Caleb's birthday celebration TAKE 1...

These are all of Caleb, in his classroom. The birthday celebrations began here, and his teacher kindly got some shots for us.

Caleb's birthday celebration, TAKE 2....

Friday night, we celebrated with the grandparents. Sweetie, Nana, & Pops ate a delicious fish dinner (thanks to Chris, the "best cooker in the world"----so named by Luke) with us and we finished off the last of Sweetie's amazing cupcakes.

Caleb's birthday celebration, TAKE 3...

Last year, we had to cancel Caleb's b'day party because the morning of the big day we awoke to Paul and a 104 degree fever. We were then in the hospital for the next week. So....this year, we had to cancel again!! But, thankfully, it was for rain and nothing so serious.

We still managed to have a good time despite the rain and missing our friends.

Here's the amazing BUZZ LIGHTYEAR cake Sweetie got for us.

"The cousins" in their costumes.

An amazing Labor Day...

These first 3 pictures were taken at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. ( http://www.olamshrine.com/ ) or ( http://www.co.cullman.al.us/Press/attractions_shrine.htm )

It is part of the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, AL, run by the Poor Clare Nuns.

These last 2 are from the Ave Maria Grotto ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maria_Grotto ) in Cullman, AL. It was truly amazing......

This description from wikipedia says it better than I ever could: "The stone and concrete models are the work of Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk of St. Bernard's, who devoted some 50 years to the project, the last three decades (1932 to 1961) almost without interruption. They incorporate discarded building supplies, bricks, marbles, tiles, pipes, sea shells, marbles, plastic animals, costume jewelry, toilet bowl floats and cold cream jars."

We agreed it is amazing how such a unique gift could be used for God's glory. People travel from all over to see this place. We heard a family speaking Russian and we heard someone else speaking Italian while we were there.

Random fun...

Time for a haircut??? :)