Happy Birthday, Eric!!

On Friday, Eric turned the big 32! It wasn't the most exciting birthday weekend because it was a school weekend. He got to celebrate his birthday by sitting in a 6 hour marketing class. Kind of a bummer! But, we tried to make the most of it while we had him with us. 

Last Sunday, we went to Ma and Pa's house for a birthday party. 

 He got some gift cards, a game for the wii, and a new Jazz hat! 

 Blowing out the candles on his Banana Split Cake.

 The kids were very anxious for him to open his presents, so at 8am Friday morning, before everyone left for school, we opened presents. And I say "we" because they kids had to help him. 

 Tessa got him his favorite candy and some Angry Bird Star Wars stickers. I'm sure those will come in handy someday. It took me a couple of days to talk her out of getting him a pet Chinchilla. She thought that would be the most perfect gift for her Daddy. 

 Adam got him a new Star Wars game for them to play together. (These kids love Star Wars! I have raised them well!)

 Adam and Tessa really wanted to get him Wreck It Ralph, so we did. 

 And from Mommy, a Blu-ray player. We are slowly (very slowly) getting caught up with modern technology. 

 Our camera was not cooperating today, but this morning, we finally made his birthday breakfast that ended up being a birthday brunch since we had to wait until after his Bishopric meetings were over. Then, we spent a lovely evening over at Mamma and Bampa's house to celebrate both Eric and Lisa's birthdays. I made Eric's favorite cheesecake for dessert and we had a nice time visiting with everyone. 

We love you, Eric and hope you have a wonderful year being 32!

Happy Days

Here are some of the fun things going on at our house lately.

Tessa with her bff, Camdyn. They were invited to a princess party at another friends house. They got all beautiful and had a lot of fun with all the other princesses in the neighborhood.

 Adam lost another tooth! He is loving the Tooth Fairy!

 Gwen has discovered Tessa's necklaces and now loves to accessorize. She wore this necklace all Sunday afternoon and evening. 

 She loves to watch Adam play basketball from the living room window. She stands there and yells at him and his friends.

 Tessa has been taking lots of pictures. She got a cute one of me and Gwennie. 

 Gwen tried her first Go-gurt and by the death grip she had on it, I would say that she enjoyed it. 

 Gwen adores her big brother! Every morning when we drop him off at school she starts screaming and reaching for him. Last week, she cried for 20 minutes after we left him at school. She is usually the first one at the door when I tell the girls it's time to pick Adam up in the afternoon. She yells and squeals when she finally can see him before he gets into the car. It's so cute to watch. 

Every morning Tessa tells Adam she loves him and "remember to swallow your tickles". 

 We have had a couple of days of nice weather this week and we have been loving it! We finally got to go play outside for a bit. 

 The kids were excited to see missionaries walking around our neighborhood. Adam took them some water and Tessa was really annoyed with me when I wouldn't let her give them a kiss. I tried explaining to her that missionaries can't hug or kiss girls. She finally settled on being able to blow them kisses from across the street. 

 We have played a lot of basketball and Tessa is doing really well riding her new bike!

Adam is pretty hard core when it comes to his sports, especially basketball. He hasn't really found any friends that share his passion for it. There are some older boys that live across the street from us and they love sports as much as Adam does. They came over to play basketball with Adam last week, and they have played every chance they had since then. Last Saturday, I got this text from their mom...

"Braden and Gavin are quite thrilled with their new "discovery" of Adam. They keep talking  about how much they like him. "He's kind and honest and he knows all the big players and he's good at basketball and his room is totally sporty!!" I think this is the beginning of something beautiful...."

That made my heart so happy and proud! I have been praying that he would find some friends that would share his passion, and I am so thankful those prayers were answered. I love watching them play-I think it's so cute to see such little boys be so intense!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!!

We have had a fun week celebrating Dr. Seuss! His birthday was Saturday, but we decided to celebrate all week long!

We pulled out all of our Dr. Seuss books. "Wacky Wednesday"

 is Tessa's favorite Dr. Seuss book and Adam's favorite is, "Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can you?"

 Tessa did a 10 apples up on top experiment after we read the book. 

 We worked on our patterns and cutting skills by coloring some Cat in the Hat hats. 

 While Adam was at school, Tessa made some Green Eggs and Ham treats for an after school snack. 

 We made our favorite Oobleck. Once again, my kitchen was a disaster afterwards, but they had fun making it that way. Even Gwen loved playing with it.

 We made hand print Thing 1 and Thing 2.

 We played Pin the heart on the Grinch.

 We made Green Eggs and Ham for breakfast one morning. 

 Tessa did a One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish activity. 

 On Saturday, we made our favorite Cat int the Hat pizza for lunch and had a pizza party while we watched "The Lorax"

 Tessa made the pizza because Adam couldn't be torn away from the neighborhood basketball game. 

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!