Rainy Days!!!

We totally LOVE rainy days at our house. Jason and I pull out our camping chairs and sit in the garage (total white trash...I know) and watch our kids run and play and get completely soaked !!! So much fun!!! The girls love to sit in the gutters and splash...again, total white trash...I KNOW, but when it is in the name of FUN...anything goes!!!! Such a fun dad...he loves to play with his girls!!!
Stylin' Mallory...
Seriously...she is like a fashion ICON...who else can pull off the mini skirt with socks and sneakers??? She is so funny!!
My little white trash girl...she makes us so proud!!!!
Jason and Anna...off for a walk!!

Mallory...off to catch up with Anna and Daddy!!!
My sweet little family!!!
We are starting him young in the ways of the trash folk!!!!
Seriously...we've got no pride...I know our neighbors watch us through their windows and judge!!
Again...only my kid...who else puts wet tree crap in their mouths while lying on the dirty, wet driveway??? ONLY A VANCE!!!! (Maybe the better question is...what kind of a MOTHER lets her????)

FAMILY DATE NIGHT!!!!

I absolutely LOVE family date night!!! We took the girls out to celebrate Anna being home from Utah!!! (It still counts as family date night even if you leave one home right???) We decided if we ...(and I mean ME) were going to truly enjoy the date night, Tater boy was going to have to sit this one out!!! So anyway...we started by going to the movies. What movie you may be asking...well we say WALL-E...let me say a few things about WALL-E...save your MONEY, save your TIME and most of all save your SANITY!!!! This was the DUMBEST movie I have seen in a LONG time...so boring!!! Jason and I looked at each other after about 20mins and begged to be put out of our misery!!! Ok...moving along, we next took the girls to dinner...they got to pick, and they picked PIZZA...we asked them if they wanted a kid pizza place or an Adult pizza place. Well my children do have very adult palates, so ofcourse they picked the ADULT pizza place, so we took them to California Pizza Kitchen. Dinner was WONDERFUL!!! After dinner we walked around the outside Mall, and then, per Anna, we sat and listened to a little local band rock it out !!! After the "rock concert", we walked some more and found a little water park. We let the girls frolick in their clothes in the water, it was such a blast. The water that shoots out was lit up with lights, so it was fun to watch the girls light up when they ran through them!!! We had such a FUN night out, and we are so HAPPY to have our Bell-a-rina girl home from UTAH!!! Ready to go into the movie!!

Me and the girls, in front of the poster of the movie that sucked my will to live right out of ME!!!
California Pizza Kitchen...here we come!!!

The girls love their Daddy!!!

Marvelous Mallory!!! Adorable Anna!!!!
Coloring is so much fun!!!
Such well behaved girls!!!

The cool "Light "water park
Anna is all lit up!!!
So much fun playing in the water!!!

Tribal pose....
"Look at us...we are all wet"
TOO STINCKING CUTE!!!
I LOVE THIS GIRL!!!!
We had such a great night, it was so fun to see the girls have so much fun together and to be able to spend some time as a family is truly the GREATEST fun EVER!!!!!

The Fabulous Fourth of July!!!!

So...usually I love the Fourth of July...who wouldn't?? A day totally set aside for FAMILY, FOOD, FIREWORKS and FUN!!!! So we usually spend the entire day swimming, using the BBQ, playing with cousins, watching the Fireworks. So this year, EVERYBODY was gone!!!! Anna was in Utah with her Aunt Natalies family, my sister and one of my brothers went to Flagstaff to see my other sister, and my other brother spent with day with their friends!!! POOR MALLORY!!!! She was totally all alone...she had a good time none the less...(I think!!!) We still spent the day swimming, using the BBQ and enjoying Grandma and Grandpa!!!! Then we went and watch a pitiful excuse for fireworks in our friends front yard!!! Mallory had been so excited for the fireworks, but as soon as we got to our friends house, and she got with OTHER KIDS (finally!!!!) She lost interest in the firworks display, and had a BLAST running and playing!!! All in all it was different to be alone with no cousins and down one child, but we still managed to have a pretty FABULOUS FOURTH OF JULY!!!! Mallorys 4th of July shirt!!!
Mallory and Tate...you can't see it, but Tate's shirt says "Warning...short fuse!!!) Perfect for this picture HUH!!!!!
Trying it again...still no luck!!!
Me and my Bubbas

Mallory....... future hoops star!!!
Sweetest little stincker
Hey...throw me the ball...
Swimming can be exhausting!!!
I can do it...I can do it...I can do it!!!!

My DAD... The Grill Master.......BAM!!!!!
Malsy and her Daddy!!
Jason... having a pool side snack
Look at that form.....
Mallory has some Mad skills!!!!