Dancing the night away, their favorite part.

Okay, just a few teaser pics of the girls in the weddings. I will have to update later, I'm still trying to get settled back in at home. It's great to go on vacation, but it's great to come home too. Even though laundry, grocery shopping and cleaning are all waiting for you!

We're on Vaca!

We made it to Virginia and are having a great time. The girls did awesome during the 13 hour road trip, we were so proud of them!

Some of Sydney's deep thoughts from the trip (Jon called them yogi-isms):
"When we get there, then we will be there"
"My bubble gum smells like bubble gum"
All that time in the car really brought the best out of her!

Thank You, Sharon!

There's no point in washing the glass doors in this house! Sydney can be so serious sometimes, we were laughing so hard and she did not even break a smile.

This may be the last you hear from me for awhile, we are leaving tomorrow for vacation. First to Virginia for Steph's wedding. The girls are in it and Jon's doing the ceremony. Then to Indiana for my cousin, Joyce's wedding. The girls are in that one too. Originally, we were going to have the girls wear the same dresses just with different color sashes. But no...one bride chose white and one bride chose ivory. So, four flower girls' dresses for two weeks! Luckily, my mom was able to make them for about $20/each (the same dress at David's Bridal is $99). Thanks mom, for saving us so much money. So we are off on vaca...will update when we get back!

Ben just got back from visiting Sharon in Singapore and they bought the girls these cool little dragonflies that balance on your finger. The girls thought they were the neatest things! Thank you, Ben and Sharon, for thinking of the girls on your trip.

I found a couple of bikes at a garage sale this summer (a twin girl garage sale...talk about hitting the mother-load!) and the girls love to ride them. Their favorite thing to do is ride up our neighbor's driveway and then go down fast into our driveway straight across the road. It gives them a little thrill of excitement without too much danger. They have fallen quite often already but have always been wearing their helmets (our neighbor is the helmet nazi). What's childhood and summertime without a few scrapes and bruises?!

Thunderstorm Conversations

Tonight we are having thunderstorms and the girls have been hilarious in their beds. They had just gone to bed when the thunder started, so we heard some "mommy, daddy" coming from their room. Jon goes down there and Syd is saying she's a bit scared while Kenzie asks about the neighbor's dog and if they remembered to take her inside. Her words: "Did our neighbors next door remember to take poor Zeus inside?" Next, Kenzie says to Syd that she doesn't need to be scared because she will take care of her. About fifteen minutes later, Syd calls for daddy again, Jon goes in there and she says, "Can you come take care of me because Kenzie's not...she's sleeping!" Way to go, Kenzie, dropping the ball! You can tell which one of our daughters is compassionate and which one is only compassionate towards animals!

"I Cleaned the Dishwasher"

We don't normally wash the dishes in the sink since we have a dishwasher, but the girls are so into helping out right now, I knew they would enjoy it. It's kinda funny that kids love to help when they're little and they actually make more of a mess than help and then when they are older and could really help, they conveniently don't want to help out! And I couldn't resist you all hearing how Kenzie explains it. I'm glad we have "wathcloth" on video for future viewing!