ETHAN TURNS 7!!! And 17 awesome kids came to help us celebrate!!

We had a huge swim party for Ethan's birthday this year, and it was SO FUN! The kids had a blast! Afterwards we went home and proceeded to TRY to make cookies (didn't work out...lol) and play with some of Ethan's new toys...Yesterday was long and crazy, but in a good way. :-)

Here are some great photos from the party and last night... cheers!!!

 Ethan's little girlfriends!

 So handsome....and so grown up!

 His first time off the diving board!! Peer pressure...

 There he goes!

Ethan and Holdy...so cute!



 Chilling in the hot tub....

 They can't touch....

 But they figured it out...lol.

 Wild Boys!!!!

 Mommy and Ethan....

 Eating cake? Weird...

 Cookie baking time...no finished product though...lol

 Check out Eman in the back ground...hahahaha!

This is one happy cat...maybe.

End of Summer fun...!

The end of summer came fast, but we all had so much fun!

We made two trips to the fair (because of the kids schedules), and we ate WAY too much! I don't know why I think I can eat 5000 calories at once and not feel like I'm going to die, but I try to do it every year! 

I also spent a morning at Ethan school cooking breakfast for 24 crazy kiddos!



Can't wait for the Fall season to really get started! We've got Ethan's birthday party next Saturday, and it feels like the holidays are just around the corner. This is my favorite time of year!

~Anna and Ethan

Almost 7...but remember when...?

I can't believe Ethan is approaching 7 years old! It seems like it's gone by so fast, and really it has. My little boy is turning into a little man everyday....I was skimming through my fav baby/toddler pics and found these...

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you



here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart



i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)