The "BIG REVEAL"

Shea's dream has always been to have a bedroom with a window seat and her own bathroom. Well the personal bathroom is way down the road, but Greg decided to make one wish come true and for her birthday present this year we gave Shea's room a makeover. Greg and I stayed up until 3:00 am putting it all together and her reaction made it worth every minute! Shea on her newly painted bed holding the flowers that Grandpa B. and Nancy sent her for her birthday and to wish her well in her recital dance.

Notice what She's reading...Twilight :} I caved and decided to let her read it last night.

Happy 11th Birthday Shea!

Shea's birthday fell on the weekend of her dance recital this year and she decided not to have a big party but to have a sleepover with a couple of friends instead. The girls had a great time just being together and Shea was so excited to show them her new room

The cake was chocolate of course.


The girls played a few games. In this one they had 5 minutes to apply foundation, blush, eye shadow, lipstick, and mascara without a mirror.

Beautiful job girls.

Next they had 20 minutes to design an outfit out of newspapers, garbage bags, and duct tape.

The future fashion designers modeled their creations down the red carpet.

It's Arizona and really, really HOT so of course they had to take a dip in the pool!

Splash!

Last week Mom Tanner, Laura, and Kelsey popped in for a quick visit. Laura was hoping to meet with a team of specialists about her foot. Unfortunately there was a mix-up with the scheduling and the meeting didn't happen. It was extremely disappointing but Kelsey and the kids decided to make the most of things and have a little fun in the pool. The good news is that they might come back soon and maybe we can convince them to load up more grand kids in the car :} Hang in there Laura, we love you!

It's been a "WICKED" GREAT start to summer!

So much for lazy days of summer. We have had the opportunity to do some really fun things with friends and family. Greg surprised us with tickets to Wicked. It was WICKED AWESOME! We all loved it!

Danelle took the kids to the Arizona Puppet Theater and they saw "The tortoise and the Hair."

It was on Shea's birthday and Danelle was super sweet and bought Shea this puppet. He's a little scary looking to me but Shea thinks he's great and named him "Spotstanious"

We went to the Arizona Science Center and the kids had fun in the LEGO exhibit.

Margo and Shaun planning the castle of his dreams.

We learned a lot about the heart and body. There were viles displaying the amount of fat in some of our favorite foods. Apparently I'm lucky I'm still around after the 3 (yes, 3) Krispy Cream donuts I had Saturday morning.

The Royal Family. Master Brayden, Master Shane, Princess Shea, Princess Kelly, and Master Connor.

The kids tested their arm strength in the wheel chair races.

You're looking at a group of Scat experts. They scored 100% on the Scat test.

Connor and Shane practicing for our dream trip to Hawaii.

Master Lego builders.

In Good Hands (or paws)!

Even though she tried really hard to avoid all of the germs that are going around, Shea caught a virus and spent the day lying around with a fever. It really touched my heart to see Barkley and Pebbles staying right by her side and taking such great care of her.

"My Family"

When Jack was here he drew this picture on our chalk board and said it was his family. I asked him if the little person was Jonah and asked where Lucy was. He said "no Aunt Kim! It's me, Shea, Shaun, and Shane at your house. So cute I can't erase it!

BaLlOoN FiGhT bEtWeEn CoUsInS

Shaun had to fill a cooler full of water balloons to take to scout camp. Bridget, Jack, and Jonah were visiting and the kids went outside to get to work. Let's just say after an hour and a half the cooler was still empty. Hmmmm... Gotcha... Shaun!
Mr. Sneaky


Jack and Shane decided to use another hose and tried to sneak up on Shaun and Shea.

Love Jack's facial expression!

Jonah, Jack, Shane, and Crush

Cub Scout Day Camp

A bunch of Happy Campers!
Colin, Parker, Brayden, and Shaun

Aargh Mates! This week Shaun and his pack had an incredible time at day camp. I'm not quite sure why it's called "day" camp because every night he rolled in around 11:00 pm. Then he would snarff down some food, take a shower, and tell me about all of his adventures. It was at least 12:30 by the time he made it into bed. He got to shoot a BB gun, made a bulls -eye in archery, swam, did boy scout stuff, and threw lots of water balloons. Admittedly I was freaking about the guns and arrows. Shaun assured me they were very safe and that if I wanted to worry it should be about the rattle snakes and scorpions they saw, and the really dirty bathrooms :} The week went much too fast for him and he's already looking forward to next year.