Choo-Choo Two Years Old

I still can't believe that Walter is already two years old. We had a simple family birthday, but Walter knew that it was his special day. We started the day with a big breakfast and he got to open his gifts.

I just love his face- he looks so happy and so excited.

After breakfast we got ready for the day. This year both the boys got birthday shirts. I used the 90 minute shirt pattern from MADE. Then we went to playgroup and just had fun the rest of the day.

Walter loves pulled BBQ meat, so for his dinner I made him southwestern pulled pork. Here he is sitting at the table, already helping himself.

For dessert I made him a cake in the shape of a Train. He loves to play with trains, so it seemed like the perfect thing to do.

We love you Walter!!

P.S. At his two year appointment I asked the doctor if his blue eyes were here to stay since he still has them at the age of two. YES!!! Who would have thought that I would have a blue eyed boy.

Hunter

Today during Sharing time, they were talking about Joseph Smith and how he translated the Book of Mormon. All of a sudden Hunter stood up extended his arm pointing his index finger towards the ceiling and said,
"According to my calculations the Book of Mormon is true"

Don't know what those calculations may have been, but it brought a big smile to my face

EASTER

We celebrated Easter in Utah with Weston's family. The kids love going to Utah, because they love playing with their cousins. Weston got Good Friday off, so we drove to Utah on Thursday night. We left sunny Las Vegas and got to Provo just before it started snowing again. Luckily Sharman had emailed me during the week to inform me to bring our winter clothes. On Friday we went up to campus to buy the boys BYU shirts and to have lunch with our favorite babysitter Brittany. We have missed Brittany so much since she started BYU. It was so cute, when Hunter saw her he ran up to her and said, "Brittany, where have you been?" There were times that he would ask me when Brittany was going to come and play. I forgot to bring my camera for lunch, so this is a really old picture of Brittany and the boys.




Then we went to Andrea's house to play. Hunter and Walter get along really well with the cousins, it's so nice that they are so close in age. On Saturday had our Sunrise Service and went to McDonalds for breakfast. When we returned to Grandma and Grandpa's house we looked for our Easter baskets.



On Sunday we watched General Conference and had a delicious Easter Brunch.

The following Sunday the kids wore their new Easter outfits and I wore my new Easter dress. This year I decided to make my own, I wanted it to match the boys outfits. I think it turned out o.k.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter.

Happy Birthday Walter

We Love You Walter. Happy Birthday. I can't believe that you are two years old already.

Airplane Birthday Party

Hunter celebrated his fourth birthday last Saturday. A couple of months ago I had asked him what kind of birthday party he wanted and he said "Airplane Birthday Party" I knew exactly where to go to get ideas- Cutest Little Things. Judy had thrown a birthday party for her son a couple of months ago with the same theme and it was perfect. I order the same invitations and favor bags as she did-super cute!! I just wish that my cookies had turned out as cute as Judy's.

We decided that we would have different stations for the kids. To keep with the airplane theme we printed out pretend passports, and after each activity the kids would get a stamp in their passports.

We played airplane theme games like:


Take -off Obstacle Course

Bus, Bus, Plane (Duck, Duck, Goose)

Pin the Pilot on the Plane (Pin the Tail on the Donkey)


Pilot Says (Simon Says)
Pass the Black Box (Hot Potato)

Don't Get Caught Without a Plane (Musical Chairs) - Here a picture of the winner!!!

We ordered gliders from Oritenial Trading as well-


When the kids finished all the activities Weston pinned on their pilot wings.
Luckily Weston had just done some traveling he asked the flight attendants if they still give out pilot wings to the kids. Well when they found out we were having an airplane party they were more than willing to help and gave us enough pilot wing pins that each of the kids could get one. Here is Weston pinning Hunter.


Here is a picture of the passports with some the stamps the kids got after each station
Another fun thing was that as the kids were going from station to station, we had them take turns wearing Hunter's airplane costume from Halloween.

After all the fun games the pilots came in for some treats.


I love this picture of Hunter.

It was a blast and Hunter loved his special day.

Happy Birthday Hunter

We Love You Hunter!!! Happy Birthday

Dr. Seuss Week

Last week during school time we did some fun activities to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday. We started on Monday by reading The Cat in the Hat, and making a hat from a oatmeal container. Throughout the week after we read another Dr. Seuss book we would add a white stripe with the name of the book to the hat. I got this idea from a Mailbox Magazine. By the end of the week our hat looked like this.

With each book we read we would do another activity. For There's a Wocket in my Pocket we played a rhyming game. We had cupcakes after reading The Sneetches, we decorated them with yellow frosting and then some had green star sprinkles and some did not. We made Oobleck after reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck. I really wanted to get pictures of the boys playing with it, but my camera battery died. For Green Eggs and Ham, one of the boy's favorite, I made a felt play set of green eggs and ham.

I got the pattern for the eggs at Wee Folk Art and for the ham I didn't really have a pattern but Dana at MADE had made a set so I looked at hers as a reference. We had so much fun during the whole week. I noticed that Hunter kept trying to put the oatmeal box hat on to pretend. So though I didn't originally plan to, I made the boys hats.

For these I did follow the tips and directions at MADE. As I was taking these pictures, I couldn't help but think how fun it would be to dress them up as Thing One and Thing Two.

"It is fun to have fun

But you have to know how."

-Dr. Seuss