Lil' Dean Fam

Wow!  This year is 65% over.  Hard to believe.  Feels like it was just beginning.  It's been quite a year for us.  In a good way!  I'm sugarfreesweety on instagram if you have an instagram, follow me and I'll be sure to add you too.

So here's a funny story.  It goes back to the first weekend we lived in our new home.  We are church-going people but there are certain instances in which we choose not to attend.  The day after we moved in, it was Sunday.  Our house looked like this:   So, we had a little bit of work today.  Anyway, Colin went out to the car to get something and a teenage girl in her church clothes came walking by the side of his car.  From the direction of our house.  And he had to take a double-take, because where on earth did she come from?  So.. he went to investigate.  There was snow on the ground so it was easy to see where she had come from, our back yard!  So, he went a little further and noticed that there was a little trap door in our fence.   Later on we heard from that family.  That many, many years ago, the kids in the neighborhood wanted a passageway from one side of the street to the other, because it's a long w...

 Ryan started SECOND grade on Monday, August 27, 2012.  He was excited!  and so was I.  New backpack!  New lunch box. And they're ready for school!  Lining up with his class.  Sydney and Ryan are in the same class this year!  Ryan's good buddy Brady is also in his class.  Ryan has two teachers this year.  They split the day or job-share.  Mrs. Joyce is in the morning, and Mrs. Barnes comes in the afternoon. Evan and I wanted to take a sneak peek at Ryan in class before we left.  There he is sitting in the back.

Ryan, Cole and I all have Birthdays in August.  Colin's mom does too.  We got together on Sunday for a birthday party at my mom's house.  

We had Ryan's 7th Birthday Party on Saturday, August 25, 2012.  We had the party at our house.  He invited his friends: Ben, Ian, Easton, Jackson, Rylee, and his brother Evan and his cousin Emry.  His birthday party was Skylander's themed.    We had 8 activities.  One for each of the 8 elements in Skylanders.  The first was air.  The kids had to stick the balloon between their legs, run down to the line, sit on the balloon to pop it. The kids each had a game card. Each element had a circle and for each challenge they completed, they received a sticker for their game card.  Once the game card was filled up, they had defeated Kaos, the bad guy.  Undead is the second element.  They played a game of Zombies vs. Humans tag, which is basically the same thing as sharks and minnows or British Bulldog, whatever you wanna call it.  The third element is Earth.  They each got to plant a s...