Cameron turns 7 !!!

So another year, another son of mine celebrates a birthday! This time its Cameron who is 7. How can this be the little thing that grew inside of me not so long ago?? Goes by so fast, and yet so many fun memories of my little sunny-boy Cameron. He is quite the dramatic child in our household! I always joke around that he should take up acting and get PAID for his antics...oh well, keeps us on our toes, that's for sure!!

I love the thrilled look on his face in this one...



So we did a home party and he invited quite a few kids...I figured they would all show up, so for a pretty decent percentage, you gotta invite a lot of friends to begin with. We decided to do a movie theme, just without the movie theater! Our LCD TV would do the trick. I put together little bags of candy and added in a movie ticket into each one. Then I got some little popcorn box holders from the grocery store that would be perfect for the microwave popcorn I bought...too bad it was too peppery and gross, that's what you get when you try and go 'natural', I guess! lol

Cameron wanted baked potatoes for his birthday dinner, so that's what we had and I also made him a homemade cake. I can't stand store-bought cakes; they are too sweet and artificial, and just plain gross!! People have always raved about how yummy my homemade cakes are, and I have to agree. Besides, a helluva lot cheapter, too!

For his friend party we had the typical pizza: feeds many, and cheap. I made cupcakes for his friends and just had him blow out another candle from the previous cake I had made him. I noticed that most kids aren't so fond of the cake-part...they licked the frosting right off and left me with a bare-naked red velvet cupcake that got thrown out...KIDS, right?? :)






Cameron was thrilled his best buddy, Jaden Warr, was able to make it! Jason and I were really good friends with his mom and dad, but they are since divorced and so the kids stay with their dad on the weekend, so Lance was good enough to bring him and his siblings, over for the big day! If anyone was going to come, I was hoping Jaden would at least make it, so it turned out great. They've been best friends since they were 2 and are like 2 peas in a bod, really! My friend Melanie's kids, I love them like my own!! (Well, almost ;)




Cameron got a scooter from his parents and some mini wrester guys and a mini wresting ring where they can duke it out...he loved them!

V-day!

Valentines morning...here's what the boys got, great big red alien-like things! They loved them. We got Payton a big-eyed giraffe, since he is still the baby and I thought it woule be cute for him. They got a couple of treats with it and that was it. I really have a hard time justifying spending a lot of money on these silly holidays...we only celebrate it because it's about the LOVE we have for eachother, namely our sweet boys...they look a little sleep-deprived, probably because they were from a weekend full of mini-quakes out where we live! Scary, I think so! 3 within 2 days over that weekend was more than we really asked for :-/

Jaeden



Teagan




Cameron



Braxton~ yep, still asleep ;D



Payton aka Pay-Pay



This is really what our boys look like when the masks come off ;)




Later that night my sweet momma came over to sit with the boys so Jason could go out for dinner...we went out for sushi at our favorite restaurant, Blue Fish. Then we went to Red Mango for some froyo, yummmm!

Wax Museum

3rd graders do what's called a 'wax museum'. This was back on February 4th. They get to pick someone famous or someone who made a difference in this world, and do a report on them and try and dress the part.

Teagan chose Lou Gehrig. It was very educational for ME in helping him prepare, because I learned a lot about him that I never knew before and have a new found respect for him and what he went through!

I was glad Teagan picked him because we basically had all of the 'costume attire' he would need, so that made it easy...I'm sure one of the reasons why he picked him in the first place, is because he already had a Yankees Gehrig shirt anyway :)

It was cute to see all of the kids dressed up...some of their costumes were so unique and creative! I could definitely tell which kids' parents made them do their report poster on their own...and I realized I probably did way too much for Teagan's poster to make it look nice and organized and clean! Oops! He helped me in putting everything on the poster and read books on Gehrig, etc. I guess I just can't see how teachers can expect 3rd graders to put together a nice poster of their person without the parents help; guess that's my excuse anyway! lol

So here are a couple of shots of Teagan...and remember, they are supposed to be posed like a wax figure, so I can tell he was a little bugged with me asking him to pose for the camera and smile! Haha, yeah right. :)