Family time!

Shannon's last day in NH....**sigh**....so all the cousins got together over at Nana's house for a visit, to make some memories , not to say 'goodbye', just to say'see you soon'....

Nana and Shannon... The girls...Nana and her girls...
It started out like this...

...and then Olivia decided she wanted to be in the picture, but did NOT want her arms touching the grass, lol!
My Lexi girl loves her Shannon to pieces....she's going to miss her so, so much...

Me and my Shannon...
Bailey boo and my girls.....cousins who ADORE each other... Gorgeous sisters....Sooooo...Miss Shannon, I will post your beach pictures soon, as PROMISED.....and we miss you!!

Miss Shannon!

My gorgeous niece, Miss Shannon, is out from South Dakota for 2 weeks, so I get to torture her a bit with my camera while she's here!

Some outdoor shots in Papa's garden...

Soooo...tomorrow night is ROUND 2 of pictures up at the beach!! Happy eyes, Shannon...happy eyes!!

Beach time!

We went to the beach last night! Got momma a lobster, daddy and the girls some pizza....ate supper in the sand, while Lexi was in and out of the water. Livs was a tad clingy and crabby, as I think the salt water was hurting her open pox! Po' bubba!

The waves were soooooo big, and Lexi had a blast jumping in them (though the water was freeeeeeeeeezing)!

Ice cream!

We went out for ice cream last night, mainly because there's not a whole lot we can do with Olivia right now, as she is pox infested. Yes, the pictures are in black and white, mainly because I airbrused the pox off of her baby skin, because I am TIRED of looking at them!! Olivia looooooved her soft serve cone!

Her hair was down at first, but momma had to put it up once she saw that ice cream was getting EVERYWHERE!

And one of my Lexi girl, who does NOT eat ice cream, so she played with her gum!

Lexi's Birthday Party!

Lexi had her party on Saturday, her Pokemon party! The rain held off, and the kids all seemed to have a GREAT time! I didn't bring out my camera until the kids were done in the pool, and on the slip and slide, so I missed those photo ops, but I still managed to capture some fun times!

This is Lexi's pikachu cake. Noone is to laugh at my feeble attempt to create it. This was done without a molded cake pan, I used 1 round pan, and 1 square pan, and then formed pikachu myself...

Cake!! Time to make her wish and blow out the candles!

This is how I spent most of my time, with a clingy, miserable 23 month old!

Some VERY messy cake eaters...

Present time!
The true way to Lexi's heart...Pokemon cards!
Water balloon fight!!
Pinata time! Lexi taking her swing...10 year old Zachary is the one that broke the pinata! Lexi and her 'boyfriend' Alex, posing with her ** 8 ** balloon So, this is why my lil' bugger was so clingy on party day, she has come down with a baaaaaaaad case of the Chicken pox! So, now I have to do Lexi's 8 year portraits, so those will be posted soon!