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Happy Birthday to Grandpa!

the girls picked some flowers from grandmas planters

on her porch haha

AND...

Check out Olivia's shoes

First of all- they are Brookes

Second-they dont even match, not even close!

she has been refusing to wear her own shoes

and will only wear what she picks out!

Carson got a flower too, this is him dropping it

to Grandpa.

Carson sitting on Grandpa's grave with the barbies :)

Happy Birthday!

The sunset, Dad loved a pretty sunset!

Lighting a candle to sing to Grandpa

the wind was blowing the candle out so I told the

girls it was Grandpa blowing out his candle :)

CHEESE!

Olivia had to have a chance to blow it out too!

Happy Birthday to You!!!!

Carson blowing kisses

can't get enough of his smile! 

Love you Grandpa, Miss you!!!

MUAH

Never enough food!

Carson was never into his baby food but once he started

to get real food he just doesn't think he has ever had

quite enough.

I thought I would just give him a bite and let him

try it, see if he could eat it off the cob.

he wanted to try it himself LOL

ohhh man like we never feed him!

look at how good he is eating that right down to the core

big bites

My favorite one, you can see how he just mauls it!

getting every last bite

I took it away and he started to pout!

I better watch my fingers :)

yum yum finger lickin good

and just a shot of Olivias big blue eyes!

RJ lost his job...

So RJs company Call Tower that he has

been working for for almost 5 years now

with no raise for almost 4 years now.

Decided they are going to outsource RJs

department, see ya!  RJ has devoted so

much into this company it makes me sick

he does a side job for them that he doesn't

get paid extra for, he has stayed up till 3AM

finishing OTHER PEOPLEs assignments

so that the company doesn't look bad.

He spent his whole summer last year out

in California doing installs for them even

though that is not his job and his wife was

7,8 and 9 months pregnant, severly anemic and

had the 2 other kids to care for but we thought

it would be best if he could do all he could for the

company to make sure they knew how reliable RJ

was for them!  They claim that they are sick about

losing him and that they would keep him on if there

was a spot there for him but it's really hard to believe.

We have found out that with the experience RJ has he

could be making  a lot more then he is now anyways so

who knows what will come of this.  We are trying to

stay positive and hope for the best but it is hard.

so RJ called me told me what happened and I had

Kylee and Austin over playing with Brooke so

I told them, ok guys when RJ is home we need to

be quiet and calm, not so hyper he isnt in a good mood.

Brooke asked why and I told them and then Kylee

whispered in their ears something and they went off to

color.  I thought she was just keeping them busy.

They went looking around the house for treats.

these pages had candy taped all over them.

when I saw what they had done I let it all go

and started to cry. (I was doing ok up 

untill then) I have great little nieces and

nephews and my kids too obviously.  The little things

in life are what really matter.  I am so glad I have

all these children in my life, they make it worth living!!!

From Brooke

From Austin

When Austin was a baby him and RJ were the

best of buddies! Austin was always sleeping

over at our house he would get his shoes and

bottle and say bye, bye mommy, take RJs

hand and walk out the door with us!

and here is Kylee's note, she must be a Northridge

fan sliver and burgandy are her favorite colors :)

she is a sweet girl and so good to my kids.

I am grateful for all she does for us!

Hunter Hartley's Polynesian Performance

 Ken had gas so we didn't let him sit by us.

haha just kidding he was on call so if he

needed to leave he wouldnt disturb the show :)

I dressed the girls for the occasion!

I have a big kahuna outfit for Carson but

its size 18 months.

When Olivia is actually smiling for the

camera I take lots of pictures cause it

doesn't happen often and look

how cute she is!

So as we were leaving Brooke said something about

needing to go pee and Olivia got upset and said,

"I don't know, I'm not a Doctor!"

haha it was so funny so out of nowhere!

there is Hunter on the right

This group was so cute the little one on the right is

only 2 years old!

haha Buddy is dancing

He is so fun!

Hunter on the right again, the only white one haha

His growl face, the haka!

they pulled people from the audience to teach them

this was so funny/sad.  This little boys shirt was stuck

on his head, then he started to take his pants off

and the teacher was like no no no leave your clothes

on, what are your parents teaching you haha it was

so funny! (she knew the little boy)

Hunter on the left

this part was the best!  Hunter is right there in the middle.

They dressed as women and danced like the women

do, it was SO funny and Hunter totally had the moves!

ohh yeah, go Hunter!!!

Hunter fire knifes I think they called them

SO cool!

I love how these pictures turned out

Hunter doing his fire solo, he did awesome!

Can I go to Hawaii now???  PLEASE :(