Ross or Rossie!!!!! Oh how HOT!!!

This was a total surprise to our Rossie, but it made my week well until we got ready for the disco party. This happened one day before but I just got the pictures from the people at the pool.

They were having fourth of July fun day..... and this was one of the games...we really didn't know what we were getting ourselves into until they whip out the bag of wigs and makeup then it was on. I laughed until i couldn't and I know Mom said it was the proudest day of her life. Here you go tell us what you think of our girl!!!!!!

Disco Fever

We had such a great time dancing the night away. who knew!!!

The Brothers Three

Here is a photo I took of my dad and his two younger brothers I think it was at Easter. They have changed so much from when I was a little girl. Wish I had a picture of then too. Oh well

My babies are at Granddaddy's right now. They have camped, gone swimming, been in the garden, played with puppies and kittens, and helped Grandaddy have his very first SMORES!!!! Can you Believe that man has never had one? As many times as he took us camping and we had burnt marshmallows? They are also spending time with Aunt Brooke. She is taking them everywhere with her. Today I called because I missed them and just wanted to hear their voices (and secretly wanted to pick them up) but none of them wanted to talk to me!!! They were too afraid I was going to tell them that I was coming to get them!!! If that doesn't say they are having fun I don't know what does. Oh well who can compete with everything they have to offer over on "the farm"

So I guess it will be one more day before I can see them and then soon Mamie comes!! She will be here Tuesday while we are at Carowinds. We can't wait!!

Lookie Lookie!!!!!

We have been going to the pool so often I was kind a tired of it in the first week. Now it is a little better. Julia, Liam and Aynsley spend most of their swimming time under water which resulted in Julia getting swimmers ear and spending $109 on drops for her ears twice daily. Needless to say I think we will have waxies in their ears or put the swim drops in their ears to prevent this from happening again.

Liam, uggh he is testing his limits once again. Let's see how long it lasts this time! Aynsley is so grown up, Ross was putting sunscreen on her yesterday and she (in front of all the grown-ups) asks " what number is that?" she wanted to know the SPF!!!!!! how comical. She has also been swimming around like a little fish and jumping off the diving board. The lifeguards are always watching in amazement that someone so little is jumping off and swimming over to the ladder with no fear. That's my girl!!

Liam is a flipper, goggle wearing underwater adventurer. He always has toys to dive for and when he dives off the diving board he always let's me know that he went all the way to the bottom. His favorite dive is what he calls the pencil. He gets perfectly straight and stiff and jumps in, causing him to go in as if he were making a tear in the water and slipping right in.

Julia is a great swimmer!! I can never keep her in my view. She starts out in one spot and before I know it I am skimming the area looking to where she's gotten to next, most of the time it's in the kiddie pool playing with all the little ones. She loves babies or small children. When she is not over mothering the small ones she is going off the slide or playing ball or of course swimming under water!!! She loves summer and all it has to offer but that doesn't mean she has given up on reading. She still loves to read and is on the summer reading program with the Library.

Ross is still doing Cross Fit and loving it!! He is very motivated and is always trying to do better at each and every workout of the day. If he doesn't like his time he has a redo. I am happy that he has found something that drives him. It makes him happy and that makes me happy:)

love to you all!! Happy Summer!

this video is Jessie's graduation cook out, Father's day, and just a normal day at the pool with our crazy neighbors. Just us really!!

love this !!!

It has been such a long time since we heard from Gavin Rossdale I am excited to hear a song from him so I put it on here.

Catching up

This is a picture I had taken with my Grama who I used to visit in CA and in FL every summer. I recently found out that she is living in Raleigh NC so we met up for lunch and had some time to catch up. She is just like I remember and so is Lou, her husband. We are currently planning another visit. Can't wait to see her again.

This is a Picture of (left to right) Miah, Julia, Kennedy, Liam, and Ghassan. Liam still plays with Ghassan pretty much every day and Julia plays with Kennedy every day they are both at home. They are all very good buddies!!! With summer here now they will all be spending so much time together; playing outside, going to the pool, playing webkins, or finding music to sing out loud (very loud) on U Tube or i tunes. Little Aynsley is usually a tag along but has found a few friends of her own while at the pool or around the house. She is growing up too fast

Aynsley still is a mama's girl, she still follows
me everywhere, always helps me bake by

eating the extra cookie dough or putting the

flour just where it needs to go.....on the floor!

She helps me take care of the kids my being

my human intercom system, I tell her to go

get her brother and sister and she proceeds

to scream (at the top of her little lungs)

Juje!!! Little!!!

which I tell you I just couldn't do with out!!
She has her own ideas about everything but that

doesn't stop her from asking every question under

the moon.

In May I had a few of my girlfriends come over for Cinco de Mayo one lives in CO and the other two live in or around Winston-Salem. All of them I have been friends with for over 15 years and one of them I have been friends with since I was in the tenth grade!!! That one is Mindy!! We had a great visit and I thought that it should be something I do more often....well maybe with different girlfriends I don't know how easily Cynthia could make it to Clemmons from CO. Anyway it was fun!

Back: Cynthia Front: Lisa (not me) then Lisa (me) Mindy

Easter was as it always is with the Sanders Family.....fun!! We had almost everyone there this year except Lynda. The kids searched for 100 eggs and found a few from last year too. They don't seem to be hidden as hard of spots as I remember as a child. Liam had fun climbing the tree as he does every time we are at Maw Maw's. I arranged for all the grand kids and great grand kids to get a picture together to give to our "Great" Grandmother whom we fondly call Maw Maw!! Hope she likes it.

Promise, more to come....

I have tons of pictures to sift through and tell stories about but no time to do it. I guess I have been spedning any computer time playing Pirates of the Caribbean online.....I know sounds silly but I signed on for Liam and ever since I have played a little every week and I used to play a lot ever week. It is fun but now I realize I am slacking on letting all who care to know what we are doing what is going on in our lives. I am on the move to make this happen. So don't hold your breath but I am working on getting up to date.

Going out more often

I think I have a new addiction. Yep, I have to admit and no it's not shopping that is super way old news......it's going on dates with my super hot husband, Ross. We have recently been out over the past month three times with no children at all. Whew! What's that I always wondered but really never had it in me to do. Well I've got the bug and I want it more!!!!! I guess it started a few weeks ago then I went out of town for a weekend and we have gone out on a date last weekend to dinner and this weekend we went to Heather and Anthony's rehearsal dinner (hey, it counts) I just love being alone with him. He is so sweet and attentive, handsome and hot. I know I am gushing.
But the downside to all this is I have started working out with him. (I am not liking that at all) he does this ridiculously hard workout and expects me to go right along side him. I want to quit!! He is intent on working out tonight and I am dreading it. I will do it because he likes me working out with him as I love going out on the town with him.

computer savvy

Aynsley is the most computer savvy 4year old I have met in a long time.....well that I have ever met! She spends her days playing noggin or pbskids and nickjr all of these sites she types

in herself. She calls me M-O-M!!! She kills me. Oh yeah and for those of you who haven't called and been interrogated by my little receptionist she must answer all incoming phone calls and prefers to dial the outgoing. She has grown into her little boss self and boy I don't know if there's any going back to baby hood. She still tells me I'm her sweet mommy(except it's my sweet M-O-M and hugs and kisses me like there will be no tomorrow. I fear those days will be lost in the not so distant future. Somewhat like her Liam and Julia, they prefer friends over mommy anytime.....well except when they are hungry, hurt, or sleepy. I guess I should just get used to it now that there isn't a baby toddling around the house I just take what I can get when I can get it. Mommy love. Hey don't knock it.

Snow Ball

We had such a wonderful evening of dancing, laughing, and chatting with friends we've known for ever and friends we made that evening.

It's January!!

Aunt Brooke with little Aynsley! Granny holding little Isabelle

What the heck....Christmas was a whirlwind of crazy and now it's O-V-E-R. I loved it once it arrived but leading up to I worked more than I would like....I had began to wonder what it was like to put my own kids to bed at night. Now that all that's over it is nice to reflect on spending time with family and sharing the gift of giving. We were excited to have Mom and Dad Stocklin stay with us over Christmas. They drove down and stayed with us for a couple of days before Christmas, so they were here to go to Ma Maw's for Christmas dinner again. I got to see Isabelle ( just like Julia's middle name) ,Jennifer's little one, for the first time. She looks so much like Jenn did when she was a little one. It's always fun to be around family but sometimes it gets too crowded because our family keeps expanding. Ma Maw only has her little rooms in her house so it's always nice when we can get outside to spread out some. We had a nice Christmas dinner with our families.(my parents and Rossy's parents, our kiddies ) It was nice to have so many people in the house. I know our children were spoiled to death with all their Christmas loot. They ran from package to package ripping and grabbing the next to see what's inside. Unfortunately Aynsley was a little sick over Christmas and ended up getting Mamie and Pap Pop sick on their way back to NJ. (we all got it) I felt so bad that they went home with a gift that wasn't such a good one.

All in all I would say everyone enjoyed themselves.

We celebrated New Years by me working and Ross going to bed early.....Wow! Hey I am usually in the bed before the New Year anyway so I was better off working anyway. The kids just thought it was another ordinary day. But Aynsley knew that it was January, and so began the countdown. Yes, to her birthday.

She had decided that she was to have her party at Bounce U (this indoor inflatable jump place) It's great fun but will break a poor woman.......that poor woman is me. So much fun for them though. Everyone from her class came and all of her other friends came too. Granny, Grandaddy, Brooke, Curtis, Dee, Jessie, Ryan & Scott came too. There were lots of people there. It was supposed to be for the kids but I think my dad, Gina, Brooke, and Curtis had just as much (if not more) fun than all the kids combined. It was nice to see everyone enjoy. Aynsley had a great time and that was all worth it for me. She is already planning out her next birthday party. Can you believe her?