Happy 7th Birthday, Jacob!!

Today we celebrated Jacob's 7th Birthday!!

I was busy packing the boys' lunches when I saw Jacob peeking his head over the edge of the steps...before he could remind me that it was his birthday I quickly told him Happy Birthday! I asked him how it felt to be 7 years old and he told me it was "AWESOME!!" He then explained why it was so awesome.. "Because now I'm the same age as Andrew!" (Andrew is a friend of his/ours!) :-)

Granny was his first phone call of the day to wish him happy birthday...

and she started singing...

He LOVED it!

 

Of course the boys had school today but we picked them up a little bit early and let Jacob choose what we should do... bowling! (and these are all cell phone pictures! I didn't realize we were going right to the bowling alley after picking them up!)

(Emily desparately wanted to bowl!)

(yes, it was us and then a group of 3 other people at the bowling alley! That was it!)

 

 

bowling was followed by Jacob's choice for dinner. He asked if we could go to Cracker Barrel so thats where we went! 

Jacob was quick today to tell everyone that it was his birthday, everyone including our waitress. So, after he ate his dinner, he had quite the surprise when a bunch of waiters and waitresses came over and sang him happy birthday. :-)

He called himself Frankenstein Jacob!

yes, that would be Emily playing with a thing of butter. She had eaten her dinner and was entertaining herself. .. .. and then this happened... 

What can I say, we both love butter. (side note: I don't generally just eat butter by itself and took it away from Emily after snapping the picture!)

Checkers!

The toy room is actually clean!!

Present time!

The legos he asked for (well, more specifically, the legos he asked for that I could find!)

Bernadette, don't look closely!! Zach wanted to get jacob a superhero lego thing but that was as specific as he got! I wrapped it up before the boys got home so Zach had no idea which I had picked up--as soon as Jacob opened it they both said "Hey! We already have this one! Auntie Bernadette got it for Zach!" That being said, Jacob doesn't want to take it back, he wants his very own.

Every 7 year old needs a musical Darth Vader card. (See Megan, I do know about Star Wars. ha!)

Duck Dynasty PJ's!

His only complaint about the pj's was his favorite person on the show, Willie, isn't on the pj shirt!

cake time!

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday dear Jacob!

Happy Birthday to you!!

nigh nigh big brother

 

I'm pretty sure he had a HAP-PAY HAP-PAY HAP-PAY 7th birthday!

 

(I just realized today, Oct 8th, that this never published on Jake's birthday!!)

air hog!

Jacob finally got to open his air hog tonight after dinner.. my pictures are sort of stinky and there's just a couple! (I left my battery charger for my good camera at my moms house and am saving the battery thats left on it for Jake's birthday tomorrow! I'll get the charger back next weekend for our trip for Hokie football!)

 

The boys all flew it.. then I flew it and the battery died.

 

More fun tomorrow for Jacob's 7th birthday!!

Grilling Competition!

Daniel and the boys were part of a grilling competition at our town's fall fest...and.........

THEY WON!!!

 

Some pictures from the competition...

(this guy, Greggy T, is the reason Daniel wore the hawaiian shirt)

 

My project!

We've needed a storage solution for toys in our living room for awhile now and I had a plan for what I wanted. Daniels been super busy so I decided to do it myself!

As my dad would say, not bad for a rookie!

I still need to fill in my nail holes and sand it and then paint it but I was too excited about how nice it actually turned out and just wanted to see how much I would love it once it was in place! 

Our basement decided it would flood last night (clogged sewer line) after Daniel was on his way to CT. Oh the joys of being a homeowner. We couldn't get a plumber in til tomorrow afternoon so Daniel decided to be Mr. Fixit and rented a big drain auger and took care of the problem! 

We're looking forward to a fun weekend....if we can just get through tomorrow without any issues!

boys' birthday party!

Daniel and I decided this year that we'd have one party for the boys in Virginia in between their birthdays (and it just so happened that we were already planning on being back home on the perfect weekend for a baby shower--pics from that to come later!). We had absolutely PERFECT weather, good food, and great company. :-)

 

My Aunt with her 3 week old grandson. I got to hold him! :)

 

Happy Birthday Daniel!

Today was Daniel's 32nd birthday! He had to work this morning but was able to leave early and relax a bit at home!

He requested his favorite cake... (same one he's requested every year for a long time!!)

Chocolate Praline Layer Cake. YUM!

32!

trying to be funny.

With the boys! Emily was already in bed. Jacob had his first religious education class tonight so we had cake after that!

silly!

We I sung him happy birthday. Jacob did the "cha cha chas." Zach would chime in every now and again in the song.

Pretty sure he was wishing for a slice of cake. ;-)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.