Friday, June 8, 2012

Happy Birthday James!



Today we celebrate James' 14th birthday.  It's hard to believe how fast time flies.  I wanted to put a couple of pictures on here of James to show how much he's grown. 





From this . . .






To this!



Today we are loading up the van, picking up a birthday cake and heading out to Tickfaw State Park to celebrate Andrew's and James' birthdays. 

Stay tuned for all of the extraordinary details! 





Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Legos and Fences


**Updated**

Thank you all for the cards and gifts for Andrew.  He went shopping with Brian on the night of his birthday and came home with some Legos and an awesome sticker book.  




They stayed up a little late putting them together. 


It's a shark!  Cool!



Totally cool sticker book.  He came out of his room today with stickers all up and down his arms and legs.  I didn't have the camera ready though.  Bummer

See - I speak the truth!





We also finished the fence.  It's now safe to play in the backyard again! 

Yay!








So, that's done. 

Kids are doing school this week and gearing up for camping on Friday. 

Judging by the five-day forecast, it's going to be a memorable time ;)


We all know that it can be pouring at our house and sunny across the street down here though so chin up and all that sort of thing . . .


I took this picture this afternoon.  It was thundering and raining so I went out to check on the gutters and the sun is shining in the front yard while it's raining (hard to tell, I know). 


We're planning on picking up the birthday cake (another store-bought cake) and all of the camping trimmings on our way out of town on Friday.  We can't check in until 2 pm and it's only an hour drive.  So that is the plan as of now. 


Monday, June 4, 2012

Happy 5th Birthday Andrew




Today is Andrew's 5th birthday.  The big 05!  It gives us a chance to look back at the other birthdays that he had. 

This is one of my favorite pictures ever.  Jonathan was so excited to have a baby brother - you can tell by the look on his face. 


Andrew's first birthday party.


Andrew's second birthday party.  You can see the spots where Peter reached up on the counter and grabbed some of the cake.


Andrew wanted a flag cake for his third birthday.  He was pretty happy about it.



Here are Andrew and Brian at his fourth birthday. 

We're going camping at the end of the week to celebrate so stay tuned for pictures of that. 





Sunday, June 3, 2012

Home Improvement Again



We had another weekend of home improvement.  Triggered by last weekend's gutter extravaganza - during which the kids (playing in the backyard) exclaimed that the fence had broken.  We went to see that the wooden posts between the house and the gate had rotted away and the small section of fence fell over. 

So, this weekend - after another trip to Lowe's we knew we had to start fixing it.  (We also finished putting up the gutters). 





Brian is cutting the posts. 



This fence job is going to be continued . . .


Andrew - flexing his four-year-old muscles.  They'll be five tomorrow!



James got a summertime haircut.



This is what it feels like to look at James lately. 


Matthew wearing a Vikings jersey for the first time. 


Stay tuned for a birthday post tomorrow!!