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As the kids get older...

Please try to be patient with me.  As the kids get older, I become increasingly busy during the day and don't always have a lot of time to be on the computer.  Some days, I'm not on at all.  I promise I'll update when I can though.

Last week was another fun, but busy week.  The weather has been incredibly hot.  One day we got up early, and went to the park.  It was so hot though, that Ben couldn't do anything that required your skin touching anything.


























Thursday was the sidewalk sale.  In the 5 1/2 years we've lived out here, we've never gone to the side walk sale, until this year of course.  Shawn and the kids bought me a really cute purse for my birthday.  It's big, like I love my purses and poor Ben could hardly carry it.


























We celebrated my birthday all weekend long.  My mom, her boyfriend, my sister, my brother, and my nephew all came out on Saturday.  We had a nice lunch, ate cake (my sister made) and then went to walk downtown.

Sunday, we went to Shawn's parent's house.  A great friend of ours, Torren, and his parents came out and we spent the afternoon out by the pool.  Sydney looked so cute with a doo rag on.








































We BBQ'd for our wonderful lunch and then had a great cake.




































After the wonderful food and a little relaxing, Shawn and I went to the Chicago and Doobie Brothers concert (my gift from Shawn's parent's).  It was a total blast.























































It's been a crazy but fun couple of weeks.


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