Tucker's Birthday

Because my sister, Elizabeth, and her two cute boys live just six houses down the street from me, we get to spend lots of fun family time together. Here's a little snippet from Tucker's birthday on August 6th. He's already 2 years old! It seems like just yesterday we were anxiously awaiting his arrival before school started that year...

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Ariel's Quilt from Grandma Bonnie

Now that Grandma Bonnie is finally feeling better after her car accident (oh yeah, I need to post that story too) she had a chance to present Ariel with her graduation gift. The quilt was about half-way finished when the accident happened so our great family friend, Mollie, took the quilt to her house and helped grandma finish it for Ariel. Grandma Bonnie is eternally grateful and Ariel is so happy with the way it turned out! Thank you Grandma, for another stunning piece of work. We feel very lucky to be blessed with so many of your beautiful works of art, from the Easter & flower girl dresses you made when the girls were younger, to the Christmas P.J.'s you spoil them with every year, to the baptism quilt for Devin, and now this beautiful graduation quilt. You are one TOP NOTCH Grandma!!!

Happy Birthday Devin

Today was Devin's 10th birthday! I'm especially excited about this one because he will be in 5th grade this year. He will be in the class right across the hall from me and there are only 2 fifth grade classrooms at our school. We do lots of switching and intermixing for various activities. That means I will get to see him in action and be right on top of his homework for the next 10 months. Here's to hoping we can survive the upcoming school year...Happy Birthday Dev...we love you tonzzzzzz!

Boy Cousin Sleepover

On Thursday, July 30th, we had a boys only party/sleep over with cousins. We had a lot of fun;

playing with "Sam" the puppet, "How's it goin' brothahs?"

splashing around in the water,

watching Peanut catch his very first mouse,

jumping on the tramp,

eating pizza for dinner,

playing video games,

WHAT THE..???...

and building marshmallow shooters for a fun game of war!

Tucker thought it was a brilliant way to eat marshmallows from a fancy tube!

Oh, we have so much fun with our cousins!!!

Ariel's First Car

This week we broke down and co-signed with Ariel to get financing for her first car. This is a pic of the kind of car she got. It's a 2002 Toyota Echo, gets 32-37 miles to the gallon and is in excellent condition! We saw it on Ken Garff's Internet Site and by the time Ariel and Roger got to the dealership to test drive it, someone else had gone before her and someone else was scheduled after her! The price on the internet was listed at $6,000.00, but Roger worked his magic and talked them down to $5,300! Ariel's car payments should be around $140-$150 per month and insurance will be right around $70 per month. We are all EXTREMELY happy she has her own car now...