I realized...

...that I had never posted these pictures.

I had printed them on a collage for my sweet in-laws and didn't want to post them so that they wouldn't see them on here first...and then they got lost in the shuffle. :)

So without further delay, here is our May trip to Okoboji to visit Marky's parents.

The boat

Oh, Marky...hahaha He cracks me up.

Sutton is the hood ornament for the boat. He LOVES being up at the very front like this and this is where he stays a majority of the time.

The Beach at the Yacht Club nearby

He's tattling about something.

From here through the end of these beach pictures there's a blurry spot on the pictures because Bodie was going into the water and I saved him...but forgot about my camera...so it went into the water. It still works!!! But for awhile it had a blurry spot. I didn't have to buy a new one so I'm good with it. :)

Grandpa came to watch the beach playing. This is someone else's truck.

His truck. But he was really nice about letting Bodie play with it.

Making a sand "castle."

That's a heavy bucket of water! :)

Arnold's Park

"A RACE CAR!"

"Laina, Sutton, look up here!!!"

Our fam in the tipsy house. Bodie wouldn't look because it was too bright.

May Birthdays

So after I had posted about Laina ON her birthday, I realized that I hadn't even done any of the May birthdays which includes Bodie...poor 3rd child. :)

Here is our celebration with Grandma and Grandpa Brown in April
(which is why I missed it the first time I made this post...
that's why I need to post right away after the event!)

Their "Jeep"

A vehicle of some kind :)

Grandma's always so sweet to color with Little Laina.

AWWWWW!! I love my sweet family.

 Present time!

 And the awesome cake!

This is ON his birthday.

The card Laina made for him.

We went out to Pizza Ranch.

And this was the birthday party also for my Mom and Marky at Melissa's house.

The men (besides the birthday man) grilling.

Awwww Little Liddy!

Mike and Fish were watching some friends' kids for them. This is Riley with Laina.

Mark being....well....Mark.

Tanner Bananer

Jack-Jack-Attack!

  The four-wheeler that Mike and Fish got their boys. Joe fits on it GREAT! haha

Present time!!!

Marky's new sweatshirt from Joe and Liz.

We gave mom a picture (she had requested) of the grandkids in their sailor clothes at the Marina in Lake City. A TRUE present from the heart. Try getting seven kids under 8 years old to hold still and smile all at the same time! hehe

 Laina had broken a little bowl of my mom's and had felt so badly about it, so she wanted to buy one for her for her birthday.

I put this one in there because it has Sawyer in it. I realized that I didn't have any of him!!! Poor Kid!

 With their birthday cakes...

Not the greatest pictures so I'll show you what the cakes looked like

 Mark doesn't like frosting on brownies so I put just a little. It's supposed to be golf and fishing...kinda hard to tell. But it's a nice picture of Marky!!

 My mom's cake - Laina drew the picture that I put on it. I asked her what Grandma likes and she said, "US!" So she drew a picture of all my family. And she knew who each one was as she was drawing them. I wrote the names but it's a little hard to see.

What had happened was that we ended up having to postpone the party and I had already made all the cakes so I had to freeze them so that that'd be good a week later and not tasting a week old. :) A couple of them didn't travel well...They still tasted yummy though.

Anyway there's May birthdays. :)

Little Laina

On her 5th Birthday!

She's slightly excited. 

not sure what she's doing with her arms hehe

We're about to go shopping with her birthday money from her Grandma Ruth so she can hardly handle the excitement.

Then tonight we're going to out to eat and then swimming at Grandpa and Grandma Brown's hotel (she doesn't know this yet).

And tomorrow is her birthday party with her Grandparents Roemer and Grandparents Brown and my siblings and her cousins!

She has been counting down the days.

 My little girl is 5!