Kathleen's Ears Pierced

Last Saturday Kathleen got her ears pierced. It is something we have occasionally talked about, but she has never shown interest in. A couple of weeks ago, she finally started to seem interested. So I told her she could do it for her 8th birthday if she wanted to. But I made her dad take her for a little "recon" to go check it out and see if it was something she would really want to do. I gave him strict instructions to have them do it right then if she wanted it done since she really wanted to, but I think she would chicken out if she waited. She decided she wanted it done right then, so they did it.

Here she is before:
During:
After:
She was so brave and takes such good care of her ears. She said it didn't hurt, but that it felt warm. She is so cute. My baby is growing up.
Brandon hit his first home-run a couple weeks ago. A home run at our house is when you hit it from one side of the yard and it goes over the fence into the common area. I can't believe he can hit that far. He was pretty excited.
Ryan had a work party where we played whiffle ball and ate homemade ice cream. It was really fun. Here is the one picture I decided to post from it.
Cody was so cute at dinner the other day wearing his Thomas hat and drinking from his straw from Grandma.