Happy Birthday

We had the joyous occasion of celebrating Kate's birthday! We are so blessed to have her in our family and to see her walking with the Lord and growing in Him!
To help us celebrate, we had our Grandpa and Grandma over for lunch!

The cake (Daddy's favorite part!)

"Happy Birthday Dear Katieeee, Happy Birthday To You!

Daddy, Grandma, Meg, Me, Kate, and Grandpa

Our Aunt also stopped by with our newest cousin!

Grandma, Kate, and Grandpa

She is so precious!

Oh, and just an interesting note... September 19 is International "Talk-Like- A- Pirate Day"(and, no, I am not making this up!)

The birthday girl turns pirate!!

And not only her, but the whole family!!

And Grandma, too!
~S~

Grandparents

Last Thursday, our great-grandparents stopped by for a visit and also to drop off some scarves! Having a chat

Great-Grandpa trying on the scarves.LOL

Audrey Hepburn... I mean, Kate

Charming, isn't she?

Cleaning....

Yesterday afternoon Mom, Meg, S.A.M. and I went over to help our Aunt with some fall cleaning.

Our Aunt cleaning out some cupboardsMeg took a break from cleaning so our cousin could tell her what kind of "twactor" he wanted for his "Birfday":)

S.A.M. cleaning in the monkey room!!!!

Motherums dusting away

Wiping down the stairway walls

Playing with our cousins tools to "fix the steps"

"Can we please play with the tools????"

Yeah!!!!!!!!!

We then finished the evening off with decorating, dinner, and reading to our cousin.

Birthdays!

This past Saturday, we celebrated our Grandpa and Kates' birthdays. We had fun surprising Grandpa, as he did not know that we were having a party for him ( which included a car-honking competion between Mumsie and our Uncle:^)! The Happy Birthday BoyThe Happy Birthday GirlMeg and our cousin
The finger lickers!

(which, by the way, for those of you who know Kate, will understand that it did not go over well with her!)!They sure are silly!Here are two of the ornriest siblings...But they sure don't look like it!
"How do I look?"
(Please read the following with an English accent..)

" I beleive we may safely boast that here is one of the silliest girls in London"...er.. wait, mabey not London, but, shall we say... America? :^)
Oh, and did I mention that he is one of the ornriest siblings as well?The nephew getting his uncle back!"Tickle, Tickle, Tickle!!"

Grandma cutting the cake

Grandpa and his Grandson
Our twin uncles holding each other's son! (figure that one out...)
Dive for the dip!!
Cheese!
He must be up to something...
Or maybe just being himself!
Our Aunt and Uncle
So sweet!
Playing with "Twucks"

And, of course, whenever we see our cousins, we have to get kisses from them!!

~S~

"Action Shots at the Bean Field"

Bug Spray at the break of dawn



Lack of sleep makes you do silly things!

"Weeds...Weeds...Weeds..."

Daddy poses so nicely for action shots, don't you think? :^)

~Mumsy and S.A.M.~