Daddy's birthday! (party)

OK, it's not really Daddy's birthday today, but it's the day he chose to celebrate it! We're just having a family party here at home, with Daddy's favorite meal: Grilled chicken with white sauce, butter beans, potato salad, baked beans and garlic bread with banana pudding, apple pie and ice cream for dessert!
Hopefully, we'll also be able to get started today on our Spring Break project: re-sodding the lawn. No, it won't be the first time we have done it, but hopefully this time will be more permanent! With six kids and two dogs tramping over the back lawn and football games going on in the front lawn, grass has to be pretty tough to live at our house! We'll try to get some pictures up of the whole proceeding!

Abigail's Birthday

Abigail turned 15 yesterday! It's her turn to get out on the road!!
Here's the pictures as promised...

Abigail broke all the birthday rules - she didn't have birthday cake!! Instead, she had a blueberry dessert. Nobody was complaining!

Be sure to scroll down and see the pictures of Abigail's snake, Tango.

Jack and Christopher's Birthday

Sorry about the lack of posts over the weekend. Jack and Chris' birthday was on Saturday, however we had the party and Friday. Here's pictures. I hope to get more up later. (hurricane relief pictures will come soon too.)

The boy's got real bows and arrows for their birthday! The idea came after they enjoyed shooting at an outdoors expo last month (see earlier post).

Jack's cake: Cubs equipment.

Chris' cake: dog.

Chris blowing out the candles

They also got targets and haybails as gifts.

Sam's Birthday

The pictures of Sam's Birthday have arrived!!! (applause)

(moment of silent anticipation)

(drumroll starts)

"TA-DA!!!!!!"

(fireworks and more applause, louder than before)

Sam's had a football cake to celebrate the Chicago Bears new season.
(BTW: Da Bears are 3-0 and beat Green Bay 26-0. Yeah!!)

What's with the sly grin?

Sam got a new Bible for his birthday.

I don't have enough room to post all the gifts be cause he got a lot, including this R/C truck.

Happy Birthday Samuel!

Samuel is thirteen years old today! Now that we have two young men in the house we will have a lot more cooking to do!!! We will have party pictures up as soon as possible!

Sixteen and seven, pictures at last!

A pile of gifts!

Happy Birthday!!

A big Lego boat!

Nathan's rocket cake. Keeping with tradition, he made it himself!

The Cakes!!

Cheers! No, it's just soda!!

Nathan building his rocket cake

Jesse is sixteen! He is driving!
The boy's birthday was great and we finally get the pictures up (the birthday was the 19th)! For dinner they had Bratwurst and macroni and cheese!

Birthday Bash!

Well today is the big birthday bash: Jesse and Nathans' birthday!
OK, really their birthday was yesterday, but Daddy had to attend graduation at Samford that night so we are having the party tonight. We will post pictures when there are pictures to post!
Last night we took Tex, the Papillon, back home. We miss him, but we are glad that he is home.
After that, we went to a book discussion about the book Out of the Silent Planet, which is the the first in C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy(the book is, not the discussion).
We are enjoying school being over, the last day was Thursday because we always finish the day before the Birthday.

Million dollar question: Jesse and Nathan were born on the same day nine years apart. Is there a name for this kind of twin?

Birthday and Football

Well, I'm sure almost everyone reading this knew that Abigail turned 14 on the 2nd. We all had a wonderful day. (To see pictures of the event click on "Abigail 14th Birthday" under "Photo Albums" to the right of this post.) We had french toast for breakfast. The party started that evening. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Harper and Mr. and Mrs. Dailey (both friends from church), as well as Grandmother, Aunt Pam and the Amorosos (with 6-month-old Evelyn). We had Wiakiki meatballs (a Hawaiian dish that some of our readers may know). After that, gifts were opened, and than came cake and ice cream. Abigail made the cake. It was shaped like a daisy and tasted as good as it looked! It was a great party.

Over the past two weekends we have been helping our church friend, Mrs. Orcutt, pack. She will be moving on Saturday and would love prayers that all will go smoothly. The packing is almost done. A few of us will go over on Friday to help finish and we'll all go over Saturday for the move.

On Sunday we had another party... a Super Bowl party! We had snack food set out and just had fun watching the game and eating. Of course, our team didn't make it to this big game, but we still had fun. Well, we've had a great weekend and we're looking forward to another action packed week!