4th of July - 2013

Eric started off our 4th of July festivities with an extra festive pancake breakfast:

Later in the day we went over to the Baird's house for swimming, food and fireworks.

First swimming!



Followed by food:



Then more swimming!

I have never played water volleyball and only now realize how much I have been missing out. Who knew it was so much fun?

Finally it was dark enough for the main event: FIREWORKS!



The stash that we lit off:



Both Megan and Jackson were official firework lighters this year:



I was in charge of making sure Tucker didn't freak out. Happily he did just fine!



Sade lasted for a bit then headed into the house to watch T.V. and hang out with Dexter (who also didn't enjoy the fireworks all that much).



But the rest of us did:



It was an enjoyable 4th.

Megan's 13th Birthday Celebration

We started off Megan's birthday celebrations with present opening!

She received gift cards, money, clothing, shoes, a new cell phone case, and accessories for her room. She also received this inventive present that Sadie made:



Sade named it "family tree". Each "branch" has the name of one person in our family.

Then it was time to go and eat. Megan chose Buca di Beppo.



Sade has not been there in some time and kept pointing out all of the "inappropriateness" in the form of statues and pictures:



Sadie: "Look Jackson I'm Bunnicula." (Which was Jacksons last book club book)



For Megan's birthday we went to the Cancun Resort here in Las Vegas for a mini-staycation.

We let Megan have the big bed:



While the rest of us shared the pull-out sofa:



Not.

We spent most of the afternoon, evening and next morning playing in the pools and going down the water slides.





We spent our non-swimming time singing to Megan, blowing out candles, and staying up late playing games. (As a side note I won 3 games of Racko in a row! You would have thought it was my birthday.)



Happy, Happy 13th Birthday Megan!

At 13

I have a teenager!!! (Gulp)

 

At 13....

 

She has a love for her phone that borders on obsession.

She is a grown up gal, measuring in at 5 feet and 1/2 inch tall, and wearing a size 7 1/2 shoe.

 

Her love of reading has yet to make an appearance.

 

 

She is a dog lover, and forgives Tucker of all of his faults.

 

She is a very, very good swimmer.

She is alternately very annoyed and very loving towards her siblings.

 

 

She is alternately very annoyed, embarrassed, and tolerant of her parents.

Froot Loops continue to be her cereal choice.

 

She spends quite a bit of her money on ordering songs from iTunes.

 

 

She is helpful to me, always willing to clean something when I ask her to.

 

She has really straight teeth and it looks like she will never need braces!

She loves to act and hopes to do more of it this next year.

 

 

She continues to be good friends with both boys and girls.

She is a T.V.-aholoic. (kind of like me).

According to her, her favorite food is pasta, her favorite dessert is ice cream, her favorite candy is Kit Kat, her favorite soda is Sprite, and her favorite color is pink.

 

 

She continues to be orally fixated so you can almost always find her chewing on some gum.

She continues to become somewhat of a less picky eater.

 

She HATES the sound of silverware clinking together.

 

She is a learn things on her own type of gal, instead of a learn things from advice given type of gal.

She has started sleeping in a bit more than she used to. Often waking up between 7 and 8 am.

 

 

Happy Birthday Megan! You are one smart, gorgeous and hilarious girl!