The Duvalls

Sunday, November 10, 2013

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

Saturday, November 9, 2013

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

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Farming With Grandpa Mick!

One of my boys' favorite fall traditions is to go out and ride on the tractor with Grandpa Mick! My dad helps a local farm family with harvest every year, and we are lucky because these city boys get a chance to go spend some time out in the country, with their grandpa! Priceless memories!