Lexi's first day of school

Lexi's classroom

Liv and Kamree wanted some pictures too

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Lexi had her first day of Kindergarten today. I can't believe how fast the last 5 yrs have flown by. It makes me kind of sad :(

Ashley was soo good to me today and came to babysit the little ones so I could go with Lexi to school. Thank you so much Ashley, you're awesome!!

We had orientation and learned what Lexi would be doing in her classroom. I didn't cry (surprising) but I think it's b/c I was with her the whole time. Tomorrow I leave her, and she wants to take the bus. This is going to be alot harder for me.

It's helping that Lexi is not scared one bit...she is loving it and is sooo ready. She has been real excited about riding the bus, recess, and wearing her new school clothes. She also told me that tomorrow she is going to sit at the 'girl' table instead of by the boys we did today....oh boy, here we go! ;)

(everytime I ask Kam what we're going to do when Lexi goes to school she says "Shelby's going to walk". I think at some point I told her Shelby would be walking after lexi started school...it's just not coming fast enough for Kam. lol)

My daughter's 'cleaning' skills

I made the girls clean up the downstairs last night before getting ready for bed. Kamree's job was to get all the shoes put away. When I went to check on her, this is what I found. I had to laugh...looks like I need another shoe basket! haha

I love 2 yr olds :)

** sHeLbY's FIRST bIrThDaY!! **

here's pictures in reverse order:

Birthday girl!

Mckoy taking Shelby's new toy

The "finished" product

"Hey, that's MY cake"

The Cake

more of the cute b-day girl

Happy Birthday Shelby

Birthday morning pictures

We celebrated Shelby's 1st birthday this weekend! I took lots of pics because I'm determined to have photos of my 3rd child :)

It was a busy day of running around before Amber and Mom got into town for the weekend. We ended up spending like an hour and a half in Target, pushing off the birthday party...Target is so fun though. It's the first thing we did when they got here :)

So we got home around 6:30 and Shelby desperately needed a nap to be happy for the party. We had dinner late around 7ish and then I was hurrying to get the cake put together...I tried a butterfly cake, it was fun...but we ran out of purple frosting. Shelby is my first baby to really dive into her cake, I was sooo happy for this moment :)

Then after cleaning up and bath time, we remembered we forgot presents. I couldn't let her open them a day late...so around 9:00 we did gifts, though she wasn't interested much.

The other kids were though...isn't that funny how that works out? :)

Happy Birthday Shelbs...we love you soo much and love having you in our family!!

She makes us laugh and still crawls around funny. She loved riding in her new carseat this weekend, and so did all the other kids :)

She only says "da-da" all the time, it's a word for everything. We still are trying to figure the milk thing out, she's not taking to anyting too well. She sleeps soo well and loves to eat. She's a happy baby and loves attention...also loves to squeal.

Our life the last 10 days with FOUR girls

The three stages of Kamree: 1. goofy
2. bad mood

3. happy kamree (we like this one most)

Everyone HAD to hold the butterfly and I kept saying "leave it down, I don't want the jar to break" and so what happened?...the jar broke!!! but it was outside and no one got hurt, but all I could think of was "my canning jar :( one less jar of peaches :("

The girls came up with this slide idea on their own...they thought they were very clever!

who us pose??... sure, no problem :)

playing in the rain storm, we had to change jammies after this

We had my cousin Kennedy come stay with us for 10 days! Lexi and her are great buddies and they had a blast together. Everyday for them was a play play play day. I learned quickly what it would be like to have 4 girls running around! :)

We went to Wendy's one day for lunch and people came up asking if they were all ours, and again in Wal-mart. I think people wondered more about my age spacing between the four then anything...haha :)

We had a lot of fun: we went to lunch in the park everyday, the grocery store, school shopping for Lexi, played in the rain, played on the slip-n-slide, caught butterflies, scrapbooked, made bracelets, more shopping, and watched movies. Thank you for coming and staying with us

Kennedy, we really enjoyed having you!!!

Dean Family Reunion

Liv and Kamree
Liv-Kamree-Jenna-Lexi-Bre'Elle-Jadyn

Jenna-Lexi-Bre'Elle

(3 musketeer's)

Shelbs :)

Kim, Andrea, Demery, Lori and Greg

Jeff's Family: Samuel, Ty, Eli, Jake, Kim

Dan's family: Dan, Blaze, Braxton, Nicole

Bre'Elle and Lexi

The prize from Fear Factor!

My wonderful Mother and Father-in-law

{The kids played *FeAr FaCtOr* They had alot of fun here are some pictures:}

Mike's team

Kirk's team

Kim's team

Lexi eating gummy worms for Fear Factor

Kam and Liv

Kamree playing dress up with Demery's old clothes

Jenna in the pool

Mike with Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde (aka: Kamree)

Lindsay, Jenna, and Lexi

All the cousins

Mike and his brothers and sister

Greg-Jeff-Kim-Brian-Dan-Ed-Mike-Kirk

Lindsay, Jenna, Lexi, Bre'Elle, Kade

Braylon was so much fun to have at the house, he loved dancing around with the girls while Andrea played the guitar

Andrea and Lexi singing Taylor Swift

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I've been waiting on some more pics from the reunion, but almost a month has gone by and if I don't blog now, it'll never happen :)

Mike and I were in charge of the reunion this year, it was so much fun. We had family pics...which was a huge deal to get 49 people together!!

Mike's brothers Dan and Ed were able to come and spend the whole week here with us. We had a wonderful time with them and their kids. Andrea played Taylor Swift songs for Lexi on the guitar...Lexi thought that was neat and enjoyed singing along.

The reunion was filled with lots of fun:a waterslide, games, staying up late talking, and swimming. Mike and his brothers also helped work on their parent's house, hopefully it will be done this time next year! :)

We loved being with the whole family. It's not very often that all eight families are together at one time. We always have such a good time...looking forward to doing it again.

*Thanks everyone for coming!!!!*