Fall is almost here!

 My little helper. His snazzy scarf is his sister's shirt. He likes to practice his dressing skills. He is usually wearing a pair of their shoes as well. 

 This is Maren's fake smile. She looks like she is disgusted with me for taking her picture.

 Their favorite thing to do now is cut, color, paste, and stickers.

Maven looks so much like the pictures of my Mom when she was younger. It's uncanny.

Evren made up this game and his sisters thought it was great.

Playtime

 Their attention span for making messes is incredibly long.

 Ripping up magazines and running around in the paper all morning? Yes please.

 Thankfully, the puke buckets were not needed. Evren had us on alert.

 Just as obsessed with shoes as his sisters.

But also has his own ideas.

Kenny is Married!

 Kisses all around. 

 Contemplating life. 

 Kenny got married to Salena on August 7th. As usual, I didn't get any pictures of them.

Here is my sister with Katelyn, the flower baby.

 Maren and Maven were flower girls. They did really well.

I will post the photographer's pictures when I get some. 

Evren's outfit was so cute. He was the ring bearer. No pictures of that either.

 My cousins, Hannah and Ellen came down from MN. 

Their brother Eric stood up for Kenny in the wedding. 

 This boy wants to be a part of anything his sister's are doing.

He is done with his crib now. He would be done with his high chair too if he had a choice. 

He is into computers....I wonder who he gets that from?!

They crack each other up.

Such cute dancing.

Happy July!

 Wearing their fancy princess nightgowns while reading their Fancy Nancy books.

 It still blows my mind that they like fancy princess stuff.

 Grandma, Grandpa, and Aubrey came to visit from Ohio! 

Grandpa almost had the deer eating out of his hand.

 The first thing they like to do in the morning is stack

everything in their room on their beds.

 This boy likes his sister's dolls. Pretty much anything he sees them carry around or play with he thinks is important. He will give them back if they fuss though, which is nice.

 Reading with Grandma. You can see he has brought his sister's 

dolls to her before they started reading.

 This is a rare sight. Sharing the same book! They are such good friends. 

 Another day, another pile.

 Watching the deer.

 Maren put on 3 shirts and 2 skirts this morning.

 I can't imagine how many pieces of clothing she would put on if she could reach them all.

Evren asked me to put on his swimming suit. He is a great non verbal communicator.

Brendan is 36!

 Watching Daddy put up the swimming pool. It is just the right size for them. No pictures of his birthday, but the girls made him a Magnatile cake so he didn't stray from his diet.

 These legos are really stuck together

 These are our other twins. They are actually triplets, but only 2 of them stay together all the time. They really like our yard.

We tried the water table inside with beans, but we can make an even bigger mess if we put it outside and fill it with water. So much fun!

Random Pictures

 There is a deep ravine behind our house. This is a picture of the waterfall that is created when it rains. It was taken in January of this year.

 This is the same waterfall, taken last week. Huge pieces the size of cars have fallen off the sides. This part is not our property, but we will be loosing some land before long.

 Poor boy has to wear girly hand me downs and play with girly toys. He doesn't seem to mind though.

 We bought a bounce house! The perfect use for our empty dining room.

 

I love this illustration of the differences between Maren and Maven. Maven's is more concrete and Maren's is more abstract. What is funny is that although Maren may make more of a mess when she eats or plays, she will clean it up on her own. Maven makes much less mess, but she won't clean it up without being asked. 

They are starting to play together really well!

Now this is interesting. They love to play with this leash. When they are "tied together", they cooperate completely with each other. I hear them compromising about everything. "Let's go to our room. OK, let me get my water. OK, let's go this way." As soon as one of them drops the leash, it's over.

The twins are 3!

 This little guy was born right outside our window!

Salena just graduated from Texas A&M on May 16! She will soon by my sister-in-law!

 Katelyn turned 1 on May 9, she loved the icing on her cupcake at her birthday party.

 Evren is getting so big. He is only 6 inches and 6 pounds behind the girls. 

That is 31.5" and 25 pounds.

When they saw Evren posing for pictures they actually asked if they could too! (Maren)

 I asked Maven for a sad face.

 It is so cool that they will smile for pictures now. (Maven)

 They had a blast at their 3rd birthday party (Maven)

 Maren and Jaylee

The Slip n Slide and water balloons were a hit! It is fun to watch kids have fun.