Happy Birthday Grandpa Luna!

Chaney has a favorite song. Okay, maybe two on a day you can get her to branch out a bit. But in the car she demands to listen to them - loudly. Today on our third round of "Where the Boat Leaves From" by Zac Brown Band I started to negotiate. "One more time and then lets listen to a new song", or "Sissy and Mommy want to hear what's next", etc...all of a sudden I remembered being on the opposite side of this very same negotiation with my Dad except I was begging for one more Debbie Gibson tape side "A" or pleading for him to turn up Tiffany.

Happy Birthday Grandpa Larry.

My thought for the day: If every kid goes through the "terrible twos" - and every kid eventually out grows this "no", "mine", "me" stage - is it really necessary for me to say 100 times a day, "share with sissy", "play nice", "no whining", or "no, for the 10th time, you cant have ice cream for breakfast"...would she not out grow it on her own?!! Can I just phone it in for the next several months; I mean really, I'm not sure anything I'm saying is sinking in...

Here are pictures of two sweet little girls you would never guess just had their own version of a UFC cage match fight in their Dora the Explorer tent...

Keaton Finley is One!

The lady of the hour poses for a pre-party picture...(look Great Granny-B and yia-yia, she has on shoes!)


She basically licked the frosting until we gave her a spoon...yes, she ate her birthday cake with a spoon...what 1 year-old does that!


Chaney and cousin Tanner...(they are just a few month apart and check out the difference in hair!)


Our little monkey with her little (or actually fairly large) monkey...


Her cute cake and banana cookies...

Where do I start??? Its been so long since my last post I'm looking at 749 pictures to chose from. (haven't quite yet gotten over the fun of the new camera; and I'm rarely one to do anything in moderation...)

I guess a quick recap is in order. Over the last couple of weeks we have been to Springfield, Highlandville and Pontiac, had K's First Birthday Party, taken the girls to their first Cardinal game, and celebrated Father's Day.

Here are a few visual highlights from all the activity! (I think I'll post K's Birthday pictures separately)

A finger painting project for Father's Day-it started off tidy....

But ended up a mess....
Chaney and Daddy sharing a nachos at the game.
C feeding the donkey's at Grandpa and Miss Laurie's...

And K enjoying the creek...