Easter, Joshua's B-Day, Turtle vs. Dog

Oops I missed some

I was going through my camera's memory cards and realized that I had missed a lot of things. All these pictures happened in January except Charles Birthday which was in March.

Happy Birthday Emmalee!!!

Emmalee is now 6. Can you believe it? She decided for her special day that she wanted to go bowling with her family and friends. We invited the Verhaal family to join us. They gave her farie wings and wand. She wore it the entire time bowling and until we left for Utah a week later. Emmalee Bowled a strike her first roll!

Video from Zachary's 3rd Birthday

Happy Birthday Zachary!!!

Zachary's 3rd birthday happened a month ago. He had lots of fun. Zachary was excited he turned three because he was now able to go to school like his brother and sisters. SO BIG!!! His first day of school was two days later. He loves school and has the best teacher ever.

Happy 11th Birthday Rachel!

Rachel's birthday came and I told her she couldn't have one this year. I decided my kids would no longer get older so all birthdays are now canceled. But I was over ruled. We had a lot of fun watching "Back to the Future" as a family. Happy Birthday Rachel!!!

Happy Birthday Joshua!

Joshua had an awesome birthday. Below is video of the attempts to break the pinata. We started with blindfolds but then to try and break it faster we hit it without blindfolds on and it still took 1 hour to break the super spider man pinata. They sang that pinata song the whole time. I was really ready for bed that night. Joshua loves High School Musical and even gets into trouble in school for singing out in the middle of quiet study time. He has most of the songs memorized.

Happy 35th Birthday Charles

The kids planned a surprise birthday party for daddy. He is so old now. He came home a little early so we had to hurry up and finish. Josh blurted out what the present was while dad was opening the gift. But we had a good night.

Marissa and Emmalee Birthday Party

Because we would be flying to Utah on Emmalee's birthday we decided to have the party before we left so we had them open their presents and have cake. So much fun! Happy Birthday Emmalee, Dec. 19 and Marissa, Dec. 28. They are so old now.

Zachary's 2nd Birthday

Rachel's 10th Birthday

I made a beautiful cake for her birthday and then......well.....we decided to keep it out of Zach's hands and so we put it in the oven. Hehe you know the rest. I made banana bread for Charles and now the icing is on the bottom of the cake but at least you can still eat it.

*This is inside our home in the frontroom

Gifts from Charles

More Flowers from Charles

I wanted to show these flowers so Charles could see what he sent me. I think they are beautiful. It was a nice suprise to have more just as the others were wilting.

Look how Gorgeous!

I wanted to show Cheria what Charles had given me for my birthday. I think he is very good at giving gifts. Don't you all agree?

Happy Birthday to Julie

There it is, perfection created by Marissa. She had mixed, baked, iced, and decorated all by herself. What an amazing girl. It was yummy but no one was more excited than Zach.

Give me Cake!!!

I was awakened at 6:15 to the sound of children singing happy birthday. I was given presents, cake, and lots of hugs and kisses. Of course being the wonderful mom I am we had cake for breakfast. He-He. The day was full of calls from Charles hoping I was enjoying my day.

About 7pm I received some beautiful flowers. They were from my boyfriend. He is so wonderful and I love him very much. I got two beautiful necklaces, a pair of earring, and 5 classical musical movies. Your awesome Charles. Thank you to everyone. My birthday was awesome.