Additional pictures from Jack's celebration...

Our little soccer man showing off for Grandma and Grandpa!

Jack was all tuckered out before we even got to the amusement park!

Happy Birthday Jackers!!!

My wittle Jackers is growing up! He is the big SIX year old today!!! Happy Birthday buddy! He has been celebrating the big 6.0 Hollywood style... meaning the party has been going on for weeks!!! It started when daddy picked up his present (bat, helmet, balls, tee...) and couldn't wait to give it to him (that was about the end of July). Then we had Grandma and Grandpa Boersma over to watch him play soccer and have a little BBQ, cake and open presents. Jack decided that he wanted to go to an amusement park instead of having a party (oh bless his little heart for that one...LOL), so we went to Valley Fair (Six Flags) in Minnesota last weekend. Today is the actual birthday and so I made him pancakes and as you can see I made it into another little birthday cake for him. I also promised that he could have two friends stay over night and I must get on top of that because school starts in 2 1/2 weeks!!! Where oh where has the time gone??? We were so busy partying that I failed to take a whole lot of pictures. I swear I have some more, but I need to find my camera first! Hopefully I'll remember and post some extras soon.

(p.s. This was taken with my phone in case you were wondering, or just thinking I was a liar!LOL)

Wedding Day...

Last weekend we attended my cousin's wedding in Spicer, MN. Except for the fact that it was unseasonably cold, the wedding was very beautiful and touching. The woman my cousin married had lost her husband and unborn child in a car accident not too long ago. She and her daughter survived. My cousin became a husband and father in one day. ALL of her late husband's family attended the ceremony. Her little girl was one of three flower girls. And not a single eye was dry when the bride uttered her vows: "til death us do part". Her voice cracked at that moment and that was it for the rest of us... What courage she had to stand there before us all and do a ceremony like this. The positive thing out of all of the sadness, is that she did find another really great guy. I know my cousin will be the best husband and father and still respect her sadness (and perhaps longing) for her first husband at times. I'm so glad they found each other. I wish them all the happiness in the world.

I didn't snap any pictures of the ceremony but here are couple of other shots...

Jackson and Daddy...oh, and I see Kate sneaking in the picture.

Miss beautiful Kate

My nieces: Jessie and Jamie

Here is my sister DeAnn and her beautiful girls.

After awhile, it seems the lake became too intriguing for my children. Even though I specifically asked them NOT to put their feet in the water (because I knew that it would be too hard to resist going any further), I was notified by my sister that the kids (specifically Jack) decided to go WAIST deep into the water!!! Ugh...kids. Well at least they had fun, but it wasn't too smart considering that it was COLD that day and we had a two hour drive ahead of us. I think Jack somewhat regretted his decision when he had to strip down to his nakeds in the car and wrap my jacket around him! Boy was he embarrassed...

They think they're soooo cool.

Jackson the Soccer Super-Star!

I forgot to bring my camera and forgot that my phone has a camera in it...but last week Jack not only scored his first soccer goal ever, he scored his second, third, forth and fifth (and nearly his sixth) goals all in one game! It was hilarious. Once he figured it out, it was like "Hey, that was fun...I want to do that again, and again, and again!" He was shouting from the sidelines for his teammates to "KICK THE BALL!" He's never been so into a game before. Once he started racking up goals, he'd hold up the number of fingers corresponding with how many goals he had and then point them to the goal with a huge grin on his face. I'm really looking forward to the game tomorrow and how many goals he scores! Now let's see if Kate can catch up!!!