Griffin's 5 Year Pictures

Mandi once again captured our little guy's personality with her photography skills!

Enjoying the Lake

It's been fun to hang out at Nonna and Poppa's cabin and play in the lake.  Griffin has been enjoying snorkeling and even tried out the paddle board the other day!

One of His Favorite Days of Summer

Hay bailing....

I'm Impressed

I'm nearly 36 and have yet to take a fish of the hook, here's our little man taking off a sunny, no problem.

Water Balloon Fight!

Uncle Kevin and Auntie Julie gave Griffin some water balloons for his birthday, he couldn't wait to use them!  We had a fun water balloon fight with the neighbor kids.  I got drenched!!

 Nice look on my face, huh?  Look at how drenched I was!!

 I am sure Jamie will see this and think, "She throws like a girl!" :)

Lucky Boy

My mom, Griffin and I ventured off to the cities on a recent Wednesday to look at bridesmaid dresses for Chris and Annie's wedding.  After we found a dress, out plan was to shop, then have Griffin's 5 year old photos taken by my good friend, Mandi.  When we pulled up to David's Bridal, we quickly noticed that Chuck E. Cheese was right next door!  So, our little guy was extra good at the bridal shop so that he could be rewarded with lots of fun games and yummy pizza next door.  Boy, did he have fun!

Griffin's "Real" Birthday

As most of you know, Griffin sleeps "late" just like we like to on the weekends.  So, I was a bit shocked when he woke up at 6:30 a.m. on his birthday.  He woke me up and asked if we could go to Nonna and Poppa's and fly his new remote control helicopter.  I told him that it was too early to be up and that Nonna and Poppa were still sleeping.  He told he that he was still tired, so maybe he'd rest.  At 8:15 a.m. he was up again and brought me my cell phone to call Nonna and Poppa to see if they were awake.  I told him that I thought we shoudl go out to the pancake place for breakfast for his birthday.  He insisted that since he was the birthday boy he got to pick what he wanted to do all day long (I told him this leading up to his birthday) and he wanted to go to Nonna and Poppa's and wanted Nonna to make him pancakes and sausage.  So, I called.  Sure enough, Nonna and Poppa were up for the idea!  So, at 9:30 we rolled on over to their home, and didn't leave until 9:30 at night!!  Here's some snapshots of Griffin's great birthday!  He had a blast in the lake, on the slip and slide, flying his helicopter and swimming.