Happy Birthday Will

Happy Birthday Little Will. We love you so much and are so glad you're in our family.

May 31, 2007
May 31, 2008

The Weekend in Reverse

My favorite episode of Seinfeld is the one where they do everything in reverse and Kramer has that giant lolly pop and George, Elaine and Jerry to go India. I'm going to copy that episode in my post, however, without the humor.
3:00 pm. Saturday:

Here's Will and Great-Grandma D at their house celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. We had dinner at the Lion House after that, but I didn't get any good pictures.

30 seconds earlier:

Here's Will and Great-Grandpa D with Will's rocking chair that Grandpa makes for every great-grandchild for their first birthday. THANK YOU! It's such a special gift.

1 hour earlier:

Here's Will swimming for the first time in Grandma and Grandpa's pool. He hated it.

3 hours earlier:

Here's Grandma and Grandpa with the great-grandchildren.

3 hours 20 minutes earlier:

Here's all of Jeremy's family. Love you guys!

3 hours 45 minutes earlier:

Here are my boys before we had family pictures.

8 hours earlier.

Here's Will with his super-fantastic-best-waffle-ever with strawberries and REAL whipped cream (our traditional birthday breakfast). We love you Will and the special spirit you've brought to our family.

18 hours earlier:

Andrea's dance studio had it's recital last night. My pictures were all crappy. Here's Marlee getting ready to dance. so cute!

24 hours earlier:

I got the perfect combination of my favorite candy in one package. I usually get raspberry, lemon and orange.

Will

Will turns one year old on Saturday, but we had to celebrate his birthday early because Great-Grandma and Grandpa D have their 50th wedding anniversary extravaganza on Will's birthday. Here are some of the pics.

Will and his present from Grandma and Grandpa JJ. Carter really, really likes it. You can't tell but he's holding a shovel that he got for Will's birthday. Now he can dig in the garden with Dad.

I think this picture is so cute. Katrina and I (mostly Kat) made caterpillar cupcakes for his birthday.

Yummy:)

We went to Grandma and Grandpa DD's for a barbecue with all the cousins on Memorial Day. We sang Happy Birthday to Will and had cupcakes and ice cream. Here he is will all his cousins, minus Paxten.

And I just had to post this picture. I can't believe he's so big already. Happy Birthday Little Will!

Garden

So one of the reasons we wanted a house so bad was so we could have our own garden. Sadly, the best place in our backyard for a garden was where this AWESOME dog run was. We are not dog people so we decided to get rid of the dog run. It was A LOT harder than both of us anticipated. We borrowed sledge hammers and pounded the cement out. My arms have never hurt so bad EVER. Jeremy worked so hard and was so sore, he could hardly move when we were done. I felt so bad that I told him all his work could be my Mother's Day present--he was really excited.

Here's Jeremy at the beginning at like 9:00 in the morning.

Here's Jeremy after 30 minutes, I had to beg him to smile.

After four hours we hit the second pad of cement on one side. We decided to call in reinforcements. We paid my brother, Burdette, to drive down from Logan to help us with the rest. It only took a couple more hours to pound out the rest of the cement and dig up the poles.

Will really enjoyed being outside, basically unsupervised. That is a gigantic chocolate cookie he's eating.

Carter really liked playing in the huge cement pile and almost got squashed by a really big chunk of cement. Luckily, Burdette saved him.

Here's our final product. We had to cut out about 70 square feet of sod and we rented a truck from Home Depot and we got railroad ties from the farm store and a couple bags of turkey manure and we tilled it up and planted beans, tomatoes, peppers, one jalapeno, cucumbers, zucchini, summer squash, and butternut squash. After we planted all our stuff, I realized that we probably planted it all too close together and now that it's hot our plants are going to die anyway. I guess we'll be more experienced next year...

hAPPY bIRTHDAY

hAPPY bIRTHDAY cHELSI! wE HOPE ALL YOUR WILDEST DREAMS COME TRUE:) LOVE YA!

Mother's Day

This week, I got to hang out with all my moms and sisters for Mother's Day. I had afternoon tea with my mom and sisters and Cafe Rio (my favorite) with Jeremy's mom and sisters-in-law. It was so fun and I'm so blessed to have such great women in my life! Love you all! Mom, me, RoseAnna, Katrina
Diane, Chelsi, Andrea, me