Some Pictures....

Jessica's 11th Birthday Party at the bowling alley
Brian being the helpful brother with Geoffery
Geoffery LOVES to bowl!!
Sydney bowled a GREAT game!!
Three of the kids, by this time Brian had hit the videogames!

The picture of Jess on her Birthday post, is from when we went to a Pioneer Village, for her class trip. It was a lot of fun and we learned a lot of neat things. Like how kids would have to bring a piece of coal to school in the winter months, and if you didn't bring yours, you sat in the back of the room LOL We got to watch them make FRESH "sorgum".... well, the whole process was interesting.... and it smelled terrible!! I assured her that it COULDN'T taste as bad as it smelled. Okay.... I lied. But honestly, I had NO idea. That stuff was NASTY!!!! As you could see from her photo :o)

Her party was a lot of fun, she had 3 of her best girlfriends make it, and they had a great time bowling, enjoying the cake/icecream and later some videogames :o)

Happy Birthday Jessica

Yup, Jessica is 11 today. Hard to believe that 11yrs ago I was holding my first baby girl. A troubled pregnancy early on, nothing that terrible, but constantly monitored incase of any true problems.... and here she was. This tiny bundle of joy. I couldn't believe I had a baby girl!! My sweet Jessica Lynn. She has grown up into a beautiful young lady. She is very helpful, considerate, and generous. She's a parents dream. Okay, enough sugar coating? LOL Nahh.... I'm not, I'm very serious. She's a great kid. I guess we're very lucky, as all our kids are really well behaved, smart, and polite. Jessica is all of the above and more and this is HER day today.

Saturday we had her party at the Bowling Alley... she had 3 good girlfriends show up and we had a blast watching the kids all bowl. They played some video games and goofed around, ate and had cake/icecream.... it was really a nice time for all the family and friends that attended.

She got some wonderful gifts, and even a little spending money that is burning a hole in her pocket :o)

We took some great pics from the party, I hope to post a few here later on today or this week.

On a side note.... I found this pretty amusing. The girls were supposed to be getting their room cleaned (hey, they're not PERFECT kids!!) and it wasn't getting very far. I reminded Jess that they get out early Tuesday, that we could make a trip to the NEW Target and she could spend her money... Sydney questions this, what does she need to spend money for??? It's her Birthday money I reminded her,... she wants to buy something. So, I thought a minute,... "if you get in and help out really good, I'm sure I could give you a little bit to spend too" "Nah, I don't need to spend any money" ???? She's 7. Smart lil thing. She totally shrugged it off like Bah cleaning!! I don't need anything THAT bad. I then reminded her that she had some money from the toothfairy.... she could spend that.... and she reminded ME that she was SAVING this money.... "so I can buy a car when I'm older" :o)