Happy 5th Birthday Tolkien Ray Perry

Wow 5 years ago on June 27th, Tolkien Ray was born!! Its sooooo hard to believe that he is really a big boy now, not a baby, not a toddler, not a little boy, but really a Big Boy!! Wow.. its amazing how fast time has flown by!!

We had a wonderful birthday weekend, thank you to all of our wonderful birthday wishes over the phone, and thanks to all who came and celebrated with us!!

Tolkien got to visit a fire station the day before his birthday and got to do lots of fun things, and then we had a wonderful sports themed birthday party !! Enjoy the pics!!

Tolkien Ray Turns 5 yrs old!

He opens his first birhtay present... A talking grille!! Wow!

A trip to the Firestations Open House!

Tolkien and Lulah got to look inside an ambulance

Tolkien was able to use a real fire hose to hit a balloon!

We just had to get a pic with the firemen!

The kids both got to put on a real fireman's outfit!

Talulah fell over, right after this picture was taken! Sooo cute!!

And then Tyler became a fireman too!!

Tolkiens fabulous birthday cake and cupcakes for his sports themed party

We even had a stadium popcorn maker!!

MAke a wish!!

Thanks to everyone who called and came and for all of the wonderful gifts... Tolkien sure is one lucky boy!!

Summer is here!

Yes summer is here and its time for BBQs and having fun! We have been doing both! We finally got a grill, and Tyler is learning to really cook up some deliciousness!!

Meanwhile the kids have been having fun too!

Tolkien and Talulah in the pool at Uncle Aaron and aunt Terri's house!

Tolkien playing the piano so that Lulah and Varrah can dance.... soooo CUTE!

Still small enough to fit in a tinker toy box!

Tolkien's masterpiece of Tinker Toys

A trip to the Zoo and the new bear pool! YIKES

Tyler and his new Grill!!

Tolkien waving down the ice cream truck with a 5 spot!

Yummy, what to get!!

Tyler and Dan... ITs grillin time!

Wow... it still runs!!

We were at Target this weekend, and Tolkien found a race car that he had to have... when tyler told him that his dad put together a race car when he was a kid that was WAY more Awesome!! After over 14 years of being in the box, we were pretty surprised at how it ran!!

Whoops!

Well there went April!!

We had a great month! We had an Avatar viewing party, yikes.

An April family Birthday party!

And now it is the middle of May, and we have Tyler and Tolkien taking care of the lawn, and taking trips to Gertens to plan out some landscaping.

A visit from Aunt Peg and Uncle Nick.

Talulah enjoying her brand new "grandma's Blanket, and going out and about Garage Sale-ing.

Enjoy the pics!

Avatar Night!

April Birthdays!!

Happy Birthday Greg, Adam, and Aaron!

Tolkien checking out some pretty awesome landscaping at Gertens!

Tolkien and daddy taking care of the lawn!

(truly, a two man job!)

A wonderful visit from Aunt Peg and Uncle Nick!

Talulah's new Grandma's Blanket! What a treat!!

Tolkien's day out with Grandpa!

Talulah hits the Garage Sales in some new fashions from Grandma Perry and Aunt Peg!!

She was a hit at all the sales!

Not too thrilled about coming home

And... we have a new Baby coming to our home!!

Yep, born in 1941 its my new Baby Grand!!

Very Exciting, and although, it may not be the cutest baby on the block, it sure is fabulous!! We cant wait for its arrival!!

The rest of March.... and into April!!

Wow, that time flew by! Sorry, no blog posts!!

But here we go... Tolkien started swim school in March, which is great for him! Talulah finally got over her birthday month... we think. But it does still seem to be all about her! And we hosted our first Passover here at the house! And even had a pretty fun little Easter egg hunt! We took a trip to Madison.... but didnt get any pictures. Enjoy all of these pictures!

Talulah's under the blanket drama!

Tolkien and a soccer ball.... was that pretty obvious ?

Tolkien at swimming class.... in a cage??

Talulah wearing one of her fabulous birthday gifts!

Tolkien and Talulah and mom walk to get the mail every day...

You would think the circus has come to town, whenever Tolkien gets a letter or a package!

Our First Passover Sedar at the house. It was wonderful!! Thanks Grandpa Browne for leading!

The Sedar Plate!

Tolkien and Talulah.... looking fabulous.... but not really feeling the camera on Easter.. Too much Sugar??

Tyler took off a day, from his crazy busy work life and we did some fun yard work! Put in some planters and pansies..

And Tyler planted some raspberry bushes!! So exciting!

Our house, ready for spring!!