Today after their bath I gave them each a hairbrush and told them to go look in the mirror and do their hair. Harper went to the little mirror in the dollhouse to do hers. 
Rielee 19 matches, Grandma 3 (and sadly I was trying, too)
And this is the smile of a girl who just hit her first home run! That had been Macee's goal all season, also her Mom had told her all along that she would pay her $20 for a home run. But, just before the game today, Des told her she would raise that to $100, and then her Grammie Bouchey chimed in that she would match it, and her first at bat Macee did it! And scored 2 runs...it was so cool. We really laughed because when Macee was younger and playing soccer, she would often get so close to scoring a goal but never did-so one day her Grandpa Gourde offered her $5 for a goal, and she scored 6 of them! He never offered that again! Unfortunately, even with her home run and a beauty of a throw to home at the bottom of the 7th which kept them alive to play an extra inning, and despite Tierney's great pitching, they lost 8-7. They were very disappointed but still had a great season. 
Rielee kept busy trying to stay warm-it was a very cold and wet tournament.
Parker got to run the score board-at a state tournament, how fun is that, he did a good job, too!
Rielee had been playing with the laundry baskets, making beds for the dolls, so the twins took over after she left. 
Rielee had early release today so she got to play with the twins all afternoon. She made some signs so we could take a picture and make a good-luck card for Macee for State. The picture taking was a bit of a challenge though and before we were done, Harper had chewed the corner off of her sign. She is known for her love of eating paper and cardboard, having chewed the corners off of most of the books we keep in the car for them.
Harper was pretty good at rolling
Ava was making pretend food by putting all her balls in the cup
For some reason we had a couple slightly fussy girls today, especially Ava. We will be so glad when they can talk more and tell us just what is bothering them. Harper did have a little diaper rash and was bothered by that (she can communicate that without a problem). Fortunately for me, since she is such a Papa's girl these days, he is the only one who can change her. She even asked to go in twice from outside and playing with bubbles to have him change her diaper. They had fun with the bubbles until they started fighting over the wand, thought I had two but didn't...so it was a short bubble session.
Harper pointing out the injury she got this weekend falling on the bleachers at Luke's game.
STUCK! STUCK!
There is never a dull moment with Auna and Parker around-we were trying to visit...which is just about impossible when these two decide they want to bug Emmy! 
Maddie, Kenzie, Tierney and Macee posing with the District Championship trophy after the Rockets beat Onalaska 5-2!
She was one happy girl!
It was the perfect warm spring day for them to play outside and go barefoot in the sandbox. They all got along quite well.
Harper and Ava eating popsicles, yum... Ava was disappointed when hers melted and fell on the ground.
Then we got the teeter-totter out and that was a big hit. We found that Ava still weighs just a little more than Harper. They really like to go spinning around on it, but Auna and I got tired of that real quick. 
They had to be carried back outside to play.
Rielee and Auna during a game of "monkeys" at the playfort after school. The kids never get tired of being chased around the yard. They are too fast for me anymore, fortunately, Parker took over as "zookeeper" for me and did the chasing. 
This morning, we got out Rielee's magnetic dress-up dolls (fortunately she has 2 of them). Rielee showed the girls how to make new outfits and they played with them throughout the day.
Macee getting a hit in today's win over R.A. Long, Papa couldn't remember if this was a double or a triple.
They worked together and filled up the bucket. 
He comes over to sit in it almost every day, sometimes more than once, and dreams of the places will drive to someday. He and Papa took it for a spin tonight, and plan to clean out Papa's shop this summer so the truck can be stored in the shop when it isn't being driven, and hopefully still be in good shape 5 years from now... 
Auna, Laury and David came to watch, and David ended up helping out at the slide since the plastic kept separating and people were getting hung up on it. I was really worried about the slide, since everyone was going down it so fast and almost getting hurt.
Papa actually turned all the way around and was going down backward, then ended up walking down the rest of it since the plastic came apart and they had to straighten it out and get the water flowing again. Later the slide was closed for awhile for repair. The girl that went down in front of him had banged up her leg pretty badly.
Papa was surprised when he got to the finish line and there were Charb, Kelly, Luke and the girls waiting for him. Ava went to a sweaty, wet and muddy Papa, but Harper didn't want anything to do with him.
Luke tried out the obstacle course bounce house for the kids several times, trying to go faster each time. 
Ava getting a hug from Rielee this morning.
We took the girls with us to check out the Ashkicker 5k & Obstacle Course that Papa is entering tomorrow. Ava was perfectly happy just seeing how many rocks she could carry when Papa put her on this cargo net obstacle, and she let him know she was not liking it one bit. 
they went up and down
probably 50 times in all, totally fixated...
Harper loves Baby.
Bird sighting! There is a big robin that sits several times a day, on top of the weeping pine tree, the girls are always happy when they see it.
Auna showed them her clarinet, but was afraid of scaring them if she actually played anything on it!
After we dropped the girls off to Charb, we hurried back to Woodland to watch the Macee and the Rockets unfortunately lose their game 4-3.
Then we went back to CR where Auna and Parker were both playing, yes, two games at once. Auna pitched an inning and did really well. She also played at short stop and 3rd base. 
Here he is playing right field looking bored with a mouth full of sunflower seeds. 
Auna had a belated 11th birthday party tonight, with several of her friends and lots of family. Jillian (and Rielee- who is behind Brooklyn in the picture) helped her blow out the candles. Her cake was cute and she was really happy with all the gift cards in it.
Rielee and Des had just got back from their Disneyland trip when they and Gabe, Macee and Parker brought pizza over for dinner. Rielee was in her new princess dress complete with a long curly blonde ponytail, and they had lots of stories to share about their trip. 
Harper showing Megan her coloring
She looked very pretty.
But Harper couldn't resist the dog, and kept hugging it over and over. 
With a lot of coaxing from Papa, Ava finally sat on the helicopter and really liked it.
We wanted to walk around a little, which was a little difficult since they just kept wandering this way and that. Papa had suggested taking the umbrella strollers but I didn't think we would need them-wrong. The didn't want to walk very far and then wanted to be packed. We made it to Penneys and I was going to try to buy them something, but that seemed way too hard so I gave up on that idea. On the way back to the car, we bought some M&M's out of the vending machine and they would follow us along quite well trying to get more candy...such bad grandparents! 