Tyler's 6th Birthday

First, I can not believe Tyler is already 6 years old.  Time sure does fly.  He was up bright and early ready to open gifts.  Here's a few pictures of that.

Tyler was sweet and let Molly help him open one.

The gift in the back there is a fish tank-just a little one.  He was so excited to go get a fish for it.  The ones he wanted were out, of course, so he has one so far and can add one or two more when they come in.

That afternoon, the doorbell rang and he ran to answer the door. My parents flew in and surprised him.  He first looked out the window and just stood there frozen.  I asked him who it was and he said-Grandma & Grandpa Chambers, but he still just stood there.  I said-well, go open the door for them.  He was totally surprised.

My parents took him birthday shopping at Target and then we went to Chuy's for his birthday dinner.  Tyler has been telling me he wanted a party with his 3 good friends, but I told him we only do parties every other year.  So I said maybe when we got home, I could call at least two friends that live close and maybe they could come over to see his new fish.  Little did he know, we had about 8-10 friends over and waiting for him to get home.  Again, he was totally surprised!

 We had a sundae bar set up and the kids had fun.

 After Tyler opened gifts, the boys all ran around crazy shooting each other with their bullet guns. 

 Tyler's friend, Garrett, gave him a bow & arrow.  Once a few kids left, I let him open it.  Garrett's brother showed them all how to use it.  It's pretty cool.

I think it's safe to say Tyler will remember his 6th birthday! 

Let's Go Fly a Kite

One of our things to do this summer is fly a kite.  I bought them each one about a week ago and they have been so excited to fly them.  They picked the other night except there was not much wind.  We tried anyway and we got them in the air a little bit.  Tyler and Molly had a blast.  Plus, running up and down the street tired them out too.  \

Can you see that he has a Power Ranger kite

She's flying Tyler's kite here.  His got up a little higher than hers.

Zoo

Yesterday we went to the zoo with some friends.  We finally got a membership, so we can go anytime we want now. 

Four little monkeys looking at the monkeys

train ride after the zoo

Service Project

Our smalls group did a service project last night.   We made kits to hand out to homeless people.  We filled socks with lots of things they might need.  You'll see it all in the pictures. 

Summer Fun

I realize I've been a bit behind on my blogging.  We made a list of 80 things to do this summer, really 79 because I didn't notice I put go to the zoo twice until I was done. We've done 26 so far, so I need to get moving on it.  Here are some pictures of what we've done:

Canvas Painting.  They each taped off a cool design.

Rootbeer Floats!  These two love them.  We've had them about 5 times.

We've been to feed to ducks twice.

Had a fun week at VBS

Made peach cobbler.  It was yummy!

Had donuts for breakfast

Had a water balloon fight

Made a 4th of July craft

Went to Houston

Watched the fire works

Washed the van

 Went bowling

 We went to the McKenna's Children's Museum.  It is the best one. 

Molly loved taking care of the babies

Tyler and Kyle making a path for the ducks.  Maybe they'll be engineers

 We went on a train ride at Landa Park after the museum

We have also made popsicles, had a water gun fight, had breakfast for dinner, have gone to the library, caught bugs, danced in the rain, puddle jumped too, had a movie night, had a surprise activity-it was playing badminton with Uncle Brett and Aunt Carman, and of course, gone to the pool many times!
Here is one last cute picture to leave you with

Molly's doggie need a walk.  How cute it that!

Water Balloons!

We bought water balloons awhile ago and Tyler has really want to have a water balloon fight.  I had planned to get them all ready one day while he was at a friends, then when he came home, me and Molly would surprise him.  That hasn't happened.  So yesterday while Molly napped, he talked me into getting them ready.  That itself was fun.  It's hard to hold wet balloons with wet hands and try to tie them, so they often drop-we were soaked before we were finished. 

They each had 25 balloons, I had 15.  They are a pain to tie.

Here are pictures from the fun after Molly woke up.