Westons 7th B-Day

This was such a high energy birthday party. We invited 5 kids from the neighborhood, 4 kids from church, and 3 of the kids cousins, together with our 3...oh my, it was busy. There was only 2 parents that stayed to help corral the chaos. We started out with decorating pirate hats to wear on our treasure hunt adventure. We allowed them time to dry by playing a game of stomp the balloon. I will post a video for your enjoyment. We then ate cake and ice cream. That cake was all James's creation. Opening presents was like opening a box of meat in the middle of a wolf pack. I was scared Weston was going to get trampled..lol. James stepped in and started directing children to sit down on the couch to watch. We then headed outside for the treasure hunt. It was very fun and cute watching all the kids with their hats on trying to find the clues to the treasure box. ...the boys told me they had a blast...that makes it all worth it.

Family Room Makeover

So when we bought the house, we both had plans to make this family room into a library room. It is very pretty with the natural woods and fireplace. When you see it you will want to grab a book and sit cozy next to the fire....your husband running fingers through your hair, eating grapes, with children sleeping...Ahhh...okay back to reality.

It still has some work to be done. Color on the white walls. What do you think about green? Or a warmer color...and do you see that large block of wood behind the ladder? That is the top of my fireplace. We plan to rip that down and place a rock backing there instead. The people who first had this house must have realy liked wood.

...sorry for the blurry picture...in all reality my love did most of the work

Spirit Week at School

Crazy Hair Day. I wish I would have had Wes turn sideways, cuz he had the coolest Mohawk...they loved it!

Mariel's Baby Shower

Alli just adored lil'Ezra. It was fun to watch Alli interact using her version of mothering skills.

Grandma and Alli

...I'm so glad your having a baby girl Mary...you will truly love it!

Alli, Grandpa, and Caleb

...of course when you go to Lion's Park, you have to feed the ducks.

3 Years of Bliss

James and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary with dinner and a movie. James took me to the Monterosso's Italian restaurant in Richland. It was such a romantic quit place. A place were you can hear your lover whisper sweetness into your ear while taking in the formal dinning atmosphere. We ended the night curled up on the couch watching a movie. This next year we plan to take a honeymoon vacation. ...can't wait to see my sister in Hawaii.

Yard Makeover

This is what the kids and I did early morning while daddy was at the store picking up materials to fix two of our sprinklers and trim our enormous blue spruce.

This Blue Spruce is so large that the back side from about 6ft down is all dead branches. It takes up a good chunk of the yard too. So here is what we plan.

First, James cut down all those dead branches.

Now I have this huge pile of branches..lol, but those will be towed away to the dump soon. James has planned to build a bench that circles around the base of the tree. We will be planting grass where all those branches are and up to the tree trunk. I guess grass can grow under Blue Spruce pine trees cause there are many in our neighborhood with grass all the way up to the base of the tree. Ah, it will be very beautiful when it's all done.

Fair 2009

We rode lots of rides. Weston even got to ride the big Ring of Fire roller coaster with dad. He's tall for his age, thanks to dad. He was the only "little kid" hopping on that ride. It's terrifying for me to ride at 30 years of age! I guess I'm just a whimp.

We entered the goat milking contest...

Feed the sheep...

Jumped high into the air...

And brought home souvenirs with lots of awesome memories.