Joshua's 7th Birthday...

Here is our sweet Joshua on his 7th birthday. My Mom made him a Jedi cape, which he loved!


Clyde and I got him a new bike. His other one had bitten the dust, so a new one was needed. He really liked it too. He loves to ride his bike!
Joshua said that he wanted ice cream this year for his birthday. We actually added this brownie to it. It was delicious.

Horse Day

We went to my folk's house today to pick-up Jacob. He spent the night with them last night. We had a missionary home-coming sacrament mtg. for some good friends yesterday, so he just rode home with them. While we were there, we got to see the horses and feed them some hay and grass. These are their fillies; Daisy and Fly. Their other male horses, gelding Slim and stallion Splash, were either in the round pin or stalled. We had a bunch of fun learning about Pop Pop and Bubbie's horses today.
I also got my serger back today. I had taken it to a repair shop here in town and they were going to charge me $160 to repair my lower looper, $60 for the part and $100 to repair it. I thought that was way too expensive! I remembered a place in Asheboro that my Mom uses and so I called them. They charged me $75 to replace the part, clean, repair, fix the timing, and tension on it. They also oiled it. A way better price. Now, on to Christmas sewing!! Yippee!!

Boy's Party

Saturday we had some pals from church over to celebrate Josh and Jacob's birthdays. We had the game cube set up along with th bouncer that is pictured. They had a bunch of fun bouncing, and star wars-ing for the duration of the party. We have some fabulous pals!

Star Wars Game

Here our Jacob is admiring his new Star Wars Game Cube game. He already has the 2nd one, so Clyde and I got him the 1st one. He is loving it!
Pure Joy!!
Jacob also got another Mace Windu character yesterday. Clyde put Mace in the cake, so Jacob is licking the chocolate icing off of the action figures feet. Which, by the way was the only part of the cake that Jacob ate yesterday. He wanted to play the game over eating his birthday cake.
I think that we scored some major brownie points with this game!
A happy 4 year old!! (and his brother...)

Jacob's Day

This is how Jacob wanted to spend, and did spend, the majority of his birthday. I had a Parent/Teacher conference @ school, for Erin, so Jacob and Penny went to the Arellano's house to play. Then the Arellano's came over so that Shena could go to a training meeting @ school, so Jacob and Kelson played more Star Wars...
The Cake. Jacob wanted a white cake with chocolate icing and sprinkles. He also wanted Pizza, so we ate pizza for lunch and dinner. yum yum...
We are singing the "Happy Birthday' song to our birthday man. He is trying to hold back a smile.
How sweet he is!


Time to cut the cake!

kids at the pool

Just some fun pictures during one of the last trips to the pool this season. I was trying to get them as the hit the water, but as you can tell this is what I got. still cute. We got alot of laughs this day.
Josh was telling that he'd catch him if he jumped in. Jacob spreads his arms and totally belly flops. It is hillarious.

Here Erin is jumping into the pool. I got a good one here, because I got her face before she went all the way under the water.
This is Penny just chillin in the pool. The first of the season, she didn't want to get in. By the end of the season, she was jumping in by herself. Of course, with all the floatation devices on her, there was no way that she was going under!

belly flops

getting ready to junp....
cannonball!!
another belly flop!!
Josh wanted to carry Libby like a baby. Libby wanted him to hold her in the 5 ft section of the pool. He was trying until I caught them and made him tip-toe with Libby in his arms, to the 3ft section. Sweet kids!