My Jessi Leigh...

This is my niece Jessica. She is the one you will hear me refer to when I talk about my niece came to stay with me. I have an older niece also (the one I had a hand in raising when she was baby!) but she doesn't come around much. You know she's 16 and too cool to stay the night with her Aunt! BUT WHATEVER MISTI!!! hahahaha (They read my blog so that was my shout out to her!)

Anyhoo... When Jessi comes to stay with me we go out on a fun photo shoot or two. My sister is loving the free photos for her daughter and I am loving having a fun ADORABLE model!!! :). It is a win win situation.

So I have been playing around with some of the pictures I took a while back on one of her visits here. She is in Germany right now visiting with her father and Aunt and brother over there... but I AM SURE SHE MAY READ THIS EVENTUALLY... and be so happy to see herself plastered all over my blog. If not then it will give my other beautiful niece some incentive to GET HER HINEY UP HERE and be my other model! Actually I do have some pictures I did of her and her friend when they came and stayed one weekend. So stay tuned... they will preview soon as well. :)



Love both my girls!!! Hope you all are having a wonderful Summer (even if you didn't come stay with your Aunt Bri, MISTI... the coolest Aunt since sliced bread! YOU KNOW... HER! YEAH...THAT ONE! :))

Smooches!

Jump, Jump

This is how it all started out...

... Bear was scared to get down or even look at anything really. Moe and his Daddy however were having a great time.

Moe even had a special moment with one of the obstacle dummies.

J kept working with Bear to assure him the HUGE INFLATABLES were in fact safe!

...Let's pet the inflatable.

... now sit on it some.

... WAIT THAT'S TOO MUCH!

... okay this could work

... think about it some more over a drink

...make sure it is secure. Just pull that strap there. That should do it!

... jump a little to make sure it is not going to deflate.

TWO PROUD DADDYS

... Look MOM no hands!!!

It didn't take long and he was going down the BIGGEST SLIDE THERE! I am not sure the correct height but we are guessing it is around 20 ft. I was flipping out coming down that slide. It is so big that you turn sideways when you are coming down if you are not careful! My stomach stayed at the top of the slide so I had to get Bear to go up and retrieve it and bring it down on his 60th time down!

A great time was had by all!

...JUST ONE QUESTION...


(and just for the RECORD... my kiddos were never on THAT slide!)

He's such a Bumbo...

...head.

I have been getting all the goods out for Miley Bird that were put away from when the boys grew out of them. Naturally I have to wait for the boys to be in bed or AWAY (HA!) for that to happen in a, how do I put this, SANE manner.

I cannot tell you how many times I have gotten things in a pile of some sort for a garage sale. It always seems that EVERYTHING in the pile has SOME use left in it. This comes from the theory of putting half their toys away somewhere that they can't get to them and twice a year switch out their toys. That way they always have a "new" something to play with that they forgot they had. Well they see the same value in a garage sale pile!

Here it is... proof in the Bumbo. Bear now thinks he has a super hero helmet (I was informed yesterday by a former little boy (J) that all underwear as long as they are not hidden by pants are superhero undies too! :)) hmmmm. Just as long as he does not dump Bird out of the Bumbo for the use of said super hero helmet!