"Eight!"

Our little boy is now 8, can you believe it?  Crazy how fast the little ones grow.  This makes me think back to when I was in second grade and thought "is this school year ever going to end?"  Well, the school year is ending soon and soon our 8 year old will be a 3rd grader.  You will see that we have done a lot this past month and hope that you enjoy the pictures of our adventures. I do want to share a conversation that I had with Jayden that made me just smile.

Me:  So Jayden, now that you are 8, what do you think you will do while you are 8?

Jayden:  Spend time with Grant and Claudia, Claudia will turn 1, I will go into 3rd grade, I get to play flag football, I get to do Karate, I'm swimming this summer...

Me:  Do you think you will get to do anything fun this year or try anything new?

Jayden:  I don't think so, but maybe!

So I guess we will have to change his mind and let him have tons of fun and try some new things, since summer is almost here!

Teacher appreciation week was the first week in May so the kids and I treated Mrs. Cust to some fun, homemade gifts.

We feel so blessed to have Mrs. Cust  teach Jayden this year.  She has pushed him to achieve anything he set his heart to and made him believe!  How awesome!

 
We decided to have the two neighbor boys over for a sleep over for Jayden's birthday.  The kids had a blast having tons of fun and staying up until 11:30 at night.

The boys ate us out of home of a whole box of pancakes for breakfast!

Jayden chalked me a picture of what I look like to him.

 

Jayden's birthday cake or should I say birthday pale?

Blowing out the candles

One of my favorite pictures of Grant!

 

This year we headed to Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells for a little water fun.  Jayden loved this slide and wanted to race Jeff multiple times.

 

Sunset from our room.

Playing such a fun game of air hockey.  Crazy shaped table, but way fun.

Oops, Jayden wanted to ride the cart so we took advantage of it.

 

Tired after two big days at the water parks.

Grant's first sucker!  What am I suppose to do with this?

Playing outside at the Claffey house and where do you find Jayden?  In the tree!

 

Grant loves to play by the tree too.

 

Almost as tall as Auntie!

 

For all the years we have lived in our house (7 years), I never took a picture of our flowering trees.  They are so pretty, but the flowers don't last very long.  Usually the rain and wind take them away quickly.

What a better day that having a half day and spending it at the farm.  We even brought a friend this year (Beck) to plant the garden.

The boys found some time to go Froggin'.

Going for a ride in the Ranger!

Jayden and I!  Love this kid!

 

Claudia was baptised and it was a beautiful day.

Sprinkler fun.

Water balloon fun!

Well, I think that is enough for this month, I'm sure I will have a lot to blog about next month.  Enjoy the beginning of summer and we will see you again next month.

Until next time,

Jeff, Heather and Jayden