Goal #2

Goals 1,3,4

Playing Defense #1

September 2005 vs 2008

This first picture was taken 3 years ago on Sept. 16, 2005 - its hard to believe that this is where Jamie was at that point. You wouldn't guess it looking at her now! Thank you God for answered prayers, great doctors and lots of friend and family support! We now have a crazy, cute and smart little three year old.

Jamie is 3!!!

Princess Jamie is 3!!

Look at all the great new dress-up stuff Grandma & Grandpa V got me!

We had a huge amount of rain on the day of the party...so we ended up having to come up with a plan B instead of the park. Everyone went along with it and came any way...so we had a great day, even though we had to eat at a tiny resturant with 30 people and cram them all into our tiny house aftewards for presents.

Jamie has inherited Dawson's fear of everyone singing "Happy Birthday to You"

She's over it now...now that frosting is involved.

Present time

I didn't get a good overview shot of the house...but as you can see from this picture, there were so many people in our house that they were sitting up the stairs because there was no more room downstairs! It was a bit chaotic!

Uncle Kyle is a princess too?

Reading the Kissing Hand with Grandma V (thanks for the book Chris & Ryan...she loves it!)

More books with Taylor (thanks for this one Kelsey! She loves it too!)

This is kinda how I felt by the end of the day too Taylor.

Cassidy and my friend MaryLou & Todd's son, Collin

Victorian Festival Downtown

The Victorian Festival was downtown right by our house this weekend. Jack came over to stay the night before Jamie's birthday party, so he got to join in on the fun too. Here they are with our neighbor, Audrey, at the parade gearing up for lots of candy!

Look at all that Candy!!

Tickets for all the rides on the street...

Dawson wasn't so sure about doing this one on his own...

...so daddy did it with him.

Go Soccer

Dawson started soccer this fall. He had his first game this morning.

Here he is in our front yard warming up. He woke up at 7:30 AM and put on his boots and shin guards. The game was at 10:00.


Doing drills.



Dawson misses here. However, he did score one goal at the end.



Jamie watching with her Elton John sunglasses on.



Dawson and teammate Drake. The final score was something like 15 to 5 - Good guys. Drake had about 10 goals.



Its 3 on 3 without goalies. So there is a lot of good passing.

Baby Daniel

Last weekend we went to visit the newest cousin Daniel, and also toddler Nathan. We had a really good time at the Children's museum, sprinkler park, and at the hotel pool. But we forgot our camera! Here are pictures courtesy of Joel and Shontel.