Kadens Birthday

Yesterday Kaden turned 8 years old. I can hardly believe it. I absolutely hate how fast time flies by. I am just so grateful that for now he is still a mama's boy and will let me snuggle him.

Kaden will get baptized in about 3 weeks when my sisters and parents can come. So that will be his really big party - so for now we just had a small celebration. He requested sausage and mini pancakes for breakfast and his for dinner he wanted to go to the Chinese Buffet. Thank you to Heather for bringing your family along.

So the birthday boy is going through a small phase where every single time I try to take his picture he makes some sort of freaky weird face. It is driving his mother crazy!!! I am so grateful to have Kaden in our home. He is such a good boy - always trying to do what is right. I love his little jokes and his silliness and his happy attitude. We love you Kaden so much! Happy Birthday! I tried to pick out some pictures that say the most about the person Kaden is. We think he is pretty great!!!!
Always looking out for Porter. He is such a good brother!

Taking his dads dare to put on his costume from about 4 years ago - he did end up completing the dare by skipping to the end of the street singing the Winnie The Pooh song - he is so silly!Kaden is not a quick moving little guy. He has his own pace with lots of rests :) We Love You!!!!

Fun For You ....... Fun For Me

fun for you and fun for me...

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.

The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

Dads Day Off

The past few weeks Dave has been super - super busy at work. He has not been able to be home very much and when he is home he is - off limits - because he has to study. Saturday we decided that it was time to spend some time together as a family. We asked the kids what they wanted to do and they decided that they wanted to first, go to a Chinese restaurant and then second, go hiking. So that is what we did and we had so much fun!

We hiked on a couple of the training trails here at Fort Rucker. We came across this big wall. Boys being boys would not stop until they had climbed it. So we spent a good hour sitting at the wall while they climbed and climbed and climbed until they conquered the wall.

This picture of Porter is so funny. He would run straight at the wall and just throw his entire body into it.

Of course no day would be complete without going to watch the Apaches. :O)

Happy Birthday Jackie

I just had to say Happy Birthday to my cute friend Jackie. I miss you tons and can't wait until we can go for an hour drive just to get yummy bagels - actually the bagels are an excuse to spend time together. :O) I miss and love you!!! Happy Birthday!!!

Time Goes By So Quickly

Yesterday I was sitting across the table looking at Colton and realizing that he is getting so old. It seems like such a short time ago that he was a baby. I can't believe that he is 11 years old and almost looking me straight in the eye. I have to say that I feel so blessed to have him. He is such a good boy. He really tries so hard to do what is right and if he makes a mistake he does not feel settled until he fixes it. He is a genuinely sweet boy - he has such a tender heart. He is forgiving and kind to everyone. I just had to write a little bit about him. He is such a great kid. I am realizing that I need to cherish every moment because time goes by so quickly!

I uploaded a couple video clips of him - that make me laugh. Not only is he a great kid - he is pretty funny too! :O)

Unfortunately he got his dancing abilities from his mom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Fg0rsh8Gc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS6nuH6x370

Day Out

Today Porter and I were invited to go to the park with our fun neighbors across the street. I jumped at the chance to get out of the house. We have been stuck inside with sickness upon sickness and have not really seen the outside world for quite some time. Porter honestly could not get out the door fast enough. He is such a social bug that being cooped up in the house is especially hard on him. I just happened to have my camera in my purse so we got some cute pictures of Porter and Ash - a - wyn (that is how Porter says Ashlyn) :O) They are so cute!!!


It was such a beautiful day - it was almost perfect. Almost 75 degrees!