Thursday - Friday - Saturday

Hey Guys!

Let me start by saying how sorry I am to have fallen behind on the blog. Hopefully you can cut me a little slack though. Its turning out to be a very busy summer...

Thursday night we got in late from dance (8:00) and I still had to feed the girls and get them into bed. It was chaos. They were falling apart at the seams (their bedtime is 8:00) and dad wanted to chat with them for a minute before I put them to bed. So....we didn't get to blog and I swore to them, as they were begging to stay up and blog, that we would caught it up the next day. ...but as you can see...that didn't happen...but Bri and I did wait for Ash to fall asleep so we could make her birthday signs....

  

This was my favorite sign that Bri made for Ash's birthday:)

These were the rest of the signs we made to decorate the house for Ashlynn's birthday

Friday was Ashlynn's ninth birthday and I try to make their birthday the one day that they can get away with being a spoiled brat. So, Ash woke up and drank the Pepsi she's been asking for, fro a week and then proceeded to watch six hours of television, eat nine (cookie scoop size) scoops of ice-cream and a box of gobstoppers. I am happy to say that she suffered from a massive stomach ache and hopefully learned her lesson. Then we went camping in the park with other military families. But of course, no day would be complete without a run to the dance studio, thus after setting up camp we had to go tap for an hour (and bring cupcakes to her team) and then get back to camp.

Camping was great. Ash's stomach still was hurting, but not as bad as before. The military housing people set everything up with a "Sandlot" theme. The girls colored pillowcases, ate s'mores, drank hot chocolate, and watched Sandlot. The night was pretty uneventful, just crying babies whose voices were not the least bit muffled by the tent walls, and we woke up to a french toast breakfast.

Saturday, we had more dance....Of course:) It was an extra practice because of their competition next week. And then was a team playdate. In the evening we watched "Mamma Mia" with friends in preparation for today's concert in the park on Coronado. Tonight we are going to picnic at the park and watch ABBA Fab perform all of ABBA's songs. It should be awesome. Oh and we are planning to go to the beach too. Hopefully it won't be too late of a night, but we'll see. I'll still try to let them blog since they are so far behind.

Anyhow, here's some pics from the camping trip...

Coloring their pillowcases:)

Ashlynn wanted to show off her new "dangly" earrings. They are pretty silver hoops with a pink stone set into them:)