Playing on the beach

We thought a water gun fight on the beach would be fun for the kids...so we stocked up at wal-mart :)

say CHEESE!!!!!!!

Emma decided to rinse off in one of the outdoor showers...without taking her clothes off ;)

lol...he looks really wet!

Alexis & Aleyah's Chuckie Cheese Party

Chuckie Cheese....I am willing to take the title of "meanest mom in the world" and NEVER take my kids there. If someone else wants to...feel free...but I HATE it there! Mass kid hysteria...NO parent supervision AT ALL!! I mean...I get the whole " no one can leave with my kid thing"...but news flash parents...your kids are NOT angels at all times...they can be rude..and just plain bratty. I don't know how many times we had a kid push their way in front of us or just come up and take over a game that one of the girls was playing!! Awful! And with no parents to tell them no..they get away with it...over and OVER again! That being said..I have 3 kids and there is only 1 of me. That means I can't be in 3 places at once. Lakin and Emma aren't to much of a problem..I can keep them interested in the same things, but Gavin is not going to have much fun riding the motorized horse a hundred and 6 times. SO..there is a good chance that he is one of those bratty kids I'm talking about. I like to think that with him being so quiet and not one for confrontation..that he wouldn't be that kid..but I am not naive enough to believe it couldn't happen. This is why I think the best thing to do is to just avoid the place entirely!! I'm pretty sure that I can bribe my kids with a walmart trip and a toy as an alternate option..thank goodness! Buying 3 toys would probably even save me money!!

This visit was for my two beautiful nieces that I LOVE to PIECES...so I was willing to DEAL with my hatred for a couple of hours...but I definitely could have used a visit to an ADULT only establishment by the time it was all over :) Mom and Lakin...checking out her rings

Emma blowing bubbles

Back to pictures on the blog :) I may alternate between this and the photo shows...especially when I have a LOT of pictures...like the rest of our South Carolina vacation ( That's right...I have a TON of pictures left to show..those were just the 1st 2 days!!) I'm still trying to catch up from summer pictures. I thought I had them all in the September photo show, but it seems like everytime I go through and organize my pictures, I find more! I'm hoping to get everything up this week ( except for S.C ). Of course, by the time I get all of the old ones up..I'll have a few weeks of new ones. ;) I guess i could just stop taking pictures...but where's the fun in that?! My children will never be able to say that their photo albums aren't full when they grow up ( well...Gavin may have a limited few until he grows out of this anti-photo stage). I am going to be a mess when I finally have the time to make all of their scrapbooks...Vern better plan to have a library in the new house, just to hold all of them!..lol

Here are some pictures of Emma and her bubbles....i know, I know...it seems like she's always the object of my pictures...BUT babies are just so darn cute and they grow up so fast! She also happens to be the only one home with me for 8 hours during the week days...we have a lot of time together!! The last thing the other two want to do when they get home from school is smile for my camera ;)

lol...she's trying VERY hard!!She got it!!!!

bye, bye bubble!