The birthday girl with 2 of her favorite men! 

They say its your birthday...Dadadadada! Well, its my birthday too, YEAH!..Dadadada!

Happy Birthday Aunt Dare! You old, yet still HOT woman!
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We love you birthday girl! We hope it was a fun one!

If your Mama doesn't love you, then at least your Aunt Stacey does!
Some really cute twin boys that I know and love had their first birthday complete with Train Party! Choo-Choo! I thought that their Mama would post some cute pictures so everyone could see them, but it looks like Aunt Stacey is the BEST! The favorite aunt, in case any of you were wondering. So enjoy the pictures of Owen and Elijah and maybe their Mom will tell you about it. I won't steal all the glory!;)

Grammer and Gretchen riding the carousel at the Twin's party. 

Dallin and Parker riding the carousel. 

Happy Birthday to me, I live in a tree, I ACT like a monkey, and I smell like one too! 

Owen, Elijah, Dare and Ryan with the doughnut birthday cake. YUM! 

Gretchen and Eric and Brandy's little boy, Garrett. 

Owen and Elijah in the red wagon Grammer gave them. 

Now this is a CrAzY smile! 

I want to see you wiggle it, just a little bit!
Parker lost his first tooth this past Friday. It has been loose for just a little while. He has not really been messing with it, but I guess when he saw his hygienist Aunt Dare it reminded him. So he showed it to everyone at Papa and Grammer's. Of course, they all offered to pull it for him. He decided to wiggle it out. It actually started bleeding, and he got a really worried look on his face. But after maybe 5 mins, it was out. A very tiny, but very white front tooth. He was so excited. This is like a step into boyod for him, big boyhood that is. We sent an email to the toothfairy. He told her how he lost it, reminded her that he was at his grandparents' house, and asked how she could get it out from under his pillow without waking him. AND being the kind hearted young man he is, even though everyone was telling him to ask the toothfairy for LOTS of money, he whispered to me, "Mom, tell her it doesn't matter how much she gives me. Any money is fine." At least one of my kids is not greedy. Remember, he did this same sort of thing with Santa at the church christmas party. He wanted to make sure that all the other kids got gifts first. What a sweetheart. The toothfairy did come visit, and I guess it was extra special losing a tooth at Papa and Grammer's because he got $6, which is like $100 to him!

Parker lost his first tooth this past Friday. 

Parker, Dad and Charlie posing with the hole in the smile. 

Parker and his baggie with the tooth. 

Dallin, O 

Daddy and Gretchen challenging anyone to a game of badmitton. 

The gang hanging out! 

Gretchen was so proud that she could climb up the log cabin. 

Eric, Matthew, Parker and Benjamin being pirates. 

Gretchen hanging out with the big girls. 

Parker and Eric climbing on the log cabin. 

Dallin and Matthew having fun on the swings. 

Gretchen and Jake playing, away from the fire, with playdough. 

Jenny, Maya, Brett, Julie and Jessica. 

Richard turned into a regular little pyro. 

Sage, Gretchen, Parker, Dallin and Jake having some hot dogs for dinner. 

2 Tents, 2 sleeping bags, 1 air mattress, a ton of blankets, 1 whole bottle of bug spray, 15 changes of clothes, 1 box of graham crackers, 6 hershey bars, 1 GIANT bag of marshmellows, 1 night of camping with 30 of your closest friends....priceless! I know that some of you are finding it hard to believe that our family actually went camping, but we did. 8 families that we are friends with all decided to go camping for only 1 night, since most of us either did not camp, or not since we had kids. We went to a local campground, the Crosseyed Cricket, which was about 20 mins away. They had a stocked pond, canoes, swings, pool, hot tub, badmitton, and the hit of the weekend, a creek full of ducks which was only calf deep on the kids. There were about 35 of us all together. And let me tell you it was CrAzY! You had to cross the creek on some square stepping stones to get to the campsites, or take a bridge (that was not all that close). Every kid ended up in the water at some point, either by accident or on purpose. I actually fell in at 4am. I had to potty so bad, and did not want to walk to the bathhouse in the pitch black by myself. About that time Richard woke up to go, but I did not want to leave Gretchen in the tent by herself, although looking back at it she was sawing logs, and I doubt a herd of wild horses could have woken her. BUT I waited until Richard got back, and he said,"wear my flip flops, so you do not have to put your sneakers on". 1st big mistake, then I decided instead of walking through the dark woods to the bridge, I would cross the stream and be right at the road to the bath house. 2nd bigger mistake. I did have a flash light, but as all of you are aware, in the south at night the grass gets wet with dew. That includes the grass on the bank of the creek where you walk down to the stepping stones. That was my 3rd and final mistake. I took one step down onto the creekbed, and SLIIIIIIIIIIIP! right into the creek, all the way up to my knee. Soaked pj's pants leg, and mud down the side of my behind. I know..HAHAHAHA! Yeah, I was laughing, NOT! Luckily, I had ignored Richard's request of not packing clothes since it was only one day, and I changed back at the tent, AFTER I went potty. The kids however had a blast with their friends, went canoeing, ate their weight in smores, and the adults played some games. We had a good time, and decided that we could all handle once a year, even if my kids did go through 10 changes of clothes.

We love you! 

The birthday boys! 

Happy Birthday 1st Owen and Elijah! We love you and are so excited that you are turning one years old! You both are so cute and so funny. We just love to play with you, and make you laugh! We hope that your birthday is as great and special as you both are! We love you bunches.xoxoxoxoxo Uncle Richard, Aunt Stacey, Dallin, Parker and Gretchen. :)