Happy 12th Birthday, MacKenzie!!

Today is MacKenzie's 12th Birthday!!!
We Love You, Z!

We went to Deep River on Saturday night for Ben's Aunt Tammy's Suprise 40th Birthday Party. 

LOTS of family was there, so I got a little camera happy. 

It was fun to see all the cousins and second cousins playing together! 

Always a good time! 

We LOVE our family!

 Mission Impossible: Get all the Great-Grandkids in a picture at the same time and to looke the same direction!  Eight and a half SO far!  (The Half is cousin Traci's 2nd, just 13 wks prego!)

 Carson and Cael are good buddies!:)

 Brady checking out the Birthday Girl.

 SO Big!

2nd Cousin Cael

 Aunt Julie, 2nd cousin Kamryn, cousin MacKenzie

 Brady was ON THE MOVE!

ALL over the shop in his walker!

He LOVED chasing the big kids!!:) 

 Ben's cousin, Shannon, playing Tractors with C-rob

 Baby Kayla, again! Such a cutie!

 Girls can ride tractors, too!

Great-grandpa Bob played Tractors, too!

"Aunt Megan, you need to update the blog!!!"

Thanks, MacKenzie, for the reminder!!:)

It IS time for the monthly picture overload!

 "Look mom! I turtle!"

 Flexing muscles at Wetjens' pre-game supper

 Future Raiders

Griffin Becker, Carson, Bryson Wetjen, Grant Hocker

 Fridays are Gymnastics Day!!

We go to the Coralville Gym Nest with our buddies, Kelly and Nolan Kent.

 Nolan getting some big air!

 Carson's hang time

 Lunch at Culver's afterwards.

These little monkeys are all over the place!

I love when they wave at the people going through the drive thru!

 "HIDE!" 

It's time to go!

 Cousin MacKenzie LOVES Brady!

 Brady <3's MacKenzie

He's trying to bite her chin and nose! 

Oh, teething! (and still no teeth!)

 "Shoot that one!"

 Pizza at Great-Grandparents Bob and Anita Sutfin's house

 Daddy Got a Big Buck!!!

Ben bow shot a 9-point buck last Monday night!

His very first time heading out for the season and he came across this guy bedded down while he was walking to his tree stands.  The buck was distracted watching Mike Steckly in his combine, and Ben had a clear shot from 18 feet away!  

Twenty minutes hunting and tagged out! It's a Grier record!

It scored a 144 and is getting mounted. It will soon be displayed in our basement as the first on Ben's "Wall of Fame."

 Dizzle LOVES Carson giving him treats!

 Carson was very proud to hold his new second cousin, Kayla!

Thank you, Thomas and Sharelle, for visiting us!

 Brady did a good job, too!

Chase caught a caterpillar for Carson and he was SO proud of it!

We made it a home out of a bottle, punched holes in it, and here he is giving it some grass "food."

Mommy's fine with bugs, not ready for snakes or rodents yet!