So here are Naarah's 7 month pictures. I can't believe she is 7 months old already today. It is amazing how it didn't seem like she would ever grow up and now she is zooming right along. She is sitting up all the time by herself and she will roll everywhere and she will now scooch herself backwards. Pretty soon I am going to have to find all those outlet covers again. Nothing will be sacared any more. I am amazed at how fast time goes when they get to be this age. Before I know it she will be 9 and Naomi will be 17. AAAHHH! That is a scarey thought. I just remember everyone saying enjoy the time while they are little because it goes so fast and now I know what they mean. I try and savor every moment I can while they are small but seems like the days just keep getting faster and faster.

Look at this. 7 months old and already practicing talking on the phone. It is pretty funny. I don't think Nathanael discovered this toy until he was like a year old or so.

I was taking some 7 month pictures of Naarah and Naomi and Noah just could not resist having a picture taken with her also. They are all so darn cute. Nathanael did not get a picture with his baby sister because he was being a little naughty and was in his room.

Here are a couple last pictures of the boys playing t-ball and baseball. The season is now over and I can't say that I am sad. As fun as it is to watch them grow up and do fun things like this, it is also nice to just have some evenings to our self now. I was at the ball park 4 out of the 5 weekdays most weeks for the past 5 weeks. It makes for a crazy summer. Now the park is just for fun and playing on the toys and swimming. YIPEE!

Here is Naarah at the begining of the week I was teaching her how to pick up her puffs with her fingers and then putting them in her mouth. I must say that now it is Friday and just 3 days after showing her how to do it she started feeding herself the puffs all the time. She is having a lot of fun with it.

TDS FEST

Yesterday we went to Chris's big work party called TDS Fest. It is the big picnic for the year. They have it every July. The kids loved it last time we went in 2006 so we made sure that we were home and ready for another year of TDS Fest. The bounce houses and blow up things were the best and most attractive things for the kids. They enjoyed racing one another and just seeing how fast they could go for all the obstacles.
It was very hot but could have been much worse according to the weather man early in the day. It was not as muggy as we thought and there was a little breeze even once in a while.
The heat didn't seem to stop the kids. They were going and going. They went so much yesterday that they didn't even wake up for the storm last night. That meant a better nights sleep for mom. (smile)

As you will see in the pictures below, I have some gladiators on my hands. All three of them love to watch American Gladiators. So it was only natural yesterday when doing a lot of these events that they would be competing and also racing again pretend gladiators to see how fast they could go.

They had games for the kids and the bounce places and snow cones and food and free drinks.

Here is my little gladiator. He tried to do the wall climb, waiting in line for like 10 min just to be told he was to small. The harness was to big. He then stuck to the big slide and also the obstacle course. He was so disappointed to not be able to wall climb. I told him to wait until next year when you will be zooming up the wall in no time.

Here are Naomi and Noah once again in Gladiator Arena. They are now doing the wall climb. Siren is chasing Naomi up the wall and Rocket is chasing Noah. Rocket is really fast so Noah zoomed up that wall at record speed. Naomi was pretty fast also. My future gladiators. I will be so proud when I see Noah in the off season of racing to be a gladiator. Naomi in between dance preformances to be a gladiator with her brother. The competition will never end I am sure of this.

This is also at TDS Fest. Naomi and Noah and their competitive nature, they also had to see who could go farther on the bungy bounce thing. Another Gladiator event. I am not sure if any of them came out the victor but they sure had fun. We had fun watching them try to get some where. Some one should have invented something like this for the beds to keep them in when it is time to sleep.

Here is Nathanael enjoying the bouncy obstacle course at the wonderful TDS Fest. I swear he went in the course about 50 times at least. He loved it. They had a blue side to get in and an orange side to get in so he would get out of one and go in the other. It was pretty amusing. Naomi and Noah had a race through the obstacle course and Naomi came out the winner by about 3 seconds. I don't have pictures of their race though. They were to fast.

This is picture of the kids on 4th of July. I didn't get a good one of all four of them together but that is ok. Also Naarah was very much enjoying her visit with Grandpa and also she loves to see Great Grandma. She is so good for her. She could be in a really crabby mood and when we get by GG she is so happy and talks to her and smiles for her. I am very thankful for that.

This is my sister Stacey for those who may not know her or may not have seen her in a while. Yes she is expecting. A boy none the less. She is due Sept. 11th. She was able to get home so we could have a baby shower for her.

The kids had a great time. The first picture is Naomi, Noah, Nathanael and Jonathan all standing by the bell inside the State Capitol. I will spell it right from now on. The other pictures of the kids were just fun. They all wanted their pictures separately so they could feel special. Naomi is on the observation deck of the capitol. It was very pretty.