Celebrating October Birthdays!

 We celebrated birthdays a bit differently this year.  Instead of having parties for Zach and Logan one week apart.  We had a combined birthday party and Halloween party.  We had a blast!

• Pizza
• ice cream cake
• chocolate cake with chocolate icing
•  a fire in the fire place 
• a fire outdoors in the fire pit
• kids screaming and running through the house

=good times and a picture post

A talented co-worker of mine made Zach's cake.  Chocolate on chocolate, and the cake is moist instead of crumbly....yum!

Logan had a DQ cake.

Yes they did put a mustache on Ira!  

The lumberjacks...best costumes!

My camera-shy and germophobic dad could not turn down his youngest grand-daughter when she wanted him to hold her and was encouraged to give him a kiss.

opening gifts

Thumbs up in memory of Lane!

80's girl

creepy

Rock 'n' Roll

I think everyone had a good time.

Happy Birthday Zach, Logan, and Tiffany!  (Tiffany and Logan share a birthday.)

Blindsided

Please pray for my family. My brother-in-law died unexpectedly this morning.

This is the way I want to remember Tony...on vacation with the boys he loved most in the world (July 2010).

and with Tiffany, his bride of 15 years

We are a very close family, and Tony is one of us.  This is very hard.

Labor Day Weekend!

So you can see just how far behind I am as these Labor Day pictures are just getting posted, but I think this puts me at four posts until I catch up.


On Sunday of Labor Day weekend, we enjoyed a cookout at my parents' house. We enjoyed Wii wars playing some sports gladiator type game. Since Andy, Tiffany, and I do not play the Wii, we were the half-time entertainment during the tournament...meaning we played the game but were there for comic relief.

Tara and Tessa go at it!
and Tara is victorious!

Jonathan and Joshua take on each other. As I recall Joshua claimed victory over everyone and won the tournament.

Even Grandma joined the action fighting Logan. You aren't supposed to try and knock your grandma off a platform, are you?

Austin goes after Grandma.

Aunt Tara fights Savannah.

On Monday, we visited with the other side of the family, when Andy's sister Dianna brought her boys and Granny to our house. Andy showed off his percussion skills and gave Alex and Ben some pointers.


Alex takes a turn.

Now, it is Ben's turn.

We then visited a festival at our church where Zach got a "tattoo." The weather was beautiful, but it was very crowded...lots of fun to be had, but we were hungry, and the lines were long.

Wyatt enjoyed a slide.

waiting to climb the "King of the Mountain"

from left: Dianna, Granny, Julia, Ben and Alex

Ben is King of the Mountain

Julia got some help from the guy controlling the ropes. He had no idea what a monkey, she is. With a little patience, she may have done this on her own.

Julia waves from the top.

Alex starts his ascent.

Vacation -Go carts and screaming swing

July 16, 2009


Today we started by racing out the door to go ride go-carts. They run a 2 rides for the price of 1 special before noon. Once again, this was a first for me. We chose an elevated track, and I had a car with plenty of horse-power. I screamed going down the hills and let out a couple of "YEE-HAWS!" After all, I was in Hill-Billy Vegas. Savannah loved the ride but chose Dad to drive her on the second run. I think I may have embarrassed her just a bit. It was plenty of fun, and I would do it again. According to Tiffany, it is also cheaper than the go-cart track in her town.

I could only get a picture of Andy and Julia on the actual cars and didn't see the observation deck until they were finished. They missed the cut-off when we rode, so they went in the group behind us.
so this is the go-carting group --Wyatt rode with Tiffany, and she cracked up over his statements that he was a good driver which were often followed by raising both his arms in the air like he was on a roller-coaster--I was only a little surprised that he liked it as he does not like roller coasters.

After the go-carts, Zach, Logan and Josh took a ride on the Screaming Swing. You would not catch me on that thing. They were video taped, and it was hilarious. They were laughing, and at one point, Zach stated, "I think I can see my house."

This is the view of the mountains from the strip.

After the thrill ride, we did a little shopping, and Wyatt is now the proud owner of a Western guns and holsters set. We hope this will appease him until we find the wallet. He is thrilled! He and Julia have fallen in love with Toy Story, and Wyatt wants a Woody doll, so this is a good start in that direction. "Reach for the sky."

a birthday and a boyfriend -missing pictures

Grrrr - the formatting was off on my previous post, and when I went to fix it, I unintentionally deleted these two pictures. There is no undo in this blogging thing - a feature I would like to see added, so I have to add a new post to include the pictures as there is also no re-arranging and these needed to be at the end. Anyway, this is my nephew Logan and Julia on the Slip 'N' Slide. Julia is a pro at this.

pictures that I just can't leave off

I don't know how these pictures were left off the previous post, and I still can't figure out how to rearrange pictures on this blog, so they require an extra post.



My nephew Logan goes for the catch (he tossed his Easter egg up in the air). This is Austin.

This is my sister Tessa with Savannah.