Tonya's 22nd birthday

Tonya after blowing all of her candles out. There was quite a bit of smoke
after blowing all of the candles out.

The candles all lit.

Tonya opening her letters and presents.

Candice, Adriene, Tonya, Jenny, and Kendra watching the

finale of American Idol.

Our New Piano

The piano.

The movers putting the piano together.

The movers bringing the piano to our house.

Aunt Kathy, Julie, and Tate's Visit

Elise, Aunt Kathy, mom, and Julie went shopping.

Elise was getting board so she decided to have a conversation with the manican

Tate and Julie

Lina really liked Tate. Every time she would see him she would laugh. One night he was in this and she stayed here the whole time playing with him.

Aunt Kathy, Julie, and Tate while at Aunt Kathryn's house.

Grandpa's 82nd Birthday

Grandpa's green bay packer ice cream cake

Grandpa blowing out his three candles.

Everyone together, except for Aunt Diane, Uncle Paul, Mom, and Dad.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Raquel!

Lina's Visit for the Weekend

Lydia and Lina after lunch.

Lina by the DVD thing we got from the Rittenhouses. Lina smiling for the camera.

This weekend Lina stayed over, because Carrie and Evan went on a retreat. It was a lot of fun being able to play with her the whole day, especially because all the other nieces are gone.:(

Sparky

This is Cherise's new rat, since Piper, her old rat, died. He is quite a bit smaller and does not look like the other rat, Jack, at all. He is black and white. Jack has the bigger cage, but Sparky has the little cage, because Cherise saw him trying to get out of it. These are some pictures of him.

Our New Furniture

This past week we finally got our new furniture. Here are some pictures of it. Dad would still ike to have the floor redone and get a new piano.

Dad's 50th Surprise Birthday Party!

On Wednesday, April 15th we gave dad a surprise birthday party. We got him out of the house by taking our old furniture to Kristen and Derek's old house. When he came back he was surprised.:) He wore a ribbon that said "50 and Fabulous".


Dad with his computer cake.

Close up picture of his cake. He got

a very special one, since it was his 50th birthday, half way to 100.

A sign that we made. Can you spot out any mistakes????

Some people at the party. The majority of the people were family,

small, group, and work friends/ members.

Some more pictures of guests and in the

corner is dad opening up his cards. Many of them were really funny.

Nathan's 16th birthday

Nathan and dad while Nathan was opening his presents.

Carrie, Lydia, Nathan,and dad.

The cake all lit up.

Nathan blowing out his candles.

The cakes with all the lights out.

Elise's 9th Birthday Party!

It was Elise's 9th birthday on Friday, April 3rd. She didin't know that she was going to have a party. We pretended that we weren't going to celebrate it.


Elise blowing out her candles.

Everyone having their pizza dinner.

Elise opening up all of her presents.

Elise with her cake and the bear she got from Carrie.

All of the girls with the treats that they found while on their hunt.

Regatta!

Elise and Seth Ullsberger racing and seeing who will get the third place trophy for speed.

Isaac Rittenhouse and another little boy racing. Isaac got third place in sparkys.

Some of the boats at the race.

The leader's boats, Mr. Stocks and Nathans.

Mr. Stock and dad doing the bracket sheets.

This year for Awana we had a regatta. Each child who would like to participate, makes a boat and then races it against other boats. To get your boat to move, you blow it.

Lydia's Home!!!!!!!!!!!

Lydia is now home from China! The next day after she got back, she left on a plane to go to Florida. I don't think she's going to want to go on a plane for a couple of years:)



Sam, Lydia, and Tonya at the airport.

Lydia getting off the plane and is now in the Unites States.

Tonya and Sam Willer waiting for Lydia to come.