Our Hannah nanna

turns three ....
she's been waiting for at least a month. I'm not sure she really expects anything huge to happen, but we make a big deal of it, so she figures its gotta be great.

We had a family bday party last week while Anya was still in town. I asked her who she wanted to come to her party (fullying expecting a guest list for her "friend" party...we like to party) and she listed her cousins and Aunt Carmen, Grandma, Grandaddy..and they were leaving town, so we had an impromptu get together, balloons and cupcakes...all she talked about in relation to a party.

Tomorrow she gets to go on a date with mom and dad and she wants Wendy's. When I reminded her she asked all hopefull, can I get chicken and fries annnndddd, Sprite? and of course she can. So so precious!!!! If I could bottle her up I'd make a fortune!

this past year's hi lites for her.....

loving gymnastics
surviving her siblings' swim lessons
the mountains and the mountains again
helping dad bring tomatoes from the garden
swinging and begging to swing some more
learning that she might like the water
surviving potty training (maybe)
forgetting that her belly button was her best playmate
singing, singing, singing, singing (Don't Stop Believing, Eye of the Tiger, Christmas Bells are ringing....just a few) thankfully her fave right now is Book of Mormon Stories :)
talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking
discovering the stove and cooking in general :O
more talking...for real

I love my Hannah nanna, might go waker her up....and maybe not
I hope it's a wonderful birthday!

Here's a pic from last year and then this year, growing growing

The day after Christmas in July ;)

My sweet Cole's bday is the day after Christmas and like I tell him all the time there are advantages and disadvantages to just about everything in life. For the most part he always looks on the bright side of having a birthday the day after Christmas. He likes that he gets to open more presents...he really likes presents.

This year we decided to have his "friend" party in the summer. We knew it would be a water party and I decided it would be a surprise water party......fun, fun, fun!

So today was the day. I thought maybe Cole was onto us, because he knew it was supposed to be in July and we're nearing the end, but I was able to put him off. And he was surprised. One disadvantage of having a party in the summer, for us (this is our first party in the summer) is not having a connection with the kids at school. We did have two of Cole's friends from church come, and it turned out great.

They had water gun/balloon wars, a horseshoe type game, then I found (what turned out be a huge hit at play group and Cole's party) in Family fun Magazine an erector type set where you use pvc pipe and joints and connect with the waterhose and build whatever with water coming out. Turns out it's for all ages as the pics will show.

Oh and the cake......some may say it was underdone....some may say it was overdone....some may say it was just plain heavenly (I'll go with those)! I don't know if I'll do it again, but it was great for a son who is continually begging for some KK and strawberries. Happy Surprise July Bday Cole! I loved tucking you in tonight and seeing the love and thank you in your eyes, so sweet! Can't wait to surprise you again !!!!!


Cole being surprised, blurry, but noteworthy.

Random

So I don't know who this 36 year old is Brandon's talking about in the previous post. In my head I'm a good 18/19 (which is why Janet thought she was older than me). My body is doing it's own thing and is probably past 40, so somewhere I think I end up at around 20 something, sounds good to me.

My life is good...aged or not. I am thankful everyday for my husband and children, family, friends, and the gospel that keeps me safe from my self. Keeping all that I'll take another 36.

So due to Brandon's genius, once again, we bought the old jiffy stove top popcorn to put in our store inspired by Janet's old post, Laura bought it and we cooked it up the kids were amazed. I started to tell Cole that when I was growing up we always cooked popcorn on the stove. We didn't have microwaves. "YOU didn't have microwaves"!!!??? was his exclamation. "Did you eat all of your food burned"? So glad to know he has such confidence in my cooking skills. I guess we did have a microwave in my teens, but up until it was all black:).

There were other cute things from the kids, but I can't recall them right now, must be the old age.
Hopefully, more later!