Happy Birthday Matthew!

For Matthew's birthday he choose the ever popular Ice Cream Brownie Mountain.

He is such a tiny 7 year old with a big personality.

Everyone loves this kid.

He cracks us up all the time.

I have the best parents and Nana ever!

They never ever forget any of my kid's birthdays.

We are so lucky.

Here is Matthew with his birthday presents.

When he opened up the card from my parents and saw all the dollars bills ($30) he yelled, "Oh yeah baby!  I'm in the green!"

Love that kid!

Happy Birthday Matthew!

The Neons...Part 2

Remember the Neons?

Now they have decided that they all need a "signature color".

Apparently Neon Green gets the majority of the chicks but...

They are feeling the need to branch out.

My boys went with me to the fabric store and choose fabric.

One of their friends choose blue and he and his mom made a very cool vest!

Love that kid!

Michael decided that pink was his color of choice.

He cut out the fabric and I sewed it right up.

Ok, not really right up...more like over a period of time.

I was pacing myself.

Now, I just have to find time to get the other boy's vests done.

Sigh...

Happy Birthday Levi

Levi's 5th birthday was actual the day before Joshua's birthday which was in April if you must know how absolutely behind I am.

He asked for a strawberry cake which we all love.

Good choice son.

Levi adores Luigi so he was so thrilled with his Luigi shirt.

He wears it all the time.

Love this kid!

Happy Birthday Levi!

Happy Birthday Joshua

Joshua's birthday may or may have not been several months ago.

I'm not sayin...

Joshua has a weird and strange obsession with candy corn.

I often find that someone Joshua has added "candy corn" to my shopping list.

As if.

However, since it was his birthday and all...candy corn was added to his cake at his request.

Not all of the kids share in his love of candy corn.

Like nice little kiddos, they picked their candy corn off their slice of Ice Cream Brownie Mountain and gave it to Josh to eat.

Happy way way way belated Birthday Joshua!

More Vacation Photos...

Yes, these are vacation photos from May...

While down in sunny California, we took a day and went to the beach.

What a wonderful change from the Oregon coast where you have to bundle up in snowsuits to enjoy the surf.

Move along people...nothing to see here...

I was pleasantly surprised when I downloaded pictures and found that my husband had carved this into the sand and then taken a picture.

We miss sunny California!

Bad Hair Day

Just remember the next time that you are having a bad hair day...

It could always be worse...

Update...

Here is what has been keeping me busy...

I started a new job...I enjoy what I do and I'm actually really doing well at it.  It's good for the ego to hear lots of positive feedback instead of all the whining and ungratefulness that one gets at home.

I have nine kids about to start the school year...in four different schools.

We are gearing up for fall sports...eight kids playing on six different teams.

I've been getting ready for the busy-ness of fall by putting main dish after main dish in the freezer.  I'm almost to 100 which is the magic number for me to feel prepared.

With summer produce finally coming on, I've been cleaning out the freezer of last years produce that I froze thinking that I would leisurely do something with over the winter which, of course, I didn't do.  100+ loaves of zucchini, squash, and carrot/pineapple bread later...and still not done.  What in the heck was I thinking when I froze all that stuff?!

For some strange, unknown reason, baby chicks just keep appearing at my house.  Sadly, over a dozen of them have turned out to be roosters.  I'm getting ready to send a bunch to freezer camp.  Should be an enlightening experience.

So...as I catch up on my posting...please pretend that the birthday posts and such are from recent birthdays...not ones that passed months ago...K?


Happy Summer!