It's a BIRTHDAY BOY.

Yeah I know it's a bit late. I thought I'd already posted them but I rechecked and umm yeah, here you go!!

L turned 4 years old the other day and boy did we have FUN. This 1st picture is him after he 'helped' make his birthday cake. Every birthday they get to help and every birthday they really are more help. J can almost make his own!! The 1st time I looked at this picture I had to blink and look again. L looks JUST like a mini Uncle Danny in this picture. My brother Danny has a goatee and mustache like L has in the picture and they are surely related!!

This is him with his "birthday." Some of you may remember that before the kids birthday we take them into the local $$ store and they get to pick plates, napkins, cups and one 'special thing' for their birthday party. Normally this cost us less then $10 and makes the day for the child!! L has always called these things 'his birthday' and they wait in the 'birthday bag' until the party when he gets to open them and put them out ready to use. He really wanted a tiger cake. 1st it was a white tiger with black strips. Easy I thought. Then he changed it to a orange tiger with black stripes. EEEK. But it worked out. When I finished with the cake L came over to have a look and said. "Where is my tiger!!" and I thought OH NO. But I'd taken a picture of it, it really did look little like a tiger from close up, and he was very happy with it after that. He, as you can see, was VERY EXCITED!! :)
Here is a picture of the group of children. The T family came to help us celebrate and M&A and family also came later for cake. Uncle K and Auntie A and M and C came the next day to surprise him. Grandma and Grandpa F missed the party but we saw them a few days before the 'big day' so that was great. The T family has 3 children. A girl and 2 boys all with T names (the Papa and Momma have T names as well) and they are all 1 to 3 months younger then our oldest 3 children. They all get along great as well. So we always have a party with the T family. Oh and their last name is T too :)

Here is L blowing out his 'ducks' one of the things he picked out at the $$ store.

L loves CARS and has wanted a "Mac" for a long time. So he got one for his birthday. It was quite the sought after toy that evening as all 4 of the little boys wanted it and all 4 had to share!!! The next day L played with it ALL day and loves it still. Papa's grandparents send $$ up for the kids birthdays and Christmases every year and the "Mac" was actually from Granny and Bruce. Which the kids think is really special.

Easter Eating Fun.

We had a family of friends visit us over Easter (yes I'm catching up!! Sorry!!) and we had a great time. They had never been to our place up north and we enjoyed showing them around. Their 13 year old daughter took some of the wildlife pictures in the "We went for a drive and what did we see." We fixed up our camper for them and they spent 2 dry and warm nights in it. :) Bonus!! LOL. They loved our homemade ice cream!! Papa grew up with B (the dad) and we knew them as a family when we all lived in the same town several years ago. We drove down to visit them 3 years ago so they had seen J and L but had only seen E and R through pictures. Their girls are reaching teenage dome and so now was a great time to get us all together again. We went to a local Church we visit when our home church is canceled and we had a Easter dinner and egg hunt afterwards in the yard. Papa and B had fun hiding the eggs and D and I had a great time helping the kids find them and taking pictures. We also had a Bible reading and Papa explained to the children the meaning of Easter and why we celebrate it. Here is D with a mouth full of chocolate.
Oh where Oh where have those little eggs gone. We thought the kids had found them all that day but we found several more over the next 2 weeks.
J careful in all he does. Even chocolate. Though he did end up with some on his face.

R LOVES CHOCOLATE!! Yes in capital letters even. She adores it. So I made it as painless as possible so she could eat hers in peace and without too much mess.

L playing with a hollow egg. Kept him busy for a long time. Great times.

E stuffing her face with chocolate!! Monkey!!

C being a good sport and letting the little children go for the easy ones. You can see here how long ago this was. We now have green grass where the fort was.

All the kids lined up in a row. C (13) , J (5) , D (10) , L (4), E (2) and R (1).

I never did get a picture of their whole family. Which I had wanted. Maybe she'll see this and send me one!! :) Love you guys.