My Favorite Son in the Whole World Turned 10!

Yep it's true...My favorite son turned 10 yesterday! So in honor of the big day we invited Rich, Linsey and the kids along with Sommer and her kids over for dinner and cake!

Some how Linsey managed to not be in any of the pictures.....hmmmm
Sommer and the kids.....the A man looks as if he is sleeping sitting up...he really knows how to party!

Of course the candles......that he blew out ONE at a time....

All the kids ready to tear that cake apart!

Then came time to open his presents......Rich and Linsey gave him what he called "A months supply of candy" I'm thinkin it's more like 2 days.....okay so I might help get rid of it but......

Then he opened the present we gave him....a CELL PHONE! Whoa am I crazy or what! Guess I'll find out really soon...

This video is the best.....J's facial expression when he figures out what is in the box is hilarious! Thanks Mom for making the "secret" call! Too bad he missed it the first 3 times!

Happy Birthday to my Favorite Son!

I Love You!

The last few weeks....in absolutely NO particular order..

The last couple weeks have been INSANE....somewhere in it all we found a few minutes to run down to the valley to go to the D-Backs game...

my blog has definitely been lacking in the self-portrait department.....so here we are on our way...but first..
it's a MUST that we stop here....LOVE IT...that's all..

of course the D-Backs are not complete without the flag lady....umm yeah I got a picture of her and that's about it before my battery died....ugh DUMB....oh except for this....

seriously found someone that sweats more than Chad.....I know hard to believe.... but it's TRUE..

Oh us again.....

Somewhere sometime the end of July we figured we would go ahead and move....AGAIN...but this time...we BOUGHT the house....YEA!!

so here it is....and we LOVE it!

with the exception of the most LOVELY wallpaper....umm yes it has wallpaper on almost EVERY wall....who does that....sheesh.....

the entry way....it has great wood floors just for Chad's liking....

the kitchen....with the totally AWESOME wallpaper..

half bath downstairs....don't hate you know you love the wallpaper

oh yes the curtains match the wallpaper....you're really not seeing things...yes they do complete the wallpaper pattern....AWESOME...

front room....okay so there's no wallpaper but the curtains are FAB!

the deck out back is so great and makes for a great outside dinner table!

SOOO because we felt we had nothing else going on we decided to go camping.....I LOVE *que sarcasm* Camping! But we had been promising the kids we would take the boat across the lake here and go camping so off we went.........

FAB...

Cayder man fixing up his very own tent.....

crazy kids that swim in the freezing water....

chillin like a villain

oh did you think we were done with self-portraits??

roastin some good 'ol hotdogs...UMM YUMMY....yikes..

I *HEART* camping.....see the excitement beaming...

BUT the kids absolutely LOVED it and that makes all the sleeping on rocks and dirt worth it!

Then came the REALLY fun times.....

did you really think the wallpaper would stay?? My AWESOME friends came over and helped me strip wallpaper....I LOVE LOVE LOVE them....

some great teamwork goin on here.....she's the BEST!

D repremanding me for taking pictures of her....aaahahaha....love it!

seemed like it took forever but we finally got it done....Thanks Girls...You're the best and I owe you BIG!

I also had a friend come up for the weekend but....

this is all he did the whole time we stripped wallpaper....what a man! Sheesh thanks for all the help Devin! :)

Once the wallpaper fun was over for the day we went to see the Cardinals practice...but of course forgot my camera SO no pictures...dang it....then it was off to the lake again for a beautiful day of water...

K Monster lovin the great sun...

Devin the sweet flag boy....

Cayder and Devin catchin some rays..

K Monster even got on the kneeboard and did awesome...

and of course Cayder is a pro

and the Captain catchin a few of his own rays....

Believe it or not we had enough energy to go to Camp Verde that night and take the kids bowling...it was a blast but of course forgot the dumb camera AGAIN...I think I'm getting old!

Then it was time for our AWESOME summer to end and....

the first day of school for these two cute kids

the K Monster going to 2nd grade! I am getting old!

and the Cayder headed to fifth grade! WOW time flies when you're having fun!

So happy I have such great family and friends to do so many fun things!