Playing dressup

Lucy has started playing dress up quite early these days. ACTUALLY, Karis is playing dress up....with her baby sister....who can't say no. Yeah. Here are my 2 princesses!

Karis gets the special treatment

Brayden is gone to Lolli's for a few special days with them, so Karis is getting the special treatment at the Lemonds' house! She has basically gotten to do whatever she wanted (within reason) and do all the things that are hard to do when brother is here. She wanted to go shopping, to Goodwill (yes it is her favorite store and I kinda like it too), get ice cream, bake cookies, get a manicure and pedicure, nap in mommy's bed (with me...I wasn't missing a nap opportunity), stay up late, exercised with mommy and more. We have had a blast with her and gotten lots of snuggles. She is such a sweet, well mannered, loving daughter and I know I might be biased, but she is the sweetest little girl in the world (besides Lucy of course)! We have loved having this special time with her.

This was today before manis and pedis

Karis picked out her own polish. For the toes...blue glitter (um, yeah) and for the fingernails...pink glitter (of course)!

Waiting on our polish to dry...

What a fun few days! I can't believe she will be 5 soon! Where has the time gone?!

Camp continued...

Well camp is officially over and we are all very tired, but very sad it is over. My kids aren't going to know what to do! They wake up (in the morning and after naps) wanting to go down to the camp. They both were very sad today when it ended. We met some great people and many heard the gospel and several kids were saved.

Karis and her best buddy Brittany. Brayden also loved Brittany and one day said, "Brittany is my best girl!"

The cooks Mrs. Brenda and Mrs. Joan

Brayden and Karis "helped" lead worship during the services

Late night game time...they were playing ships and sailors here..."dead turtle"

Brayden and Malik

Lucy loved camp too :)

Brayden and all his girls...

One of the camp directors Jenny...

...and her hubby Jaime

Rec time

No, he couldn't breathe. But he loved them anyway.

The fishing dock..isn't it beautiful?

Pavilion where we had worship

Kitchen and bunk houses

Campers

Jay showing 'em how its done!

Karis and her little friend Erin

Me and my girl

Skit time

"My friend little Freddy"

My babies

Rec time

My 2 favorite men

Until next year...sniff, sniff.

Isn't it too early for this?

I woke up to a screaming baby this morning at 5 a.m. and she rarely wakes up this early. Lucy wouldn't go back to sleep so I got up to go ahead and feed her (I normally feed her around 6). I found her ON HER BACK! She had rolled over in her bed and couldn't go back to sleep. She is only 2 months old! Isn't it too early for this already???

YIKES!

When Brayden wanted handcuffs I knew at some point they would be used illegally. I came around the corner the other day and Karis had obviously been using her brother's new toy. Her poor American Girl doll was having a terrible, horrible, no good VERY bad day!

Girls Night Out!

We had girls night out last night and it was much needed!!! We ate at Kyoto which is one of my favorite restaurants and then went back to the church for coffee and dessert (definitely one of my favs!). There were over 20 ladies there and it was great to get to chat without having to take care of children (although Lucy went but was no problem). In fact her and Jake got passed around all night and were quite spoiled by the end of the night. :) Lucy and Jake had their first date...but it was supervised of course because she isn't 30 yet! haha

Some pics of the ladies while at Kyoto

Thanks ladies for a MA-VA-LOUS evening!

Old friends....good times!

Old friends...aren't they the best? My buddy Michelle and I go way back and we love it when we get to visit with one another. Remember THIS POST? Michelle visited in early May right before I had Lucy and so she got to meet her today and she brought her mom with her. It was wonderful as always to get to catch up...she is after all one of my closest friends. I wish we got to see each other more!

This was of course last visit in early May. I was WAY preggo...

And now....2 months later.

Aiden is an only child (so far). Michelle was holding Lucy like this and Mr. Aiden got really jealous. He started pulling Michelle's hand to get up so Michelle gave Lucy to her mom and then Aiden crawled up in her lap just like Lucy was laying. We were busy talking and didn't notice until he was already in position. Haha!

Mrs. Marina (Michelle's mom) and Lucy...she was like a second mom to me growing up.

Aiden, Brayden and Karis

Missions Camp

We have been MIA the past few days but the fun has not been lacking. Jay is hosting his Missions Camp on our property that he has every July so we have been busy hanging out with the kids. My kids LOVE camp and would spend the night down there if we would let them. They make friends, get to participate in all their activities, and just have an incredible time! Lucy just "hung out" with us but next year she will be all up in the mix!

Missions moments

Brayden learning songs with the big kids...

Getting ready to hammer...he loved these goggles. For some reason he has a serious ob-ses-sion with them!

His friend "Emilik" (Malik) helping him make a "craft"

Karis during craft time....painting a bird house...

Game time at night...one of their favorite times of the week!

And Brayden has some big boys to play ball with....

The fire trucks came and they thought it was so cool!

Karis' buddy Brittany helping her make a glow in the dark necklace...

Daddy the griller

Funny story...I saw Jaime walking down the sidewalk with Brayden like this and I thought, "Awww...that is so sweet! I have to take a picture of that." BUT looks are deceiving...he had gotten paint all over his hand and he was holding Brayden's hand so he wouldn't get paint everywhere. Ha!

We celebrated Mrs. Brenda's birthday....

Brayden hangin' out...

And lots of time at the pool...

Today starts the 3rd and last camp and lasts until Sunday. We will have more adventures, pictures and posts coming soon...