Henry's 5th birthday!

Sweet Henry is 5 years old!!!  This sweet thing has been wanting to be 5 for as long as I can remember.  That's the thing about being the younger in your class with a summer birthday...everyone turns 5 and you are still 4!  His teacher wanted to celebrate his birthday at school in April so he has been confused about his birthday for the past 4 months. He would wake up everyday and ask "Am I 5 now?" Our boy is finally 5!  

Since Henry's party is his Great Wold Lodge trip...we just had pizza and cake at the house with family and a couple friends.  He was thrilled!  He picked out a paw patrol cake from Wal-Mart and was good to go.  Talk about EASY!

Birthday Morning!

Thrilled with his Paw Patrol t-shirt and Rocky

What's in the box?  A Great Wolf Lodge certificate!

Birthday pancakes for the 5 year old!

Someone was ticked that it wasn't her birthday.

A new bike for the birthday boy was in order!

We enjoyed lunch at Chick-Fil-A.  I made funfetti cupcakes and he loved them.  We saw some of our pre-school buddies there and we shared the rest of the cupcakes.

He counted down the hours until his party!  Nana and Granddad were the first to arrive.  I was really proud of myself for being so laid back.   Whenever anyone showed up with a present I let him open it.  And you know what?  It was way better than having 10 presents to open at once.  He got to enjoy each gift and then THANK the person who gave it to him.  YAY!

He was so excited!

Drew and Jake gave him a bag full of fun!

Mr. Glenn (our neighbor) gave him  a singing M&M. How sweet.

Thanks Pops and Carolyn!

Henry and William

So happy!

This cake was delish and he loved it!

New paw patrol pajamas from Gammy

Henry loves Amy and Daniel!  

Thanks for coming, Carol!

A BIG YAY!  Janine and Richard brought the chandelier over and Daniel put it up in SK's room!  Talk about a wonderful gift!!  Thank you, Daniel!

Granddad and Bennett

I love a family pic.

Henry was thrilled to have Gammy there.

Aunt B and the birthday boy

Fun Beach Day

Our 3rd annual "beach within reach" trip was a success.  We love heading all the way to Benton for the man-made beach at the lake.  The kids always have a blast.  We got a big group of people together for this day trip.  When we got there the beach was CLOSED for the triathlon that would take place 48 hours later! They were nice and accommodated us at the "Marina." The "beach"at the marina was really dirt, but it really turned out great!  The "beachfront" was smaller than the long beach and it contained the kids a lot more.  The water was nice and the kids really didn't know the difference!

I was so nervous about taking SK, but she was GREAT!  She just played and swam and hung out with Caroline. Notice the beach in the background.

Sweet thing!

There was lots of mud throwing!

A little beach-side lunch

As they were setting up for the tri they played Uptown Funk over the loud speaker. The boys LOVED it!

Caroline was the BEST babysitter!  She is the sweetest 7 year old around!

Garth and Trisha=yes

Can I just say that the Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood concert was the best I have ever been to?  I mean it was AWESOME!  We've been looking forward to it since our Bunkie trip and it did not disappoint.  We went with Brett & Anna and Chris & Sarah.  Anna's 2 friends, Chris & Andolyn joined us.

We ate at Tejas and it took a sweet forever, making us arrive at 7:30 for the 7pm concert.  We had to park all the way down the parkway not in the parking lot.  This was going to make us even more late!  And then the heavens opened up and a Stretch Hummer Limo drove up to us.  I flagged them down and asked for a ride.  He said YES so we all jumped in!  He took us right to the front.

My sign= :)  I'm not lying..her mac and cheese is fabulous.

Get it, Garth!

I love Garth and Trisha!

Catherine let me borrow her "I've got friends in low places" t-shirt.  YES!

This picture must have been right after Garth called me out about my poster and I was on the Jumbo-tron.
No Big Deal.
Just kidding!  It was a huge deal! I was so freaking excited!  I got numerous texts and calls about being on the Jumbo-tron.  And when I say numerous it was like 3!  Wooohooo! #famous

Life-Sized Candyland

One of our favorite things to do in the summer is to enjoy all the programs at the library.  The kids call them "our libraries!" Our 2 favorites are Broadmoor and Hamilton-South Caddo.  They have so many fun programs in the A/C!  We love to play outside, but not in the 100 degree, 100% humidity of the Louisiana summer. So, library it is!

We've been looking forward to life-sized Candy Land for a while and it did not disappoint!  They had so many fun stations and then we enjoyed Johnny's after the Bakers.

decorate your own popsicle station

she is serious!

5 boys and 1 girl.  Not pictured: Shep and Sarah Kathryn

Summer Movie!

Sarah Kathryn got to experience her first movie!  Thankfully we did the $1 movie for her first time because she hardly sat still or watched the movie!  We met the Raines and Shirleys there...7 boys and 1 girl!