GramE's Visit

The kids were so excited to have GramE come for a visit! We all had a fun time together. We love you GramE!

Hailey LOVES her Littlest Pet Shop from GramE. The boys love it too.

Cousin Mandy needs to come visit to play LPS with Hailey.

GramE bought the boys each their own Game Boy. I don't know who was more excited, the boys or me! I remember playing all of the Mario games when I was little. It is still just as fun!

This is for you, Kevimark.

Tent City

I Need More Practice...

..with my "new" camera. We bought a digital SLR camera just before last Christmas and I am still pretty bad at using it. I guess it's one of those things where it helps to read the instructions. I would say about half of the pictures I take on manual mode turn out blurry or focused on the wrong object. The reason I am telling you all of this is because I wanted to share a couple of pictures that are kind of out of focus, but too cute not to share.

Josh is noticing that we moved his swing to a tree.

BTW, I just realized that I haven't posted any new pictures in a month!!! Sorry about that. Things have been busy around here. My mom came for a visit, Nathan and Matthew started school and all 4 kids got a stomach flu that took a week to fully recover from. I will try to catch up this weekend.

Our Little Explorer

Josh got out all of my cookie cutters the other day while I was on the phone. He was so pleased with himself and had a great time! He is now 17 months and is on the go and into everything (still not walking yet, but almost)! He loves to explore around the house. I think the kitchen is his favorite place, second to Daddy's office.

When your husband gets a new TV...

...he will want a new built-in entertainment center to put it in. ;) We had these built-ins made by the same cabinet maker that did the rest of the house. They are the same as our kitchen cabinets, since the family room is open to the kitchen. It took 6 weeks to get them made. I am so glad that Josh can't get finger prints all over the TV any more.

Dean put speaker felt in the doors, so that the remotes work and we can hear the center speaker. The pics aren't the greatest, but you can get the idea.

Before

& After

Nathan's 7th Birthday

We celebrated Nathan's birthday at Inflatable Wonderland in the mall with a few of his friends from school. Nathan had so much fun and wow do the kids know how to play hard!

Nathan was proud of his Transformer themed cake. He chose white cake with strawberry filling and butter cream icing.

Nathan and Matthew love these walkie-talkies! It is so cute to listen to them talk to each other.

S'mores

We love our new patio set! Dean got the last set at Sears on clearance. Of course, we had to try it out right away.

I had to included this picture of the "scary" marshmallow that fell into the pit. When it started growing and bubbling up, Hailey was READY to go inside. I don't think she would enjoy camping very much.;)