Jacob's 2nd Birthday!

Jacob had an Elmo birthday (He very cutely says "Melmo.").
He started the day with opening his present from Granny and Grandpa Perkins.

Jacob isn't sure that he wants to get up.

But wait! It's my birthday and this is a present for me?

How does this thing work?
You pull the arms and legs and he says "Elmo needs a good stretch!"

Yay! I have a Melmo!

Taking Elmo downstairs.

The family cake.

Jacob's personal birthday cake.

Happy Birthday to me!

The lighting of the birthday candles!

My very own Melmo cake? Yum!


He was so cute with the candles. He wouldn't get any closer than this but kept blowing and blowing. Brothers finally gave him a little help:)


All right! Let's eat this cake!

Benjamin enjoys his cake.

Evan finally gets some cake and ice cream. He was ready to eat all day!

Jacob really enjoys his cake!


Really enjoyed it!


Finger licking good!

Benjamin's First Day at his new school

Here is Benjamin on his first day at Groveland Elementary as an official kindergartener. He is really enjoying it and goes to the morning half day class.

As you can see, Evan would really love to be going with Benjamin. He at least gets to walk with him to the bus stop every morning.

ETS Family Picnic

On September 16th, we attended the family picnic at the place that Ben works now. ETS has a huge campus and they set up a carnival with an Around the World theme. There were different regions that you could go to with food, games and entertainment and it was all free for employees and their families. There was a group of breakdancers that Benjamin kept imitating, a mariachi band and a Chinese acrobat that was really cool. We all had a great time!

Our family photo.

Ben, Jacob and Evan on the carousel.

Benjamin is in the back riding with his hands over his ears.

Evan loves the movie Cars so this was pretty cool for him to watch.

Daddy and Benjamin watching the race cars.

Benjamin takes a swing.

Evan and Jacob putting around.

Jacob takes a shot.

See the kids still have Clemson at heart. They wanted to jump in the tiger:)

The tiger jump.

Evan jumping in the tiger.

Sumo wrestling...I just thought this was funny.

The giant pirate ship slide.

This was the helicopter that kept circling and taking pictures of the event. The kids thought it was pretty cool to see one so close.

Jacob takes a pony ride!

Evan rides a pony!