Zack's Senior Pictures

A couple weeks before his Graduation Party Zack and I went to a State Park nearby and took his senior pictures. Of course he had to have a few (make that several) goofy shots in there!

Let me know which one is your favorite!

He was climbing all over the place to try to get a good shot!

Of course his boots were slippery, so I was a little nervous!

Nice.

He climbed up this boulder to see what it would be like . . . . . it was high up!

Now that's really cute!

"The" look

Impressive!

"Fire Power"

It's a monkey!

Um yeah . . . . .

August Birthdays

For our family, August is the busiest month as far as birthdays go because we have three in one month! Here is a very late post on the birthdays our family celebrated in August.

Elsie celebrated her 6th birthday on August 11th!!

She got some fun gifts!!

Blowing out candles is really hard work! But not as hard when your six!

Princess Elsie

Jacob's cool cake which Mom and Aleks made!

His birthday was on August 15th . . . . . . .

. . . . . . and he turned 3!

What a ham!

His favorite gifts were balls -he loves them!

Emmy's 10th birthday was on August 30th, but we surprised her with a party on the 25th.

What do you do while you wait for the birthday girl to arrive? Why, have a balloon fight, of course!

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!

She was SO surprised she dropped the ice cream she was carrying! Thankfully it wasn't damaged, as it was for eating later with birthday cake.

They did a fun craft - decorating notebooks!

And roasted hotdogs and marshmellows by the fire.

Silly girls!

The gang.

Time to open gifts!

Big smiles!!

Blow, Emmy, blow!!!

Back: Natalie, Sylvia and Marie
Front: Sarah, Emmy and Elizabeth

Zoo fun

This summer I (Aliisa) took the younger kids to the Zoo for the day. Amy and the kids she babysat for were there too, along with several other friends. It was a long day, but lots of fun!!

Most of the kids in our group.

The monkeys were so fun to watch!

The kids loved watching them, too!

The bear had a nice idea - take a nap in the sunshine.

This turtle came over to say hi.

Elsie!

I think this was our whole group . . . . a couple people might be missing though.

The animals were very active that day, and the kids loved watching them roam about!

Tim was so sweet and showed Jack the animals.

Jake-man!

Someone got sleepy!

The Butterfly Garden, which was absolutely gorgeous!!

Back: Rebekah and Elsie

Front: Anja, Anna, Sarah and Lily

Back: Emmy, Elizabeth, Rebekah and Grace

Front: Jacob, Anja, Anna, Sarah, Lily and Elsie

Cuties - Jake and Sarah

Good friends Emmy and Elizabeth.