Best Pictures of 2007

I loved Brett's post so much that I decided we had better steal the idea and do one of our own. I would love to see all of you do it on your blogs too. I know I see very little of your family and would love to see more. So Tag, you are all it.

So I gave this to Abi thinking she would like it and she did, but every time she licked it, she cried because it was too cold. I tried to take it back but she wouldn't let me.

Abi rests up before tackling the second half of that piece of lunchmeat.

Grace's future in competitive donut-on-a-string eating seems to be in doubt.

You really have to click on this one to see it all. It is a little dark but I love how all the kids have simultaneous squeals of delight at the fireworks.

Gotta love pool pictures.

Time to bust out that ugly stick.

Disneyland. See? It really IS the happiest place on earth.

What cookie?

Sea World

Usually Sea World is my favorite thing to do on our trip, but this time we went on Sunday instead of Tuesday and it was busy. I hate going anywhere when it is busy. Since it was busy we didn't get any really good pictures. We only went to the dolphin show and the killer whale show.



Abi was still sick and had a fever. She just sat there the whole time.



The baloogas are always one of my girls favorite. They sit or stand forever looking at them. Last time we went we got a great picture of Scout with them, but there were too many people crouding around this time that they couldn't even get to the glass to see them under water.







We got to feed the seals and the sting rays. When feeding the seals a bird came and grabbed the fish right out of Abi's hand. We almost got the picture right as it happened.



Scout wouldn't feed anything because she didn't want to touch a dead fish. She did finally attempt to feed the sting rays by pinching the very end of the fish tail but she kept dropping it as soon an the ray swam past. Grace loved the sting rays. She sat and touched them forever and didn't want to leave.





Scout's favorite is the tide pool. She loves to touch the star fish.

Playing at Disneyland

There is nothing better then relaxing and just goofing around at Disneyland. We didn't do much of this when I was a kid, but it is one of the best parts about being at Disneyland with my family. The favorite place to just play this time was at Tom Sawyer's Island, they loved the pirate theme and had to try everything out. It was fun exploring all the caves and just splashing in the water. Grace wanted to get on every stationary prop in the whole park and have her picture taken like 10 times on it, leading the other girls to wanting an equal portion in the picture taking.

Disneyland Pictures

These are just the posed pictures that we took. We got pictures with a lot more characters this time then we have before. We didn't get around to going to the princess line though. Personally, I think that was a horrible idea. I am much more likely to stand in five 10 minute lines to see the princesses then to stand in one hour long line to see them all at once.

For those who haven't heard the story already: The other day we were leaving to go to the store, and so we told Grace to hurry and get her sandals on.

She proceeded to throw a fit, saying she didn't want to wear those sandals.

When I asked her why, she said "I just don't like those sandals"

"Why?"

"Because I just don't like them!"

"You need to tell me why you don't like them"

Gracie, near tears says, "Because my littlest toes don't show up, and it looks like I only have 4 toes!"

Future Beautician in the Family?

Scout doesn't like to have her hair in her face. Today she decided to do something about it and cut all of the sides off her hair so they wouldn't hang in her face. She didn't do too bad of a job considering, it's almost layered down the sides. She cut all of the top part so it looks like banges? I don't knowand then on her right side she has cut all of the hair down the side so it's 3 inches shorter then the rest. Her hair is curly enough that it doesn't look too bad until we can get her in to a stylist. She's mad that she has to get her hair cut now. She said that she doesn't want her hair cut short but she already just did it. Hopefully we will be able to keep it in a medium length hair cut and it won't all have to be cut off because I refuse to give her a mullet. I was debating whether to get her hair cut this month so it looked really cute for Disneyland but had decided not to because we don't have the money for that right now, but apparently she was meant to get it done.

I think I am going to have to get Grace's hair cut too though because she will feel bad if she can't get one too. Her hair has been pretty scraggly lately and could use being cut anyway, but that was certainly $80 I was hoping to go to other things.

Scout and Soccer

Scout and soccer. Scout hates the idea of soccer, but she enjoys herself at practices. She absolutely hates the games. These are the pictures before the game where we are just practicing. Once the game starts she just complains and cries and asks to get off the field.

I asked her after what we could do to help her like soccer better. She said “Make it warmer.” It was really cold. Ok, what else? “More snacks.” Scout we had a snack at half time and at the end of the game “I know I just want one before the game, in the middle, and at the end of the game.” whatever, move on. What else? “Not go anymore.” Scout we have to go, we already paid and I’m the coach. But what could we do to make you like playing it more? “Not sign me in.” What? What do you mean? “like not make me sign in and play” You mean just let you sit out the whole game? “Yeah” Uh, Scout everybody has to play in the game. “I just don’t want to” well you have to. “fine, can I go play now?” yeah, go ahead.

I can see why she doesn’t like playing on our team, some how every other girl on our team is REALLY good at soccer and fast and very aggressive. That’s just not Scout. So Scout never gets the ball and can’t keep up with the other kids. It’s not just her though, the other team couldn’t keep up with them either. I felt bad for them. Our team made like 20 goals and the other didn’t get any, and only got 2 shots at the goal through the whole game, and that’s with Scout being on the field for most of the time just holding my hand. So my team had one less player and still just murdered the other team. I have a feeling that Scout would like soccer more if she was on their team instead of ours. And I am realizing, not only are our kids not athletic, they really are quite out of shape. How do you get kids into shape? The whole thing is very frustrating and I personally don't think it is fair to have all of these girls together on one team. They need to even the teams out, but I have a feeling that they won't.

Grumpy Grace

This is a fairly predictable reaction from Grace anytime we try to do anything out of the ordinary, she is never satisfied with the project, always thinking it should have been bigger and better. Here she is ignoring me. I was trying to get her to take a picture with the Easter eggs that she painted but she refuses because she didn't get to paint the last egg exactly how she wanted to because we had to leave to go to our friend's house for an Easter egg hunt. We were already late. As you can see, Grace was trying not to smile at one point but got herself back under control and ended with a sufficiently nasty look (yes she is snarling at me). She finished it off by hiding so I couldn't take her picture with her eggs.

Meltdowns

We have had a busy week this week so it's no supprise that my girls have been quite a bit cranky. They do really well around everyone untill they are with Jared or me. This is Scout throwing her fit in the car when we made her leave Grandma's house. It all starts with getting angry at me. Glaring, talking rudely, and then comes the water works. It's the same with all of my girls, I just happened to have my camera around when Scout did it this time. One thing I did notice with these pictures is how young Scout looks when she is crying. Usually I am acutely aware of how old she is getting, so in some ways it's nice to see her little again.

Happy Easter!