Luke went to get Brooke out of bed.  She was reading a story to him.  Most of the time we find Brooke reading.  She really, really likes to read!  Joshua and I are praying God uses her love for reading to do great things for His Kingdom.

                                        Josh and the boys.  They were wrestling and doing karate. 

Happy Birthday Seth!

We sent Seth on a hunt for all of his presents.  We gave him a piece of paper with a picture and the name of the place where the present was and he went and found them.  He was having a fun time!  He had a present in the dryer, the car, under our bed, in Brooke's armoire, in the bathtub and on the porch.

Opening a birthday present while talking to Grandma Earnie and PaPa John.  He got a new Bible cover.  He was VERY proud when he carried it to church today.

Driving to Chuck E. Cheese's to celebrate Seth's birthday.  We printed out a Tooth Fairy Award from the Chuck E. Cheese website so Brooke was able to get 10 free tokens for losing a tooth.

Seth's birthday morning started with Strawberry Pop-Tarts for breakfast that he got to pick out at Wal-Mart and then learning to read.  He's doing really well.  He sometimes gets frustrated because he wants to be done with the process and just know how to read.  Oh, how much we are all like that!  Let's be done with the process.  :)

Celebrating Seth's 5th birthday at Candleridge Park.  He wanted to celebrate his birthday with friends and go to Chuck E. Cheese's so on Friday we went to the park and had cupcakes with friends.

Last Fall Seth said he didn't have any friends.  He's made five new friends since then.

It was really windy so I lit one candle at a time and he blew it out and then we would do another one.

Opening presents.

He chose Star Wars cupcakes.  He's licking the icing off of the Star Wars ring that was on his cupcake.

Luke had a fun time playing.

Brooke wasn't sure what she was going to do since there were going to be all of those boys.

Seth in action!

March 7, 2011  Brooke was practicing her spelling words, Seth WAS writing the letters for the sounds he has learned to read and Luke was not really wanting to get his hands dirty.                                                                                                     

March 26, 2011  When each of the kids turned two we started taking them on Saturday morning dates to eat donuts.  I would take Seth one week and Josh would take Brooke the next week.  When Luke turned two in March we decided to start something new.  Now Josh and I take turns taking each of them.  So that way we get to spend time alone with each of them.  This was Luke's first time to go on an "outing".  We didn't want to call it a date.  I think he felt pretty special.  We want each of them to know how very special they are.