Christian's 5th Birthday Party

Christian is 5 this year! It's so hard to believe!!! This year he had a slide in the front yard for his party. He was so excited about it. It was supposed to be a waterslide, but we ended up having a cold front come in and it was too cold for the kids to put the hose on it. They still had a blast riding down it dry though. Uncle Herbie and Herbie Lee sliding down.

It was time to put that batting practice to use. He wallopped the pinata.

He loved his slide!!

I love this picture. He is so handsome...I can't even believe it!!

Here he is with his already 5 year old cousin Madison.

Smiling for pizza.

Cupcakes this year...with a Halloween theme of course. Herbie Lee looks excited.

Chowing on the cupcake...although the icing is all that ever gets eaten.

Posing for a picture with Uncle Moe and Aunt Penny.

On my new 4 wheeler Daddy got him. That's his friend Luke next to him. He is a good sharer by the way. Especially for being an only child.

Here with Daddy on his new 4 wheeler.

A new truck Aunt Penny got him. It was a great birthday. He just keeps on getting more awesome as the years go by. I know awesome isn't really a word, but there aren't words to describe how amazing he is!! He's my little man...forever!!

At the Zoo with my cousins

Karen and Rosey were in town, so along with Penny and Pam we all went to the zoo one day. It was a fun day. It started off pretty cold and poor baby Bella started to get sick. The animals were pretty ornery. We went to see the chimpanzees and one of them was charging all around and throwing "dirt" at the guests. The boys got it in thier hair and Rosey got it in her mouth. Ewwwww!!! Penny was extremely excited to feed the giraffe as you can see. None of the kids were too anxious about feeding the giraffe with her.

Could it be because Aunt Penny made it look so appealing? LOL

She kept talking to it nicely.

Devon finally got the nerve to try it. Here he is telling Christian how cool it was.

I got to take Lizzie and Christian on the skyride. They thought it was so much fun. It was like we were birds, flying over the trees. Christian was all over the place making me nervous, but Lizzie was so still and just held my hand the whole time. It was such a great day!!

Fish Fry

For the past 3 years, my work has given me tickets to the local rotary club's fish fry. Although I don't really like fish, I love this event. It is so much fun for the kids. They have the bouncy's, petting zoo, a live band (which usually consists of an 80 year old lady singing), face painting, a play area and this year they had a rock climbing wall. We only had about an hour and a half this year to spend there because Christian had a Tball game that afternoon, but we made the best of our time. Riding a pony. The crazy thing was he had a dream the night before that he was riding a horse. So when he saw he could ride this one, he was pretty excited.

Petting a baby chick.

A bunny rabbit.

A turtle. He kept putting his fingers in to pet the turtle. Why they would have a turtle at a petting zoo...I'm not too sure about.

I could barely get him out of this thing. He loves to bounce.

Doing a perfect somersault. I need to get him into gymnastics.

Attempting a cartwheel. Not too bad!

On the swings. He can now swing by himself.

He was very excited about the rock climbing wall. He wasn't scared at all!!

There he goes. Doing it all by himself.

He's probably up about 15-20 feet here.

He nearly made it to the top. I'm so proud of him.

Halloween 2009

We had a busy Halloween this year. Christian had a Tball game that afternoon at 1PM. So we went to that and then came home to carve the pumpkin, put the decorations up (again..since they fell down) and get ready to trick or treat. He barely put his hand in before he pulled it out and said it was gross!

I asked him to put his hand back in again for the picture. So he barely did.

He had fun carving the extra pieces though. He is such a good boy. He waited so patiently until I was done carving the pumpkin out.

Here is the end result. Nothing fancy when you are on a limited time schedule.

Here's our spiderman. Spiderman was very popular in our neighborhood this year. I think we saw at least 5. The funny thing is for about a month he kept saying he was going to be a skeleton and then when it came time to get the costume, he became Spiderman. I'm wondering if his friend in school was going to be Spiderman. :-)

Here he is with the witch. It cracks me up that he is holding her hand. He picked this witch out last year and loves it.

Our scary spider.

With the decorations up...at least for now. Then it was off to trick or treat. We went with the neighbors next door. Christian adores the neighbor girl Maria who is about 11 years old. They had a good time together. He walked "most" of the way, but was pretty wimpy about carrying his candy once the bucket started to get full.