Gotta love a girl with a pink glove that's not afraid to get dirty!
Slugging away --- that's my little lefty!! 
What a sweet little girl!
Her cake had puppies on it! It was REALLY cute! Avery had a sweet little cake JUST FOR HER as well!! She LOVED IT!
Now it's time to open presents!! YEA! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVERY!
Here we have Savannah, Benny, Aiden, Nicholas and Parker! These boys are our neighbors and good friends!
Savannah with her best buddy from across the street, Logan and Caleb --- aren't they cute?
Aiden and Benny
Look at this motley crew! Austin, Ethan, Nicholas, Parker and Tyler
Below you can see Chad workin hard making squares we can actually lift!
Aiden is such a good worker!
It was so fun to have everyone working together! We were all pretty excited to get this done!
Look at that! 
Had to take a quick picnic break before going to purchase the plants....we did this a couple of weeks later than we should have so we couldn't plant seeds.
Parker and mom planting the peas!
The finished product! We planted tomatoes, zuccini, peas, carrots, banana peppers, green peppers, jalapino peppers, cantaloupe and a raspberry bush! Can't WAIT to watch it grow!!
One weekend I got a wild hair up my butt and decided to paint it! I actually used paint that was left over from other areas of the house and amazingly, it matched his bed set PERFECTLY!! Check out the finished product!
Three little goobers ready for a movie!
We are obviously happy to be here!
The old organ that used to be played during musicals, silent movies, ect...
The kiddo's wanted to sit in the balcony! 
After the movie (which, was not as good as the first one in my opinion!) --- it's OFF to Mexican Village for supper...yummy!!
Savannah and Grace...such "besties"! Yes...they ARE wearing skirts, but they are GIRLS afterall and there isn't much time for them to be worn! At least we have our HOODS!!
Map of the world and a globe...you're supposed to find the racoon using clues and a picture on the globe!
Here Aiden is putting together a large, magnetic, MAP of the United States!! GO BUDDY!
Savannah milking a cow....what?! We DO LIVE in MN/ND, folks!!
A giant mouth you can brush the teeth, there are trivia questions, the teeth even come out and tell you when you can expect them to fall out of your mouth! See those dots on the tongue? Those are the different tastes your tongue senses...sweet, sour, etc! So fun!
Parker is SUCH a good sport! He is WAYYYY TO BIG for this place; however, he plays along and helps "educate" the littler ones! This is a HUGE listening dish...on the other side of the house is the other one...it's kinda like the concept of a phone that is made out of cans and a string. The cool part is that he could ACTUALLY HEAR ME when I whispered into the one across the house! 
PRINCESS THRONE!! MAKE WAY FOR YOUR HIGHNESSES...her ladyship SAVANNAH, and her ladyship GRACE! 
Yep, they have an ACTUAL LIVE, WORKING bee hive in this place!
It was just LUCKY that this educational beehive had enough spaces for our oldest little "worker bees"!! Aren't they CUTE!? And, I only had to ask ONCE and took this pic in ONE TAKE! Man, they are GOOD!!
Too stinkin' cute, right!? Yeah...you WISH you could hate them, but they are as beautiful and wholesome on the INSIDE as they appear on the OUTSIDE! We really have a special place in our hearts for the Perry family! (if you've been following my blog, this is the product of those maternity pix I have posted of my girlfriend Angie!)
Here we find our "BOYS" in the "Reading Nook"...it's a little library section of the house that has a couple of spots for reading with comfy pillows and an actual "nook" for those that really want to get away! Isaac carried this fruit from another section of the house and I found Parker in here reading to Aiden...that boy AMAZES me...it was a good day!
Well, she is having herself a sweet, QUIET little tea party! She had filled up this set with water and was having tea with her princess friends...you know, Belle, Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty --- they were all in attendance!! Sometimes it's nice to enjoy the quiet imaginations of GIRLS!
