Monday, July 6, 2009

Claire's Birthday, 4th of July, ...

Kaydra and Brekkyn

Max and Drew help with the cake

Nice pose Cole & Greyson

Wayde & Jenn

Getting ready to light the candels

Last time I'll allow water guns at one of Claire's parties.

What should I do with all of these new toys?

Luciana and Drew visit

Payton and Audrey help Claire with her presents.

Claire's Pony, Dora, Barbie, Princess cake

Collin enjoys some food

Posing with the pinata before hitting it with a hockey stick..

The girls play on the trampoline for awhile

The family eating. Even uncle Richard from Boise made it for the party!

Audrey pushes Claire on the swing as Payton waits for her turn

Taja & Sam, newfound friends

Lindsay came over for the party. We even matched!

Molly and Kevin came to celebrate

Claire hangs out with her Dora, Princess, Barbie Pony Balloon Bouquet

Cole and Kaydra wait for the festivities to begin....looks like Cole wants to shoot a water gun at the camera.

Janelle does Claire's hair

The girls cheer on the boys at a baseball game :)

Kaydra is up to bat

Happy Father's Day!

Dave the Ghost left us a little treat in the lake

Enjoying some quiet time on the deck at the lake

Kaydra is definitely a lake girl. :)

And Cole is definitely a lake boy :)

Jason man's the ship!

Kaydra & Claire ~ Best of sisters :)

Daddy and Claire :)

Kaydra and I went for a ride. I don't let Kaydra drive usually because she drives like a crazy man ;)

Cole, Jayden & Taja

Avary at the party

Jayden & Brekkyn

Audrey, Claire and Payton....Audrey is such a good cousin pushing Claire :)

Jeni, Jenn & Avary at the deck warming party

Matt and Tara joined too

So did Art & Lana

Sam and Taja had a blast too

Almost the whole crew, minus the kids.

Playing in the river going down our street

The girls are thinking like this could be a lot of fun!!!

Here they go!! I promise, it was safer than it looks :)

Jeni and Claire at Summer Theater

Jenn & Payton at summer theater

The girls out to eat before Summer Theater


Just HAD to post this....Avary makes lots of new friends at the pool!!

Janelle and Avary on the train at Roosevelt Park

Payton, Jeni & Claire on the train

Claire must have been pretty tired. Taja keeps her safe :)

Cole's new lake hat :)

This is a copy of Claire's birthday invitation

Avary, Payton, and Claire play in the sand at one of Kaydra's games...princesses love playing in sand

Kaydra, Cole, and Jayden work at the garage sale. In addition to the many wonderful garage sale items, they also sold hot dogs and bottled water

Claire and Payton stop for a smile with their Barbies before preschool...princesses love preschool, and Barbies. Claire just had to wear her princess dress to pre-school on her birthday!

Brekkyn, Cole, Claire, Kaydra, and Audrey with Claire's pre-birthday party cake...princesses love birthday cake

Avary and Claire walking down the hill after a ball game...princesses love hills


Getting ready to open presents...princesses love presents


Claire and her guests admire her "Dora, Pony, Princess, Barbie" cake

Claire, in her new fancy princess dress with wings, prepares to take a swing at the Dora pinata...princesses love pinatas

Mommy and Claire at the lake

everybody's getting excited for the big fireworks show


Family 4th of July photo

Drew and Lindsay catch up on all the latest news


Kaydra, Claire, Taja, and Cole strike a pose with fireworks and flags


Fireworks...

Fireworks...

...and more fireworks

Princesses love cupcakes


Kaydra, Claire, and Cole

Claire, Daddy and Taja

Kaydra, Claire, and Cole share the 4th of July spirit

Laurie, Maureen, Tim, Tiff, Jason, Shane, Pam, and Mikaelie


Jayden, Cole, Claire, Kaydra, and Mikaelie

Great Grandpa and Cole share the Twins spirit


Best friends...Claire and Taja


Tiffany had a surprise 30th bday party on the pontoon. Jerry, Richard, Janelle, and Sherry take down the decorations the day after the party.


Taja takes in a little sun as she relaxes in the grass

Kaydra catches some sun on the back of the pontoon

Mikaelie and Claire


and a couple sunset pictures to close the post

3 comments:

Jill said...

Okay, don't even try to tell me Claire and Payton are not the cutest little BFF Divas EVER. Great photos! Nice job on the firework shots, Nate!

Brittany Miller said...

Great pictures! Looks like Claire's bday parties were lots of fun!

Lindsey Seykora said...

I love all the captions on the photos, they are hysterical! And of course, princesses love funny captions.