Some of the many faces of Karlee!

Karlee's Blessing

On Sunday, April 29th John was able to give Karlee her name and a blessing.  His parents and Becca were able to come and share the day with us.  She looked beautiful and she stared at her Dad quietly for the entire blessing. Here are a few pictures from her special day.

Mom and her girls!

Our crazy family of six with Karlee.

Grandma and Grandpa with Karlee.  By now she is DONE with pictures!

What a cute, happy, pretty girl!  This is the face we see and like the most!

 Lantz provided the after church entertainment.

While Grandma and Grandpa were here we also celebrated Zak's 7th Birthday.  My, what a big boy I have.

John decorated the cupcakes for the party.  Where did he get all of his skills?

For the 3rd year in a row we had a carnival party.  It is what Zak wants every year.  This year rain was forcasted so we had the party in the garage.  I know you can't get more redneck than that!

Karlee just hung out....she is starting to get the rubberband hands!

Zak did get the apple and he got a little wet in the process.

Zak didn't have time to make his own cake so John did it for him this year.

We had fun for kids of all ages!

Karlee got to meet Grandpa David for the first time.  What do you think...Does she like him?

On the Saturday that John's family came in to town.  Zak and John spent 6 hours at the urgent care.  Zak was playing in the garage with a glass jar.  He was pounding it on the cement to see how hard he had to do it to make it break.  Well it broke and and went right through his hand.  He had to get 9 stitches and then go to a hand specialist because he cut some of the tendon.  In the end it ended up being fine and we look forward to taking the stitches out ourselves this week!  Both John and Zak were very brave with all of the stitches and blood!

Zak ended his birthday by getting to stay up late and help finish planting the garden. 

Grandpa and Karlee taking a morning nap together.

Grandma and Grandpa took us on  a little trip at the end of their visit.  We drove an hour away and spent the night at a hotel and got to do lots of swimming.  The next day we went to some fun places for the kids.

After swimming the giant toilet slide was the trip favorite.  The kids LOVED getting flushed down the toilet!