Birthday Weekend!

A few weeks ago we planned a weekend to spend out at my parents' lake house with some of our very good friends from Olympia. Thankfully the weather cooperated and everything went so smooth for a terrific weekend in the sun. The weekend that worked for us all just happened to be Justin and Grey's birthday so it was fun to celebrate that with family and friends. Having Grey with me most of the time made it difficult to take many pictures and Christine has an awesome camera so these are just a sneak peak to our weekend. I will post more/better pictures when she sends me a disk with them on it.

This is me and Christine with Taylor (8) and Grey, hanging out in the sun after playing on the boat:

Sammy (4) and Elliot in their twiner shirts that we bought on our excursion to the outlets Friday evening after dinner:
Justin got a leather jacket out there and tried to get Jason to get one so they could be twiners too :)

Slumber Party!

The birthday boys, July 11th:

Fun on the boat:

(The little girls weren't really excited about tubing, but they loved just being on the boat, especially when Justin went on the "skeeters")

This was what Grey did on the boat:

I don't have pictures yet to prove it, but Christine and I went tubing and had quite the adventures hanging on for dear life!

Saturday evening we went out to dinner with my parents and Michael (he drove down from Western). Grey must have known that he was the birthday boy because he was all smiles and such a happy little man.
My mom made Grey a lady bug cake that was adorable and he certainly seemed to enjoy it as well!

I hope that both Justin and Grey had fantastic birthdays. I love them both so much. Justin is such a great husband and father. We have so much fun together. He works hard to provide for our family and it does not go unnoticed. I love you so much and thank you for the life we have together.

Grey is such a joy to have in our home, too. He's been a little more challenging than Elliot was, but all-in-all a very good boy. He is as cute as can be and has this funny little "half smile" that always makes us smile. Then his sqwinty-eye toothy grin that just makes you full on laugh. He has taken a few steps here and there, but this weekend he is very close to full on walking. He is a great kid and I love him so much, dispite his sleeplessness at times.

Happy Birthday to my two favorite guys!!!