Happy 9th Birthday, DJ!!!

Yesterday, our little man entered his last year in single digit numbers! Happy birthday, DJ MAN!

I asked him where he wanted to go for his birthday pictures and he picked the beach. It was cold and overcast, but he still wanted to go and take pictures standing in the water.

By the time we got to the pier, he was drenched from the waist down and didn’t mind the cold water.

These are my favorite pictures of him. He looks so grown up, doesn’t he?

He wanted me to include this picture because of the wave crashing behind him.

Of course, it isn’t a birthday without the picture of him and the bear! Maybe next year, I will have to have the bear sitting on his lap.

Here he is with his bear on his 1st birthday.

Mother’s Day Surprises

I’m pretty sure that this is the first Mother’s Day in a few years that Doyle has been home. All the previous years, he was on travel overseas.

While getting ready to go to lunch, DJ ran upstairs yelling “HURRY! There is an emergency and you need to come downstairs NOW!”

I went downstairs to find the boys standing at the bottom of the stairs holding these.

The boys also gifted me with my favorite presents, handmade presents.