Birthday Bonfire

Last night we enjoyed the beautiful weather at our annual DeBruin Birthday Bonfire. This tradition started many, many years ago for Grandpa DeBruin. Since he has passed away we have kept the tradition alive with a smaller group celebrating Tim, Kurtis, Jason & Mark's birthdays. Of course the fire has to be huge otherwise it will get made fun of until the attempt is made again the following year. We give Tim a 9 for the fire this year...pretty good coming from Kurtis who cut him some slack due to being half asleep when building the fire. :)

The boy cousins doing some bonding

Bethany & Uncle Jason being silly

Joshua sleeping so peacefully...Tim & Lonita said that he hasn't been sleeping well for them the past few days, but we didn't see any evidence of this.


Our rated 9 fire after it had burned for a few hours.

Madelyn enjoying stretching

The kid's enjoying their food...okay I think they really only had juice boxes as most of their food was still left on their plates.

Lots of good food to choose from

Erica racing around on the big wheels. Yes, she is wearing her bumble bee hat.


Jaren tackling Uncle Mark in their football game