Ezekiel's Birthday Surprise!

Ezekiel turned 4!!

And what a special birthday it turned out to be when his wish came true... Papa and Grandma were able to fly out for the weekend and surprised Zeke for his birthday!  It was something he had asked for and we truly didn't think it was possible until a couple days before his birthday I got a call from my parents who informed us they had tickets to fly up on Thursday night.  They were able to stay until Sunday night which made for a great trip of almost 3 full days with them.  Friday the kids and I and my parents went down to Bismark to shop at Lowes for our appliances, Saturday we worked at the property, my dad was able to put gravel down and make us a driveway while Nathan, Bob and Trevor worked on our plumbing and my mom vacuumed up the house a bit.  We had dinner together in our house which was fun and then Sunday we celebrated Zeke's birthday.  We went and played some arcade games, went out for lunch where he opened up his gifts and then went and got ice cream (cones) per his request for his birthday before we had to take Papa and Grandma back to the airport to fly home.  It was a busy, fun and very special weekend!

I was driving up to the airport to surprise Zeke with Papa and Grandma's arrival, I was trying to hold the camera to get Zeke's reaction while driving up to where they were waiting.  Sorry its so dark.

Grandma and Papa surprising Ezekiel (with balloons of course!) for his birthday!

at Lowes shopping for appliances... in the coolest shopping cart ever!

having fun with Grandma while mom tries to make up her mind

Papa getting our driveway ready

finally no more dirt pile up front

lights!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eating dinner in our house

Zeke and Papa

Daddy ans Janessa

sweet smile!

Zeke wearing Daddy's clothes

playing arcade games for Zeke's birthday

at lunch for Zeke's birthday

Thanks Uncle Monty and Aunt Jen for the awsome sand box toy, now all we need is for Dad to build the sandbox!!

tools!

actual (small) tools for his very own tool belt!

check it out, now he's really ready to help out his dad!

Papa and Grandma with their kiddos

such a beautiful little girl: mommy and Janessa

family shot

an ice cream cone!

yummie

*I know a lot of the pictures didn't turn out very well... I was really bummed and I'm hoping all that happened was that the setting was incorrect, but if anyone would like to donate some money for my new camera fund I wouldn't mind a bit!  (just kidding!)*