Happy Birthday Michelle!

We celebrated our good friend Michelle's birthday tonight at Kanki.  Graham and Kennedy had a blast!

If only I had the before picture!

I'm a sucker for a sale or a clearance rack so as a result I have a nice stockpile of toys for the boys and their friends. I also love to reuse gift bags.  Please tell me you do too!  This closet was a total disaster and in fact, spilled out a couple of feet into the office.  With the help of some leftover bags from G's bday party and a little rearranging I ended up with a much improved gift closet.

One for fun!

Downtown Raleigh

VROOM!

If Jimbo has his way this is a preview of things to come.  However, given recent trips to the ER I can't say that i'm in agreement.  They are pretty darn cute on them though!

Cousins

Sometimes the saddest of occasions can make for some of the best times of your lives.  Ryan's cousins are a ton of fun and we had a great time while in North Dakota for Grammie Jean's funeral.  I think that's just the way she would have wanted it - a celebration of her life!

Leaving...on a jet plane!

 We headed up to North Dakota for Grammie Jean's funeral.  Not the reason we wanted to visit the Dakotas again, but a very nice trip despite the circumstances.  It was G and PJ's first trip on an airplane and they were troopers.  It was stressful, but given the circumstances they did really really well.  G even got to meet the Captain on our flight from Cleveland to Raleigh.  He was so excited!  We had a very nice visit with the cousins as well as GG and Papa.  More on that later.

If only he had been this still the whole time!

Ditto!

G wanted to ride on the cart so bad he went up to the driver and asked him
all by himself to take us.