Our brilliant princess

I haven't been posting b/c I need to upgrade my blogger account but I couldn't miss documenting some quotes Leyla sent us today from Phia(photos to follow). She decided to bring her Dora chair in the backyard and "read" a book to Preston under the tree. It went like this:

"Daddy is the smartest Daddy in the whole wide world! You know why Preston? Because he fixes every toy for us and mommy and I are his princesses. Daddy loves it when he gets home and we hug and kiss him. He told me to never stop." Presto replies: "yeah me too..daddy princess...daddy fix my truck".

Clearly Daddy fixes a lot of things around the house...ha! She went on to say:

"Daddy is never going to leave mommy because when you get married you stay together forever"(this coming from a previous conversation b/w Phia and Daddy". Preston was very confused by this information from his sister. He'll understand all too well someday! Phia is the most intuitive, aware, little 3(almost 4) year old. She listens and comprehends so far beyond her years. We've always understood as a couple the importance of being good examples of love to our children, but it's magnified a thousand times over with Phia. She doesn't miss a thing!

Leyla's Father's Day Photo Shoot

Leyla decided to dress the kids up in Daddy's clothes and take pictures of them for BT's Father's Day card. Apparently, Presto had a BLAST!! He looks so cute in Daddy's suit:) Leyla  had "spare" mustaches that she put on all the kids...ha! BT got a kick out of the pictures!!

"Daddy" after a long day(beer and all)

Football/mustache "daddy"

Off to work "daddy"!

Tee hee..."daddy" just got a very silly e-mail

Golfing "daddy"

Jack, Emily, and Auntie Sarah's b-days!



Auntie Sarah made the cutest little toddler dinners:)

This weekend we had a few b-day parties(which the kids LOVE!!). Presto kept asking if it was HIS b-day. Daddy and Bentley have hand/foot/mouth so mommy took Presto and Phia on a little road trip Saturday. We had a blast! We started off the morning at Jack's b-day where we played at the park and ate pizza and cupcakes:) And ended the day celebrating Auntie Sarah and cousin Emily's birthdays. The kids love playing with their cousins. Auntie Sarah made a really cute dinner that the kids loved and they played in the bouncy in the backyard. We missed the rest of our family so so much but we had a super fun day:)


Pre pizza and cupcake...nice and clean:)



Phia in cupcake heaven

Presto's turn to swing at George!!



Auntie Kelly holding the kids back...ha!



Sweet sweet Presto loved all the trains at the park

Phi Phi grabbing some candy

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Yup...this looks about right after eating cupcakes

Cute(but blurry) picture of Auntie Sarah and Phia

Sweet cousins:) My camera died at Jack's b-day so all my photos from Emily's are from my phone!

One messy, yummy, toddler dinner

Cupcakes round 2!

I said "cheese" not "open wide"!

Our bear is almost crawling and some backyard fun!

Bentley bear is soooo sooo close to crawling! He gets on all four's and rocks back and forth and can army crawl across the room and spin himself around.  He generally ends up real frustrated...it's a lot of work to get from one side of the room to the other via elbows!! We're sure he'll be crawling very soon:)  It's been super nice lately so we grabbed a blanket and hung in the backyard with the kiddos in the evening.  We  caught some cute pics of them and of course attempted getting mama with all 3...we did the best we could...ha!  I was home sick so I was also able to get a few pictures of Leyla enjoying lunch in th backyard with the kids.  We don't get very many pictures of her but we do love her so very much!!

B is a little under the weather right now but that doesn't stop him from trying to get from one place to another!

Here I go mama...

Yay! I'm on all fours!

rocking back and forth

look at me...I can spin around on my belly!!

Lunch time with Leyla

CHEEEESE!

We love you Leyla!

Presto and Leyla are bff's

Bentley loves this noisemaker

It makes him THIS happy!!

Phia Lil' loves her baby brother

Cutie face

Me and my boys!

1,2,3...yes...they're all here!

This one is the best but Bentley's face is just a little covered up.  I love these 3 little people!!

Our weekend...

This pretty much sums up our 7 month old bear...happy happy joy joy!

Not unlike most weekends we spent Friday night at "Friday Fun Night" in our neighborhood which consists of all the kids in the street with their bikes, trikes, toys, etc and all the parents visiting and having cocktails! I keep meaning to bring my camera so I can capture the chaos...I mean FUN! This weekend was followed by  a long afternoon at the pool on Saturday.  We spent 4 hours swimming with our neighbors and Presto and Phia didn't take naps! It was a first for Presto so he was in bed by 7:30.    It's more of a potluck by the pool...all the neighbors text each other on what they're bringing so we don't double up!  Makes it really hard to ever want to go anywhere on weekends...we just love our little neighborhood:)

Daddy tickles are the BEST according to Bentley bear

He couldn't contain himself and buried himself in Daddy's shoulder giggling

Who me?

And then Phia stole the camera and started snapping...Daddy through Phia's  ojos

Sorry for the veiny hands...Phia snapped mommy applying make-up

Phia dresses herself now.  This is what we got Saturday morning.  Daddy said it looked like she was on her way to New York City LOL!

And then she added the heals...

Pool time with the Penrod's! Little Presley and Jenson love the water so much:)

Preston can be found wading in the deep end OR taking a flying leap from all ends of the pool

Phia and her "Prince"

Our neighbors always bring watermelon to the pool and Presto and Phia pretty much can eat an entire watermelon themselves!

Hi Bear!

Happy bear:)