Jack's birthday

So our little boy is two! We even had him saying his age by the end of his birthday. We love him so much and he keeps us on our toes. He is so sweet, though all boy.

Here's his breakfast in bed, even though he didn't really eat it in bed:)

For his birthday he wanted to go to the park and play. We went as early as we could because it has been so hot here.

We couldn't ever get him to look at us while he was opening presents, so this is as good as it got.

Blowing out his candles, and yes he came close to getting burned, but he blew them out:)

Our little graduate!

Today was Savannah's preschool graduation! She was so excited, but a little nervous to up on stage in front of a lot of people:) Here are a few pictures from that day.

Jack waiting for the show to start.

A few of her friends and teachers.

Dan's Birthday

Here are a few pictures from Dan's birthday. Here is everyone getting ready to open presents, of coarse, Jack had already opened one and I had to re-wrap it.

Here's the family ready for our first bike ride together now that Dan has a bike. We had a lot of fun.

Garage Sales are great!

I took the kids to a few garage sales yesterday and we came out with one of our best finds!

Also, I took the kids to a Princess and Pirates party at Chik-fil-a. The kids loved it. They had face painting, balloon animals, nail painting and bounce houses as well as a treasure hunt. They were so good and especially loved their faces, and Jack loved his balloon sword.

The beach

Here are a some pictures of our first trip to the beach this year. We are actually camping down in St. Augustine during this, but we didn't take any pictures of our campsite for some reason.

They have a little splash area at the beach which the kids loved to play at.

This is what happens when you cry at the beach, a mouth full of sand.

Going to Grandma's

A couple of weeks ago Savannah and I drove down to my Grandma's house in southern FL for a visit. We loved the weekend and had such a fun time. Savannah loved the special time with Grandma and playing with her dog, Maggie.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Many of you may not know that Brittany joined a 25 and older women's flag football team hosted by the recreation league this year. All of the players with exception of 1 were members of The Church, mostly from our ward. One of the counselors in the Bishopric asked Brittany upon our arriving to the ward if she played sports in high school, which we thought was a little odd at the time, but turns out he was the coach of the flag football team. Brittany had an amazing year! She was highly regarded by the QB and her teammates, and made some spectacular plays catching the ball as a receiver, and bouncing back and forth through defenders as a running back. Savannah, Jack and myself loved going to the games to root mommy on. She has been playing every Friday night since January.

We had a good team, but were going through some growing pains so lost several games. At the end of the year the 8 teams are split into an upper and lower bracket. In order to make the upper bracket we had to win our last game, and one of the other teams had to lose. As it happened we did win, and the other team lost, so we ended up as the number 4 seed in the upper bracket- set to play the number 1 team.

Last week we played the number 1 team, and Brittany was on fire. She caught two amazing over the shoulder passes in full stride and booked down field for TDs. It wasn't her highest TD night either (she scored 4 in one night- I know I am bragging, but she was awesome!) It was a close game though and we (the husbands) were nervous wrecks pacing on the sideline. They pulled out the win in a close game, but made the championship game.

Friday night they played the other 7-1 team (we were 5-3) that had beat us previously. We opened up with 4 straight touchdowns to their zilch! They came back and scored 2 TDs, but the game was over! The girls, I guess I should say women, were super excited, laughing and screaming. We went out to celebrate (as we had after all of the wins). We still don't know if the team gets anything, but it was certainly a fun time. Here are some pictures

Jack giving Mom a victory hug!

Brittany playing Cornerback- they were scared to throw her way!

Yes, she caught this ball! Diving in the air.

Here is Brittany and her teammates

Celebrating with teammate after the win

Here is Jack- He loved being around Mommy's football game. He kept me busy on the sideline