Spoiled Logan! Happy Birthday, Buddy!

Remote controlled battling robots

Logan has become a Vikings fan...mostly because his friend likes them  :)

WWE wrestling ring and figures

Hawkeye robot

Reading his card from Grandma and Grandpa Umscheid

Cool Hawkeye poster to hang in his room!  The  best part of a Hawkeye football game is "the swarm!"

Yay!  Hunting clothes!

Logan loves corvettes AND model cars!

Grandpa Mick surprised Logan with a .22!  The look on Logan's face was priceless!  Especially after earlier in the night, my dad jokingly gave Logan a VERY used BB gun.  Dad thought Logan would be bummed that he only got a BB gun for his birthday while Landon got a .22 last month for his birthday, but Logan LOVED the BB gun!  When my dad gave Logan his .22, Logan wasn't totally sure he wanted to give up the BB gun, but decided the .22 was a better gun!

Proud new owner!  Proud Grandpa, too!

My parents and all their grandkids

Happy 9th Birthday, Logan!

Make a wish!

Donna, Ryan, Dallas and Amanda got Logan a totally COOL book about how to fold all types of paper airplanes, and the book is full of neat paper to use for making these airplanes.  The book was a total hit!  So fun!

Logan Turns 9!

Logan turns 9 tomorrow, and I was sitting here looking through pictures from the time he was born on up until now, reminiscing special times with this special boy!  Time is going TOO FAST!  He is getting so big and independent!  Although, I will say, I find enjoyable and unenjoyable things about every stage that my kids go through!  Logan is such a hard worker and SO creative right now!  I love watching him grow as a learner!  Logan gets into plenty of trouble at home, but he is sweet as pie at school, and that's how it probably should be!  This boy has seriously been a ray of sunshine for Jeff and I, and we love him just the way he is!  

Look at how much Logan has changed in his 9 years on Earth!

1 Month

1 Year

2 Years

3 Years

4 Years

5 Years

6 Years

7 Years

8 Years

9 Years (Not quite 9 when this was taken, but almost!)

Landon's Birthday Party With Friends (Only about a month late)!

Due to such a busy weekend schedule for the month of October, Landon finally got to have his birthday party with his friends today, a little over a month after his real birthday.  Hey, it could be worse!  We rented the party room at AmericInn in Okoboji and swam at the pool there with about 6 of Landon's favorite buds (and of course his big brother, too).  Thankfully, Jeff was willing to swim with all of the boys and kept them busy playing catch, pool football, and having jumping contests. My mom was also gracious enough to come and be an extra set of eyes with that many young, energetic boys swimming in a pool at the same time.  After about 2 hours of swimming, the boys all got back into dry clothes and we had cupcakes, snacks, and took time for Landon to open all of his gifts!  It was a fun afternoon with a great group of boys!

The Whole Gang!

Silly boys!

Dillon

Yandel

Trigg

Griffin

Caleb

James

Scrapbooks

I must admit, I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping up on the boys' yearly scrapbooks!  I have been using an online scrapbook company called Artscow.com!  You can call that cheating if you want, but I call it WONDERFUL and easy to use!  All I have to do is upload my pictures to the artscow.com website, and then I can pick out the backgrounds and embellishments I want to use on each page!  There's no paper and glue and all of that mess to get out and clean up!  Thank goodness for this program!  The books are a little expensive, but considering I only make one per year per boy, it's really not bad.  Come graduation time, this mom will NOT be frantically trying to finish scrapbooks (I'm sure I'll be frantic, but not about scrapbooks)!  :)  Here are the links to the most recent books I have just finished up for each boy.

http://www.artscow.com/gallery/book/logan-mhu4i3uwszdu

http://www.artscow.com/gallery/book/landon-1kjuv72o4o3u