Binky Drama

This last Thursday, I kept finding Aleyah with a Binky in her mouth all day long, she is only supposed to have them for nap time and bed time. Anyways so I got fed up with it and decided "NO More Binky's". WOW (and "wow" does not cover it) that day was ROUGH..needless to say she did not take a nap on Thursday or Friday but slept okay through Thursday night, but last night (Friday) she woke up at 5:30 and I could not get her back to sleep, no amount of comfort seemed to comfort her...(even sleeping with mom and dad) so we got up today at 5:30 and I thought she is going to need a nap so after about an hour of crying and throwing a fit she fell asleep, finally. But I have not caved in to those blasted binky's. Such drama!!!

Finally warm enough!!!

It is finally warm enough to BBQ and Shane took the kids

outside to play.
Aleyah stuck around for the pictures...Madison and Benjamin are running around and me... well
I am stuck making dinner for everyone!

Madison's 7th Birthday

We had a very small family party for Madison to celebrate her 7th Birthday!

Rock Climbing

I posted the pictures backwards but oh well this is to go with the post before it.

Rock Climbing

At REI in Pittsburgh we can rock climb for free so we took the kids it was so fun.

New Kitchen

An awesome friend Krista Stirk gave us a kitchen for Aleyah and she LOVES it!!! I keep finding her playing all by herself. She is so cute and growing up fast!

Super Bowl Drama

Shane being the super funny person that he is decieded to play a joke on one of his professors:
First off I need to give you some back ground information... the Steelers fans out here are CRAZY and I don't say that lightly it really, truly is like a religion to people here. Seriously you would get beat up for liking another team (so if you do, you do so in secret) Anyhow Dr. Barnett (Shane's professor) is not a fan of football at all. But the professor who's office is next door is a outragous Steelers fan. So Shane thought it would be funny to decorate Dr. Barnett's office with Arizona Cardinals stuff, right before the super bowl. He followed him back to his office to get his reaction. I am sooo glad he has a sense of humor or Shane might not have done so well in his class.

2005 Cruise

Awhile back I said I was going to do slideshows of different memories... so I put the Cruise in 2005 ( my first cruise). However I could not get it to work like my last slideshow so I had to make it super small just to fit it there. So I am going to try and put a big one in the main part of my blog. SO HERE IT IS!!! MEMORIES LOVE THEM!!!!

ROCK BAND PARTY!!!!

Rock band party: Little kids

We love it when the kids play good...so the grown-ups can play too! Cousins and friends so very cute!

Driving back to Pennsylvania....snoring, boring!

Yes, the drive back felt so very, very long... but we made it!
On the map I am looking at Nebraska, half way home and I am so bored that I had to pull out the camera! Poor Shane he had to be the most bored of all us. Driving on straight, flat, dry, black, roads for 28 hours. AHHHHH!