Sillouettes (I don't know how to spell that!)

I forgot to put these in with our Devil's Kitchen picture! I love these pictures!

Devil's Kitchen

We decided to take a walk after dinner the other evening to Devil's Kitchen. It was fast and furious! We did'nt get there until about 6:30 and I knew the sun would be down by 7:30. The sign said 45 minute walk each way, so we booked it! We wanted to get to the Kitchen early enough to look around a bit so we broke a sweat on this one!

Isn't that a cool little water bottle carrier? BayLea made that at preschool out of foam. This one is a little long for Breccan but BayLea made him one the next day at school that isn't quite as long.

Isn't he handsome!?

We made it to the top!

The light was really pretty at the end when we got back to our car. But unfortunately I blurred this picture a little.

BayLea, Mimi and Pa

Dad's Birthday--67 years young!

And yes, most of the time he acts WAY younger than his age! You'd never guess either of my parents are 67. They are both 67 going on 21 I think! Anyway, Dad celebrated his birthday Sunday. We started out with a little mini-family birthday party. BayLea painted these birds at school and wanted to give them to Pa for his birthday.
My mom...beautiful person! Inside and out.

We got Pa a cup that has a picture of his hand playing the guitar. It's a cool picture.
Mom got Dad a Garmin GPS so he won't get lost! And some overalls to work in at their new house/farm!

I just love this picture of Breccan looking at Pa's little cake.
Then all of dad's music buddies started showing up. We had a yummy dinner and then the guys played music.
BayLea, Breccan, Taryn, and Joey, Chris' kids, played really well together and they spent some time in the hot tub.

Great Pa and Breccan...I love this picture.

This is Doug Lenard, a music buddy of dad's. Dad loves the CD that Doug made.
And of course this is the best musician in the house. My Dad. He is so totally talented and I love to listen to him. The music was awesome last night...when all 5 guys were playing and harmonizing together, it was great!
My great Aunt Tuddy and Uncle Cal.
My beautiful cousin Bobbi.
My serious and dark hubby!

And then Bobbi had a little too much to drink. We kept telling her to slow down a little bit!!!! Ha ha, no I don't think Bobbi had anything to drink all night except lemonade.
Yvonne wanted all the guys to stand up with their guitars because it is so hard to get a decent shot of all of them at the same time when they're playing. There's always someone with their back to the camera. Good idea Yvonne.
Breccan was enjoying himself.

Chris Rowland, a seriously talented guitar player. He's 30-something going on 18. Truly! I mean it!

Bob Evers has played music with dad for around 40 years.
Gettin' some pickin' lessons from Chris.


It was a fun day. Wish I could've stayed longer, but with two little kids who needed to go to bed (they are CRABBY today!) we had to leave! Happy birthday, Dad!

Breccan's got a big boy bike!

It's hard to believe that at the beginning of the spring, Breccan was barely able to ride his tricycle and that now he has his own big boy bike! We let him pick one at WalMart (hoping that he wouldn't pick the Spiderman bike) and he picked this one. Great pick, Breccan. Mommy loves it!
Here he is wearing his Cars knee pads and helmet.

And here's BayLea and Breccan riding their bikes on the deck. I'm a little embarrassed to even put this picture on here because our deck looks like a trash heap! There must be 15 chairs out there! Yuck! But the deck is a perfect place for them to ride because they can ride around and around out deck table!

Sparks Family Mini-reunion!

So, Grandma was in town these last couple weeks and luckily Camilla was also here for a wedding, AND Jarod was able to come down for a few days. So we got to have a little mini-family reunion. Everyone came to our house, which was perfect, for us anyway!! We had hamburgers, brats, beans and potato salad. Everything was VERY yummy! I think I got some great pics...although I didn't get a few people who were here. Sorry about that, Jamie, Tina (I had one of you, but you were talking and I didn't think you'd like me anymore if I put it on there!), Lynette, Jody and Dana, and even BayLea is missing in action, except in the group pic.
Breccan got hold of my little camera and snapped away! We have lots of pictures of legs and sky.
Little Dani is soooo cute! I had been thinking she had dark hair, so I was surprised to see blond!

Camilla's fiancee, Paul, is a very nice young man!!! You did good, Cam! Breccan loved Paul, as well as all the other young men here tonight!

We didn't see a lot of Bella, she was playing with the toys!

Goofy Camilla!
They look and act very happy!

Grandma drinking up a storm!!! Just kidding...she hardly drinks anything anymore. Luckily none of the others of us drink either. :)

The Sparks family cousins...except Aaron, Lacey and Chad!
An awesome picture of Jerod...
and a great one of Camilla! I love both of these pictures!