Taylor Paige is a TEENAGER now!!! She turned 13 yesterday but I think she has been a teenager for quite sometime now! ;-) Here are some pictures from her birthday dinner. 

Taylor Paige turned 13 today!!!! She has been waiting on this for awhile now!! Now, she is officially a teenager!! It seems like just yesterday, she was a little girl, now she is turning into a young lady! She has some of those attitude issues that all tweens and teens have but, she also has the biggest heart! She is beautiful on the inside and gorgeous on the outside so as long as she keeps those grades up, she will go far!!!! ;) 

As most of you know, we changed plans on our home and decided to buy one instead of continuing the building process on our other one. Here is the 1st home we looked at and it ended up being the one we settled on. We looked at alot of houses but this one seemed to be right for us. We close @ the end of September so I am getting ready to start packing. The playground stays with the home and Emma has already started making big plans for having all of her friends over. We have about 32 more days before this house will be ours, and YES, I am counting the days! ;-) 

Yesterday was my mini-shoot with my cousin Lisa and her little boy Silas Warner, it was supposed to be the WHOLE family, but, things happen and we had to much chaos at the time! ;-) Here are a couple of my favorites! Silas had a tummy ache but he was still the best baby for his pictures! 

Today was Emma's 4 year checkup! She is right where she is supposed to be in her height and weight so I am happy. She did have to have some shots. I had talked to her and had her reassured she was going to be fine, she was going to look away and squeeze my hand as hard as she needed and if she did her best not to cry, we would go get ice cream when it was all over. She told everyone all week long, she was going to get shots and she was not scared! Well, when we get there, this litte girl about 8 years old told her that she hoped she did not have to get shots because shots hurt REALLY BAD!! Poor Emma the look of TERROR on her face was something else! I was like 'AAAHHHH"! Poor little girl, I know she did not know that she had just crushed any hope I had of getting through this Dr. appt! LOL! So of course when we got ready for the shots, Emma screamed and screamed! When it was finally over she was fine and showed everyone in the office her new "boo boos". I am glad we are done with shots now until she is 12! YYEEAAAHHHH!!

Yesterday was progress reports!! Brooke got all A's and B's! She was so excited! She is doing WELL in school this year! She did well academically in 2nd grade so I am hoping this is a sign that she will continue this into 3rd grade. She will switch schools coming up in October, so I just hope that transition is smooth also! I am so PROUD of her!! :-)

I finally have my computer back!! :-) I was without it since Monday and it seems even longer than that, since I did not check my email since Saturday! It was hard not to have it when I needed to look up something or there was nothing else to do.

The guy @ the computer place said my power supply burnt up so that made it not want to power on. :-(

I am glad to be "connected" again!!

Today was Emma's 1st day back to preschool. She is in the 4 yr. old class now, so this will be the last year of preschool. Next year, we will be Kindergarten bound! She got the teacher she wanted and she is SO excited!! :) It is SO quiet around here without her running around. I can't wait to pick her up to see how her 1st day went! 

Well, Emma is now over her ear infection and swimmer's ear so she feels LOTS better! She never complained much about it really, it was just so hard to make sure she did not get water in her ear. I think we are going swimming tommorow! :) It won't be long and the pool will be closed for the summer so we are going to try to get some pool time in while we can.

Emma starts school next week. I am not sure where though. I have her registered at the school that is by our new house and I also called to check if they had a spot at her old school. They told me they were full, but for Emma, they would take her. She really wants to go back to her old school so I think I might just keep her there! I am going to think about it this weekend and figure out what we should do.

Other than that, not much going on, just getting ready for bed. I am exhausted and Emma will be up early in the AM!

Here are some pics of the kids just goofing off yesterday. Taylor had the camera and was snapping away! They had a water balloon fight yesterday and played in the sprinkler all day. It was so hot outside and it was just what they needed! :) 

Hey everyone! Here are the pictures of Caroline and Harrison on thier 1st day of school. Caroline started 3rd grade and Harrison started kindergarten! They both look SO happy!!! I love Caroline's new haircut.

Miss Caroline was in a fashion show for Parisian @ Madison Square Mall today and I wanted to show off the pics. I was not there but her mom took some pics and so here they are!! She looks so CUTE! Who knows, we might have our next Christie Brinkley right here in the family!! :) 

Today I went to pick up Brooke @ school early because Emma had a DR.'s appt @ 3:00. She was complaining of her ear hurting last night and could not sleep well! So we went to the Dr and they said she has swimmer's ear and a severe inner ear infection. Poor baby! He gave us a BAG full of samples and told me to call in a week if she was not better. He also said to stay out of the pool until Tuesday. SO, that might be the worst part to her. I wanted to take them this afternoon but a little storm popped up and it has cooled it down outside probably 20 degree's. So that is nice, anyway. Her and Brooke are in there playing now, so we will see how she feel's a little later!

Today was Harrison's 1st day of kindergarten!! I can't wait to hear how he did!!! I know he will make friends and probably win the teacher's heart!!! I sent his mom a message this morning to see how it went! Can't wait to find out!!

Today was Brooke's 1st day of 3rd grade. She is quite excited and it is SO hard to believe it is time for the 3rd grade already! She has 2 of her friends from last year in her class so she is happy about that. When I asked her how her day went, she had one word for me! "AWESOME"!!

Today, we are trying to unwind from our trip to the Beach. I am getting clothes in the wash and unpacking and putting away. Emma had a GREAT time, her favorite part was the "Cacuzzi" as she called it! ;) She liked the ocean too, except when the waves hit her in the face. We swam and looked for seashells and just had a wonderful time. She wanted to find a starfish but we couldn't so her Aunt Jen bought her a starfish souviner so that she would have it. She loves it and wants to play with it, I just have to remind her that it is breakable. She wanted to bring a hermit crab home and I would not let her. I just do not do crabs and could not handle it. The thought of it getting loose FREAKED me out!

That was about it, we had a great time and I am glad to be back home!