Best of Summer: Friends and Parties!

So today and yesterday I had my 13th birthday party. Even though my birthday was in May, we had no time with soccer games, dance practices, and baseball to do it until today. I had so much fun! All my friends came! (Rachel, Michelle, Cheyenne, Kayla, and Teresa). They got here at about 5pm and then we ate a fabulous supper of spaghetti and beer bread (I LOVE BEER BREAD!).
Later, we made t-shirts. This was one of my favorite things of the whole night! Our t-shirts turned out amazing! We got all the supplies at A.C. Moore. If you're ever looking for t-shirt supplies, look there!

We decided to do a crazy picture with the t-shirts
After making shirts, we played "Scaventure". "Scaveture" is a game where you have to gather/do random things in a certain time limit. It was lots of fun!
We didn't sleep until 4:30 am, and believe me, I regret it now....but it was still tons of fun, playing a little old-fashioned game of truth or dare, looking up youtube videos, and crawling around in the dark with our eyes closed.

The next day, we all took a trip to the local lake to swim. And while we were there, may I point out, that some people just aren't meant to wear certain bathing suits, and if they choose to wear them, need to keep themselves covered! We were very fascinated by taking action photos. We jumped off this wall about 100 times before we got the perfect shots!

 This is one of our failed tries.

 And this is our very best picture!!

 Single pictures of me and Rachel.

 Breanna

 Ashley

 Michelle, this is my favorite pose(:

 Kayla.

 And Cheyenne.

 Breanna wanted me to take a picture of her doing a cartwheel, turned out okay, huh?

 Best friends for life!

Sweet Victory!

Brady's baseball team, The Rockies, hasn't been doing well all season. You see, his team is really young and most of the kids are coming up from t-ball and we had 2 kids quit because of getting hit with the ball. Only 4 of the kids had played on the 7-8 year old team before, and one kid hadn't played yet. So, of course, we hadn't won any games. We'd been close 2 times, only losing by one point. Our team has come such a long way and we have some really sweet kids.  But on Saturday, we had a double-header, playing two games. AND WE FINALLY WON THE LAST GAME!! We were so excited!
So yesterday, we had an end-of-the-year picnic for baseball, even though we still have a game under the lights on Wednsday at 8pm (it was rescheduled). The kids had a lot of fun at the picnic!

 The men socilized, and talked about baseball, hunting, etc.

 This is a funny story. I'm eating, and I see these 2 brown figures out along the grass. So I yell, "DAD! LOOK AT THOSE GROUDHOGS!" My mom goes, "Lauren, those are people's heads." Boy, did I feel stupid.

 This is Kevin. Kevin is four and will tell you anything and everything. He is hilarious and will make you smile instantly. He's the kid who wants me to race him, the kid who came to my house the other day and we asked him if he saw the chickens, he said, "No, but I have long pants on so I won't get the chicken pox." Haha! He's the kid who tells me at the ball game, "My mom has two kids......and I had yogurt for breakfast!" I love him!

 Sweet Kevin.

 This is Brady's team. Crazy boys!

 See the little kid in the blue shirt with his mouth hanging open? That's his response to Dad saying he wants to take the team to a Sun's game.

 I love toothless smiles(:

 The kids all got certificates (that I made) and trophies.

 This is the smile of a boy who knows that he did a great job in baseball!

 Reading the certificate.

We had such a fun day!
Note: I apologize for the blurry/dark photos. The pictures are from my iPod and it was dark under the pavillion. Also, I can't enlarge the first 2 photos because it will run into my sidebar.

Best of Summer: Sidewalk Chalk

   Today was a great day! My mom went for groceries and "The World's Best Babysitter", Mary Kate came!
We had lots of fun with sidewalk chalk! *cough cough* my idea!

 I made this fabulous sun!

 This is my chalk person! mary kate traced it

 Me and Mary Kate

 I see the similarity.

 This is Ashley's chalk person.

 This is Mary Kate's brother, Daniel's chalk person.

 This is obviously Brady's.

 And this is Breanna's.

Mary Kate informed me that water boils faster when a pot lid is overtop. We don't have any....so when in doubt, use a cake pan!

Hopefully there's lot more best of summer to come!

Father's Day Fun

Today we went to Grandmother and Pappy's house for a Father's Day picnic. I'm going to tell our story in pictures.

 We decided to get on the slip and slide. I was a weenie and wouldn't get in because it was too cold. Blake wanted to go with Ashley. His face cracks me up.

 Next was Brady....

 He decided to get his hair wet, and take a head-first dive into the water. BBRRR!

 Breanna, being Breanna. Posing for the picture.

 Fun!

 After turning off the slip and slide, Blake just wanted to play in the water. This is what we get when we say, "Blake say cheese!" (:

 Blake likes to splash in the water(:

 And dump the water....

 again...

 and again!

 Next was 4-wheeler rides! I had the chance of driving one.....I realize that it's hard to turn and to not run into objects(:

 While we were having fun, Miss Ava was napping and woke up looking like a bed-head:)

 We had lots of fun throwing Ava in the air!

Hope everyone had a Happy Father's Day! I know we did!

Berries and Babies

Everyone has been posting about strawberries lately, so I thought I'd make my own strawberry post!

Today we went strawberry picking! There weren't many left, but we did pick 9 quarts and bought 2!

After we picked our berries, we went to Aunt Sara's house. We ate a fabulous lunch of hot dogs and macaroni ("The home made kind" as Brady would say) and we got to play with my beautiful cousins Blake and Ava!

 Brady was excited to play with Blake.

 Gotta love Ava's hair style(:

We had a great day today! Thanks Aunt Sara!!

Hershey's Milk Chocolate World!

So I know it seems like forever, since I've blogged, but here I am! Such a relief, I know!
So a few days ago, I went to Hershey Park with the middle school chrous, band , and orchestra. We had such a great time and made so many memories! It was first time in like 6 years I had been there!
The first thing we did, ("we" meaning my friends, Mary Kate, Megan, Payton, and Luke) was go to Chocolate World! Yum! It smelled great and had such a catchy song!  After many of the big roller coasters, (yes, I LOVE roller coasters!) and getting Mary Kate and I's picture with a York Pattie:

And we can't forget the ducks!

we had such a great time!