Happy Birthday...

Kadence!!

she's 6 today!!

We wish so bad we could be there for your party.

miss you. love you.

Happy Birthday...

to Hallie

she's 2 today and on her way to Disneyland!!

Have so much fun!

Noah's audition

For the past year Colby's mom has been taking Noah one day a week and teaching him to sing. He naturally has a good voice, and this has been so great for him to learn a few things plus get some one on one time with his grandparents. Well tonight all that singing practice has paid off. And I bet Janet feels the same! She should...she's done all the work.

Every year we have the Dicken's Festival the first week in December. It's got a bunch of little booths that sell different things, and you wind your way through those to get to the food and stage where 'Oliver' and 'Scrooge' are performed.

Janet saw the auditions advertised in the paper and called to see if Noah would want to do it.

He said yes and tonight was the night.

I couldn't get the first video to load, which is the best one. But he sang the first part, then the guy had him back up about 10 feet and do it again a little louder (this video).

Then 10 more feet and a little louder.

Noah just belted it out. I was totally amazed.

He's a shy, nervous person so I didn't know how he would do at first.

He totally showed me!

When Noah was done the guy told him he wanted him to stay for the night if he could and rehearse with them. He definitely has a spot for him, he's just not sure which one right now.

We'll know next week.

So if you're here for the Dicken's Festival come watch one of the shows.

They're very cute.

Thanks Janet for all your hard work!!

Labor Day - Got peaches?

Ha. Our Labor day was actually celebrated on Saturday. No really. I guess I should say Colby's Labor Day. He got up and went out to the church orchard at 7:30 to pick peaches. They have so many right now they've opened it up to everyone to just go pick. You can take up to 200 lbs. He got home around 10:30 a.m. We started with this many peaches (only all the boxes were completely full)

We now have our year supply of bottled peaches

and jam

Plus we gave some away.

I can't really take credit for much of the work. I left right after he got home to run some errands, and when I did help all I really did was peel them or mash them. Colby did all the hard stuff. With a little help from his parents and Kent. What a {Labor Day}!

4 year old pictures

We are SO lucky to have a grandma that loves to take pictures.

And that loves taking our pictures.

One night we took Cutler out and got some pretty cute ones {if I do say so myself}.

He's not really one to pose, or sit and smile for very long.

But this night he did pretty good.

Good enough for grandma to break out the smarties.

Enjoy the picture overload!

Some of my favs...