Luke's 6th Birthday

Luke got a birthday hat and book from his kindergarten teacher. We had a party at our house. Star wars themed, with a Darth Vader pinata hit with life sabers. He got a bunch of pirate presents because he likes pirates right now and he had it on his wishlist. I didn't connect the dots and make it a pirate party; I saw Star Wars party supplies and thought it'd be fun. He had a great birthday; he loves having people over. 

Luke's hat & book present from school

The pinata line

Luke's brownie cake

Blowing out candles

Halloween 2015

Luke is 5 years old, Henry 3. We carved pumpkins; Henry's pumpkin was a pirate (carved by Ginger), Ginger's was decorative (Ginger with a power drill), Jared & Luke's were jack-o-lanterns (carved by each of them; Luke's 1st year carving all by himself). Luke had to make a homemade "Luke-sized" scarecrow for kindergarten, so he colored the hair red with a marker and we put his clothes on it. Luke got to go to a pumpkin patch at a farm for a school field trip (no pics here), but we also went to a pumpkin patch with our family. Jared's work had a western theme for Halloween this year, so we had all the boys dress up as cowboys (we like group costumes). We went trick-or-treating in our friend's neighborhood and had fun! Here's the pics...

The day we carved the pumpkins

Luke making coloring red hair on his scarecrow

Taking the scarecrow to school

At the pumpkin patch

At the pumpkin patch

At the pumpkin patch

Our carved pumpkins

Our carved pumpkins

Cowboy Luke

At school

At school with a friend

Cowboys at work

The trick-or-treating group

Cowboys

Henry Turning Three

We're getting ready to celebrate Henry's 3rd birthday on 10.7.15. These are all recent pics of him being 2 yrs old, and then I threw in first and second year birthday pics, plus the hospital announcement pic from when he was born. The most recent things about Henry are that he loves to be read books (including his Bible), sing the Down In My Heart song, punch the air, body slam you, jump on trampoline, dig in the dirt, chew his food without actually swallowing, is almost potty trained (yay!), watch Justin Time on netflix, and unscrew door hinges. He's been a big blessing to our whole family and we all love him very much.

Luke's 1st Day of Kindergarten

Luke had his first day of Kindergarten today! The parents attended the first day with the kids, so we were able to be there together. Luke did a great job writing his name all by himself and meeting his teacher. We got him a new superhero backpack and new shoes. I printed a cheesy sign for him to take a picture with his first day. Henry went to our babysitter friend from church. Everyone did great.

On the way to school

Luke's new backpack

They sign their name by the bathroom to show they know where it's at.

By his backpack hook

Summer 2015 - July

Ok so July has been a busy month, and it's only halfway done. We started with 4th of July fireworks at the park, then had a short (but awesome) vacation at the beach in Fort Bragg, then I took the boys to summer dollar movie days at the theater here, and we often go swimming in the creek here in town to cool off from the 105+ degree heatwave. If you click on any picture it will display a larger version.

4th of July:

special red, white, and blue breakfast food

Fort Bragg:

this is the view from the path from our hotel to the private beach

our hotel

Henry found his happy place

our hotel had a private beach

glass beach

the path from our hotel to the beach

the private beach at our hotel

summer dollar movie days

Swimming at the creek in town:

Luke floating down creek in blue

free friday night concerts in town