Sorry!! I just realized that I put all of the pictures of the party in backward order. So if you would like start from the bottom and go up!! Oh well!!!
This is one of Maya's good friends Hannah and her mommy Anissa my Best friend. Planting more flowers!!
Then we played the Limbo, this was great fun. We even had great music to limbo too.
Of course did you think Brendan would miss this event!!! NOOOOOO!!!
Maya's turn!!!

We had a garden party; so we had to plant flowers. The kids all got their own pair of garden gloves, and painted pots. This was so much fun!!!!
More painting pots!!! Look at daddy in the back round catching every moment. Love ya honey, thank you for all your help with this party too!!!
The perfect party!!!

Here is the cake. A hat for a garden party. This was Maya's idea. It was so much fun putting it all together. The top part of the had was so large that it took three hours to cook. The frosting was made with banana pudding and cool whip. Oh and yes the cake was chocolate!!

Sorry, it has taken me so long to get these pics up for you. I
have been slammed with homework and tests lately.

We served breakfast first! Pancakes with any topping you could imagine (i.e. blueberries, strawberries, powdered sugar, pickles, hot peppers, and so on) Grammy was the best she cooked all the pancakes so that we could greet all our party guest. Thank you Grammy Michigan.
We sat everyone at one table, even the parents were welcome. We all had a yummy breakfast. Those are fake rose pedals on the table. It is hard to see, but Uncle Jerry stayed up late the night before putting tons of streamers above the table. Thank you uncle GEEEE!!
All the kids playing outside in our backyard on the new swing set. Daddy and Lance got this baby up in two days. WOW!! The kids had so much fun playing.

I love you!
What mom!!! Maya is such a great big sister these days. She is getting so big as you can see.
Daddy and our friend Lance are working on the new swing set. We will be donating the old one.
MMMMMM!!!! these pop cycles are the best!!!

Happy Father's Day!!! To our very special dad's. We had a great father's day
here in Kansas.
We went to church this morning and then out to Breakfast with some of our best
friends . There is nothing better than days like this one. We are
blessed to have all the great dad's in our lives; and that we have one of our
own. Maya and Van are so lucky to have the best Dad ever.

I have so much I could say about how great of a father Brendan is, but the
smiles on their faces tells it all. They spent the day with dad at the swim
beach in Topeka Kansas. So
much fun and giggles with Dad

.

Thank you Brendan, for being the perfect dad to our children. I would not
ask you to change a thing. You are the fun dad that everyone wants on the
playground. You are the dad that has all the snuggles in the world. Thank
you for sharing your life with me, thank you for being such a great dad to our
kids that is the most romantic thing I could ever ask for. I love you
honey, HAPPY FATHER"S DAY!

Also happy father's day to all our Dad's We love you SOOOOOO Much and hope your day went as well as
ours. LOVE YOU! LOVE YOU! LOVE YOU!

The Swing set was delivered today. As you can
see the kids helped unload.

Look how serious van is about this delivery.

Thank you Grammy and Grandbob for the awesome swingset and play fort!!!

We need some water after unloading that truck!!!

To chill out this afternoon we rocked out with Ray Charles. Here is Maya bebop in around. I am sure many of these moves were learned from Lynda. We are doing the Mess Around. Maya loves to dance and do gymnastics. She likes to mix the two. She has great rhythm. I wish you could hear her sing a little
Ray Charles.
Maya, is now showing Van how to break dance in this picture. Van is trying to watch very closely.
Now Van has joined in the fun. We are bringing the house down. Whoooo can you feel the beat. Take some time out of your day to dance to Ray Charles. Will cure any bad day.

Maya just found out that her Grammy and Grandbob are
coming to her birthday party. We are planning some real fun four her fifth
birthday party. I can not believe it has already been five years.
YESSSS is what she is saying

in this picture.

Blowing bubbles on the front porch together this
afternoon.

Dereck, Maya, and Van blowing bubbles and making wishes
on them all.

Dereck is hanging out with us this morning as well. He is waiting for breakfast.

I love you!

Good morning all. Van and mya are putting a puzzel together before
breakfast. Maya trys hard to teach van how it all works out. He has most of the
peices of this one memorized. I am not sure he understands how it works, but he
does know how to put it together with some help.

"This goes here van do you want to hook it together"

Yummy mommy!!!

MMMM!!! fruit and cottage cheese.

These pictures are not from today, but I have had many requests to see them. This was our day out with Thomas the tank engine and friends. Here is the cool wagon we got from Grammy too. Thank you from Little Van to Grammy for this awesome wagon. Thank you to Big Van and Lynda for the awesome day with Thomas as well. More summer fun to come!!!

We are painting our privilege chart. We must paint some
of our favorite things to do.

Here are some of the privileges
we chose to put on our chart to earn each week. Whoo what fun!!

Playing around on a rainy day.

Blow a kiss to everyone van!!!!