Happy Birthday Weston

Dear Weston,
Happy Birthday Weston!  9 years old, wow!  This is a fun year for me.  When I moved to the school I am at now you were almost 3.  You kept telling me I am going to be in your class momma.  Well here you are turning 9 years old and you are in my class!  When you said that so many years ago it seemed so far away, and yet some how the time has come and you are in my class.  You are a third graders!  One of the many things I love about you going to the school I teach at is that I get to spend so much time with you.  I get to see you right until school starts and right when school ends.  I often get to see you in the hall or in the lunch room.  Well this year I get to see you all day long!  I loved you were so excited for the first days of school because I was going to be your teacher.  Now I know the novelty of it wore of with in a few weeks for you.  But I love seeing you learn and grow.  It broke my heart to see you struggle at times but it was nice to know it was generally on things all the other kids were as well.

 You are such a sassy boy!  You can wipe out a comeback or smart alec comment as good as any adult.  Yet though this drives me crazy on the regular it also generally has me laughing.  Stubborn is a good word to still describe your disposition.  When you get something in your head there is no changing your thinking or you will stick with it just to drive me crazy!  But you are also so loving.  You would move the moon and the stars if your baby sister asked you too.  You pick at Cason and tease him like no other yet when he is struggling you are the first one to help him out.

Your friends love your personality and though you generally think its your way or no way you are a pretty darn good friend.  I love seeing how well liked you are by others and how nice you are to everyone.

I hope you have a great last year in the single digits.  Next year is the big 1-0!  I love you so much!
Love,

Mom

Like:
Pizza
Football
Utah Utes!!!!
Call of Duty, Minecraft, and roadblox video games
Starting to like FNAF toys and game (the roadblox version)
Snuggling with anyone who will let you
You are a big help to your sister
Love to watch minecraft videos on the i-pad

Dear Cason

Dear Cason,
It's that time of year again for me to write you a letter on your birthday.  Cason you continue to bring so much happiness and joy into your Dad and I's life.  You truly are the sweetest little boy.  It seems that you have the uncanny ability to know when I am having a bad day or feeling bad about myself because you will be there with a ready compliment.  Not many days will go by without getting a "you're beautiful mom!" or a "you're the best mom ever!" I often feel inadequate to be your mom but you have all the confidence in the world that I was meant to be your mom. 

We can often butt heads when it comes to certain things.  And when you set your mind to something there is no changing it.  Which unfortunately has lead to many a meltdown especially since starting school.

Ah school!  Cason you have learned so much and grown by leaps and bounds since school started.  At the beginning of the year you knew a handful of letters barely, no sounds, didn't know how to spell your name and could only count to 10.  Now you can count to 75 (most days :)), know all your letters, sounds, sight words, are reading, writing, and you know your phone number. 

Your vision has given you many a challenge and I worry about you most days.  You struggle more then the average person but you just keep being so upbeat.  I know you will do geat things despite this obstacle you have been given.

 

I have never met a person who doesn't mention how you love to talk!  You can go on and on and on about anything when you think you have found a captive audience.  You generally prefer it to be an audience of one or two.  In a group setting you are on the more reserved side.  Everyone who knows you just loves you!




You are so adventerous!  It was so fun to take you to Lagoon this summer because you loved all the big rides.  I can't wait to take you to Disneyland.

 

Again I don't know how I got blessed with you but I am so thankful I did.  I love you so much.

Some fun facts about you right now.
you love:

• Legos
• Transformers
• Minecraft
• Talking everyone's ear off
• Octanauts
• Watching transformer videos on the i-pad
• still loves his blanket
• giving cuddles

Things that are a must

• has to take something every where he goes
• has to have a snack after Kindergarten as he is always starving
• I have to carry food for you where we go

Happy Birthday Cason!

Dear Cason,
Hey big 7 year old!  Seeing you go off to 1st grade this year was so hard for me.  I don't know what it is about you going to school all day.  But for some reason it makes me feel like you are such a BIG kid!  The beginning of the year was really a struggle for you.  I am so glad to see you getting the hold of this whole all day thing.  It was so neat that you entered the reflections contest.

You made two different airplanes.  One of your airplanes won 2nd place how cool is that!  You were so excited about your special pin.  You are such a creative boy.  I love to see the lego creations you come up with.  You can spend hours on end building legos or playing transformers.  Lego ninjago seems to be your current favorite type of legos.  You also really like to watch videos of this series on netflix.  I sometimes wish you would be a little more kind to your baby sister.  To you she seems to be more of a bother.  I often hear you yelling at her to get out of your room and not touch your legos when all she really wants to do is look at them.





Fear is not a word in your vocabulary when it comes to rides!  You love going on all the big rides.  This fall you were able to get onto Colossus because your hood made you look taller.  That made your entire night!
You still love to talk anyone's ear off that will give you that time.  (Sometimes when when they don't have the time you still do it).  You are such a sweet, special boy.  Dad and I love you so much and just love the great things you do!

Some fun facts about you right now.
you love:

• Legos
• Transformers
• Ninjago
• Talking everyone's ear off
• Octanauts
• Watching transformer videos on the i-pad
• still loves his blanket
• going on rides at Lagoon
• giving cuddles
• four wheel rides
  
  
  
  
  

Halloween 2014

 

 Darling outfit I found at the DI for her to wear during October.  It was so cute it had black tulle along the bottom. 

 

My Team is so awesome.  We decided to dress up as Carebears for Halloween.  I was Love A lot Bear.  The kids thought it was great we were all the same.

 

 Having to show off our little tails and hearst too.

Here are the boys and I off to school for our Halloween parties.  My Knight and shining armor and Zombie Steve from Minecraft.  After school we went to Jamba Juice and got a free smoothie if you are in a costume.

My darling little Elephant!  Isn't she the cutest thing?

 

After Jamba juice we went to the Mall for some trunk or treating.  Tay loved this.  She didn't want to sit in her stroller she wanted to walk from store to store.  Granted she had just learned to walk so this was so cute to watch.  She would hold her arm up high and have her bucket on her arm like a purse.  I have the cutest video of her but it won't load.

 

We went to our annual Halloween Carnival at the Clearfield Aquatic center after Weston's 8th birthday party.  Dayton, Ashton, and Braxton joined us in the fun. 

Here are all the boys and my sweet Tater.

Cason playing a ball and chain bowling game. 

Taylyn playing in the pit of balls she thought this was so fun.

We also went to the Syracuse City Pumpkin Walk.  It is always so fun to see all the great pumpkins.  This year we entered pumpkins into the display.

My sweet boys.

 

Weston with his minecraft pumpkin he made.

My pumpkin.  Isn't it a beaut? Ha!

This year we also went to my mom's ward trunk or treat.  Cason had more fun handing out the candy then trick or treating.  I love that boy :)

 

Taylyn helped cason.  Well not really she didn't want to part with her suckers.

Here they all are all dressed up.  Weston's minecraft head was so heavy and hard to see out of this was the only time he was Steve.  Afterward he switched to be Zombie Steve and I painted his face.

First Haircut

Today Taylyn had her first haircut.  I have been hearing that to make a baby's hair grow you should cut off the ends that have been growing.  So I finally did it.  I also needed to even it out.  My friend Kim who is also my hair stylist came to the house to do it.  Tay was so funny.  She was all smiles and then her lip....it slowly started to protrude out more and more.  Until after a few minutes tears were streaming down her face.  It was so funny because she wasn't having anything done that would hurt her.  She is such a sensitive soul.  Turned out so cute!

 

The protruding lip....

Finally she had enough and the tears began to stream.

 All done. 

 Looks like a cute little bob.  Love this girlie!

Weston's Minecraft Birthday Party

 For Weston's 8th Birthday he wanted to have a Minecraft birthday party.  It was pretty fun planning his party.  My mom and I made his cake.  It turned out pretty amazing.  We found some on pinterest and then made our version of them. We couldn't decide on just one and since we had so much cake and figurines we made TWO cakes.  Look how great they looked and they tasted so good. 

 

 Cake 1

Cake 2

Weston helped me make creeper and spider balloons for decorations.

For favors Weston picked Minecraft parody songs and we made CD's for everyone they also got TNT twizzlers.

 The two cutest attendees of the party.  I just love Taylyn and Quincy they are bound to be best friends.

One of the games we played was Don't Eat Steve which is the Minecraft version of Don't Eat Pete

 

 

 

 Weston also wanted to play pin the pickax on Steve.  I drew Steve and he colored it.  Weston was very hands on with this party this year.

 After playing games the kids opened presents.

Time for cake and singing Happy Birthday!

 

 

For lunch the kids ate pizza, Weston's all time favorite.

As you can see someone really enjoyed her creeper cupcake.  She was a green mess.