Busy Busy Busy!

There has been lots going on over at the Souza house. First we had birthdays coming out our ears, between the Souza's and the Ellis family we had Uncle Steve( Mike's brother) Lorrin, Jackson, and Travis all in one week ya crazy! I didn't think I would ever say this but birthday cake gets old when you eat it all week. During all the birthday parties we had a visit with Uncle Steve who came out to visit with us for most of the month of Aug.

For Travis birthday he wanted to have Jeep Wars so we had Jeep Wars in the morning then in the evening I made a birthday dinner with just the family it was a really nice day.

Then we went on Vacation the third week in Aug we went camping up at Pinecrest, as a child this is where I spent my Summer vacations and I want to take Travis and the girls there and I think I have them hooked. It has not changed since I was a little girls it brought back lots of fond memories.

Our little Allison is 3 months old already can you believe that? She is doing so much, she is or has been holding her head up and is quit the little talker already. She is starting to really play with her toys and interact with her sisters. She is really a good baby the the only draw back is she won't take a bottle and won't sleep in her crib other than that she is really an easy baby. She loved our camping trip she sat in her swing and laid on the beach at the lake she loves the outdoors.

Allison is 2 Months old

Wow time is flying by can you believe Allison is already 2 months old. We had her two month check up on Wed and she is getting big. She weighs 12lbs and 8 oz and is 24 inches. The Dr. says she is 90% in weight and is 85% in height and that she is growing really nice. She put on 3 lbs in one month. On the down side she did have to get shots and let me tell you I'm making her next appt on one of Travis's days off that was horrible after she got the shots I picked her up and she grabbed on to me like a little monkey she held on so tight, I felt so bad. I had both the other girls with me and I think it was just as hard on them as it was on me. Emily told me that Allison was not going to get anymore shots because it made her sad to see her baby sister get hurt.

We have a busy weekend, we are going to my cousins little girls birthday party on Sat. My Cousin lives in Arizona and this will be our first time meeting Mylee. It has been a few years since I have seen my cousin I am very excited. Then on Sunday is our Jeep War day there might even be some new kids watch neighbors the Souza's are taking over.

So much has happened

Well it's been a week or so since I have updated you all. We had Emily's 5th Birthday and we have gone to Tahoe. Our big girl Emily has turned 5 years old. We celebrated by going to Pump it Up a jump house place were in my opinion the parents have more fun than the kids.

A few days after Emily's party we headed to Tahoe for a few days it's the annual Motorcycle ride this year I was unable to follow the bike up there because Allison hates the car and usually cries the entire time she is in her car seat she did better than expected I think it helped that Grandma Souza was in the backseat with her helping to keep her quite. Once we were there we pretty much sat by the pool and let the kids swim and play it was quite relaxing.

New pictures of the girls

Hello everyone I finally went and got the kids pictures taken on Thur. Travis had to work so it was just me and the three kids. Wow was it lots of work. First we had to bath all of them to they didn't look like orphans then getting them dresses and making sure they stay clean while I was dressing the others. Then we get there and Ashley starts cring because Emily gets out of the car before her ( lots of competing latley FUN) so I have to walk around for a few minutes so her eyes don't look red.

Finally it's our turn and the work begins trying to get them all looking the same way and smiling was a challange the one that I was worried about was the baby but she was asleep and the easiest. Finally after it's seems like 30 shots we finally had some that were pretty good. I think next time I will wait until Travis has the day off.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th Of July! I hope everyone had a fun and safe 4Th. We had really nice day unfortunately Travis had to work but was able to stop by a couple of times to see us.

First we spent to afternoon over at Kelly's house for a B.B.Q. and lots of fireworks, later that night when we went home our neighbors invited us over to watch fireworks and the girls got to see and play with there little friend Daniel. The girls where so tired I had no problems getting them to go to sleep I think once the little heads hit the pillow they where out.

I posted a few pictures of the kids Allison is 5 weeks old and getting so big already and Emily and Ashley are also getting so tall, I can't believe that Emily is turning 5 on Monday. I will be posting more pictures on Monday the reason I have not posted in a few weeks is because we have been remodeling our upstairs and getting new carpet installed once our new furniture is here ( on Monday) I will post pictures of the progress. It looks so nice!

Allison is almost three weeks old

Well Allison is doing very good at her two week appt she had passed her birth weight she weighed 9lbs. and 2 oz. she was 22 inches long. So far she is in the 95th % height and 76% in weight. She sleeps really well too the last few nights she has slept for 4 hours then get up and eats then sleeps another 4 hours we have been really lucky so far.

The girls wanted to look like Tigers!

Well today the girls decided they wanted to look like Tigers. Travis was watching the kids while I took a shower this morning while he was holding Allison he thought to him self wow it's awfully quite in there. When he went to check on them this is what he found.

Loki playing dress up

Tonight the girls dressed up our Male Pit Bull Loki. He was such a good boy he just sat there and let them dress him up. I guess that's what happends when you have a house full of girls!

Jeep Wars

Today was our Jeep War Day the weather was perfect and the kids had a blast. The boys (the fathers) had the kids race to see who's jeep was the fastest and well the Beardsley Jeep beat the Ellis Jeep not that it matters to the kids but to the Dad's I guess it does.
It's so nice to get all the kids and there friends together it's really nice for the parents too because at the end of the day the kids pretty much beg to go to bed.