Happy Birthday Sam!

My mom gave Sam

Cars pj's and slippers.

They are so cute! We could

not get him to stand for

this picture.

The older boys blew out the candles before Sam could, so we had to light them again.

I've never had a child so obessed with Elmo.

Sam would watch Elmo all day long if I would let him.

So, when I saw this cake I could not pass it up.

We celebrated Sam's 2nd birthday this past week.
I can't believe how fast time flys!

He's growing fast.

Brig is already 6wks old.

He is such a sweet baby!

He has arrived! Brigham Lee Standage born on Oct 2nd. We are happy to have boy # 5.

Baby Brigham (Brig) has 4 brothers that are so excited for him the be here.

We celebrated Max's 7th birthday. He invited a few friend and we went to Peter Piper Pizza. I can't believe how fast they grow up!

We had a fun time with our cousins at the lake. Our boys had never been tubing and they could not get enough. We were exausted when it was time to go home. Now the boys want dad to get a boat. It's a good thing summer is almost over, it buys us time until next summer.

The boat was going a bit slower when Brian had Sam on the tube. Max and cousin Cody Standage were trying all kinds of tricks.

Brian and Sam

Max and Cole

Jake and Max on the tubes with cousins Sarah and Daniel Standage

On tuesday (the second day of school)we took the boys out of school early and headed up to Roosevelt lake for some fun in the sun with family. Our cousins from New York were here on vacation. The boys could not get enough of the slide off the back of the house boat.

This past weekend we escaped the heat and went up to Christopher Creek with some friends of ours. They have 1 girl that is 10, and 4 boys the same ages as our 4 boys. It dosen't get any better than that. Jake, Max, and Cole loved having all the open area to ride. Brian and I enjoyed sitting out in the rain and enjoying the cool weather.

We roasted marshmellows and made dutch oven apple cobbler. Yummy!

We went up north with our friends to their cabin. We had a lot of fun riding quads and looking for geocache boxes. The kids thought that was the neatest thing finding them out in the middle of no where.

We had such a fun time on out vacation to California. We spent most of our free time on the beach. The weather was amazing. It was cool enough to just sit there and watch the kids without having to get into the water to cool off. The water wasn't to cold for the kids either, they all got in.