Jordon and Levi

Levi turned 15 and Jordon turned 18. We celebrated both of there birthdays on Friday with the Draper juniors and the News and our new neighbors. There were about ten kids under 12 playing in the house.  It was a rather loud night. :)

Jordon had cheese cake, as usual.

Like the Converse Shoe cake that Elise made? :D

 

 Yummy fingers.

 Saturday we watched Allen, Natasha, and Titus for TJ and Rachel. I grabbed this pictures of the cutey pies watching Boaz play on the computer.

 Aww

Afternoon at the park

The weather has been so nice. I just love spring, don't you? But it was a little chilly last week. Last week was suppose to be are last frost. I'm glad of that. I'd be happy if it never frosts again. By Friday it had warmed back up so we spent the afternoon at the park with the niece and all the nephews.

Natasha doing..................I don't know what. :)

Garrett loves stroller rides.

This is how Allen does the monkey bars.

Rachel and Titus

Elise helping Garrett ride the seesaw with Natasha.

This is how big boys play on the play ground. The climb up to the top of things where they aren't suppose to go. :D

There are lots of options when playing on a play ground. Every thing has it's use. The rocks are meant for covering Garrett.

Boaz and Allen on the swings.

TJ's birthday and ice skating

Yesterday was TJ's thirtieth birthday. (Wow, really?) They came over to our house to have pizza and dirt cake, as usual. TJ's has had dirt cake for every birthday as far back as I can remember.

Natasha. Yes, she has dirt cake on her face. :)

Elise and Garrett

Earlier that day we went ice skating with some friends. Very fun.
Boaz and Jordon skating around.

Grant and Levi

Lauren, Boaz, and Noah

Boaz flying around like a crazy person. He's pretty good at ice skating.

Boaz with Noah behind him.

This is me trying to spin. Abigail is beside me and Abby behind me.

Random Stuff

It's been a while since I posted pictures on the blog, so here are a some random things that have been happening around here.

One of Gabriel's ducks hatched out 6 ducklings. She is a very protective mother.
This little fellow protested very loudly about being picked up.





We have been digging the potatoes.



This is Gabriel holding up a tiny potato and saying, "I found a potato!"


We also got 5 bushels of peaches. We froze about 4 bushels. Frozen peaches make great smoothies. And there is nothing like a cold smoothy in the hot summer.
You can see Boaz is messing with a deep fryer. We were using that for boiling water to dip the peaches in. It worked great.
Levi baby sitting Garrett.
Allen and Natasha are here for the afternoon and they will be spending the night tonight.
Natasha is having a snack.

While Allen takes a nap.
Garrett is looking a little unhappy in this picture.

At Grandma's House

Here's what happens at Grandma's house when Allen and Natasha visit.

The first 5 pictures and the video were taken on December 20, the day Titus was born.

Allen (age 4) and Uncle Boaz (age 9) are great playmates.

Boaz had made some bows and arrows.

They had great fun rolling down the hay bale.

Towards the end of the day Aunt Laurel and Aunt Abigail gave Allen and Natasha a ride on the horse.

A week later Rachel and the kids visited.

Uncle Levi was wrestling with Allen. Allen was calling for 'Tasha' to come help.

Natasha (age 2) climbed off her Mama's lap and went to rescue her brother.

It was hilarious. I wish I had a video of it.

Natasha's Birthday

Natasha's second birthday was on Saturday but it worked out better to celebrate it on Monday.
She's getting to be such a big girl.

Birthday girl!
Her cake.
When we sang Happy Birthday she wasn't sure what to think. She made some kinda funny faces.


Trying to blow out the candles but it wasn't working very well.
Opening presents. She had a fascination with the bow. She was trying to keep it balanced on her head.




Trying on some of her presents.


I couldn't resist putting up a picture of this cute little guy.
And this one.