Happy Birthday, Ayson!!!!

Happy Birthday Ayson!  How is it possible that our Baby BOY is twelve years old!!!   We celebrated with a family birthday during the week and Ayson will have a friend party in early summer.  We received about 8 inches of snow between Saturday and Sunday but the kids did not play in it as they were recovering from colds.  We hope that everyone is doing well and enjoying SPRING!

Ayson ran in to the house Monday evening and requested Amy's camera so that he could take pictures of the sky :)

Sage using her large feeding bowl.  Amy caught a picture of Sage's tongue barely sticking out :)

We celebrated Ayson's birthday on Tuesday with lots of singing of Happy Birthday from the Grandparents and family.  Ayson is TWELVE years old - eeek!  We love you, Ayson!

Baby Ayson

Addie made Ayson a card with a picture Shadow and Blackie on the front.

Ayson's facial expressions are hilarious.

Ayson wanted ca$h for his birthday but he also asked to be "surprised" with a small gift.  Adam found an "Inventors tool kit" so now Ayson is all set with any tool he needs to take a part and build electronic devices.

Shadow SO badly wanted to catch the birds on Saturday!

Ugh, Ayson came down with a sore throat and cold on Thursday evening and Addie on Friday evening so we has a low key weekend.  Amy and Adam did go for a walk in the orchard - one last walk in snow and to see/listen to the spring birds.

The temp was in the 20s and Amy was not messing around and wore her ski goggles and face mask -  no cold skin for Amy!!!

Poor Ayson - haha.  Sigh.  We have all felt like this and done this.

Adam started his kitchen remodel on Sunday by taking down the cabinets between the kitchen and dining room.  The cabinets blocked his view of the rest of the house while the kids and Amy had no problem seeing (because we are not as tall as Adam :)

The kiddos opening their cards from our family friend, Kathy. Thanks, Kathy!!!

Somehow Amy managed to catch both kids with their eyes closed or partly closed - the kids LOVE the stickers that Kathy puts on the cards - the kids cut the stickers off of the envelope :)