More Party Pictures!

Asa Blowing out the candles.
Presents!
I wish we could do sound with pictures. Asa screamed out "this is just what Ive always wanted!" with every gift!
And somehow these photos got out of order. Here is my good friend Paula and I are cutting up that beautiful castle cake!

Asa had a great time at his birthday party. As I tucked him into bed that night he said "Thank you mommy for the best birthday party ever!"

Finally Asa's 4th Birthday!

Asa and his "kinght" buddy Tommy from ECFE.
My good friend Jen made Asa this great castle cake!
Princess Lily and her Queen mother Julia (Tommy's mom too!)
Annika, her sister Raya and Grace making crowns.
Tommy and Asa attacking the great big couch dragon! Thank goodness these great knights saved us from this hideous monster!

Asa had a "Knight" Birthday party in November. Yes his birthday is October but that month had so many things scheduled that it couldn't be fit in. It was a costume party the girls came as princesses and the boys were knights!

The Best Flowergirl

The ceremony. My cousin Jessica married Craig Kalkbrenner. Lucky man.
The bride-to-be and her favorite girl in the world!
She did a wonderful job and enjoyed herself just as much.


Grace was so proud to be the flower girl at my cousin Jessica's wedding. On her way to the church she told me "Mom, today is my special day!" She also said "Ya know mom Im getting pretty good at this flower girl thing. I bet I could get a job doing it." You see this was her second wedding as a flower girl, the first was Uncle Jed and Auntie Molly's wedding. And this next fall she will be again for my sister Maria! Maybe I could rent her out......hmmmm.

Ramdom Cute Pictures

He is bottle free these days. These are rather old photos but cute none the less!
Grace was playing mom and was putting Zeke to bed.
Just plain ol' cute.

Always ready for a picture!

Mystery of the Missing Cardreader Solved!

I was on the phone with my mom on Sunday discussing why the birthday pictures weren't up on the blog yet. I told her about the missing cardreader and then there was silence. "Wait" she said. "Is it silver and it has an end that looks like it plugs into a computer?" "Yes." I reply surprised she knew what I was talking about (my mom is pretty slow to warm to computers let alone their gadgets and such). "THATS WHAT THAT IS!" She yells to my dad.

Yeah. Somehow the last time they were here she packed up the cardreader and took it to Duluth with her! I have no idea how it happened and neither does she. But its there and when it gets here I will post Asa's birthday photos along with Grace the most beautiful flower girl in the world!

Oh, and yes for all of you who know my mom and her cleaning "issues", since she didn't know what it was she was going to throw it away! Good thing I caught her in time!

A Really Good Reason...

We have misplaced our card reader! Otherwise I would be putting cute captions on all of the pictures from Asa's "Knight" birhtday party! But no here I sit with really great pictures and no way to share them! So frustrating.

Feeding time

These pictures are from dinner last night (pasta) and breakfast (blueberry pancakes) this morning. My Mom tells me I had the same etiquette as a child. ;)

The Cut

Here is Grace right after she cut her bangs. I couldn't find the pictures but finally here they are!

And the tooth Fairy Gets a 2 for 1 deal!

Yep thats 2 teeth down one to go! Her top front tooth is loose now too! She is so happy that she is turning into a big kids now. Meanwhile Im missing my little butt scooter who refused to walk until 15 months old! Sigh. Time moves so quickly.

The motovation was that Grace found out that the tooth fairy was running a Polly Pocket special! If you leave her a 2 teeth you get a Polly and your favorite treat! She laid down and said "Ok let's do it Mom!" My daughter knows better than to pass up a special!

Just Like Dad

Barnabas was cleaning the porch windows the ohter day (his experience as a window washer in the past comes in so handy!). And the boys were watching him work. A couple days later this is what I found on the front porch!

The New Plan

Asa got his birhtday present from Uncle Jed and Auntie Molly today. You can't tell buy the picture but he is very excited about it (his new favorite thing is to do the opposite of what you ask...gotta love 3! Thank goodness 4 will be here soon!).

He now has a new plan for his life...professional baseball forget Bob the Builder!! This is day one with the hat, I am going to keep count of how many consecutive days he wears it and post that later! Zeke got a miniture version of the hat but he has yet to keep it on long enough to get a picture (but when I do you will find it here!).

The Things you Let the Third Child Do....

Visiting 1890

Not sure if they like the horses or not.
The boys are ready for school!
Such beautiful kids! They must have an amazing mother!
Grace gets to try the fiddle!
Love of the horses has been decided by the time we left.

On Labor day we went to "Murphy's Landing" in Shakopee. It's a little town set to be in the 1890's, all the folks are in period clothing and the houses are open for touring. It was a great time. Here are the pictures from our mini trip!

Good O'l Games

Race of the raw egg!

They never did fall off the spoon!

The funny part about this game (the pan toss) is that Asa was afraid of the pans the first go round but he did manage to to play the next time around (2 hours later). On the way home Nanny (Barb, Barnabas' mom) asked him why he was so afraid. He said "Because the pans were talking and had arms and I thought they were going to grab me." Seemed logical to him.

My Beautiful Girl

This is a picture fo Grace as we enjoyed the beautiful weather at Murphy's Landing

Chalk...Mmmm tasty!

Look at those teeth. As you can see he tried all the colors!

Too cute!

Rub-a-dub-dub...

...Three Howard's in a tub!

New Friends!

Heaven, Zeke, Brianna, her brother Dajuan and Asa
Asa, Grace, Zeke, Brianna, Heaven, and Dajuan
Asa and Dajuan (DJ)

The kids have made friends with a family two doors down. They play together most days between our two houses. They have a great time and are bummed that come next week school will start and they won't be able to play as much. But after school they will be up to their old ways!

An Exciting 1st Birthday

We had Zeke's first birthday party last weekend (even though he will be one on Monday). As you can see he was very thrilled by his party. :-) He fell alseep directly after lunch and didn't wake up till everyone had left! My Mom has most of the pictures on her camera so I will post more when she brings down her camera this week (don't forgrt the computer cables mom!).

Zeke had a great first birthday (even if he couldn't stay awake for it)!