My life in technicolor: September 2010

Cameron turns 6!

Is this not THE CUTEST face?!

Maggie Moo's ice cream cake...can you say YUMMMMM???!

So my 3rd baby is turning 6~ wow, 3rd time around I've experienced one of my boys turning 6! Makes me feel kinda old, but at least I have a family to share it all with! Cameron is such a sweet boy...he's definitely our dramatic one, but is SO smart and is intuitive to everything around him...hence, maybe, why all the meltdowns, right? He just has the sweetest little smile and is growing into such a handsome, awesome kid. I love my Yone-Yai, aka Cameron!

These pics are from our own family party where our special boy gets to pick out his favorite dinner to have and then we do presents from mom and dad and/or brothers. Then he had some friends over for a party and they decorated paper bag animal friends and stick the nose on the clown (just like pin the tail on the donkey), ate pizza and had cake and ice cream...I've found that most kids don't even eat their cake, it's funny I even bother! But of course, a birthday isn't a birthday without cake! In the end I think he had a great 6th birthday!

Making a wish...

and then blowing out the candle!

I think he likes!

Cameron's attempt at stick the nose on the clown

Letting go of their parachute guys

Cute kids!!

Teagan's Baptism

So Teagan made the decision to get baptized, and of course, with some encouraging words from him momma ;) He got baptized and confirmed on Saturday, February 6th,
2010. I'm very proud of him, as is his Father in Heaven and his brother, our savior, Jesus Christ! I know he will be a good example to those around him as he continues to make good choices!

He was sad his daddy couldn't baptize him, but he chose the next best guy to do the job...our friend, neighbor, and bishop, Bishop Brinley. He also had Richard Buist to confirm him with the Holy Ghost. Brother Buist has been a family friend in my family since I was just a babe, so it was an honor for him to be a part of this special day in our family, as he was also the one to bless each on of our boys after they were born. What an honor!

I know it hasn't been an easy transition for Jason to see this happen, as Jason was raised to believe in the Jewish traditions, but he had to trust that what the boys chose to do by getting baptized would really be ok, afterall. It wouldn't make any of us love him any less, he wouldn't be separated from our family circle, and the world wouldn't end as he knew it :) I know he worries about what his family will think, but I'm sure they won't love any of us any less because I am raising our children in the LDS church. I know my boys love their daddy's side of the family just as much as my side, and we try not to let religion get in the middle of a good thing :D

I look like poo, but oh well! That was like, so 20 pounds ago, lol!

Jaeden's dolly

So this is just a quick post but is put together in honor of our awesome friends the McWane's!!! We love BASEBALL...great American pastime, baseball...Jaeden is such a natural, it's scary! He doesn't watch cartoons, he watches the MLB network and knows names, stats, teams, numbers of pretty much any player now and back when baseball first started; it's crazy cool!!!

When my friend Annette heard about what huge baseball fans we are, especially Jaeden, and the fact that Joe Mauer is one of his favorite players, she said she would start putting together a little care package to send to the boys with Twins merchandise! You see, her hubby Rick, is the Minnesota Twins trainer so they hang with the team a lot and know a lot of the guys on a personal basis, so you can imagine how totally excited Jaeden was to hear this!

So you can see they sent us a few shirts, bags, a hat, and even a Joe Mauer dolly, lol! That is how my boy came to own a doll...a baseball doll :)

My boys look a little shaggy in these pics, but had to showcase how awesome it was for the McWane's to take the time to send us some awesome Twins gear! A big shoutout and THANK YOU to you guys!!! xo

Chinese New Year

So this year Cameron is my big kindergartner. His teacher had them put together a little program in celebration and here are a few pics from the program!

Edible Sand Castle

So I headed over to the scouting office to pick up some things for Teagan as he's becoming a new Wolf now that he's turned 8. They had a bunch of "gingerbread" style houses, cabins, even a castle that were on display to earn money for these scouts who put them together. Some of them were very clever! I was especially in awe of one particular one: the sand castle! It was pretty amazing the way it was put together and it even had lights inside! As my boys and I are admiring this EDIBLE castle, one of the scouting guys tells us that we can take any of these gingerbread homes, home with us, as they were getting ready to throw them all out! Wow, seriously? They were asking $100 for this castle...I couldn't see all that work and effort go to waste so I figured if it could fit in the car, then sure! Why not...give it a new life for a few more days. Let's just say the demolition of it to throw the whole thing out once we had had enough of it was extremely messy, to say the least! Not to mention all the broken parts that ended up all over the place from my boys sneaking little bites, here and there...even if the frosting was a bit stale, ick! So here are a few pics highlighting our experience with this giant edible sand castle and hope you think it's as cool as we did!

Teagan turns 8!

Wow, so my 2nd baby turned 8 years old! My how the time flies...I get so caught up in the craziness sometimes, I need those a-ha moments to readjust my focus and remember the good times and how I will look back one day and wish I had of not let the little things get to me so much! Anyway, enough sappy stuff; we always celebrate our boys' birthdays with ourselves by letting them pick a birthday dinner they would like to eat, do cake/ice cream (or how about an ICE CREAM CAKE from MAGGIE MOO's!!!) and then they open the gifts up from mom and dad and/or brothers. Then we let them decide if they want an extended family party or a friend party and they have so far always chosen the latter...I've decided that once they are in school, I no longer plan the big extended family party since they seem to have a friend party over that anyway! I don't have time for 10 birthday bash's a year for our kids :)

We celebrated Teagan's friend party at Jack and Jill Lane's for bowling. The kids had a blast and Teagan is a really good bowler, I must say!! So here are a few picks to share for the big day and hope you enjoy!