Bones Bikes

Johnny and his brother Ben and BFF CJ have started their own bike company. They take beach cruiser bikes & add motors to them. So Clever, I know. They have two motor sizes, the 50cc grocery getter which will do about 30 to 35 mph, and the 80cc law breaker which will do about 45mph. It's similar to a moped but 100 times cooler. They have different styles of beach cruisers, but can retrofit the motor to just about any bike. They started a website which is: http://www.bonesbikes.net/ here you'll be able to see photos of a few of the bikes they have built (the site is a little rough right now but it has more details about the motors & what not). They plan on getting these in some local bike shops in the near future, but as of right now it's been by word of mouth and they are selling well & fast. Did I mention they are FUN???

Friends

Once a week I watch my sister Tami's darling Girls, Ashlyn and Alexa, while she is at work. There are two little neighbor girls that just adore A and A and are ALWAYS on the look-out for them, the neighbor girls are at my doorstep the moment my neices arrive. These girls have LOTS of fun together!

Playday-they barely stopped for the picture

Ashlyn, Olivia, Morghana, Alexa and Lexxus

Olivia is lucky to have so many friends.

Rylee, Olivia and Avery
Some of Olivia's BFF's!

O's new found LoVe

The sprinklers, Olivia is obsessed with the sprinkers. She is constantly pointing to the windows or doors saying "side, side" which means "outside". While outside she does the sign for water and points to the hose! She has just discovered that she LoVeS pools, streams, puddles, or even a mist. We've been taking Olivia to the pool a lot this summer, she also goes to watch her cousins swimming lessons & plays in the water once a week with them. Who'd a thought my nervous little O would be a water baby?

silliness

"O" baby has been cracking me up DAILY with her funny little self! She's so silly :)

See for yourself...

sundress

Thank you Di for the Sundress! She looks amazing in it! See:

Happy 4th of July

July 4th is always one of my favorite holidays, first and foremost because we celebrate our independence and patriotism but secondly it's because it's my Mom's most favorite holiday ALL year. Boy does she get into it with all of the flags and music and the red, white and blue. I love seeing my Mom so happy and that is why I love the 4th. Thirdly, (and this is in NO particular order) it's DI's BIRTHDAY! That's right my BFF Di was born on the 4th of July, what a cool birthday, everybody already has the day off work and is partying...every year! And I won't forget to mention all of the people who blow stuff up and do giant fireworks shows just for her...and our country! Happy Birthday Di, love ya.

It was a fun holiday this year, low key, nothing too extravaggant. Got together with both the Fam's on two different days and did our own fireworks in the street. Olivia really like the somewhat quiet colorful fireworks but hated the incredibly loud, screaming ones the first night. Good thing those home-made shows never last long. The second night she was more used to the idea and didn't really cry...was more mezmorized and interested in the fireworks! Overall, a success and a REALLY fun time hanging out with family and all of Olivia's cousins! What a blast...so to speak :)

It's Amazing I know!This Is MY attempt...failed.

Swimmin' Buddies

This is only the beginning of many many summer's these two bathing beauties will be swimmin' buddies! Baby Vanessa and her Mom and Dad came swimming with us this weekend at the Hot Springs Pool. Olivia had a total blast playing in her floating car and splashing and kicking in the pool. Vanessa handled a really quick dip and then a little nap on the lawn! Can't wait for all the fun summer's to come. P.s. Annie, still waiting to hear about that pool party!

Isn't Nessa CUTE?

Shop time

Nope, not that kind of SHOP, this is working with Dad in the garage type of shop! Olivia LOVES to help her Dad in whatever he is doing, she is right under his toes at any given moment and just completely adores him! (I think he's pretty cool too!) These two are a great team.

Johnny recently got me a new Dirt Bike ( :D ) and brought home some sweet new gloves to match. Olivia totally took to the gloves and here she is rocking them and nothing else! (Here is the most decent of all the pics)

She ran around the house all wild like, giggling and laughing at her new outfit! She's so funny, she cracks me up all day long!

Fun For The Whole Fam

Aww The Bubble Generator, one of the best things ever invented. Blowing your own bubbles is now completely over-rated. I've been wanting to get one of these things for a long time, why? you ask. Well: 1.Blowing bubbles yourself is a mess (especially with a bunch of kids fighting over them) 2. The old "light-headed" factor and 3. You can only get a few really great bubbles before you have to re-dip and blow. The bubble machine keeps everybody entertained for an endless amount of time, millions of bubbles in minutes! Here's a video of my two nieces (Alexa and Ashlyn), Olivia and the dogs...Like I said it's fun for the WHOLE Fam!

Swim Day

Mistie and I got together for a swim day with our kiddos + Mistie's nephew little gavin who is a hoot by-the-way. I didn't get any pics of Gavin but Olivia sure did think he was funny when he'd dive under water then pop up out of nowhere, she loved it. Even though the pool was kind of lame-o (until the awesome pool by us opens up we had to go elsewhere) the girls had a blast in the water. Olivia especially loved snack time, splashing/kicking/jumping in the water, and saying Hi continuously to everybody around us! Here is Olivia and Avery before their dip:

Livi also loved to say "HI" to Avery...lots of times :) She's so cute!

"Hiiiieeee"

Yes...We're Back!

We've been home from Hawaii for a week and I haven't even checked my e-mail. I've enjoyed not occupying too much of my time blogging--it sure gets addicting and I've actually gotten out of the habit while away on vacation! I'm sure as life settles back into the norm I'll pick right back up where I left off! :)
Hawaii was soo awesome, and beautiful, and amazing and sunny! Here are some of the pics from our trip:


Sorry about the sideways pics.

Aloha from O'ahu!

Hello Peeps and visitors to my site...Just wanted to write in and say that we are still loving every minute of this Paradise thing! We've been here a week and still have 4 crazy days to enjoy this amazing place. We've done it ALL in the past week and just plan on chilling out at the beach and relaxing the remainder of the time we are here. Hope everyone is great and we'll be posting some sweet pics soon! Bye-for-now PEACE