We have a lot of summer birthdays here at the Ferguson house. Destiny is July 17, Avery & I share August 1 and Paxton is August 17th. Being home this year, in the summer, Avery begged for a sleepover with her new camp friends for her special day.
On the blog today, Happy Birthday, Avery!
Come on over and read alllll about it!
Hugs, T
We are celebrating Destiny’s birthday on the blog today, as well as sharing our Ohio trip through Amish country!
Hugs, T
Love sharing my bday with my sweetest little bday gift!!! Come see how we celebrated….
Hugs, T
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Destiny just turned 11 this month. ELEVENNNNNNNNN. {Pretend there is a nice photo here} I haven’t done her 11 year photo session yet, but soooon! 🙂 Here is our Little Miss, just a few weeks old…. And what about us? … Continue reading
This is a fully loaded blog post title if I ever saw one!!!! And talk about photo-laden. Phew! Brace yourself people!
We had a FABULOUS and crazy weekend! First up, the MCC Sale, which Dale and I have gone to every year since we were kids. We both remember hanging out under the stage by the lake all day with our friends and can’t BELIEVE we don’t remember meeting. The relief sale is so fun, and all proceeds go to help those in need across the globe…..I talked more about all of that last year. We are always looking for fun places to go walk around as a family!
And let’s not forget eating that yummy food! We don’t eat supper there, but do pack a few things to have snack time with their oh-so famous Cheese Curds and New Years Cookies!
Destiny’s 2nd cousin, Brooklyn, got to join us. Here are the photos from our evening:
Freshly made Whoopie Pies. OH MY YUMMY GOODNESS……
I’ve apparently raised Paxton right, to have SUCH appreciation for these sorts of things……
But no, I wouldn’t let him have any. Come on now, he had already had a New Years Cookie!
Check out these 8 years olds, talking on the Brooklyn’s toy cell phone, like a bunch of teenagers…oh boy!
“Me too, Momma. Take my picture while I do it just like big brother.”
We had a picnic snack in the grassy area by the lake and stage, and the girls put on an AMAZING dance and singing show!
Playing with the zoom on my new lens….Guess it’s Ty’s turn for the toy cell phone?
Still playing with my lens. I present to you, “The many faces of Dale.”
Time to go, it’s getting late and our rule is “Always leave while everyone is still happy!” 🙂
Dale celebrated the big 3-1 on Saturday, and of course I made him his FAVORITE, Lemon Pudding Dessert! That old post made me giggle when I re-read it. (Might have been the image of me chasing a fox down the driveway in robe and slippers.) AND, I couldn’t believe how much Paxton has changed, or my dessert photo!
We partied it up down in the basement of my Uncle’s office, since there were HORRIBLE storms all through the mid-west, and we don’t have a storm shelter or basement!
This article, shared on facebook Saturday afternoon says:
“In an unusual move, national weather forecaster have issued an early warning, that conditions are ripe for violent tornadoes to rip through the Midwest this weekend. The expected weekend storms will stretch from Texas to Minnesota and could be a “high-end, life threatening event”.
This is only the second time in history that the Storm Prediction Center issued a high-risk warning more than 24 hours in advance…….
The worst weather is expected to develop late Saturday afternoon between Oklahoma City and Salina, Kan., Other areas also could see severe storms with baseball-sized hail and winds of up to 70 mph, forecasters told the AP.”
Have you every tried to pack 6 people for an unknown amount of hours to go to a location with no toys or beds? This is what it looks like. 
Plus a big bag of water and snacks. And a bean bag. And a trike. And the dog and cat.
Ok, not the dog or cat, but the kids would’ve loved that. Oh, and in the end no bean bag or trike either. We quickly ran out of room in the Tahoe.
While we were there with family, we went ahead and made the best of it, and had a mini celebration for Dale’s birthday!
We played Monkey in the Middle on the stairs and other games, too…..
The kids got to watch a movie, and I got some crafty stuff done.
We were in that office basement from 5:30 to almost 10. At the time, 50 tornadoes had been sighted all around us, but all seemed to calm down after that, so we decided to head home. Paxton snored the whole way, and as soon as we got there, Tylan crashed on the living room floor. Poor sleepy babies! 10:00 bedtime is A LOT different from the norm!
Just as we unpacked the very full car, and had gotten all the kids down, a whole new batch of storms fired up SW of us. At one point they thought they were coming to our town……GREAT, and we just got home, too! We decided to keep an eye on things and just use our play closet for shelter if something changed. Praise God, nothing happened! {YAWN} That was a short night and a LOT of weather-channel watching!!!!!
The God we serve is such an AWESOME God!! Hearing reports of how tornadoes lifted just in time to miss entire towns…wow! He hears our prayers and works in mysterious and wonderful ways!! Now, while we are talking about praying, let’s pray we don’t have another night like that for a long time! Phew! Over 100 tornadoes touched down all around us, over the course of the night and early hours of the morning. A nearby county reports an estimated total of $280 million in damage. 😦
Windows Live Writer won’t let me post anymore, so the “Ree Makes 3” part of this post will be have to be continued…….
In the next post! 🙂
~T
Yesterday was Tylan’s 5th birthday! We do big family parties for 1st and 2nd birthday’s, but after that we choose not to do large parties. Too many gifts, too much hoopla. Growing up, we got to pick what we wanted for supper, maybe have a friend over, and we didn’t have to do chores all day long. This is a tradition we have decided to pass on to our kiddos!!!! SO, this means Tylan didn’t have to make his bed, or clear his breakfast dishes or unload the dishwasher. He had a lot of fun watching the girls do his chores, and they had a great attitude about it. 🙂
They also get to pick what birthday treat they want to make for their school friends/evening party.
He wanted Lego Cookies this year:
I found this recipe via Karenpie, and this is her photo above. It seemed simple enough, but as of 11 pm last night (on Valentines Night of all things) Dale and I finally scrapped the whole thing and switched gears. Let’s just say simple wasn’t as simple as I first thought, and icing and flooding……not my thing!
So we took the rectangle cookies and turned them into these:
That’s still fun, right?! 🙂
With the leftover dough, we made stars for the evening part of Ty’s birthday.
Note to self: mini stars are cute and fun, UNTIL its time to frost them. Holy cow, I think I frosted cookies right up until it was time to head to dinner! This platter isn’t even half of them!!!!!
Here are the pictures from the rest of our evening:
BBQ Chicken Jalapeno is one of my FAVORITES!!!!
So is the Greek Pizza!
After dinner, we headed over to Great Grandpa & Grandma’s house for Star cookies and presents:
Our birthday kids get 3 gifts from us, just like Christmas. I had fun shopping at an old fashioned toy section of a local specialty grocery store.
Sweet Great Grandma provided us with 5 candles since we didn’t have a cake to poke any in.
Thanks everyone for a great evening!
Tylan was THRILLED to have you join in his special day!
~T
Happy Labor Day! I forgot we all had the day off and went ahead and planned a post for you.
My Grandpa turned 82 last week, so we decided that was a great reason to get together and celebrate over the long weekend!
We enjoyed BBQ ribs, pulled pork, Linguini Oh-Yeah, chips & dips, followed by Grandma’s FAMOUS chocolate chip cookies and Nana’s nearly as famous, Homemade Peach ice cream made with Colorado Peaches, of course. YUMMO!
During dessert, Paxton decided to take matters into his own hands and use an Everyone-is-Distracted Moment to help himself to some homemade ice cream…
Well goodness sakes, how can I be upset looking at a SWEET face like this?
Yes, I let him have some, we all did. Little beggar got his fill, no worries!
After supper the kids BEGGED to play The Game With No Name. Ok, maybe it has a name, but at the moment I cannot recall it. I’ll explain it to you instead:
All the grown ups and kids stand in a circle.
Whoever is “it” takes the ball round and round the circle, sneakily dropping it behind an unsuspecting grown up or kid, then runs….
If you get the ball dropped behind you, you grab it and RUN in the opposite direction of the “it” person, trying to beat them back to their spot.
Hey!!!! It’s kind like Duck Duck Goose expect with a ball and no talking! (Did you see that light bulb moment happen?! What can I say, I loose brain cells with every pregnancy!)
To say my kids enjoyed The Game With No Name That Is Kinda Like Duck Duck Goose with No Ducking or Goosing, would be a bit of an understatement. In fact, I am surprised Destiny has a voice left at all as much cheering and screaming she did!
Great Grandpa and Grandma had just run a 5k that day, and their legs hurt, so they decided to sit out.
Ok, not really, but either way, they had fun watching!
Time for a few gifts!
We gave him a Daily Journal called “Grandpa, Tell Me Your Memories…”
I am so excited to have him fill it out, that man has STORIES like you would not believe!!!!! And I sure can’t recall them all, you know, with brain cells missing, as previously discussed. This book will be priceless to my kids as they grow up!
As everyone gathered around the Birthday Boy, I saw an opportunity and called for a Group shot!
Easy right?!
Wrong!
Close enough! That’s a wrap, people.
Happy 82nd Birthday, Grandpa! We LOVE you!
xoxo
~T
Here are some photos from the Oh-so amazing First Year we’ve had with him:
Welcome home, Paxton!
One month:
Two months:
Three months:
Four months old:
Five months:
Six months old:
Seven months:
Eight months old:
Nine months:
10 months:
11 months:
12 months:
Oh little one, slow down.
Stay in Mommy’s arms a bit longer,
For time is slipping by like sand in an hour-glass.
The busyness of life, robbing precious moments sitting on the floor with you; reading, playing patty-cake, blowing raspberries on your soft tummy.
Oh little one, slow down.
It’s just not fair for you to grow up so quickly
Toddling away from me at every chance,
Learning new things at every turn.
Oh little one, slow down.
Give Mommy a chance to catch her breath from this whirlwind called life.
Stay a baby for a moment longer,
Let me draw you close to my heart and drink in your sweet baby smells.
Let me feel your little hand clasp mine.
Oh little one, slow down.
For you are my last baby,
The perfect final puzzle piece in our big picture…..
God knew we needed you to make our home complete.
Oh little one, slow down…..
even if only for but a moment in time.
Oh little one, please slow down, for I need to hold you in my arms just a little longer…..
Oh little one, how I love you……
xoxo Mommy
”No one else knows the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside.”
4 little Fergusons 