Jake and snake and PARTY

We met a new friend up in Eden last weekend- Jacob's DREAM pet and my worst nightmare-

So Jake was in heaven with his "pet" where papa Alan found it loose in the Laundry room- Talk about HEART ATTACK. But as for his birthday...

Jake's big day went off with a BANG. Just check out this great present: COOLEST...

Alex's favorite thing to do right now is take clothing out of the dryer or in this case, container, and go to town. He just does this evil laugh and looks up with his deceptive grin...it is cute (right now at least) and it keeps him occupied for a bit.

I love how he put Chad's green shirt over his head all by himself drowns him.

In Eden this past weekend, Alex took a dip in the pool and loved it.

Ashley is getting better with water- I still need to get her into swim lessons for this year- she tried last year and HATED it, but she wants to try again, so I had better jump on that.

Ashley learned to drive the Jeep up in Eden this time around and now, she is taking Max for a ride. For Jake's tenth b-day, he had a BLAST at Boondocks. I loved watching him with his buddies driving the cars and being boys. Every year he looks forward to his b-day party, so we do it right, instead of giving him gifts or money, he can choose and this is what he chose. He said it was his best yet. Well, money well spent then.

Alex detested touching this rubber ball. His look says it all.

Jake and his buddies and cousins. The big boys. He has noticably grown up this year.

Crazy, crazy kiddos.

Look at that kid's face- he is in heaven. So happy to see it.

Happy 10th b-day to Jake- "his best ever:)"