Slumber party at Juno's house

The kids and I got out of the heat last week with an overnighter at Juno's house. Juno had AC put in earlier in the year and it was niiiice! You should note that "Juno's house" was formerly known as "Greg & Jessica's house", but in a short few weeks, I'm pretty sure little Jun-bug has been given the reigns and is the leader the pack!!
The kids love going to their house. I can't say for sure if it's just how fun Greg & Jess are, or Jessica's selection of junk food, but either way they get very excited when they know we're headed to Ballard! Come to think of it, I'm still not sure which of those options is my reason for heading down there so often? lol
Lilly & Juno got to play, and these little tiny cute puppies play hard. It was non-stop wrestle mania until Lilly finally passed out in the deepest sleep ever. Jessica trimmed her hair,cleaned her eyes & brushed her out while she was asleep and she didn't move an inch. OK, enough puppy talk, they are so cute together, it's hard to stop!
We had a fun, cool, easy sleeping night! (Our house has been sooooo hot at night, the kids sleep fine, but I have been miserable!)

I won't lie, the 2 photos you see below, were actually 1 shot, I was holding both the puppies, they both looked at the camera and it was the perfect shot. However, if you look close in the top right/left corner you can see my huge double chin, almost like I was forcing it out there for the world, so bad, even Jess knew she had to edit the photo. It is NOT easy getting two puppies to post together either!!

The kids having the best bath ever in the Zevely's "hot tub" bath tub! Non stop bubbles & jets & deep water!!
My lover boy
and my sassy 5 year old...

yes, sassy!
3 tuckered out little ones.
Ari showing off her new shirt from Auntie Jessica! and please don't zoom in on D's under-roos. He forgot his backpack, and the only clean undies we had were his sisters! Pink & purple Curious George, at least there is a monkey on them and they are clean right!!
Starting off the morning with finger paints...Jessica is either the coolest person ever, or completely insane! Have you seen her kitchen??
Ari & Juno
Finally the sister's snuggled together on Juno's bed
The following night I came back down to Juno's and Jess & I went to the Kenny Chesney concert with our friend Jill & her girlfriend Melanie. We had a great time, the concert was a blast and I had a night off with no kiddos!

Group shot, Jess, Me, Jill & Melanie. This was taken buy a guy in the row in front of us, who really seemed to enjoy taking our picture. He asked on his own I think 3 times if he could take a picture of us...
It's important to always have a lot of these photos when we're together, not sure why!
The girls again, taken by another one of our new friends behind us!

Jill & Melanie...Love that hat...& the shirtless boy behind you! This was definitely late in the evening!

Kids Pictures

My sis and I had the kids pictures taken when she was in town earlier in the month. It was a little hectic trying to get a 5 year old, 3 year old & 4 month old to cooperate at the same time, so I was a little nervous on how they would turn out, well... The photos turned out so good! I can't wait to blow a couple of them up!
My sis has the ones of Noah alone, so I can't post any of them..but I'm sure they are just as cute!
The girl who took them went to HS with my sis..she is soo good! Highly recommended! www.kerryannphotography.com











I love this one down below. The kids were getting antsy so I promised them Mcdonalds if they were good...this was Ari really really wanting Mcd's and trying to convince D to smile good!

I LOVE Chelan

We spent this last week at Lake Chelan with Jessica & Greg. We had soo much fun, Chelan is even better than I remember as a kid! The kids had a blast, and Ari conquered some major water fears...she started jumping off the side of the pool, swimming around (in her life jacket) alone in the pool, dunking her head a couple times, and even TUBING! I'm sure most people who know my little scared girl are just as shocked to hear this as I was to see it! She actually went twice! D was just as awesome. Jon and him actually had a little "crash" off the tube and went under the water, as D tells the story "I did a big crash and went under the water just like a FISH". Neither of the kids barely left the water.
The weather was perfect and our condo was perfect and the company was perfect! We had friends up most of the week and I think our last night was the only night it was just the two families! Wayde even came up with his boat, even though he had a broken arm and couldn't get in the water..what a trooper! We ate really good food, and the boys (well Greg really) did most of the cooking which is just an extra bonus for me!
The trip wasn't entirely injury free...while Jon and Greg were playing tennis early on in the week, Greg tore his big muscle in his calf. Huge bummer, but luckily he decided that staying off your feet in Chelan is better than staying off your feet at home! Darren also decided to spray some sun screen DIRECTLY into his eyes from about 1 inch away, poor guy had red swollen eyes for a while.
I won't bore you with any more words, here's the good stuff:

This is how I spent most of my days...in the pool with the kiddos. Jessica's brother Juan came up with his little boy Jackson, who is 5. The kids had a blast with him, he is the cannon ball king!
Ari, D & Jackson
Jon's pool
Jess & I took the kids to one of the craft sessions Wapato Point does, we were making fruit loop necklaces.
This was all D wanted to put on, too busy eating them!

Love this picture!
I promise there aren't TOO many self portraits here...

That's my sassy girl
We jumped off the boat in the middle of the lake, a first for Ari. Note that my very chicken 5 year old Ari jumped in, and Jessica would not!! D & daddy tubing!
I still cannot believe she did this!

We made a cake for Greg & Jess's 2 year anniversary, can you guess who decorated it?

Such a healthy snack!
Catching up on some reading on our last day
D couldn't get enough of the trash magazines
BFF's
Just the girls took a trip into town on our last night...always a chance for a photo opp with Ari.
:)
So cute with our matching sweatshirts
Photo shoot gone wrong!
He really did love the boat
Wayde's daughter and her boyfriend...oh to be 15 again huh? I was pretty impressed!
Boating fool or supermodel?
Jenn & I barely on the tube...Wayde was not being so gentle with us!
Surprises from Greg!


He LOVED driving the boat.



This is the sign of a good vacation day!
The injured guys watching us jump in the lake for our nightly swim!
And our one and only group shot!