Um...it's been a while!

I haven't posted anything on here since JANUARY!??!! I am a slacker for sure! I am going to try to be updating this more regularly, but I can't make any promises!!

Just a quick update for now, the Irvine clan has been busy! First of all, we are once again the Irvine 6, as we've added a new member to our family. Welcome Charlie, our 5 month old Boston Terrier. He is super cute and fun and we are enjoying getting to know him.

We've also had several fun vacations visiting family and just hanging out at home by the pool. Most recently, the new school year has begun and I find that I have a 4th grader, 2nd grader and a pre-schooler?!? I still am not sure how THAT happened!

I will try to get some pictures up and post about our year thus far ASAP! Hope everyone else is having a great 2011!

October brought trips to the pumpkin patch, a ballet class for Miss. Hailey, and of course trick-or-treating on Halloween! We enjoyed every minute of it and James was actually off for Halloween this year, which made it even better. We had a potluck chili dinner with some of our neighbors and friends and then headed out in packs to get some candy!

My cuties at the pumpkin patch!

Hailey loved her ballet class! She got to wear a different tutu each week!

Ryan was a secret agent this year for Halloween! Doesn't he look so handsome!?!?

Jackson was a skeleton this year! James did a great job with the face paint!

Miss Hailey was Tinker Bell this year and she went trick-or-treating with our two neighborhood Dorothy's!!

September was a big month for the Ry-guy. He lost his first tooth at the beginning of the month and his second tooth on his 6th birthday! We celebrated big time this year, joining forces with our good friends and neighbors whose son, Jett, is Ryan's best buddy. The boys both have September birthdays and we decided to celebrate with a big, huge, gigantic block party!!!

First tooth lost!

Second tooth lost!!

Ryan and Jett blowing out the candles!

(It was a Pirate Themed party, so Ryan has a patch over his eye, in case you were wondering!)

Our awesome friends and neighbors! We had a great time planning and partying with them!

Happy New Year!

Welcome 2011! I am expecting great things this year and I pray the same for you! I cannot believe it is January already! I feel like the holidays always fly by faster every year and I'm surprised every time! Well, hopefully things will slow down a little and I can catch up with my blogging this year, I didn't so good last year! I shall start this year off right by posting the happenings of the Irvine 5 for the last few months and of course some pictures to go with it! I pray that everyone had a fantastic Christmas and a safe and happy New Year - let the fun begin!

Where to begin? I think I left off at the end of the summer so I'll start there. We wrapped up the summer and the boys went back to school! Jackson started the 3rd grade and Ryan the 1st grade - and his first year of all day school! This was a pretty exciting time for Ryan because it meant going to school at the same time as his big brother AND getting to eat lunch at school! Boy oh boy, fun times! Hailey also started school this fall, sort of. My good friend Donna and her little boy, Oliver, are teaming up with Hailey and I to do a little home pre-school once a week. We are starting out with the very basics and we have already seen a lot of learning going on between these two little cuties!

Hailey didn't get to go to school but she was ready anyway!

The boys rode to school in style with Dad on the Sidehack!

In September James' parents, aka Grammy and Grampy, came for a visit! we had a ton of fun with them, going to the water slides, playing mini-golf, taking a day trip to see an old gold mine, and just relaxing in the pool of course! We always love it when we get to spend time with them!

Looking good Grammy and Grampy! Hee hee hee hee...

To be continued....