Birthdays, blood, and a hat trick.....

Birthdays.. July is FULL of them for our little family!

Ryann had her SEVENTH (OMG!) birthday on the 13th. We celebrated on the 11th with a water park party at The Pointe. It was a really fun party, she had a great time! As always she was spoiled when it came to the gifts!!

The day following her party she used one of her gift cards, and treated herself to a day of beauty at Sweet and Sassy. She got a full spa mani and pedi as well as getting her hair done. She really is turning into such a big girl!!

This past Sunday we helped Ashelynn, Mckenna and Tanner all celebrate their birthdays. Ashelynn's ELEVENTH! Mckenna's 5th, and sweet baby Tanner's first. It was a fun party too!

Yesterday we celebrated my 27th birthday. Adam spoiled me - like always. He Aiden and I headed to Trulucks for dinner - YUMMY!

Now, onto the blood portion of the title... Aiden had a ruff soccer game on the 11th. He was hurt TWICE within 15 minutes. The first time he "slipped" over the ball falling head first to the ground, then had another child fall right on the side of his head, OUCH! He cried for a while, but once we got him settled he was ready to head out and play again. About 5 minutes on the field and the front of his face met with he back of some else’s. This resulted in a bloody nose, a fat upper lip and a cut on the bottom one. He came off the field crying - saying, "Not again!" Once he saw the blood coming out of his nose he began to scream bloody murder, and was quite sure he never wanted to play soccer again. It took a bit longer go get him calmed down that time, and a few minutes later he decided soccer wasn't so bad - and maybe he would give it a shot the following week at his game.

More blood on Thursday, after practice he and one of his friends were giving each other a good bye hug, and I guess their feet got tangled, because down they both went - this time Aiden ended up w/ a bit cut on his bottom lip that ended up bruising.

Even more blood Friday. Apparently Aiden was climbing up the latter at school to the slide. His foot slipped and down he went - hitting his chin on the last step. By the looks of his clothes and his teachers when I got there to pick him up, there was a LOT of blood. I took him to the doctor, where it was decided he didn't need stitches. Instead they used the derma bond (super glue for the skin) to close the cut up and sent us on our way. That night he bumped his chin, and all the blood that the derma bond was holding back was unleashed, (EWW). We got him cleaned up and a band aid on, but by Sunday morning the derma bond had already fallen off. I took him back to the doctor today, again no stitches needed (Yay!) and we finally seem to have the drippy blood problem taken care of. He'll probably have a nice little scar - and a cool story to tell when he gets older. I hope, but doubt that's the last bloody week we have w/ that crazy boy!

The Hot Wheels had their third soccer game Saturday, and all the kids played GREAT! I think they are starting to really understand what the heck their coach is telling them when he says they need to work together as a team. They won this game. I believe the final score was 7 to 2. Aiden scored 3 (thus the "hat trick") of the 7!

I've updated both the July album and Aiden's first soccer season album on our photo site so take a look when you get the chance.

We hope you are all doing great!

Gallary is up!

Just got the email from Captures by Erin, and our gallery is up! Here is a little taste of the good stuff,

Honestly, I love all of the above images, (and so many more that I did not share) but this one is my absolute FAVORITE!! I know you can't see his face - and most moms would probably not go nuts about it, but I can just SEE a huge print of this hanging on the wall in our house....... seriously it's beautiful!!

If you would like the password to be able to view the complete gallary, just shoot me an email, or leave a comment on this post - and I'll be happy to share!

Happy 4th!!

We hope you all had a great 4th! Ours was awesome!


The rest of our long weekend was spent around the house, reading, watching movies.... Adam studying for his mid-term and lots of family time - a well deserved restful weekend!

We have lots to look forward to next week! Aiden will be staying home with Mommy tomorrow, he started feeling bad this evening, and we're hoping keeping him home tomorrow will help it blow over quickly, because Tuesday he has gymnastics, Wednesday he and Ryann have reading school, Thursday is soccer practice, then on Saturday Aiden has his second soccer game, and that afternoon we'll be celebrating at Ryann's SEVENTH (OMG!) birthday party. Then sadly on Sunday our extended summer time ends with Ryann, as she returns to her mom's. We're all going to miss her very much, but we are going to enjoy every second of our time with her until then.

We had our pictures taken with Erin again, check out this link http://www.capturesbyerin.com/blog/ to see a tiny preview - I'm so excited to see the rest - she is so amazingly talented, I know it's going to be so hard to choose which prints to buy!