Dresses, Garden, Birthdays and More Emergency Room Visits

Dress of Last Week =)

Our garden went kind of crazy while I was gone in Missouri. This is Neil's happy place. Pigging out on broccoli flowers.

He also likes the banana peppers, but he doesn't like my grape tomatoes as much as he liked Grandma Richardson's romas.

Tegan and her buddies at a pool party.

Unfortunately, Tegan tripped at the pool party and fell into the bonfire. =( You wouldn't have known she was hurt with how she was acting, though. She was totally happy, dancing around, and held out her hands so the nurses could clean them and put bandages on. Just ask my good friend Kerry that came with me to the hospital. Thank you thank you, btw. Every time I go in to have her bandages changed, they can't believe how helpful and relaxed she is.

Happy Birthday, Uncle Devin!

All those candles produced a ton of smoke. =) Mmm... that was a tasty cake.

Gordon wanted a picture with Grandpa.

Neil opening his birthday present from Grandma and Grandpa Anderson. We were gone over his birthday and were finally able to get everyone together to open it.

Dress of the Week

Neil's 4th Birthday

I put my other Missouri pictures on Facebook, but I thought I would make a special post for Neil's big 4th birthday. It was a fun day. We went to the park, to Incredible Pizza(where Neil said he wanted to go for his birthday), and later opened presents back at Grandma's house. Neil was one happy boy. =)

Neil's present from Ciara and Laira.

Neil played with this for hours on our way home. =)

Cheese!

Tegan getting ready for the 4D roller coaster.

Neil getting ready to race.

Neil on the train!

Since Neil was the birthday boy, he got to spin the Wheel of fun and win a prize!

Opening presents

Of course, my Mom, being my Mom couldn't possibly just buy gifts for Neil. She had to get something for all the kids. Well, they were all super happy. Even Jamin was excited when he got a movie that he thought Neil would love. Then he realized what was meant for him was in a different bag.

Swimming, Kite flying attempt, Food Bank service project, new phone and Dress of the Week =)

Swimming

Neil is such a little fish.

head dipping

Jamin jumping

Gord jumping

more swimming

I thought this was so cute. The two of them sitting on the side of the pool.

We attempted some kite flying this week. It was a really windy day.

Our friend that came with us got hers up.

We were a little less successful. It got stuck in a tree. We'll try again this week. Perhaps on a little less windy day.

Our church did a huge service project this week. We put door hangers out throughout the week. Then on Saturday, we picked up the food. Our little branch collected about 1600 pounds of food for the local food banks. Everything helps this time of year.

Dress of the Week

Me taking a picture with my new iPhone. Hubby had a big optometry conference this weekend. We had a babysitter for about 20 hours this week for all the stuff that I went to as well. Thursday morning we went to a memory seminar. It was fascinating and quite entertaining. He taught us a way of remembering names and how to remember lists of things by associating them with a predetermined set of objects. We bought his set of 16 cds that are suppose to help us learn to be smarter. I have yet to look at them, but I will... eventually.

Anyway, on Friday we had a couple hours between the trade show and his class reunion dinner so Matthew asked if I wanted to go get an iPhone. He got one last month. It took a few seconds of arm twisting, but I agreed. =) It's an awesome phone. He got me the two year warranty since I tend to be hard on my phones and the most protective case they had. Actually the two previous pictures are with my phone too. The camera on the front doesn't take as high quality pictures as the camera on the back of the phone.

What is Missing at the Park? and Dress of the Week

Playing at the playground

What is missing in these pictures?

It's in the background in this picture. The giant wooden play structure! It is gone. I knew it was coming but it was a bit of a shock. They are going to replace it with a new place structure. It will be interesting to see what it will be.

Some swinging

Playing hide-and-seek in "the bushes" at the park

Dress of the Week

We also went to the zoo this week, but I couldn't find my camera at the moment. There is a ton of construction going on there. It looks like it will be awesome next year. There was a new butterfly exhibit that was interesting. There were beautiful flowers everywhere. There were mostly monarch butterflies and tons of caterpillars. There was a butterfly that flew down onto the path and before I could stop her, Tegan walked straight to it and stepped on it. We were all standing over it looking to see the damage and a lady that worked there came up and said, "Don't worry it is just sleeping. They take some time to wake up and start moving." She picked it up and set it off the path. That did appear to be true in some cases, but I don't think so in this one. =S