Happy Birthday Spencer

It was Spencer's birthday on the 14th. We had fun with Grammy and Poppy P. here to celebrate with us. We went to his favorite place to eat, McDonalds, and then came home for presents, cake and ice cream.




Spencer was actually interested in opening the presents himself this year. Yes, he is a more careful "present opener" than most 7 yr old little boys, but he did it. :0) That is progress.


He an Todd got his new race track set up and Spence thought it was great!! He would bust up laughing each time the cars went down. He would say "Ready, Set, Go" and Todd would push the lever to release the cars. Spencer would get to excited to push the lever himself. We were all laughing at him laughing.


This is the Lego birthday cake I made. I thought it turned out pretty cute. :0)

Spencer blowing out the candles. By this time he was tired of all the extra "attention" so Kels and I decided to help him out so we could be done. It was a great day and I think he had a good time. We are grateful to have him a part of our family. Love you Spencer!!

Skydiving

So I am slow getting this pics posted, but better late than never...right? :0) Anyway, here are some pics of Chase and Todd's skydiving adventure back in September.

The group of crazy people before we left the house. These four, Chase, my friend Jonnie, Kayla and Todd were the ones planning on jumping. We had all got together for a BBQ (aka last supper) earlier that afternoon and then played games, visited and joked around until 4 pm when it was time to head out to the airfield.

This is the group of us that went out to Skydive Idaho, spectators and jumpers. There was a lot of excitment in the air.

Chase suiting up.

Chase and my friend, Jonnie, ready to go. The jumpers could only go 2 at a time so Chase and Jonnie paired up and Todd and Kayla jumped the second round.

Chase's descent...they jumped from 10,000 ft. Not sure how far away from the ground he is still is but this was the first photo I could take and actually have him more visible than just a black dot. lol

Chase coming in for the landing. Since they were all tandem jumping, they landed on their rear ends.

Now it was Kayla and Todd's turn. They both received some "on ground" instruction before taking off.

Suited up and ready to go.


Todd as he is coming in. His descent was the fastest since he was the biggest.

This was the easiest way to watch the jumpers coming down. Luckily the landing area was nice and grassy.

The jump is now complete. All survivors. I think they all had a good time, enjoyed the experience but I'm not sure any of them were so "in love" with skydiving that they would do it again.