Amalee's Swim Lesson!

Amalee with her class the 1st day of swim lessons!

Amalee blowing bubbles in the water:)
Here she is swimming to get her ducky!
Coach Sean helping Amalee float on her back:)

Today was Amalee's and Maggie's first day of swim lessons! I was able to get pics of Amalee because her class isn't a mom and Tot class. I think she did pretty good for not having lessons for over a year! Maggie also did a ton better then I thought she would. The only time she cried was when the teacher had her do "monkey walks" on the wall and go under water then grab onto the wall. She learned how to blow bubbles and loved doing that while kicking her legs! I'm so proud of my girls!

Sunday Morning!

Abram and I try to sleep in on Sunday mornings but it doesn't always work. Our girls wake up when the sun comes up:( I need to get darker curtains on their window. So when they wake up I tell them to go play and that usually works for a little while. Today they didn't even tell me that it is morning and time for breakfast. I just heard them downstairs so I told Abram "I wonder what Amalee is getting them to eat?" About a minute later Maggie is by my bed with her Chocolate donut in hand! Amalee has learned how to open the fridge and got out the donuts!

So this is what I get for trying to sleep in!

Two very happy girls with donuts for breakfast:)

I really do think that Amalee thought she was being a big girl and trying to help! She knows how much I love to sleep. Of course she was being sneaky about it too!

Saturday Fun!

Abram likes to get lots of things done on Saturday's but he also likes to have fun with the girls! Maggie was already falling asleep when we thought of taking pictures of the girls so we only got a couple of Amalee! But she had fun getting her picture taken!

Amalee doesn't like wearing wet clothes so she always

ends up in just panties when we wash the car!

I told Amalee to get Abram wet so she is

trying to spray him with the hose!

Amalee loves going on bike rides with her daddy!

She always covers her face when she waves so it's

hard to get her face!

More Memorial Day fun!

Memorial Day Fun!

All the Cousins on the Ellsworth side!

Abram grilling up chicken for lunch!

Daddy with Maggie in the Spier's pool!

Amalee got in the pool then got right back out

because the water was too cold. It was even

hard for her to smile:(

Daddy again with Maggie in the pool!

Funny Faces!

Well I know it has been a while since my last post:( That is because when I was at the river I dropped my camera into the river:( Well, we just got a new one! Thank goodness we bought the warrenty that included accidental spills! The damages to the one I dropped were too expensive for the Geek Squad to fix so they gave us a new one! So here are the first pictures with our new camera!

Magdalene I guess just found out that when she smiles and makes funny faces we will take more pictures of her! Of couse we already call her our little clown but I think this is the first time I have caught a funny face on camera!

What a beautiful smile!

I just love her big eyes:)

This is when she started getting goofy!

She started folding her arms for prayer instead of just her hands. But now she folds her arms and says "humph" then brings her arms down. It's cute!

I was trying to get another good smile with her eyes open but this is what I got every time!
I love Funny Faces!

River Trip

We took a little vacation to the Colorado River with my family and extended family! I would have taken a tone more pictures but I dropped the camera in the river:( So the pics you see here are from the first morning. We definitely had a blast and hope next time more family and friends want to come!

Four generation picture! From left top: Kristina (my Sister), Chelsea (Sister-in-law), Oma (Grandma Spier), Dawn (My Mom), and me. Sitting on the tube are:Summer and Taycee-Kristina's kids, Ellie- Chelsea's baby and Amalee and Maggie!

They had so much fun just sitting on that big tube!

Abram had fun rowing the girls around! The girls thought it was pretty fun too!

This is my brother Michael helping Amalee go down the water slide! Amalee said it was fun but didn't want to do it again because the water was too cold! It's true I never even went in the water above my waist because it felt like ice. But we really had a blast! I have more video of the trip but I will have to ask Abram to upload it because I don't know how! When he does you will see Amalee wake surf with my brother Gregory and go tubing with my sister Julie. She even fell off the tube and got right back on! I love that she is a little dare devil and loves to try new things!