Abby Is ONE!

Happy Birthday Abby! Today is Abby's 1st birthday! We are going to have some fun celebrating today! Then Aunt Julie, Uncle Kermit and Kaeli and Kyler come tomorrow so we'll have more fun celebrating this weekend! Abby has had a pretty quiet day, yesterday she was sick so today she is recovering a bit! But she's already had Jake sing to her and phone calls from family and watched Bear in the Big Blue house--- Tutter's birthday party:) and tonight she can look forward to dinner and ice cream with papa and ma and presents to open! We love you Abby and wish you a very happy and special First Birthday!

love,

mommy, daddy and jake!

This last week was good...
-we almost have Abby's room done, thanks to Ma for making the curtains and helping out so much!
-Jake had a great week of "F" at his school. He colored a fireman named Uncle John and shared a feather. He just loves school!
- we will have a new piano or two this week. Well not new but antique we're excited about our new addition to the house. Atleast I am I can't wait to play again! Our church was getting rid of some old ones, so we'll see what we need to put into them:) Thanks to dad for doing a little research for us!
-As you can see on the pictures we celebrated Papa's birthday! Jake and Abby surprised him at the clinic with some balloons and candy and then we all went out to dinner!
- I am playing on a softball team... let's just say I'm officially bad! They've made me the catcher! Its o.k. I'm handling it quite well:)
- Ben's off to a b-ball clinic this weekend and getting very ecited about the season! Here we GO!
- By the way for those of you who didn't know, we're the Ark City Bulldogs!
-Also My sister, Brother-in-law and niece and nephew are coming out to visit! YAH! I'm so excited and they will be here to help us celebrate Abby's 1st b-day! I can hardly believe it!
Well I'm still working on settling in over here so i'm just trying to update when I have a chance, hope this gives you an idea of what's going on over here!

Jake's Birthday!

Jake had a fantastic party! He had so much fun with all his little friends. Drew, Daniel, Alex, Owen, Campbell, Talby and Annie! Jake was all about them being there to play! They swam, did the slip and slide, jumped in the bouncy house... tried to knock open the pinata... and more! Jake was so cute and just kept going and going! His Papa and Ma also came which always makes him happy! Check out more pictures of Jake's big day on his blog...

since then we have been back to Pittsburg to visit our friends! We've made it through the MAYB kick off tournamen... and down to Oklahoma City to pick up my friend Renee VanKooten who came to visit! It's been crazy and busy and that's why it's taken so long to update.

I will soon be flying out to Washington to visit my family and friends...just me and the kids:( Ben will be starting his job July 1st... we'll still be gone. We haven't decided on anything as far as moving etc. so it could get very interesting in the next couple of weeks! Tomorrow we're hoping it's nice so we can take Jake to the park with the water fountains so he can play all day! I'll try to keep updates coming quicker!