PICTURE PERFECT!!

Last Christmas, my cousin Ashley (or as Trey & Rhett say Ash-a-ley) made each of the boy's these really cool personalized sketch book's that they absolutely love! They decided all by themselves that they were going to use these only for when they want to make or draw "special" pictures.



So the other day Rhett decided he was going to get out his "special" book and draw a picture of our camping trip to the river bottom a few weeks ago!! He took his time and was very serious about making it perfect! You can see that he included the ranger, tent, campfire and my favorite part the creek running along the bottom which he was set on doing green opposed to blue since he says the water out there is not blue!!! I was so impressed that I had to share it!!!

Thank you A for these awesome sketch books, you are the best, and I look forward to seeing the many pictures they create in them ... it will be a perfect way to keep some of their work in one place to treasure for years and years!!!

ISR . . . Day 1

Yesterday, Rilyn had her very 1st swim lesson in the ISR program and although at the end of the lesson she said "yes" she wanted to come back tomorrow I'm certainly not holding my breath!! The whole time she was in the pool she just kept yelling "nooooooo" "noooooooo" ... hahahaaaaaa ... and she kept pointing to her brothers, like please save me bro's!! Mrs. Brooke said that she did AWESOME though and that she is going to pick it up very quickly! Clay & I are very excited to have her water safe!! We'll see how it goes getting her back in the pool on day 2 (I'm almost positive its going to be a kicking, screaming battle)!!!



Mrs. Brooke's backyard is like heaven for kids with everything from a swing set to a teeter totter to a putting green and so on ... so the boys were pretty stoked they got to play while Rilyn had her lesson!!

MEMORIAL WEEKEND

We started the weekend off with a visit to Grammy's house for a bbq and an evening dip in the pool ..... brrrrrr ..... I am shocked at how long the kids actually lasted in the pool considering how cold it was, but the boys were troopers and tuffed it out for quite a while!! The kids had a blast beating up Uncle Darin as always and little missy even joined in ... teasing Uncle Darin saying "nah nah nah nah nah" while swinging her arms around and then running away laughing! It was the cutest thing ever and of course as soon as I pulled the video camera out to get it on camera she refused to do it!!!



Saturday we got to spend a whole day at home and mommy & daddy were able to get a few much needed projects done around the house as well as spend some time with the kiddos at home. The boys wanted to ride so daddy fired up all the quads and they hit the track!!

Sunday morning we loaded up and headed out to the Hasayumpa river bottom to meet the Skaggs for an overnight campout ... which has come to be one of my favorite places to hang out and ride!! It was definitely another Skaintz adventure to put on the books with lots of memories, laughs and fun!!

TREY'S 6 YEAR OLD SHOOT

I have always made sure I get posed pictures of the kids atleast once a year which I usually try to do right around the time of their birthdays!! I used to take them to Kiddie Kandids but here in the last few years I've just taken them myself!! Here are Trey's for this year

. . . now the trick is figuring out which one is my favorite to put in his frame (I'm open for any votes or opinions, so please share your thoughts!)!! What a handsome little dude he is growing up to be!!!

SCHOOL'S - OUT - FOR - SUMMER

Well its so hard for me to believe but the school year has come and gone and now the shock of having my 1st baby starting kindergarten has turned into shock that it is already over!!! Trey had an amazing school year and excelled on so many levels with a report card to prove it!! I was able to go to his end of the year celebration and Mrs. McMahon says that he is definitely ready for 1st grade and she knows he will do awesome next year!! I am so proud of him and it has been amazing watching him grow into the little student he has become, from his reading to math and making new friends! It was pretty cute, we were counting down the days til summer break, and once we got down to 3 days left ... Trey was like "wait, I don't want school to be over, I like going to school"!!

80 YEARS YOUNG

Here is a big ol' happy birthday to one of the GREATEST & SWEETEST people in the whole wide world, my Grandma, who just celebrated her 80th birthday!! My Aunt Kay & Aunt Judy put together a fun little party in Lake Havasu for the whole family to get together and celebrate her being 80 years young. It was so nice to see everyone and we had a great time complete with singing(we even got Grandma to yodel for us!!), laughter, tears & good food!! We love you so so so much Grandma, you are the bestest!!

My Grandma is a total hat person and has been known to rock some pretty fancy dancy hats in her day, so I absolutely loved that my Aunt Donna brought her this special birthday hat to wear on her big day!!!


Great Grandma had quite the audience while opening her presents and reading her cards as all the kiddos were surrounding her!!!

Lacey came up with the awesome idea to have all the Great Grandkids make her an apron to add to her collection. (Grandma pretty much always wears an apron when she cooks and is known to get lots of comments from people walking down the boardwalk or nearby neighbors for her unique collection of aprons!) So we had all the great grandkids put their handprint (dipped in paint) on the apron and then painted each of their names on their handprint!! It turned out so awesome and she loved it!!!

My Grandma is from Texas and very proud to be a Texan so Aunt Kay & Judy wrote a song all about her to the same beat of the song "Yellow Rose Of Texas" which we all sang aloud to her!! I have to admit when I first caught word that we were going to be doing this, I thought "Really ... Come On ... We All Have To Sing"!! But it turned out awesome and perfect and Grandma absolutely loved it, even brought a little tear to my eye!!

It looks like Rhett is getting a good ol' fashioned Freddy C. talk here!!! I'm sure Great Grandpa is teasing him about something or giving him some kind of a pep talk!! Hahaaa!!

Here are a couple shots from the party of my two most favorite little one year old's in the world ... Rilyn & Colton!!

THE NAUTICAL INN, LAKE HAVASU . . .

Last weekend we went to Lake Havasu for my Grandma's 80th Birthday party (post to follow), but rather than just driving up and back on Sunday for the party ... we decided to make a weekend out of it and headed up there Friday night instead. This gave us a full day of play time at the awesome beach front resort as well as a chance to visit one of our most favorite places in the world, The Turtle Bar & Restaurant!!! We were joined by Aunt Lacey & Cody as well as Grandma and Aly & Cort!! All of this equaled FUN FUN FUN and more FUN!! Here is the view from our balcony!!

All the cousins hangin: Trey, Rhett, Cortney, Charlotte, Alyson & Rilyn!!

Little Miss Beach Babe, this girl got more looks than anyone on the whole beach (and Havasu host's some pretty tuff competition)!!!

All the kids were begging and begging to go out to the floating water park ... so of course Grandma & Aunt Lacey gave in and forked out the cash and it wasn't long before they were out there playing with them ... hahaaaa ... just a couple kids themselves!!

Daddy & Trey Mo!!

Rockin' Aunt Lacey's hat and snackin', what Rilyn does best!!

Now I am jonesin' even more for our Anniversary trip in October!!