Birthday Boy!

Birthday Boy!

 The girls had fun shooting these fun shots of their "cowboy brother" at a park down by the river!  It was a nice sunny, breezy day thank the Lord before all the heat hit us here in Cinci! This boy has loved anything to do with cowboy ever since his grandma started buying him his boots... the "walk" just came with the boots!  We are so thankful that Jesus saw fit to send us a boy too.  Our prayer is that he'll always choose to be "a Man after God's own heart!"  We tell him he's can be whatever... our only stipulation is... it just MUST BE what God calls him to be... cowboy or not... Jesus 1st is our prayer for his life!

Serious Cowboy!

I'm kind partial to all of these pics... this one though I can still see my "little" boy and that's helping my heart!  Though I'm not blind... I can see he's growing up F.A.S.T.!   We don't do a big party every year for the kids... so this year I had planned to do "simple".... NOT... Bryan is nothing about simple! He's Mr. INTENSE to put it mildly and so when he found this Train Cake, he asked if "we" could do that... so here's what we came up with...

                                           His choice as to what the cars should carry.....

                                                  and that MUST include a John Deere.....

                                                        What train doesn't have tail lights.....

                                       Natasha's Gift was helping to decorate his Train for him.  

                             And of course it had to have a front grill... which he made himself! =)

                                                                       Aerial View!

         Darla gave him a cool matchbox car and some candy, which we forgot to get a pic of....
 And our main gift to him was....a Bike!
 Sometime in early spring this year, Bryan was riding his bike and skidded the tires 1 time too many and blew the back tire... it was a loud noise, which delighted him to pieces... however soon thereafter there were tears for he was devastated as to what to do to get a bike before Camargo camp... cause a boy just can't go to camp-meeting without a bike!!!  we were able to find this "nearly-new" bike on Craigslist for a good price and as you can see from the pic below,.... he was thrilled!!!

Brittany's gift was to make him his John Deere Curtains shown here!

 Grandma and Pop-pop's box (above) arrived a day later... but when I warned him that this is how it had to be this year his comment was... "Well, I'd rather that it be "on time"... "But that's okay", I reminded him, "you'll just have a birthday that lasts longer"!!! He had a "birthday week"!!!! He's not sad as you can tell!

 Shown here is his main gift from them.... a Christian cowboy kneeling at the Cross with his horse tethered behind him.  We are planning to use Gram and Gramp's $ gift to purchase the leather belt needed to hold his belt buckle!  Thanks everyone for a great birthday!

 The Marhon's sent $ and he got to do his own shopping... he's been dreaming about this Lego deal for months... so thanks A. Doreen, Sara and U. Frank for this "Dirt Bike Carrier"... he had it put together in no-time,... humming a tune the entire time... =)  He enjoyed getting to shop for it himself too!

 Now off to more needed Haus Projects....