Other miscellaneous things

They started digging for the pool today. If all goes as planned, we'll
get a few weeks of enjoyment out of it this summer!

Joshua lost a top tooth a few days ago--he was very excited!

New puppy--yes, another one!!!

We have been debating on getting a playmate for Druper and decided it
was meant to be when one of Nathan's patients was giving away a litter
of beagles this week. She is 7 weeks old--so little and soooo sweet!!!
I finally got my little girl! HA!!! The boys have been calling her
Diamond and I like Dolly. Grandma suggested Candy...any other
suggestions?

Taking a rest on the end table.

She even lets the boys take her for a ride on the tire swing!

Jared's Birthday

Cake at the Park

More Geotrax!!!

Cars cake for Jared and Samuel

Blowing out the candles!!!

Jared's Cat in the Hat cake!!!

Jared got to have 2 birthday cakes this year. He celebrated with his
cousin Samuel while they were here for a family wedding. Jared wanted a
Cat in the Hat cake for his "real" birthday. You should have seen the
wonderful balancing act put on by Nathan getting the cake to the park
without it collapsing! We did cake and presents at the park and then
went to the water park to swim for the afternoon.

Branson with Grammy & Pawpaw

Thanks for coming to visit Grammy & Pawpaw!!!

Cooling off at Celebration City!

Eating at Lambert's

Getting ready to Ride the Ducks!!!

Being silly at Bass Pro Shops!!!

Baseball Pictures

Joshua's teeball team

Jared got to play a couple of games when we were short players.

The Graduates!!!

Here are some pictures from Jared's preschool and Joshua's Kindergarten graduations.

Happy Birthday Joshua!!!

We celebrated Joshua's 6th birthday Saturday with a puppy party. Everyone had a great time.

Busy Spring

Baseball is in full swing now. We are coaching Josh's tee ball team. Javan is playing his second year of machine pitch and Nathan and I are playing co-ed softball when we don't have a conflict with the boys' games. I haven't gotten pictures of baseball yet--it's kind of hard to do that at Josh's game while keeping control of 12 5 & 6 year olds. But hopefully before the end of the season, I'll have a few pictures to post. We have had a few rain out nights which is a welcome break.
Joshua's birthday is tomorrow and his party is Saturday the 10th. He's very excited about it.

Past Couple of Weeks

OK--I didn't promise I'd be great at posting on this but at least it's better than what you've been getting lately from us! For all of you who thought you'd been taken off of our Christmas card list this year, it wasn't just you. Just another one of those things that didn't get done! So...you can consider this a belated Christmas card picture!!!

Over Spring Break, we spent a couple of days in Branson. The boys had so much fun at Silver Dollar City. They are looking forward to going back again! The one picture is Javan in the Giant Barn Swing...he wasn't too crazy about that one! The faster the better for Jared--unfortunately he's still too small for some of the ones he would love to do. He did get to do his first regular roller coaster--Thunderation--and he loved it and rode it several times--even rode it backward! Joshua's favorite was Fire in the Hole!
Easter/David's Birthday
Saturday we went to mom's and celebrated my great nephew David's 1st Birthday and the kids got to do a little egg hunting!

And by the way, do any of you remember a couple of years ago when my brother Doug got his truck stuck in the lake at Mark's?? Well, he managed to get Mark's tractor stuck in one of the ditches at mom's that day while the guys were cleaning up some fallen trees. Way to go Doug--wouldn't be a family get together without you doing something crazy!

The boys are going to be in my niece Lana's wedding in October--here's a preview of Jared & Joshua in their tuxes!!!

Jumprope for Heart--Javan & Joshua did Jump Rope for Heart in PE this year. They raised enough money to get new jumpropes, shirts a water bottle and some cool magnets. They both won the jump roping competition in each of their classes. While they were practicing at home, Jared was very determined to learn. He practiced A LOT and got pretty good at it. He'll be ready for next year's competition! Here's my first attempt at uploading a video on here, hope it works!