Happy Birthday Mom!!

Since my mom's birthday usually falls on or around Labor Day, we usually get together and cookout for both. This year it was the family plus Kathey and John David. We had a little trouble with the cake :) :)


It was still delicious!!!

Happy Birthday to You!!



Happy Birthday Momma!!

After cake, my mom found some old clothes in her closet from when she was a teenager. I can't remember now if it was my grandmother or great-grandmother who made them. She decided to torture Jade and make her try them on!! As you can see Jade loved every minute of it ;)


This was my mom's bathing suit!!

We also found a dress that belonged to one of our cousins, not really sure how my mom ended up with it! Allison tried it on...

We tried to get them to go to Wal-mart in their dresses just to see what kind of reactions they would get but Jade wasn't up for it!

Labor Day '09

We spent the first half of Labor Day with Chris' family, grilling out and playing with the kids as usual! Mimi and Paps had a new castle for the kids, here are Samuel and Sydney playing with it!!

Alexander and Sydney just adore each other and love playing together!! They both get so excited when they find out the other is coming to play!

One of many attempts to get a picture of this trio. It isn't the greatest, but at least they are all looking in the general vicinity of the camera.

They were dancing around and screaming at the top of their lungs!! It made it just a little loud in that little bedroom!


Brian and Josh playing a little soccer with all the kiddos.


Samuel being goofy with a tire on his head!!

Alexander chasing Ben and the soccer ball!!

Now Sydney wants the ball...


We had a great time with our family on Labor Day and hope you did too!!

For my dad's birthday this year (waaayyy back in February!) Allison and I promised to come take some pictures at one of his Cowboy Matches. Here are a couple from around the range.





Everyone has a cart that carries all of their guns and such around. Some people made theirs and other were bought. Some people add an umbrella to protect from the rain and for a little relief from the scorching sun during the summer.

My dad's cart (and not so old west beach umbrella :) ).

Wartrace Regulators is the name of the group he shoots with so these initials are on most everything.

Everyone gathered to hear the instructions and learn the course before they shoot.

My dad was the second one to go.




I don't know this guy but I liked his black powder shooting.






Getting ready for the next stage.




I like the horse in the background! :)


I liked this guys black powder too.

If you click on this picture to enlarge it, you can see the little spark of fire in the middle of the smoke.




Here is Jade being goofy with her sunglasses on upside down!

We had to leave shortly after that because the rain started pouring! It didn't stop the cowboys though!! To see much more about shooting and the Wartrace Regulators, check out my dad's blog!