His First

Tonight while getting J. ready for bed we discovered that he has his first loose tooth! So I popped out my phone and shot this little video to mark the occasion...

(I fixed it so it is now viewable :)



He is so stinkin' cute :)

Capitol Reef

This is my sister and her famila!

The littlest one...isn't she adorable :)

KB...who's so darn funny :)

J...the toughest kid I know

B...the big sis.

They were going on a little trip to Capitol Reef and were kind enough to ask us to come along. We are so glad we got to go. We had so much fun spending a few days camping with them. It was pretty hot one of the days and so we spent a few hours swimming in the river, at the base of a waterfall. We all (the adults) wanted to jump off the cliffs next to it but we were all a little chicken...until Matt took the first plunge...and then we all did it. It was SO fun! I really wish we had pictures.

My poor little one was sick while we were there. I think it might have been an allergic reaction to the incredible amount of snow...I mean cotton, that blanketed our camp site. His eyes were all goobery and he seemed pretty miserable. He was a trooper though and hardly complained. I sure love this little guy!

The boys - they are the closest thing J. has to brothers and he loves spending time with them. he actually has several cousins his age and he adores them all. :)

The part of the rock right above our heads is actually dinosaur bone poking out of the mountain. It's pretty cool to be able to actually touch a 'dinosaurs big old bones' (from Skippyjon Jones).
The part of living in Southern Utah we dislike is living so far away from so much of our family so we LOVE any opportunity we have to spend time with each of them. We hope we will be able to spend more time with all our family in the future. :)

Happy Happy Birthday

I can't believe my little guy is 5! I guess that means he's not so little anymore...right?

He LOVES dinosaurs (and i love to hear him talking about them. He knows far more than I ever did - and do still) so, to celebrate the big day, we had a Dino birthday party.

These were the invites:

It's not what I originally had in mind, but I think they turned out pretty well for being an absolute LAST MINUTE design. I originally planned to do a large bone but looking at them now, I think I like these better.

This is the cake:





I had to make 2 cakes for parties that were only a few days apart...and hosted a coupon party...and we had house guests...and we were going camping the day after the party... and had to get ready for a party w/ 13 children...lets just say that I was short on time and the cake didn't get finished. I got the essentials in but all the extra's that make cakes great got left out. It was SO fun to have a smoking volcano though! I hope J. liked it :)

Some pics from the party:

The above and below pics are from a game called "loudest, highest, scariest"

This is "Hot Lava Rock"

and "Pin the tooth in the t-rex's mouth"

A hunt for the dino dig site...

Diggin' for dino eggs

Catch the tail

Pinata

Blown' out the candles... Isn't he a cutie?

We played all kinds of games, had a pinata, a volcano demo, and cake/ice cream. I felt like a frantic crazy person but I hope the kiddo's had fun :)

I just ADORE my son! I can't even imagine what life would be like without him and am so thankful that he is ours. He such a blessing, is very smart, talented, FuNnY, inventive...I could go on and on. He is at such a fantastic age and I can't wait to see the fantastic boy he is yet to become. Actually....I can wait! I would like to capture him in a bottle and never let him grow up! -sigh-

P.S. This is the other cake I made that weekend...