Someone opened the purple lip gloss!
William enjoyed the afternoon at a friend's pirate party!
The kids decorated their bags and then had to look at a picture clue to find where the next treasure was hidden. The kids found pirate bookmarks, eye patches, finger puppets, ring pops, coins and then the last clue was...
A treasure chest pinata!
After cake it was time for all the pirates to swim!
Today is Hannah and Emily's Birthday Party at Creative Outlet!
Emily excited about the Princess Cupcakes!
Warming up for our Ballet Dancing!
Ballet stretches!
All the princesses love dancing!
All the princesses curtsy to say Happy Birthday to Hannah and Emily!
Hannah and Emily having a great time at their party!
All the guest princesses doing a Birthday Leap for the Birthday Girls!
Happy Birthday to Hannah and Emily!
All the princesses at the Grand Table for their cupcakes!
Watch out princesses there is an evil witch!
Run away, Run away!
A Big Curtsy to say Thank You to our guests!
Then the girls wanted to eat at their favorite taco restaurant for lunch!
William enjoyed lunch with his new balloon!
We spent the afternoon opening presents and playing with new toys. Hannah was just a little excited to open up Aurora baby!
Big Brother loves his sisters!
The girls spent the afternoon at Five Rivers. Their favorite animal to watch is the snapping turtle.
We attended one of the Growing Up Wild Series about Spiders! All the kids had magnifying glasses to see the live spiders and then they all used bug catchers to go on a spider hunt outside.
Emily using her magnifying glass to see a brown widow spider.
Hannah using her magnifying glass to see the parts of a huge garden spider.
They even had spider shaped snacks!
When we picked William up from school the girls told him all about their afternoon and of course William wanted to see the Brown Widow Spider-So we traveled back to Five Rivers for William to see all the spiders.
A surprise visit from Amelia the skunk! 
There is a rumor that there is an alligator in our neighborhood pond. Of course the kids want to go on a gator hunt to see it. The boys checked around the pond while the girls stayed on the pier.
Racing!
The only sign the boys found tonight: The spot where 
The biggest eyes we found in the pond belong to a large frog! 
Lining up for soccer practice...
Shark vs. Minnow Game
Then a real scrimmage game.
The girls are ready for their dance class!
The girls are very excited about receiving a package today! They sang "Happy Birthday" the entire time they opened the package!
The girls are ready for football season now-they are cheering "War Eagle!"
Thank you Mimi for our new dresses! We love them! 
We had a fun weekend with our Poppa D!
Enjoying lunch at Big Daddy's!
Three princesses! When the girls saw me dressed up they put on their matching princess dresses! They are so excited because they think Bill and I are going to Cinderella's Ball tonight.
We are ready for a fun night out! Thank you Poppa D for babysitting the kiddos!
Grand Summer Ball 2011
Hannah is ready for school today!
Emily is excited to go to school!
Sweet sisters!
William had a great first week of school and is exhausted from his new schedule. He was rewarded for staying on green light all week with a prize from the treasure box. William is excited about his new car and the fact he has no homework for the weekend!
