Lily's 5th Birthday

LILY'S BIRTHDAY

Lily's birthday was today! She turned 5 years old! The day after her birthday last year she informed me that she was going to have a Spiderman birthday party next year. She stuck with it for a whole year, so yesterday we had a Spiderman birthday party! We caught villains by web slinging (silly string), played pin the spider on the web, and had a web walk for prizes! And of course we had cake and ice cream!!!! 

After the party we went out to eat as a family at the place of Lily's choice! She narrowed it down to mac n cheese at Chuckarama or pancakes at Perkins. She ultimately decided pancakes sounded best! They sang to her after we ate and her eyes just lit up! I didn't pull the camera out in time of course, but it was adorable!

Today was her actual birthday so we celebrated some more!!! We had cake and ice cream with family! She was able to play with cousins for hours and opened a few more presents. When we finally made it back home tonight she opened her present from us. She got a video camera to put on her bike just like her sister has. I have a feeling we have a lot of bike rides in our near future ... hopefully before the cold hits! (Speaking of weather... it was so nice to have her party outside! LOVING the nice weather we've been having!)

REED'S DAIRY
Crystal and Lily both got free cake cone at Reed's Dairy coupons in the mail for their birthdays, so this week for family night we got some yummy dessert!!!! 

JAY

Seriously! I took this picture of him before church today and almost cried when I looked at it! Where is my baby boy going?!?!?!? He's growing up so fast! 

He was so proud of his 'pikey' hair. lol. Unfortunately that means he kept rubbing it to tell me how spikey it was so it didn't make it through sacrament meeting today. lol. Oh well. It was cute while it lasted. Haha.

JAY AND ROSCOE

I looked up from my work and Jay was looking at a book with his arm gently over Roscoe. And Roscoe was napping. These two love each other! I'm not sure why because Jay is pretty rough with him sometimes, but Roscoe follows him around where ever he goes!

FINISHED PROJECTS

First, we got the deck stained! It has needed it since we bought the house 8 years ago! Oy! We also added lattice on the front to kind of separate the flowerbed from under the deck. It looked great! BUT the wind blew really hard last Sunday and the lattice blew off. lol. We finally have a finished project and it blows away! lol. We need to figure out a way to secure it better before we put it back on. Hopefully it happens before the snow comes!!!!

I have also been busy finishing up (starting in some cases) projects from the past ... well... 3 years. lol. I started by pulling out the sewing machine and mending my massive pile of clothes that needed some work! It was about a year in the making so I figured it was about time I got around to it! lol. The girls were pretty happy to have some of their stuff back after so long!
I also painted the Frozen letters I bought last year to decorate the girls room, then some Halloween decorations that I bought 2 years ago, then I started on a nativity set from 3 years ago. I'm still working on those and have a few more projects after that. I guess this is what I get when I stop crafting for two years! I went through a phase where I just didn't feel like I ever had time for it. I'm not sure how, but I'm glad I am finding the time again! I've missed it!

 

Life

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Crystal lost another tooth last week! Well I thought I was getting a picture of her new gap, but I guess its in the shadow. lol. It shows up better in their gymnastics pictures below. lol. Still a beautiful little girl! 

GYMNASTICS
The girls started a tumbling class a few weeks ago. Its only 30 minutes a week but the price is right! Haha. I can already see improvement, so I think its perfect for them right now. While the girls are in gymnastics, Jay gets to play on the park toys! It's one of his favorite things to do, so he's a happy camper!

YARD WORK
Well we finally got another section of the yard dug out and rock put in. The mound of rock in the front by our tree is gone! It's looking much better now! Haha! Jay wanted to help so much, but he was mostly just in the way. lol. I'm just glad we didn't accidentally hit him with a shovel!

COUSINS

My sister in law came to town with her kids last Saturday! We met up briefly to say hi! The kids love seeing their cousins from out of town!

THE ZOO

The zoo in Idaho Falls is closing for the season this weekend, so we made sure to go one last time despite the threat of rain. The weather was perfect for us and the rain held out just the right amount of time! Haha. The otters (the kids' favorite) were putting on quite a show for us! Most of the other animals were taking their afternoon nap. That's our fault for not getting there until after lunch! 

MORE COUSINS
After the zoo, we picked up my nieces for some afternoon fun! They had a blast playing together all afternoon! Then they went to Grandma's house for a sleep over! Cousins make the best of friends!!!! They stayed at Grandma's for the first session of conference. Grandma was prepared!!! They got to use them while we were there for Sunday morning session as well! It kept them pretty calm and quiet for most of the session! It worked better than any booklets I've put together for them. I don't know if it was the cool binders/crayon holders or if it was the stickers! Probably a little of both! ;-)

He's such a good Daddy!

PRESCHOOL

This month for preschool we had fun learning about so many different things!!!!!! We even had a field trip to the dentist!!!! Lily and her new friends had a blast!

RANDOM PICTURES OF THE WEEK

These two torment each other like true siblings. It's entertaining... until someone gets hurt that is.

Not so lovely picture of me. But I apparently don't appear in pictures enough so it will have to do. Haha.

Green Beans from a friendly neighbor and massive potatoes from a friend! Yum! Oh yeah and the steak was good too.