Ramsey's Birthday Party

Live, laugh, love! Lots of that and more at sweet Ramsey's birthday celebration with her girlfriends!

Gabrielle, Ramsey, Madalyn

Nora, Ericka, Natalie

Rebecca, Maren

yeah, 11-year-old girls do a LOT of screaming, huh Paw?

Yikes! The 2nd No Nap Day of this Week!

Alaire's turn!

Eyes Like Daddy

Those really odd and pretty partially green, partially brown swirly eyes.

Ramsey Opening a Gift

Our first baby had her 11th birthday! Sweet Ramsey is getting to be such a big girl now. I still see no sign whatsoever of any impending preteen doom. Ramsey is still the gentlest, most joyful soul, and she's such a pleasure to be with all the time. No moodiness. No sass. Just pure sweetness. She'll be having a party this weekend, but she got her gifts from us last night, and here are a few pictures of her opening one of those gifts. She was pretty excited about it (looks like Maren was too)!

Monday Afternoon Fun

Oh how I love the prissy little hands!

Working on her family masterpiece

the moments you never want to let slip away...

It was a no nap day today. Note how much daylight was still out. He was down for the night by 6:30. And still clutching his "blue jean" feather (blue jay) that Miss Maxine gave him in Arkansas!

A few pictures of our neighborhood park after Hurricane Gustav

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