Jake & Elwood

Uncle Jason has been influential in the planning of Halloween costumes this year.  Here we have the Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood, getting ready for church!

Carson's Baptism

Carson chose to be baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 24.  He was very excited for this to occur.  We had tried a couple of dates to accomplish this and it finally came together! 

These are copies of the two invitations that he handed out to friends and family.

This is my favorite!

Carson & Daddy right before the meeting.

Gram & Pappa, Grandma & Grandpa and Uncle Jason were all able to come and celebrate along with numerous friends to make this day perfect for Carson.

The raspberries are finally ripe!

The raspberries started to turn a little bit red last week.  For the last 7 days I have heard 14 times per day how badly the boys wanted to pick the raspberries.  I told them if I caught them they would be cut off from TV for a week!

Finally today they are ripe, a lovely deep purple.  They picked berries to their hearts content.  And ate berries to their hearts content.  I will make jam tomorrow, after they have eaten enough that they don't want to eat anymore.

You can see in the pictures as well that the grapes are doing well this year.  I am somewhat scared of the fall for all of the grapes I am going to have to deal with.  I cut them back to what I thought was half last year but they obviously love to get cut back.

I want to ride my bike!

It's official, all of the Imes boys can now ride a two wheeler without training wheels.  Jay insisted we needed a video as proof for Nathan's posterity!

Jay's big day

Jay has been a little scared of riding a bike without training wheels.  One of the families from church that has 4 boys came by last night and offered us some of their old bikes.  Jay shyly asked if he could have the blue one.  I reminded him that it didn't have training wheels on it.  This morning before school he got up and rode his new bike.  No help and no training wheels!

To add to the excitement, Jay got his first loose tooth.  Unlike Carson, who can have a loose tooth for weeks! Jay wiggled it and wiggled it all day long and it came out at supper time!  Yay, Jay!

What we learned this week at school...

Jay had a productive week.  This is what he learned at school.

Sunday afternoon Snowcones

Nathan is proud of his 10L of snow!

Nathan was so excited for the new snow fall as it makes a good supply for his snow cone fetish.  After church, Jay has taken to changing in to his pyjamas and then heading downstairs to beg to watch movies.  Carson just changes and begs for movies.  Nathan typically changes and begs for movies but today he asked to go play outside.  About 1/2 hour later he rang the doorbell so I would help him with the door and he had his "ice cream bucket' full of snow to make snow cones.  His intention was that he and his brothers be able to finish all the snow in his bucket!

Thankfully they are restricted to 2 flavors with each "cone".  They each had about 5 of these things though!

(I left for work shortly after this sugarfest)