Birthday BOY!

On Sunday Kace turned SEVEN years old. I can't believe it. It means I am getting OLD. Kace had a birthday party this year and was REALLY excited (understatement). We started his birthday on the Wedesday before his birthday with Grandma and Grandpa Jones coming over for a birthday dinner and his soccer game (they were going to PA to visit Mel and were going to be gone on his actual day so we celebrated early. We had a good time and Kace loved having them come to his game.
His actual bday was on a Sunday and turned out to be the same day as our primary program. So Grandma and Grandpa Andrew, Brandon and Chelsea, and great-grandma Andrew came to church with us. Another fun dinner followed (Cortney showed up in time for the dinner....go figure :) )




The day he was most excited for was Monday because that was the day of his birthday party with all his friends. He wanted an under the sea party, but we kind of altered it a bit. First we played, "don't eat pete". I loved playing this game at parties when I was a kid and was pleasantly surprised at how much fun they had playing it too.

We then pretended we were pirates and went on a treasure hunt for their buried treasure (i.e. treat bags). When Nate turned 8 he did this same activity for his birthday party and Kace has always wanted to do one. We gave them about seven clues and thankfully the rain stopped just in time so they could go outside (I was praying).

Then came the fishing adventure. We filled up a little plastic kiddie pool and got a bunch of little planter fish in it. The kids got to 'catch' the fish with their hands to take home (sorry moms! :) ) They LOVED this.

Kace is such a joy to have in our family. He is always the peacemaker and loves to make people laugh. He can be such a goof ball. His favorite color is blue and his favorite food is macaroni and cheese. He likes to play soccer, baseball and basketball and is very very excited for when he is old enough to play football. He loves to go camping and fishing. We LOVE our Kace!

End of summer

Of course I couldn't NOT do a post about Kace's first day of 1 grade. I seriously, (and I know every mom says this) can't believe he is in first grade already. I asked him while he was eating breakfast the first day of school what he thought first grade was going to be like and he said, "Lots and lots and lots and LOTS of math." I hope for his sake he is right or he will just be working on his workbook at home. He was excited to go all day and to ride the bus again. We have to meet the bus about a 1/2 mile from our house, so we do a lot of waiting :)



Also a couple of weeks ago (I think it was like August 15) I went up to the mountains to put some salt out for the little deeries, so that they would be in the area when Nate went hunting and it SNOWED. Not just a little snow, but like a blizzard, it stuck to the ground and I was NOT prepared for snow and froze my BUTT off.

It seems like every night Kace wants to go swimming in the pond. So we all head out there and he chases the ducks around. Luckily Ty doesn't like to go out too far.........yet!

Lately whenever Ty sees the camera he wants to take a picture with "mama". I have a million of these.

Sometime in August Kace was begging to do a lemonade stand....I was trying to find this picture of Heidi, Kami and I and our lemonade stand when we were little. We were sitting there looking like rag muffins and our lemonade was 2 (yes TWO) cents. Anyway, fast forward to last month when kace wanted to have a lemonade stand. We decided to go to the Weese's so that we could get a little bit more traffic going by. He was so excited to go buy something at King's. Thank goodness for Jami, Shirleen, Curt and Cami......so he made $4.25 (I think....it was $4 something). Anyway, he had a good time and Ty had fun playing with Boston.