And yet another!!!

Seeing as it is our anniversary in two (almost 1) days, I thought I'd include this.
Below are some pictures of Matt's 5th (!) birthday party. Note the absolutely cool cake. The theme was knights, hence the tunics and the dragon/knight on the cake.



Anna actually dressed herself for this one.

I swear, if I could clone this kid...
The following pics are in reverse order. It was sure fun and thankfully nobody got hurt.

The first installment

Sometimes mischief is cute....usually when we're in a good enough mood to appreciate it.
For the next few, it was hard to decide which was best so you get a bunch of the girls eating apples.




From Shawn and Tammy's visit.



She's actually a LOT bigger now, and this picture wasn't from too long ago. But man, she is BEAUTIFUL!





The kids were sitting together when we were singing Psalms. I have a video of it, and if I have a minute (yeah right) I'll upload it to youtube. It was great.

Fall Time

We went apple pickin' with our friends last month. The kids had a blast! They didn't pick too many apples because they took a couple bites then threw them on the ground. It was lots of fun.
They would pick a couple apples then climb up onto the wagon and then eat what they picked.

Gabe and his BFF (Seth)

They liked the wagon ride.

Can you imagine adding another munchin into this photo-op? (We find out Tuesday what we're having ... hurray!)

Matt did awesome writing birthday cards to his friends. I was pretty impressed - he was too. :)

On warm days we're outside riding bikes or swinging. I figure we're not going to have very many warm days left, so might as well take advantage of it, eh? (BTW, it's been mid-70s here lately ... unbelieveable huh.)

Here's my BEAUTIFUL piano I got for my b-day thanks to my family ... THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!

Anna and Sophia love it too. :)

Alrighty, gotta put the boys to bed. TTFN

St Louis Zoo

I have way too many good pictures to upload at this point, so I'm going to do a post on different trips/events that have happened recently. Here's Matt and Gabe at the zoo.

Anna and Sophia watching the ducks.

Guess whaaat??
We couldn't find the hippos here, but the kids were very content to just watch the fish swim around.

Sophia: Hmmm, what kind of mischeif can I get into??
Anna: Come on Sophia, I don't want to get into trouble and then go back into the stroller.

Gabe loves snakes. Although he was a little nervous to go up to this big guy.

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."

Towards the end of the day the girls were getting really sleepy. Anna kept laying her head on Sophia.

Lovin' Monkeys

Matt on his warthog.

Gabe loved the zebra.

I love these shots of Sophia and Anna, I had to throw them into the mix. They were taken at my Uncle Mick and Aunt Deb's house.