Jared's 9th birthday party

Jared was lucky enough to have his cousins here for his birthday party! We postponed it several days so that they'd all be here!

Jared stats: Height: 4'9 1/2" Weight: 83 lbs. Shoe Size: 7 Clothing size: 12 Grade: 3rd. Favorite restaurant: Applebee's Favorite Activities: playing baseball, computer games, creating....he aspires to be an inventor, a scientist, an artist.....but he is always creating some new invention or idea. He is also always saving some animal or another (worms, snakes, etc. in our back yard). He loves animals sooo much...and they seem to love him too!

More Convention Photos

Bryson and Jared get along so well and are such good friends. They were always together. I took these pictures without them even knowing it. They were laughing at a Garfield comic book they were reading out loud together.

Lots of games are played at this table during convention!
And lots of football games (3 flags) were played outside our trailer door....there were LOTS of boys...sometimes I'd look around inside our trailer and count 9-10 boys at one time!

We had rain a couple of the days there....there was always a pile of shoes at the door b/c there were always so many people inside! :)

Jared's 9th birthday

Jared turned 9 at convention. I can hardly believe it! We brought his favorite cake to convention and had a few people in for cake and ice cream!
Mariah enjoying her cake and ice cream.
Cate and Mel and Dalene came over as well.

Fun to connect with old friends at convention, and make some new ones!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day.....as usual, the kids spoiled me with breakfast in bed (ok, Daddy always helps, too! ). Robert brought home flowers....and the kids had something homemade. The cards they made were so sweet. Mother's Day is by far my favorite holiday. I love it WAY more than birthdays!!!

The Line-Up that we do every year...it's changing!!!!Next year I won't be in the front!
Phil and Jacquie were here for the weekend! Here she is with 2 of her boys!

And the whole family!

More of the Boys

Just took a few pictures of the boys when we went out to eat. You can see it was a very sunshiny day!

Good Smellin' Dog

Chloe had a bath last night and was so cuddly in this big blanket. Trent thought it looked cute and took a picture!