The pictures I end up with of Ava just crack me up.  She really is a happy kid.. even tho the pictures don't prove it!  She definitely has her opinion of photography by b.

What? Ava, is that a smile??

I have been refraining from posting this updated blog mostly because I knew I would have to put it in writing... Kale turned FIVE!  I am the mother of a FIVE year old?? Really??  It is so strange how still, to this day, 5 years later, I can remember exactly what his tiny baby fingers looked like, the tiny snort he used to make and looking into his tiny dark dark blue eyes like it was yesterday.  I remember the weather, the hospital bed, the visitors, everything about it..like it JUST happened.
And here he is now, a lively, busy, rowdy, smart, stubborn and imaginative boy....NO BABY...a boy. Crazy.

Kale Goeken Schueller 10.17.06

We had been telling Kale that when he was 5 he could have a "friend" party (at the time 5 seemed so far away). Well, here we found ourselves at 5 and or course, Kale, held us to the 5 year old "friend" party. So, first we had a family party in Everly....

He requested a blue combine cake this year.

He's all decked out in football gear now!

Quick to test out the new football gear.

We tried for some cousin pictures.....

This was quite the process and the best I could do....



This was quite the process, as well, c'mon people.....work with me!




5 Years!



Then for the friend party.  Drive in movie theater party.  Parties are a lot of work though, aren't they? Phew!

Featuring the movie: Babe
Rules no honking during the movie! Only2 or 3 kids actually watched the movie.  They still had fun. and who doesn't love a cardboard box, right?

Happy Birthday Kale! XOXOX