Alayna's 5th Birthday

Seems crazy that Alayna is now 5. She has been so excited for this birthday, I guess 5 is a pretty big deal. Well on the 11th she opened the family gifts after coming home from gymnastics. (This month is her first enrolled and she loves it.) She was excited about all the fun stuff she got. ;) Thank you.

We had to try out the roller-skates. She was getting the hang of it and we got distracted with Corbin and boom down on her bum. She decided it hurt more that it was fun! We'll try again later.

She wanted a Barbie cake for her party. I was so excited to try it out. I even used fondant for the first time. Well to complicate the event, and keep costs down, I made my own fondant. (I had never heard of this stuff before I started checking out cake ideas this fall.) Well it worked out pretty well. Not perfect, but she was quite happy. The wings help! I gave Alayna a trimmed off portion to decorate too, it was fun doing that together.

Party time! The girls were so excited. We had a great time eating cake, playing games and painting finger and toe nails! I can't wait to do more girl parties.

 Happy Birthday sweet Alayna, We love you!!

A few fun facts about Alayna. She loves pink and sparkles. Prefers to wear dresses or skirts. Even though her hair is long and I can do so many things with it she usually chooses to have it up in a bun! (I wonder if that is a Tinkerbell thing?) She loves Disney Princesses, Barbie movies, playing dress up, riding her bike, drawing and writing her alphabet. She usually wants to help me in the kitchen and plays well with her brothers always trying to be involved in their games. Her stats- 41 lbs and 3 ft. 10 in. (putting her in the 90%. ) It won't be long she will pass up Everitt. ;)

Happy Birthday Everitt

I think Everitt enjoyed his birthday celebrations. I made pumpkin muffins and took them into school on Tues. (his real birthday) and as a family that night we did presents. Then we had a real party for him Friday afternoon. It has been so unseasonably warm here that I figured we'd have our party at the playground. Right, so of course the weather decided to become stormy at the last minute. We celebrated indoors mostly and only went out for only a little bit.  Everitt is excited to be seven and a proud owner of over 150 new baseball cards and close to 100 silly bands!  Thanks :) He got about half a dozen good name player cards he is very excited over. Especially those Rockies.

Everitt is our little athlete, (he currently weighs 47 lbs and is 4 feet tall.) He always wants to be active/playing and is quite coordinated. He can't wait for basketball season to start and of course PE is what he likes most about school. He has also done great this first quarter in school. His reading and math are near the top of the class. We are so proud of him. Happy 7th Birthday.

Not sure what was behind me that had all the kids distracted, maybe the reflection of the flames in the window??

I was so happy with how his cake turned out. It was fun and Everitt was proud of it too.

Now on to the next one!

Baseball Birthday Boy!

Yep, We have a 3 year old now. If you asked what he wanted for his birthday all he would say was "a baseball cake!" So that is what he got. It was a fun little family party. He loved all the attention, opening presents and eating his baseball cake. (Thanks for all the fun gifts!)


Corbin is such a happy kid and still very active. He loves to play anything with the bigs kids and is always helping himself. Even when he shouldn't, like pouring his own juice! He is smart and very cleaver, he has been called a 'Little Houdini' my many who know him. His current weight is 29 lbs. and height is 37" putting him in the 15 and 25 percentile. He communicates great, gets so excited over sports, horses, loves his cowboy boots, books, puzzles, riding his bike, playing with mom's hair, tickles from dad, and wrestling siblings. He and Alayna get along so well, now that they have so much alone time, he willingly plays all her girlie games. We love you Corbie. Happy Birthday!!


Here are a few fun 'Cowboy Corbin' pictures I took this last month.

Yes- I had a little photo shoot fun ;)

 He loves his hat and boots but is also very willing to get dressed up for church.

Do you think his thoughts are...

When I look like my dad, I'm cool too!

Rainbow Awe

Just had to share! 

This giant rainbow over our home lasted for a long time at one point you could even see a double. The colors were so bright and distinct. It was awesome! God is awesome!

Other August Events

Early this month Alayna decided she wanted dad to take her training wheels off. Little did she realize how difficult it would be to balance without them. The first few times out were rough, like it is for all of us. After Justin would let go she would wobble and turn the bike and fall over into the grass. She was not too happy after doing this a bunch. For about the next week we had her just try coasting down the driveway with her feet out, toes touching, to teach her how to balance. I also think it helped that she has long legs. Well I took her to the park to try and ride for her third time out and was amazed at how fast she picked it up! Literally within 3 tries (of me helping her) she was off peddling, balancing, and steering all on her own. I  had just explained how you step on the upper peddle to get started and when I was slow to catch up with her that next time, she got started all on her own and was off. My job was done. She hasn't needed help. She mastered turning too, all with out any crashes. So proud of Alayna.

Here we have a few milkshake mustaches. Some really got into it. I think Coltin started it.

Hee Hee!

I found Corbin this way and couldn't resist capturing it. Over the last month Corbin has become potty trained. I am so proud of him and can't believe we are all done with diapers! He was an easy kid to train (candy rewards helped in the process.) Now the only problem is his pants slouch or fall down all the time without that extra padding to keep them up. Who'da thought. ;)