My Dad's 70th Birthday

We threw my dad a big 70th birthday bash out at his place in Canton. There were close to 100 friends and family there to make it such a memorable celebration. We catered Mexican food, had a DJ, and lots of good times. It was such a wonderful time and we are very thankful for all 70 years of our Dad's life!

Taking a spin in the paddle boat

Thankful for my cousins who live on a dairy farm to help with moving the port-a-pot and hanging the sign. They felt right at home!

Dad with his children
Ready to party

Sweet Brooke hanging out

Off on the 4 wheeler

Brooke and Aunt Jackie
The boys dancing

My bro giving a great toast for my dad

Jackie getting pulled in on the carriage
All of the family that came to celebrate..minus my kids already loaded in the car and Bryce aka Mr Romeo that was MIA

Ben's Field Day

Ben had his field day the last day of school. It was his first field day so he didn't really know what to expect. We started out with a closing chapel and then let the games begin. He had a lot of fun!

Digging for treasures

Popsicle
Ben and Reul
Soccer
Simon Says
Tattoo


Obstacle course

Balloon Toss

Mrs Chavez, one of his teachers

Mrs. Rowan, his other teacher who he should have next year too!!
Sack race.....he was super quick. Hard to even get his picture

And finally....bubbles. It was a fun day, but it was sure hot for May.

Ben's School Program

Ben had his end of the year school program, Fishers of Men. Based on previous programs that Ben has participated in, I was not expecting him to sing much. His teacher, Mrs. Rowan, had told me that he was singing during the rehearsals so that was at least promising. We were pleasantly surprised that Ben sang during the whole performance and even did all the hand movements!

It was the first time I was able to use my new zoom lens that I got for my birthday. It was great! Based on were we were sitting, the pictures turned out great and really up close.

Walking in

Ben and Addy just to the left
Brynna in the orange hat

All done
Brooke made it through.....barely

Brooke's Eighth Month

Brooke had a great month. Not a lot of new developments, but fine tuning the ones she already has. She has been pulling up on everything she possibly can and her balance has improved a lot. She started cruising this month and has been pretty tough as she sometimes likes to be a little too adventurous. She started feeding herself puffs and Cheerios early this month. This has helped greatly when I am getting dinner ready or when we are out to dinner. She is an extremely fast crawler and can get to anything she wants in no time. We also call her the little vacuum as she doesn't miss the smallest speck and it's instantly in her mouth. Lots of mouth sweeps are being performed. It's been a big transition for me as she is into everything now and I have to make sure the floors are clear! This is hard with 2 big messy brothers. Some days are better than others.

I haven't mentioned before how she likes to babble. She makes lots of sounds and has been saying ma-ma and da-da for awhile now. Of course she does ma-ma more when she is upset and wants something! It's great to see her communication is definitely age appropriate after working with Blake's speech at such an early age.

I realized that most of my pictures of her have been at different outings that I have already posted about. Here are a few different ones of Brooke during her 8th month.