Toothless Tyler

I have to do a post about Tyler's first lost tooth. He is so happy to have extracted his own tooth well before his sisters lost their first teeth. He will proudly tell you he lost his "first tooth at 6 years old"!

Tyler's handsome, if I do say so, 6 year old picture

School Halloween Parade

The spooks and the goblins came out early this morning for the elementary's annual Halloween Parade. It is always fun to see all the cute kiddie dressed up! Lots of parties, candy and fun!

Katelyn didn't want to damage her reputation or physical appearance in all this Halloween fun so she went with a safe cardboard costume that was easily removable.
She was the only iPod!

Amy was a beautiful witch!


Tyler went as Johnny Appleseed. When he was a little guy he loved to have Mike read a Johnny Appleseed book to him. Tyler would refer to him as "Johnny Appleseed Head".


Briggy had to dress up too. So we went with Spiderman and some spiked hair. He loves sporting around those big muscles!

Christian had to be woken up right before we left and the verdict is still out on what he will be this Halloween. A future post I guess! When he gets his picture taken he gets shy and always messes with something on his face.

100,000 Milestone

We went up to Idaho on Friday to Natasha's wedding reception we hit 100,000 miles on the van!
It was so good to see Tasha and meet her new husband, Chad. Natasha lived with us for about a year when we were in Maitland, FL.




We hit 100,000 miles with the van. A little over 7 years old! I think when we bought it new it had 13 miles on it.

Where have we been in those 100,000 miles?!

Happy Birthday Big T!

Today our big guy Tyler is 6 years old! We have been celebrating his birthday all week.





We had a party at Olive garden with my mom, whose bday is Sept 29th. Then he took treats to his class at school and celebrated with them on Friday.

We started today off with a donut birthday cake.I kind of wimped out this year in the cake dept. Tyler got a fishing pole for his birthday and has been fishing all day.




Tyler always takes care of all of us. He is a great helper. Tyler is a fast learner and is doing great in kindergarden. Right now he wants to know if something "stains?" and he also wants to know the time ("what day is it?", "how many days until halloween?", "how many minutes until he has to go to school?").
He is a greta friend and outgoing to those he just met. Now he is a great fisherman!
We love you Tyler!