First Freebirds!

Sweet Ella Bella

Can't believe Ella is 5!!! She had her party last week (with Hadley) with a petting zoo and pony rides. I'll try to post more pictures of that later, but it was so much fun! One of these pictures is her petting a rabbit she named Snowball!

We had our mama birthday date and she wanted to get her hair and nails done. Then she picked Copelands to eat at. We had so much in together. We had to rush back to get everyone to make it to a pep rally. All the girls really liked that, they were fixated on the cheerleaders. It was a good time had by all.

It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's Maylee!!

This picture does my heart well, especially to think where Maylee was 5 months ago. This is her at gymnastics and she is so proud that she can climb to the top (yes that is her at the very top, and another little girl holding the rope at the bottom). Strong little thing!

Yesterday my sweet baby girl turned 3!!!  Ask her how old she is, an she will say 6!  That's our Hadley Hoo.  Today we continued our celebrating with a mommy date.  

Went to Sweet and Sassy and got her nails painted.....AND....her ears pierced!!!  She did great, though she will say "it hurt real bad".  The sucker made a world of difference.  

Then off to lunch and she was much better by then. She thoroughly enjoyed the cheesecake that she ended up wearing. 

Then she got to pick out a book at the bookstore.  Fell fast asleep in the car, still with a tight grip on the book, ha!

I just love this sweet "firey redhead".  She bring so much joy laughter, and spunk to our lives.  Happy Birthday sweet Hadley!!

Hawaii

I cant believe it has been over a month since we  went to Hawaii for Matt's cousin's wedding, and I'm just now posting pictures!  Guess it has been just a little busy around here!  We had such an awesome time and returned with many wonderful memories.  Here is a just a peek of some of our time.

Running on the beach for the first time.

At the wedding, enjoying the view.

Note: When Uncle James throws you in the air...brace yourself!!

Note the splash.

Note the tears and consoling!

Beach Baby

What intense envy of a hot dog.

Sweet big sister.

Loving the submarine ride.

Just a little windy!

Three generations of Mahones.

Our great balcony view.

So much fun!!

Blackmail material

This is blackmail material. I heard a bunch of giggles coming from behind a closed door....this is what I found. I guess this is what you get when you have three older sisters. All I an say is, they have their day a coming!

Back to school

Maylee started first grade this week!! It was so great to see her return to school, even more so since she missed over a month of school when she was in the hospital. It still seems surreal of all that she went through, especially when you look at her now (you would never have a clue she was so sick). Things could have turned out so differently, but I'm full of praise that they didn't.

Maylee loved returning to school and seeing all her friends. Mrs. King tutored Maylee during the summer, and just so happens that she is her teacher too! We were so thrilled! On the second day at pick up Maylee told me she didn't want to go home, but rather stay at school! It is just wonderful.

Bedtime crazies....

Here is a glimpse of how crazy it can get around bedtime. To night for instance, bedtime came and I had one little redhead running around the yard with just a hat on (neighbors have to love that), one little girl ready and all decked out (including eye mask, ha!), and then one running out of the house with a Spiderman tattoo on her FOREHEAD (major scrubbing to ensure it is off for church!). Crazy, but I do love it.

Big Precious...

Can't believe how fast my sweet boy is growing up.  This past week was a big milestone week.  He conquered sitting up well, decided to get into a sitting position on his own, thought it might be cool to get to point a to point b via army crawl....and if that wasn't enough, he grew two teeth (well they started cutting through).  Just can't believe my baby is getting to be a big baby (or older baby I should say!)

Here is Big Precious:

This was actually taken before the teeth cut through, so this is officially his last toothless (mouth full of gums as I like to say) smile picture.  Not that I'm sentimental or anything!