Our Last Weeks of Summer 2010 In A Nutshell....

August 14, 1999

First, I have to congratulate my husband and myself for making it through another year of marriage. Eleven years. Wow. I am really thrilled that we are happier than ever now after all this time.

Next, our iPhones! Dave hasn't been this giddy since our honeymoon. He LOVES his new phone. Here are some of our favorite pictures from the phone and its new applications:

FATBOOTH

This is been a hit EVERYWHERE! The kids love it and we all just crack up over what we can do to one's face. Actually, we have had the best conversations about sugar and portion sizes in our family since Fatbooth entered our family.

Taylor on Fatbooth

Me. YIKES!

Jay Leno's offspring, Dave

Jaxson, the man!

Austin on Fatbooth

COLOR ME

Another application I LOVE on my iPhone is Color Me. I simply use my finger to edit pictures. Here are two examples of pictures taken in color and then changed to gray with a splash of color:

Riley, at the Children's Museum

Color me edit

Austin and Clayton rock climbing at the same place

Color me edit

THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

I bought a 6 month season pass back in April for this place and we have loved it and used it this summer. It isn't a museum as much as a discovery experience for the kids. Each of the oldest three kids got to choose a friend on this day. Alyssa spent a few hours at Grandma Barbie's house which made the trip so much easier for me and six kids. Here are some of my favorite pictures:

Building a house to see if it can withstand an earthquake!

"Look at our papers fly!"

Magnetic shapes. I love these! They cost a small forture in the gift area but I would love to by them for Christmas, except that I know our kids would lose and break the pieces.

Clayton with his masterpiece!

Tay Bug with hers!

Riley's Einstein Project

Jax, Taylor and Riley at the Deli, making me a sandwich out of plastic stuff.

Austin at the water works.

Jaxson LOVES the store part! Too cute!

LAZY SUMMER DAYS

One of the things I've enjoyed about his summer (and every one for that matter) is not the pressing schedule of school, homework, soccer, dance, Jui Jitsu etc. It has been nice to kick back, swim, BBQ, hang out with friends and family and just RELAX!

Here is my "Star Wars" boy! He is always acting as though he has a light saber and in a movie. Here is my Austin!

Baby Girl in her new PJs! I filmed the kids talking right after this pictures. It was too funny.

Trampoline Hair

Here is Baby girl enjoying a good jump on the neighbor's tramp! Her hair made me laugh so I grabbed my phone and shot some pictures.

Dale (Poppie) Turns 75 Years Old!

On our anniversary, we celebrated my father-in-law's 75th birthday. I took about 1o0 pictures from the evening to give to Barbara, so I'm only posting a handful of my favorites.

Aunt Joan, Aunt Dawn and Bobby.

Hope (Cheri's daughter), Alyssa and Steve (Cheri's husband)

Austin and my niece, Britney

Two of the coolest people in the family: Charisse and Jon!

Here is Uncle Jim with his gorgeous girls!

TAYLOR in her new red shirt!
(Isn't that shirt to die for? I love the front. She looked adorable the entire night so I had to get a pictures of how she looked.)

Uncle Bob, Dave and sister Cindy
(Mind you, most of these people are over 6 ft. I'm so short in this family!)

Poppie and his youngest grandchild!

Dale and Barbara Lindsay

Barbara decorated the place in blue since that is Dale's favorite color. It really did look nice.

Cheri (Dave's sister) helping out with the dinner. We had it catered. Lasagne, alfredo pasta, rolls and a delicious salad.

Charonne and Dale

Charayye and her two children, only 13 months apart!

Charelle and Dale

There was a program after the meal. One of Dave's cousins played the piano, our niece sang, I played a few numbers and then the kids sang some songs for Poppie. Afterwards, a nice video was played....for 90 minutes! Most of the crowd took off during the movie. Lesson learned: Only your immediate family really will appreciate watching family pictures for more than 20 minutes! :) Our little family, however, will enjoy the movie in the years to come.

Dave's niece Britney

Me at the piano.

Barbara and Dale at the end of the program

Here's to 11 years with Dave! Our family on the night of our anniversary.
Taylor (9), Jaxson (6), Austin (4) and Alyssa (1)

Our family with the birthday boy!

Our family with both of Dave's parents

Poppie, Grandma Barbie and the Lindsay Grandkids!

Taylor and Hope

Dave and his Aunt Dawn. She LOVES Dave!

Finishing off the night with a dance with Poppie.
(Is it obvious how tired baby girl is?)

Uncle Bob and Dave

DUCK POND

Just a little stop at the duck pond to throw some bread to the ducks. Great times with my kids!

And that's a wrap on SUMMER 2010! Bring on the school year!