Family Pictures

We knew it was way, way past time to do an updated Darrington family picture when we looked and realized that Keli and Jared and Mike and Jill had both had 2 more kids added to their families!! My cousin Denae told us she would be willing to brave all these little kids (and the big ones) to do a big group shot. Here is one she did of just my family. Corey is one lucky guy...look at all those pretty little blond girls. He jokes around that he is "a thorn amongst roses". But we all know he's better than a thorn!

The whole group. I will give you a run down. Mike and Jill together in the back are the owners of all the little boys in blue shirts and the little girl in front in the white dress. Keli and Jared are in black. They are the owners of the boy in front in white and the dark haired little girl and the one Keli is holding. Randy and Jesse are in green and white shirts. They are the owners of the oldest boy in green and the little girl in white. My parents are in yellow they own us big kids. The rest of the little girls Corey and I own.....I know they are the cutest ones....don't tell anyone!

Gosh with 14 kids...9 under the age of 6.....a couple of obnoxious boys....mine included!....I think we got a few cute ones!! Thanks Denae!!!

If everyone will stop having babies already we could be done with these "updates" J/K!!

Birthday Girl

Yesterday was Maycie's birthday!! As tradition goes in our family the whole day is her special day to do all of her favorite things, so here are a few things that she picked.Swimming!
Going running with me and Adelyn.

How cute is she holding up her 4 little fingers!! FOUR I can not believe my baby is 4!!!

She got a new outfit for her American Girl doll, nail polish (she LOVES to paint her nails), and "nake-up" as she would say.

On the girls B-day they get to pick where we go to dinner. As hard as we try to steer them in the direction away from Chuck e Cheese and McDonald's some years it just doesn't workout! So we went t0 Chuck e Cheese....the girls had a blast! I guess once in a while we can brave the nasty pizza for the great smiles we get in return!

Happy Birthday Maycie!!

Adelyn's Flower Shop

My little Entrepreneur

Addy is trying to earn money to go to Disneyland with some of her cousins and my mom. She has done all sorts of things to earn money here and there. I was trying to think of a way she could make some more money and not have it coming from me ; ) . I heard my dad talking about the sidewalk sales on center street for the freedom festival (he owns a store on center) and I thought hey she should make some hair flowers and sell those. So she spent half the day on Thursday and all day Friday down at my dad's store selling flowers. She made 75 dollars!! I think I might need to go sell flowers next time! It was super cute to see how excited she got when someone was approaching her table to look and she was so elated when they bought one!

*Big huge thanks to my dad for letting her sell them at his store and for selling them for her Friday night and Saturday morning!!*

Bear Lake

For Christmas Linda gave us a trip to Bear Lake. We have never been there before so we were super excited! We had a great time. The weather did not cooperate with us but we made the best of it. Lots of fun playing games, eating good food, playing on the beach and lots of talking! The whole crew outside Minnetonka caves. It was a great activity while it was raining. The girls did awesome walking up and down all those stairs....over 800 stairs!! It was really cool inside.
The kiddos went fishing and frog hunting. It was so cold but that didn't seem to bother the kids!

The very first day we were there started out the warmest so we did play at the beach. The girls had lots of fun playing in the sand....until the wind storm....holy cow it came up really fast!

Lexi and Makenley building a sand castle.

Corey and the girls on the drive there. It was such a long canyon!! Really pretty but long!! Poor Lexi got car sick which is why we stopped and got out for a minute. Overall it was a fun trip. Thank you Linda and Larry for all your hard work!!