Happy Birthday Mom....

My mom turned 60 years young on July 8th! She will probably kill me for telling but she did say she was okay with it! If any of you know how my mom is with her age, she never tells you the truth if you ask her! So I was surprised when she said she had come to grips with it!!! Besides, you are only as old as you feel...so my mom is a good 30 years younger!!!
We had a little surprise birthday dinner for her at Olive Garden with the fam! It was a good time, had by all!
Happy Birthday MOM, you are the BEST!! I hope you had a WONDERFUL day, you deserved it!!!!

The Birthday Girl

All Mitch wanted was this BIG sucker!

Waiting for Linda to arrive!

We put the kids in the corner! hahaha

Except Mitch, he had to stay by dad...it is for the best!!!

Happy 4th of July...

We started our 4th of July off with our annual sleep out at Grandma and Grandpa Chipman's house. We all had so much fun. We had some yummy food, the kids played a game of wiffle ball and then we watched Sandlot in the backyard. It started lightening and thundering so all of us headed in, except Greg and Brady. They stayed to ride out the storm...well sort of! It actually didn't end up raining but the lightening was enough for me to say see ya!!!

On the night of the 4th, the Parker's were nice enough to invite us over with Matt's family for a big shindig! We had some good food and fun times! After dinner, Greg and Matt put on their "annuall" firework show!!!

Ashlynn and Mitch...Happy 4th of July!!

Mitch with his sparkler!

Mitch and his friend Riley

Parker's House

Father's Day...

Happy Father's Day! Greg is such an awesome dad! Ashlynn and Mitch adore him so much, he is the BEST!! He truly does so much for our family!!! Thank you for everything...WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

Stawberry Days 2009

Chipman's Annual Block Party

It was another great year at the good old annual block party! It seemed like everyone was enjoying themselves! At first Mitch wasn't sure what to think of everyone at HIS grandma and grandpa's house, but he eventually got used to it and was having a FUN time with all the kids!! It is always so much fun to see people I haven't seen in awhile, its kind of like a fun reunion!!! Thanks to my mom, dad and of course the committee for always doing such a great job at putting this all together....we all appreciate it!!

Huck Finn Day....

This is one of the events that Mandy is in charge of for Strawberry Days. It is so much fun for all the kids. They have so much to do. Lets see, they have the donut walk, REAL fishing, face painting, games, pony rides, a pet show and so on! Each year it seems like there are more and more people...SO FUN!

Ashlynn getting a strawberry painted on her face!

Mitch just got a prize from the fish pond!

Just chillin!

Sami Jo

Ashlynn and Brooke at the fish pond

Pie Eating Contest...

Okay, so here is another event Mandy is in charge of. Crazy, I don't know how she does it!! I asked Mitch if he wanted to eat a piece of pie...well of course, HELLO!! He didn't win, well he actually cheated because he used his hands but what did he care, he got to eat some pie!! Ashlynn and Brooke didn't want to be in the contest...too MESSY, I totally understand!!! Bridger and Sami went for it in each of their age groups, they didn't win but it was REALLY close for both of them!!!

The Carnival....
After the pie eating contest we went to ride some rides at the Carney!!! That's all the kids had been wanting to do from the minute we drove by as they were setting it up! The Parker's met us there and the kids had a BLAST!

The Parade...
Last but not least, the PARADE! It rained on our parade this year, hahaha! Luckily we had our umbrella's and blankets. Usually it is so HOT at the parade, not this year. It's kind of weird to see the kids in jackets. We still had a fun time, and luckily it didn't rain too hard, just a couple of rain bursts!

Getting ready for the parade to start

Ashlynn and Brooke

Bridger, Mitch and Grandpa

Tanalyn and sick little Nash!

She is a CRAZY girl!!!

Eating lunch at Aunt Ted's house after the parade

Random Pictures in May...

I thought this was so cute, Mitch loves to help his dad mow the lawn. He just was SO tired!!

Ashlynn's friend Bridger had just gotten home from his soccer game and she was just leaving for one of her dance competitions...aren't they cute!!

We had Robbin eggs in our barbecue...I thought they were so cute. I just had to take a picture!!!

Our Bubble Gum Machine Craft....

On the last day of school Tanalyn and I decided to make a craft with the kids...YES, what the heck were we thinking!! It turned into an all day project, but the ending products did turn out really CUTE...if I do say so myself!!! I do have to give a BIG THANK YOU to Tanalyn for letting us come over and make a HUGE mess in her garage AND letting us use her scrapbook paper and glue, OH and for the DARLING idea...so THANK YOU!! We did have a BLAST! I just wish I would have taken pictures of us making the craft as well as the ending product! My nephew Bridger was in the hospital when we made these, so Tanalyn made him a cute sports one and we took it over to him...he LOVED it!!

Those are A LOT of bubble gum machines!!

They turned out SO CUTE!!

TOO CUTE...don't ya think?!?!

Ashlynn's Dance....

Ashlynn had a FUN year of dance! I can't believe how fast it zoomed by! She has amazed me by how much she has grown this year. She is becoming such a great little dancer, well in my eyes anyways!! :) It has been so fun to go and watch her at the competitions, her dance group did AWESOME. They are darling little girls!

Ashlynn and Sami Jo

Tiki Room Dance....SOOO CUTE!!

Kati and Ashlynn in their "One World" costumes

Alli, Ashlynn and Sami Jo...cute girls!
(Ashlynn is wearing her favorite costume out of the three dances, she loved this dance. It was a lyrical called Dreams. I loved watching her perform this one!!)