{birthday boy}

we celebrated Sabe's birthday on Saturday night since his real birthday (June 28, if you must know) is in the middle of the week and we all know how crazy and stressed the middle of the week can be! his birthday wish was to go stuff ourselves at our all-time favorite Mexican restaurant, Casa Gonzales.  Oh, how we love that place. their chips and salsa are a meal in itself, lots of drink refills, and yummy authentic food. i am so happy all the Andersons could make it!! it meant a lot to Sabe and it was a really fun time being together.
after dinner we went and ate cupcakes in a park and let the kids play.
happy early birthday, SABEY BABY!!!










I swear Sabe doesn't smile on purpose. you little punk!

{a really hairy & cool party}

The kids were invited to sweet Emelia's birthday party today and they were all so excited because Lonnie, the reptile-loving guy was going to be there. I never would have imagined that you could get a snake that size around Olivia's neck or that Izzy would be petting a scorpion. And hey, I held the tarantula!  It was so cool...

 tarantula 
Poor Emelia's daddy got stung by a bee the night before and this is what happened!

{Valley Viking Basketball Camp}

Jaxon just finished a great bball camp at the high school this week. It was 6 hours everyday, so he really didn't have much of a break from the last day of school. But it was basketball and he's pretty much obsessed with all things basketball, which is so cool because that's how he has been ever since he could walk. There was a little hiatus in the bball-loving department when he discovered a skateboard, but now's he back in full swing.
This is a picture today, his last day of the camp. He was supposed wear the color orange, and this was the only orange t-shirt we had, so we pimped it out a little by cutting the sleeves off, but we had to leave the text :)

And this was about 5 minutes after we got in the car. Poor kid--he's exhausted!!

{monarchs}

Olivia just finished up a great season on the Monarchs. She improves more and more each year and with a full size field (its huge!), she gets plenty of running in. Her coach is a crazy guy who only wears tie-dyed shirt and never wear shoes, but he's super passionate about soccer.

{peach fuzz}

{flag football}

Since Jaxon is going to play tackle football this fall, we signed him up to play flag football this past spring. He had a great time, learned lots of plays, and stole lots of flag. His coaches were very enthusiastic and Jaxon was able to meet some awesome, new friends.

T---O---U---C---H---D---O---W---N!