Boys With Haircuts

The boys got a haircut last week.  You see all that chocolate all over Bo's mouth?  That's because he needs to be rewarded for sitting still for a haircut.  The whole experience with that noisy razor coming close to his ears gets a little stressful.  He looks so much better when we can see his ears though that I'll just have to keep bribing him with chocolate.

Fun With Family

When my brother and his family came to visit at the beginning of the month we went on a few outings with them and had some fun times!  Here are just a few of them:

Grandpa discussing with Julia and Bo how cheese is packaged at the Tillamook Cheese Factory,

 lollipops at Seaside,

 walking out to Haystack Rock

 at Cannon Beach,

learning a little about American history and exploring the planes at Tillamook Air Museum

And just enjoying some quality time

with family.

Rylan's 6th Birthday

 Rylan was blessed to have his Aunt Raquel and Uncle Neil visiting during his birthday this year.

 Aunt Raquel really knows how to throw birthday parties!  We had a party for Rylan and his two cousins, Julia and Emilia.

Julia turned 3, Emilia turned 1 and then there was the 6 year old.

 Rylan chose a construction theme.

 That is his cool cake created by Raquel.

 Uncle Neil is the master balloon man so there were lots of balloons for the kids to play with.

And this is the family tree that Raquel made for the party of everyone that was able to be there to celebrate.  Can you see all of our heads?

Thanks Neil and Raquel for all your hard work on the party!  It was a blast!

First Day of School

 The summer got away from me as far as blogging went.  Bowen and Rylan had lots of adventures together.  Then school started!

 Rylan is in kindergarten!

 Lila is a 2nd grader!

Alaina is a 4th grader!

And Emily started middle school as a 6th grader.

Bowen is happy to play at home for now which I am very glad about.

These kids were sure excited to start school.  It should be a great year!

Country Living

 This post could be an advertisement for John Deere.  Just wanted to warn you there is a lot of green and yellow in these pictures.

 John, Amy, Grace, and James came for a visit last week.  As small town folk we felt it our duty to teach them the basics of country living. 

 The basics included BB gun target practice, chicken catching, and some tractor riding.

It was some good country fun!

We Got Chickens!

 Did I tell y'all that we got us some chickens?

 We have 6 so far and we want to get about 4 more.

 The kids love their chickens.

 The chicken coop is the place to be when friends (or in this case, cousins) come over.

So if you want to hold a chicken, stop on by and Rylan will round one up for you!

First Camping Trip of the Summer

 We want to go on several camping trips this summer.  These are some pics of our first trip of the year.

 We all enjoyed our time in amoung the trees at Lewis and Clark State Park.  Very nice little campground.

 It was Bowen's first ever camping trip.  He got nice and dirty.

 Camping is such a great thing to do as a family.

We definitely recommend it!