Lily had a busy week this week. She has been a real good girl for all she has been dragged to.

Ann and Will hit it off well. Will likes people to play with him. Ann was lots of fun.

Blake finally recieved his Eagle award. We put together the Eagle ceremony the last minute so that Ann, LaDawn, Brent and Brooklynn could be there. It turned out really nice. Everyone worked hard to pull it all together. We held it in our back yard. The weather was perfect for it. It was a great event.

We took a lot of pictures on Sunday while everyone was together. We missed having Keith there with us. We took the pictures in our back yard. It was a beautiful day.

All of our kids together. This doesn't happen very often.

LaDawn, Brent and Brooklynn

Erin, Will and Rod. Will didn't want to sit still. Getting his picture was a challenge.

Sunday was a special day. Lily was blessed in church. She looked so beautiful in her dress. She is a beautiful girl!

Mickayla's 7th Birthday

Mickayla had a wonderful 7th birthday. We had everyone over for dinner. Lillian came over just for the opening of gifts and to have a little ice cream cake.

Mickayla's Birthday party
Mickayla had an art birthday party. We were redoing the down stairs bedroom so I threw down some tarps on the floor and set up the tables for the kids to paint. They had a great time. Only half of the kids came that Mickayla invited(thank goodness). It turned out just fine, even if it was very noisy. The kids painted for an hour and then we went up stairs to make pizza and decorate cup cakes. Dad (Kim) and Candice were a great help with giving the kids the bread dough to flatten out and then the supplies to make their pizzas. I know it was a challenge for both of them to put up with the energy level of these kids. But they sure made the party go great!

Candice helped light everyone's candles on their cupcakes before we sang happy birthday to Mickayla.

All in all Mickayla seemed to have a great birthday party. I am glad I am done with parties for 2 years!

Sunday after noon Croquet game
Erin, Rod, Reed, Blake, Ari, and Mickayla played an inventive game of Croquet one Sunday. They had very unusual traps and obsticles. We had a trench dug from the porch to the shed that was about a foot and a half deep at least. When they would knock someone's ball out of play they would try to hit over that trench. They seemed to have a great time.

Will enjoyed being out side with everyone. He loves being outside!!!!!!

Blake is giving his great wisdom on the game to those playing. The wisdom I kept hearing was "hey, you skipped my turn. Reed you are messing us up."

Blake's girl friend Ari hitting her ball through a branch bridge.

Erin hitting her ball through a branch bridge.

Erin's boyfriend Rod getting ready for a great shot.

Erin is giving Reed advise how to hit his ball. But you may notice she doesn't have the head on her stick. I think my advise would be put a head on your stick before you hit the ball.

Bad Grandma

Grandma was running late with lunch one day. William goes down for a nap at 1:00. I usually give him lunch at 11:30. Well I didn't get him his lunch until 1:00 this day. You can see what happened.