...Still catching up... it'll be awhile!

I've got a gazillion other things to do but I just bought a used kitchen table and chairs (and put our old one in our dining room) that needed to be sanded down and refinished and seat cushions recovered! So now my blog has moved a little further down the list as I am now working on that project! I'll finish updating the blog sometime soon, I promise! But in the meantime here's a few more pictures from our Photo shoot with Kate Jeppson last week! Isn't she amazing? Check our her website at Jeppsonstudios.com

Cutest. Kids. Ever... The END!

Tyler's Birthday

Tyler turned EIGHT! It seems unreal to me that my little boy is old enough to be baptized! He woke up on his birthday and came downstairs and hugged everyone and told Nathan during his sweet hug, "Nathan, I'm eight now! I get to get baptized in a few days! I'm accountable now! Isn't that so great Nathan? I'm eight years old!" It was so cute! I made him heart shaped pancakes and put chocolate chips in them and he was in heaven. He told me that he would NEVER forget this birthday and the delicious pancakes I made him! Sweet boy! As he was getting ready to leave for school I asked him if he'd brushed his teeth, and being an 8 year old boy I questioned him when he responded that he had. He seemed offended that I didn't trust him completely and he said, "Mom, I'm EIGHT now! I'm ACCOUNTABLE! I'm not going to lie to you anymore. I'm accountable for that now. I really did brush my teeth, I promise! I'm accountable now!" I love that it was his birthday and turning eight that made him accountable and not his baptism. He really is such a sweet boy and I just adore him. He's grown up so much and really been SO super helpful, even more so than before!

That afternoon Emily, Nathan, Logan and I brought Birthday Balloons and special birthday treats to Tyler's class just before they went to lunch and Tyler thought he was so cool since he had BALLOONS at school and he tied them to his chair and then to his backpack when it was time to go. It was a little cold that day, so I decided to pick him up from school and again, he felt so special that he didn't have to walk home just like every other day! We came home and had an after school snack and then we took 5 of his friends to Jump On It to celebrate his birthday.
Jump On It, for those of you who don't remember from my past posts, is basically a warehouse full of wall to wall trampolines that kind of make one big trampoline and there are even trampolines lining the walls. There are platforms in the middle to jump onto and off of and the boys have a BLAST doing tricks and being completely reckless! There are also several big inflatable bounce houses and slides for the smaller kids. It was a lot of fun. My sister in law Stephanie and her cute little Britton came into town that week for her brother's return from Poland where he spent 2 years serving a mission for our church. It was fun to have her in town and her family even got to come to Jump On It with us.

That night we took Tyler to his very first Cub Scout Pack Meeting and he was so excited! Since Pack Meeting was on his birthday all of his friends that came to Jump On It with us came to pack meeting even though most of them were older than Tyler. It's hard for me to believe that it was only 8 years ago that I didn't have any children! How life has changed in those eight years! Tyler has grown up so fast and is SUCH a sweet tender hearted boy. He loves school, especially Math. He spent the summer printing out multiplication and division worksheets and doing them and also just making pages of his own problems that he'd solve. On the first day of school this year, he made his teacher a book of all of his math pages stapled together to show her how much he loved Math, she graded it for him and he actually got ALL of them right! He is SUCH a great big brother and is so responsible and capable when it comes to caring for his younger siblings. Growing up I always wanted to have a boy first so that all of my kids would have an older brother, something that I absolutely LOVED and treasured, my brother Billy is and has always been such a wonderful example to me and I'm so glad I had to him to always look up to and I wanted the same thing for all of my kids. I know that Tyler will be the same for my kids as Billy was for me! We love you so much Tyler and are so glad you are a part of our family!

Behind in Blogging

I need to blog about - Tyler's birthday and Baptism, Halloween, our last minute move within our ward, our adventures in finding a renter, family pictures, and SO much more! But for now here is a cute family picture to hold you over until I get a minute to do it!