Cake and Presents!!

This post is a little late, but here are the pictures from the boys' birthday last Thursday.

After they had pizza (I love when they choose pizza!) they opened their cards and presents.

Naomi was able to get in on the fun also.

The reason for the long faces??? They just had a spat with each other. It lasted all of 30 seconds, but of course, that's when I snapped the picture.

After Levi blew out the candles we lit them again for Ezra.

One left. As Ezra was taking this deep breath to blow out the last candle Levi quickly blew it out. Which led to another 30 second spat.

In the end, they really do love each other.

Thank you to the grandparents who helped make this birthday special even from across the miles.

10 Years - Double The Blessing

Today is Levi and Ezra's 10th birthday. They sure are a lot of fun.
Here's a look back through the years.

Let's start with Levi.

1 year old

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

5 years old

6 years old

7 years old

8 years old

9 years old

And now for Ezra

1 year old

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

5 years old

6 years old

7 years old

8 years old

9 years old

Happy Birthday Levi and Ezra.

We love you!!

Strawberry Seson

Yeah! It's strawberry season! Today I found Amish families that had strawberries for sale. I thought I would have to travel an hour to get some strawberries but these were only 20 min. away. The area where I went has many Amish families. As I was driving home I got a picture of these two buggies...one coming and one going.

We came home with a lot of strawberries. They were only $2 a quart!

"Now for a sample."

"Here it goes."

"Mmmmm"

"I like it!"

Earlier this week the kids found some wild strawberries (on the right) on our property. They were good too. We crushed some up and put them on top of ice cream. But it would take an awful lot of them to make jam.

A Girl With Flowers...

...and a dog.

Cowboy

Our friend Donna in PA gave Cassidy a very special gift. While we lived in PA Cass would go to her house and help take care of her minature horses. Cass fell in love with Cowboy. It was a sad day when she had to say good-bye. Donna was kind enough to offer Cowboy to Cassidy. We got him on Monday. Cassidy was so excited! Cowboy is adjusting well and I think Missy enjoys having a companion.

Cassidy's Recital

Yesterday Cassidy had a piano recital. She did a wonderful job. The three songs she played were "In the Hall of the Mountain King", "Sonatina, Op. 36, #1", and "Bow the Knee."

The video is below.

Cassidy's Recital