Birthdays

So over this past month, we have been very busy. Not only have we been busy working on the roof, but we have also celebrated to birthdays. Amelia has turned seven and Orlando is now three. We celebrated Amelia's over Mother's Day weekend with a friends party on Saturday and a family party on Sunday. Here are a couple pictures of her. The first one is of her with a few of her gifts and the other one is a picture of her and I standing in front of Culvers. The Culvers sign read Happy 7th Birthday Amelia.( It is nice to have connections--Thank you Dawn)

Then the following week we celebrated Orlando's birthday. His theme for the party was Cars. We had Andrea make an awesome cake. Thank you Andrea. I would recommend her to you but she is in Arizona for the summer and I am not sure if the cake would make it all the way her. Anyway here is a picture of the cake.

Enjoying Times with Family & Friends?

NOT! Do not get me wrong I enjoy hanging out with people and I am very thankful for the people that wanted to come over and hang out while I removed my roof and put a new one on but it took a lot longer than anticipated. What I thought would be a long weekend project turned into a couple weeks project. The old roof was much more difficult to get off (as can be testified by many individuals that helped) than I thought. But it was great getting to hang out with a variety of different people. I would also like to give a shout out to those of you who just drove by and honked your horn, just to say Hi. Here are a couple of action shots of people enjoying themselves.

In the top picture we have Greg and Gardner on the roof and Jeff Doing clean-up on the ground.In this picture we have Dave, Gardner, and Jeremy helping me tear off the front portion of the house.In this picture we have Mike and Jeff in the dumpster and my dad, Gardner, Greg and myself on the roof.

Here is a picture of the roof being put back together. In this pictures we have Adam, Maxwell, Amelia, Elijah, Orlando, and me. Here is a picture of the dads working together

Here is a picture of Pastor Tim helping move shingles from one side of house to the other.

Thank you to all who helped, Adam, Gardner, Mike, Jeff, Greg, Jeremy, Marc, Jon, Neil, my dad, Pastor Tim, and Dan. Also thanks to my wife and mother for helping to watch the kids, so some men could be on the roof and also helping with clean up on the ground. Katie wants me to mention that she was up on the roof pulling staples and within ten minutes had already developed a blister. Sorry two blisters and she says she still has scars to prove it.

Last Weekend in April

Sorry, I have not been on this in a while. It has been a very busy week. I had finals last week, so I have attempted to study for those tests and I also needed to write a paper. Thankfully all that is done and over with and I passed all my classes. Now comes summer school, when I will be taking two classes in June. This last weekend in April, we celebrated my birthday and my sister's. My birtday was Friday but with work and studying postponed it until Sunday. My sister's birthday was on Saturday so we went to her house for a celebration. On Sunday my family came over to my house for a party. Everyone seemed to have a good time. One of the presents I received was Mario Kart, it is a blast.

And now for the main thing that was celebrated over that weekend. WEBKINZ DAY (or weekend) EXTRAVAGANZA. Webkinz people people termed it one day, I believe, but it went the whole weekend, Fri, Sat, & Sun. We did not anywhere on Friday, but were busy on Saturday. We went to a tea room on Saturday with Grandma, Aunt, and some cousins of the kids that was doing webkinz games for the kids to play. The kids enjoyed the games but it was windy outside so we did not stay long. The kids all got animals there. If you bought an animal we would get one free from the selection of free ones they were giving away, it varied from store to store. It was crazy with all the kids there and the place was not that large on the inside for for all the people that were there. You had kids trrying to figure out what webkinz they wanted to buy (which took time) and then they waited in line only to get to register to have to pick another one. The line did not seem to be moving that quickly. Afterwards we went back to Grandma's house and had lunch and let the kids plat and show off webkinz. We then went home and got a call from another cousin who wanted to go downtown Morton with Amelia and Elijah to look at Webkinz. They got some more webkinz (Surprise, Surprise). I had to distract Orlando, so he and I went to look at some flower stores and then went to Dairy Queen. I hope he enjoyed hanging out with dad. Anyway this all happened the last weekend in April. I will be writing back soon because I have been working on a project this weekend. Here are some pictures of the kids with there webkinz.