Cody's 2nd Birthday Party

We celebrated Cody's 2nd birthday with family and friends at our house. Cody started out his day with a birthday breakfast of pancakes and syrup, his favorite.

We had hotdogs for lunch. All the kids ate outside next to the trampoline in the only shady spot in our yard.

Cody and his cousin Noah enjoyed a noodle fight after jumping on the trampoline. I think Cody has the upper hand unless Noah knocks him off the table. GO BOYS!


Nana helped hold Cody steady while Elizabeth helped her brother blow out the candles on his SPONGEBOB cake.

Cody really enjoyed his yummy birthday cake.

It was a great day and we're so happy that we had another year with our little boy. He's so silly and sweet. We're looking forward to the next year and seeing all the new things he's going to do.

A B C D....

Here's a little video of Elizabeth singing her ABCs while she was taking a break from swimming.

Here's another song by Elizabeth. She made it up all on her own. HOW CREATIVE! I think she made a nice use of the lyrics.

Father's Day at Doss

We traveled down to Mimi's community center for a Father's Day Celebration. You're supposed to go an take a picture, color a card, and play games to get ready for Father's Day.

We had lots of fun and were happy that our friends joined us.

I don't think Elizabeth was quite ready for the picture. That or she has a bad cheese face.

Here we go. That's better. Gotta make sure the hair looks good.

Cody and Momma! He's so cute.

Our friends the Beauchenes. Momma Katie, Brenna and Isaac. (Elizabeth's best friends)

The first thing we did was get in line to take our picture for Daddy's card. This is our best shot.

Each kid got a necklace with a card on it when they got to the community center. It had every thing listed on it for them to do. Here's Elizabeth making her plan of what she wants to do.

Fun in the sun!

The highlight of Elizabeth and Cody's day is when we get to go outside and swim. They really like holding the waterhose to fill up the pool. Unforturnately, a lot of the water doesn't seem to go in the pool when they do that so we had to set up some rules. Here are a few pictures of them having fun.

This is a picture of my Kyle belly at 8 months. It's only June and I wish he'd come already. It's a long hot summer.


Cool Cody in my sunglasses. I have no clue where his sunglasses went. Oh well, he just likes wearing them on his head anyway.

Out of the pool, wrapped up, and ready to go inside.

Of course you have to lay in bed and watch SpongeBob after a long time of playing in the sun and water.

Blueberry Picking!

On the first day of our summer vacation we decided to go blueberry picking at the Moorhead Blueberry Farm about 15 minutes from our house. It was great day! We got there around 7:45 with a temperature of 71 degrees. We stayed for about an hour and Elizabeth and I picked 2.3 pounds of blueberries. Not too shabby.

After getting instructions on which berries are the best, the kids were ready to go!

Elizabeth and Isaac led the way.

They were very good about picking the BLUE ones. Well, everyone except Cody. We'll have to work on his colors a little more. All of Brenna's ended up in her tummy after she discovered how tasty they were.

Here's Elizabeth showing off our buckets. Momma's, Cody's and Elizabeth's. We got 2.3 pounds of blueberries. A very good job! They gave us Cody's bucket of berries at no charge....including the dirt.

It was a great morning. At $2 a pound, it was a pretty cheap morning of entertainment.