kick off to Summer Reading Party (Which I thought ended up being pretty lame), but the kids thought "Dora" was cool and Boston was deathly afraid of the Library's Mascot "Dewey the Fox" at which Boston screamed bloody murder "No Swiper No" every time he stepped in the room.

The Library also has a great playground. Kya wanted all three kids to slide down at the same time.

I think Boston just wanted the girls to leave so he could go down the big slide!

Kya's always been a Monkey

Boston and Mia were having a Strongman Competition

His faces were cracking me up

Oh yeah now I feel the burn

Kaprice has recently shown an interest in helping with the household chores

Boston decided to turn on the blender without the lid,while Daddy was making a smoothie.

While on the computer the other day I kept hearing this weird slurping sound only to find Boston on the stairs digging out handfuls of frosting and licking it up.

Kaprice is also enjoying the fact that she can now pull herself up on the easels and reach the crayons and markers

Surprise!- It's Boston getting caught eating something... this time it was a full pack of gum

I think the highlight of June for the kids was our backyard campout, they were so excited and Kya did an awesome job helping me set up the tent, 1 more yr and I bet she could do it by herself!

Kya's 5!

Kya had a Princess/ Hannah Montana/ Pool Party this year for her 5th Birthday. I can't believe she's five already!! She had some girls from Church over, we played on the trampoline, sprinkler and in the pool. They we're really excited to hit the Princess Crown pinata that Mimi supplied us with before she left. Kya had a great time. She especially loved her guitar cake!

I'll be beefing this post up later on but was feeling the guilt for not posting about her birthday yet so enjoy.

Zoe,Mia, Kya, Hailey, Caroline, Boston and Evelyn sitting down

Kya's Princess Hair for the day

All things Kya...
~She is such a mother and always chips in
~She is always dancing and singing
~She learned to ride a bike and then 2 days later had the training wheels off
~ She's always covered in bruises
~She makes the silliest faces
~She is a blanky girl and sleeps with it over her face even in 100 degrees
~ She always mimics Todd's voicemail message from his cell phone it goes something like this " Hey this is Todd Pratt sorry I missed your phone call" and then she busts up laughing
~ She loves to read

Busted

About a week ago Miss Kaprice was caught while trying to flip herself out of her crib. Mind you at this point she hadn't even pushed herself into the sitting position before. But apparently she's a pro and pulling herself up because when I knocked her down she was back up in no time!

Summertime

Summer is here which means lots of this...

Followed by lots of this...

Gpa and Mimi

Hurray a visit from Mimi and Gpa!! We had so much fun while they were here and they got to see a TON of stuff, some of which included Gettysburg, The Mall in DC ( Monuments and Museums) and the National Zoo. Unfortunately we used Gpa's camera most of the time and we didn't know it was on the wrong setting until I went to upload all the extremely overexposed pictures the best part is that the only pictures to turn out were these two...

We even got the chance to go the the Temple finally!!

And there was lots of Loves from Mimi!

And Lots of Walks with Mimi

These are the lovely crowns that were made at FHE, Todd drew Mimi's name and I had Gpa's

We found this Cafe when we first moved here and didn't think it would be right to eat there without Mimi, so we finally got to go there!!

We had so much fun we almost forgot to get a shot with all the grandkids! Notice the Caterpillar on Kya's arm she's become obsessed in spite of her fear of bugs.
We also caught a frog one night

Boston especially loved his Gpa time. He thought he was just the coolest!!

Thanks for the GREAT VISIT we hope you can come back soon!!