Jesse's 5th birthday party

Friday was the "big day" for Jesse. We finally had the birthday party for him at the Wright's pool. We are so thankful that they "opened" the pool for us again. I have to say, he was so excited about his birthday party. He invited his friends from his Sunday School and had a blast. The nice thing about having this party on Friday was that Daddy actually got to be there too since he had the day off. I have to say, Jesse is really getting good at swimming. He loves being in the pool.
For his birthday cake I made this little "Hamburger cake" and "French fries" (sugar cookies) for him.It was a lot of fun making and I have to say it tasted pretty good too.

After lunch we had cake and then openend birthday presents. I had them all sit by the pool and had Jesse open the presents. After that some kids had to go home and some of us got back in the pool. Poor little Josiah was so tired and actually fell asleep on Mrs. Sarah's lap and when we got home we found out he had a fever. Poor little guy but no worries- he is all better now!

I just want to thank everyone for coming to celebrate Jesse's 5th birthday! We had a lot of fun and I am thankful for all of you coming. Jason, thank you for bringing Caroline and Jackson to the party. I know they were tired but it meant a lot to Jesse. He was very excited that Caroline was there too!

Hamburgers or Cup Cakes?

Tomorrow is Jesse's birthday party at Mr.Joe and Mrs. Flo's house. Jesse invited some kids from his Sunday School class and just some friends that he knows. He has been looking forward to this party since the day of his birthday. He woke up this morning thinking that today was Friday and the first thing he said was "Today is my birthday party"! I hated to tell him that today was only Thursday. BUT I did work on his cup cakes. Mari came to help. We had a lot of fun and I am so happy with how it came out:) Very cute.

After all that...

this is how I feel!

Blueberry Picking And Summer Fun...

(From L to R). Samual; Donavan; Jesse; Riley; Josiah; Samantha; Joel; Sal and Alina.

We have had a lot of fun so far this summer. At least I think so and I hope the kids do too. Today we went blueberry picking. We went with Mari and her kids and Raluca and Alina went with us too. It was a lot of fun just very HOT! When you get there each person gets a bucket and then you cross the street and and start picking. I have to say there are a LOT of blueberries. I actually felt a little over whelmed. After about 45 minutes of picking (it might have been shorter but it sure felt like it) we decided to go ahead and go pay for them. Since it was past 1:00pm the owners "close" and they work on the "honor system". They have a scale and a little money box by their front door. We got about 1 1/2 lbs of blueberries and I only paid $1.50 I think Mari and I (and who ever else wants to go) will go back tomorrow night (without kids) and get some more. You get beat this deal. Just prepared to eat LOTS of blueberries over the next few months.

Here are Sal & Joel comparing Blueberries.

Who has the biggest Blueberry?

Wow, they are so much a like!

And the winner is??? I think it is a tie guys!

After the blueberry picking we went to the library to bring our books back and get some more for our Summer Reading program. I think Wednesday is "unofficially" library day for the Fontana/Rogers Family. The kids each got 5 books to check out and then we took them McDonald's for some ice cream. I think Mari and I were both ready for some cooling off and relaxing. So we took them to the "new" McDonald's in town and let them play in the play place. They had a lot of fun! Riley decided she wanted to go to church with Samantha today so she is with them at this moment while our other kids are reading; napping and one little man is sitting right next to me counting to 12. Try typing and somebody counting in your ear to 12! It is hard!Enjoy the pictures!

Josiah's 2 year old pictures

Last week we went to the mall to get Josiah's 2 year old pictures taken at the Picture people. Can I tell you, I LOVE that place. They do such a great job. I have probably already blogged about this before but I guess I am going to do it again. We have found this one photographer there- his name is Rob and he is just AWSOME (as Josiah likes to say these days). He knows what he is doing and my kids know him now (and he knows them) so that makes things go even quicker. I think with the old kids it takes about 5 minutes to get about 20 pictures and they are ALL great. Josiah takes a little longer because he is still small and is learning. But as you can see from the pictures below he did a great job:)