Noah's Birthday Party

A few weeks ago we had a birthday party for my sweet Noah. We have a tiny house, so we planned on having the party in our backyard. Of course it rained... that didn't really seem to stop the kids from heading out to the bouncy house tho! It rained for only the first half hour or so and surprisingly dried up very quickly. In all we crammed about 40 + people into our 1,000 square foot house. I wish I had gotten a picture of everyone sitting on the couch, chair, benches and all over the floor so that there wasn't much room to walk. It was awesome to have all of our family and friends there to celebrate Noah's birthday with us! Thank you to everyone who came!

My Nephew Caleb posing for a picture... I can never get him to hold still!


Joshua eating a smores pop. He loved it!

My silly boy

Our friend Quintin

My sister in law Amy and our friend Vil

The birthday Boy!

Joshua playing in the soggy backyard

This was on the center of the table, I have more pictures of the dessert display and the cupcakes, but i keep forgetting to add them, so instead of waiting another week to get this post up I am leaving it as is...

Caleb eating a sweet treat

One of our friends missed Joshua's birthday in June so they brought a gift for Joshua to Noah's party. He was very excited

Noah loved all of his gifts

there was definitely a theme... Cars...

Our friend Danica... what a beautiful girl

Micah holding Noah's cupcake. I made cupcake wrappers and toppers, I love to be crafty...

Happy Birthday to my precious son. I am so blessed to be your mommy and I pray daily that you will grow to be a man who loves the Lord with all your heart and will want to serve him with your life

A much needed Vacation

A few weeks ago we were given the amazing gift of a week long stay at a house on the coast. A family in our church let us stay in their beach house for the week! What a blessing it was to have a place like that to stay. Micah and I had been talking for a while about getting away from it all for a few days at least, we have never been on a true vacation... where you actually stay in a place by yourselves, not with family or friends... this was a huge blessing. We headed out Wednesday morning and slowly made our way to Long Beach. We had a great time of relaxation and just focusing on things that are important. There was no Internet, cell phones barely worked, no TV, just the movies we brought! It was WONDERFUL!!!! Each morning Micah got up early and headed to the beach for some time of prayer and meditation. After breakfast we did whatever we wanted! Not being bound to a schedule was such a welcome change. Saturday we headed down to Oregon for celebrate my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. I will have a post on that later as I am still working on some of the pictures. Then it was back to the beach for a few more days before heading home just in time for school!

Noah and Joshua. Joshua wasn't too excited about being in the sand at first

Noah loved it

Me and Micah

A beautiful sunset

Micah and Joshua

this is one of my favorites! I love that the grass is so dark and the sky is so vibrant

I love to write in the sand. Micah actually proposed to me by writing, " Lyndie will you marry me?" into the sand at one of our favorite beaches

Once Joshua got use to the sand we couldn't keep him, away from the water!

Noah loves to play in the sand

I just love this one! It was a total accident and I love it!!!!

We were out on the beach after dinner one night and saw this seal! I have never seen one so close it was really fun to watch. Noah loved seeing it too.

Me and Joshua

Love this series of pictures of Joshua

Poor Joshua was freezing...

Micah and Joshua, i just love this picture! Joshua loved putting his feet in the water, in fact if we weren't watching too closely he would start to crawl towards the water just so he could get in!

Love the reflection in this one

another beautiful sunset at the beach

Noah running into the water!

yuck! I didn't realize how blurry this was ti i put on the post and now i don't know how to take it off!

Noah and his toy snake he got from my Aunt and Uncle. He named it John.. I have no clue why

This boy LOVES the beach

I am so glad this one turned out! I thought it was so beautiful... looking out through the tall grass.