For the Month of July!!

In honor of the 4th and the 24th of July I have changed my back ground to my blog to be patriotic. I may however change it back before the end of the month. I think that it is a little loud. However I could not resist the stars and stripes.

So You Think You Can Dance!!

I am a hugh SYTYCD fan. I love this show. I record each episode and re play them over and over. I think that I still have almost all of last season still on my TIVO. I won't get rid of them, besides Logan loves to watch the dance show. Two years ago I went to see SYTYCD tour in Denver with my sister-in-laws. It was awesome. This season I was not sure at first if there was really anyone that I loved right at first. However I have my favorites now. I love Katee and Joshua. I think that every dance they have done has been really good. Here are some of my favorite clips from the show this far.

Jib Jab

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My friend Melanie put on of these on her blog and my kids ask me daily to look at it. So, today I finally let them do their own. They think that it's hilarious!!!

Hannah MAN-tana Contest

My brother-in-law is trying to win Hannah Montana ticket to the Staium of Fire for his little girl Shaylee, (she is going to be 3 in 2 months.) he has to dress up as Hannah MAN-tana. So you have to going to this web site http://www.971zht.com/ and vote for him and the person with the most votes wins. Here are the pictures of him that will be posted on the contest. He is contestant number 42. What a great dad to dress up like this to try and win tickets for his daughter. Good Luck Chris!!

Our Trip to the Zoo!!!

We went to the zoo on member night. It was great, there was hardly anyone there it was a nice cool night and the animal for the most part were out and not just laying there in the heat. They also had a lot of things for the kids to do. Noah love the zoo and definitely loves animals. He loves the tigers the most. We got to see the white alligator again this year and I told the kids we could go back and do the carousel ride later this summer. (The line was enormous for this, and we did not want to wait.) It was a really fun family night at the zoo!!

Update on Hadley

Noah and Logan took these pictures of Hadley!!

I never put updates on here about my children, but we just went to the doctor so I thought that I would. Hadley is 10 months old. She weights 17 lbs. 12 oz. (She is in the 75% in weight and weights more now then Logan did at a year YAY!!) She is 28 inches. (She grew 3 inches in 3 months, She is in the 50%) Her head circumference is 17 3/4 inches. (She is in the 40%) She is a very happy little baby. She loves to play peek a boo and is very fast at crawling. She looks a lot like her daddy and I thought that she was going to be a mommas girl but like my boys if her dad is around, loves him. (This makes me a little sad, I did hope that 1 of our kids would like me more, but I guess daddy is just more fun to play with!!) She is on the verge of walking. She will stand on her own and every once in a while take maybe two steps but then falls to the ground and takes off crawling. She is very much loved by the whole family. She is a very sweet little girl. Also while at the doctors office I did find out that Hadley had double ear infections. I had no clue. She was not even acting different. I'm either a bad mother and not very observant or my children don't ever change when they have ear infections. She has been amazingly happy through the whole thing. (My boys are the same way when they get ear infections, I never notice until they get other symptoms.) She is taking her meds and we go back next week to see if they are all cleared up.

Ryan Sally Hoecherl

Baby Ryan is the newest of the Hoecherl cousins. She is grandchild number 21. She is the cutest little thing and very happy. I don't think that she cries. She was so happy the whole time we where there visiting. MacKensie is a great big sister and loves to hold her and help out. Hadley is really excited to have two cousins her age (Sophia and Ryan) so that they can be great friends. We are really excited that Hyrum and his family are moving back home. They will be here the first week in July and we can't wait. (Ryan is about 5 months old in these pictures.)

Wedding Invitations

Here are the Wedding invitations that we work on while we were at Annie's house. They turned out really cute. It took us most of the day Sunday to do them and I believe that Annie still had to put a few more blue ones with ribbon. Celeste did most of the work with the embossing that took her hours to do. Great job on the design Celeste!!

Visit To Annie

Celeste and I got to surprise Annie for her bridal shower and fly back to North Carolina. (Yes, my husband is awesome for letting me go and leave our boys behind since I had just gotten home from a trip with my mom and had left the kids home then.) We arrived at 11:00 pm and had Greg pick us up from the airport and we were so excited to see Annie. She was a sleep on the couch when we arrived at the house so we went upstairs and Celeste jumped on Annie and woke her up. She was a little disoriented and said "What the crap" and then once she realized who it was she repeated "What the crap" and "Oh my heck" it was awesome. We went to the shower the next day and hung out with the family. We got to see baby Ryan for the first time and what a cute baby she is. We also helped Annie with her Wedding invitations. Celeste did all the embossing and most of the work. It was so much fun to see everyone. On the way home I got to fly first class. It was really great and Hadley was an awesome flier for the 5 hours on the non stop plain ride.

Water Horse Eggs

My two boys are obsessed with the Water Horse show about the Loch Ness Monster. For months before the show even came out Noah kept telling us that he wanted to go to the pet store and by a water horse as a pet. Joey and I would always just say that water horses are not real. Well when the movie came outon DVD I went to the store and bought the movie and came home and watched it. The boys loved it. They do a reenactment of it in the tub where Noah is the water horse and Logan is the boy and they swim around and Noah makes this noise like the water horse and Logan recites the little boys lines from the movie. Well our new thing is that they like to collect water horse eggs. Every where we go they are bending over and picking up rocks. Big ones, little ones and they are all over the house. I'm so sick of rocks!!! Logan has to put them in bowls and wash them. I had to ban bring water eggs into the house!! I told the boys that we have enough Water Horse Eggs!!!

Leatherby's

Oldest and youngest grandchild Aunt Hannah and Hadley Becky, Richy, Sally and Dom Sophia again!! How Cute is she.

Who doesn't love Leatherby's. The Hoecherl family always seem to go to Leatherby's when everyone is in town, it's the hang out place. Here are some pictures of us there.

Sleeping Boys

I love to take pictures of my boys when they are sleeping. They look so peaceful and loving to one another. Then they wake up and the brotherly fighting begins and don't stop all day long.

Ice Cream-Yummy???

Hadley was playing in the laundry that I was attemping to fold and we decided to give her some ice cream. The faces that she was pulling were so funning. The boys could not stop laughing and they just kept giving her more and more. We could not tell if she liked that ice cream or not. These pictures do not due her facial expressions justice.

Disney Pricess Test

You Are Mulan!

Strong and spirited. You're no one's girly girl; actually you are very determined person with a strong sense of self. Never let go of that! The only thing that equals your sense of self is your family, but the traditions of society can always be bent to protect something or someone you love.

Which Disney Princess Are You? So I found this test on my friend Kim's blog and thought that it sound like fun.I was thinking and wondering which princess I would be and I have to say that Mulan is very cool however, I think I secretly want to be a girly girl.

Noah's 1st Soccer Season

Noah played in his 1st season of soccer. It was really fun for him. We enjoyed watching him play. I think that it was organized chaos. The kids would swarm around the ball and chance had them making goals. He loved it!!

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Christmas at the Grandma Hoecherl's

So, I forgot my camera this year at Grandma Hoecherl's. So we video tape everything. It was amazing. Santa made a special visit and all the kids got to sit on his lap and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. As soon as I figure out how to post the video I will.