Party!

We had one last party on Sunday. Granpa Ben came over to the Hall's for dinner and cake. Here is a picture of him with some of his great grandkids. We love Granpa Ben.

Build A Bear

Jeff got to spend his birthday at the movies watching Cars 2 and then going to Build A Bear. What a nice dad. Cooper got a gift card from his cousins to go to Build A Bear. He was so excited to finally go and actually buy something there. He chose a dalmation dog and some Lightning McQueen pj's. He had a hard time picking a name. But he ended up choosing Lightning McQueen! haha.

Then we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's and Cooper helped Jeff with the irrigation. As you can see he had fun.

FoRtY

This guy deserves his own post. He was not too excited to be turning OvEr tHe HilL but we still celebrated anyway. He always said when he turned 40 he was going to get a Harley. Well that didn't happen. So he got some new arrows and a target for his bow. Super exciting. We are happy Jeff puts up with us and he's lucky we still put up with him too. :)

The other birthday boy

It's not as fun to have a birthday when you get older, and share it with other people, and turn 40! haha. The weekend was absolutely crazy. We seriously went from one thing to the next all weekend. I hope Jeff didn't feel to left out. I tried to have a party for just him. My family met him at Costa Vida, one of his favorites. Then we came back to my parents for cake and ice cream. I made him a german chocolate cake. It totally fell apart, but it tasted good. We also sang to Jamee, Cooper and Preston who had a birthday earlier in the week.

Celebrate!

We went to Mesa/Gilbert for the weekend to party hard! We celebrated Cooper, Avery, and Jeff's birthday at Heather's. We had pizza, cupcakes, and went swimming.

July 21st is Cooper's birthday and his girl cousin Avery. July 22nd is Jamee's birthday and July 23rd is Jeff's birthday. He also shares that day with Grandpa Ben. Needless to say, there are alot of parties happening this weekend!

FIVE!!!!

How can this be? My little baby boy is five today. He was so excited for his birthday. He told us that we had to wake him up and yell Happy Birthday. But that's kind of hard when he wakes up at the crack of dawn. He came into my room and said he was awake. I told him to go back to his bed and pretend he was asleep so I could go wake up the girls. He is so silly.

He got to pick his birthday lunch. We weren't surprised when he picked McDonald's. Then we had cake and ice cream when dad got home. It was a fun day. But his celebrating is just getting started. We have a crazy weekend ahead of us.

Having fun

We set out one morning to collect sea shells. There is an area on the beach we always go. Well it had totally disappeared. The tides have been kind of crazy the last couple of years. We got a little soaked by the waves so we had to get up on the boardwalk. And how sad that was the only family picture we took. That's attractive.

Lindsay

I got Lindsay all ready for her pics. I took 1 and the next thing I knew she had changed into her souvenir pajama shirt. Oh well. She's still a cutie.

I have no words...

This kid is as crazy as they come. Never a dull moment with Cooper. I was trying to take a nice picture but he kept posing crazy then he'd tell me to take his picture. But I did get at least one cute/normal picture.

Daisy

I'm pretty sure I wasn't this cute when I was 11.

Oceanside 2011

The best vacation ever! We love the beach.