More Birthday Parties

We celebrated Garryn, Devon, and Grant's (Julie and TeeJay's son) birthday this past Saturday.I spent a good part of Friday cooking. I made 2 lasagnas (I even made the noodles) and 2 different cakes. I went to take my mom to run an errand and when I came back I discovered that Warren had dug into both half's of the chocolate cake. I didn't have the energy to make a new cake so I decided to use it anyway. I frosted all but the part that had been dug into. One half of the cake looks pretty good, but the other half not so much.

The party was fun. We had a bunch of family come over. Garryn didn't get to open any gifts since Warren thinks that is his job. Garryn is too young to care right now, but I could see that being a problem in the near future. Hopefully Warren outgrows this phase.

Jayson got some ping pong in. He just had to move my dining room table to do it.

I didn't take many pictures since my memory card is almost full. I need to have Jayson install my external hard drive so I can transfer all my photos. I also want to apologize to Amber. We had a party to celebrate her birthday and mine back in December. I didn't take any pictures for that party. She felt really bad that I didn't post about her birthday. She turned 10 on Nov. 25th.

My Yard

I am finally getting around to posting about the work we had done in our yard. We plan on doing a lot more work, but we need to save up some more money to do so. We don't want to have to take out any loans to have to do it. Here is the front of the house. We took out the cement walkway and replaced it with pavers. We also extended the walkway to add another entrance that meets up with the front sidewalk. Now people don't have to either walk around to the the driveway entrance or walk through rocks to get to our front door.

Here is a closer look

This is looking out my front door into my courtyard

Here is another view of my courtyard. We plan on adding a lot of color with plants. We also want to replace the front door (or at least I do) and put urns on either side.

Here is our Backyard . We are going to put our outdoor kitchen on top of the pavers on the far right. We are going to add some more plants and a pool on the left hand side of our yard.

This is our landscapers working on the back yard

We are so excited about the improvements. It is nice to have grass for the kids to play on in the backyard. We will keep you posted on any new improvements. I figure it might take a little while till we get to the next round.

A Merry Christmas

We had a very merry Christmas. It was nice to be with family. We had several rounds of present opening and each time my family room looked like a tornado hit. Warren loved opening presents and made sure he got to open everyone's. He got mad if you tried to open your own. Garryn didn't get to open any of his presents since Warren opened them all before he woke up.

Warren had to see how everything worked

Garryn enjoys being around Devon. He is a good big brother

Warren got bubbles in his stocking. He wanted to blow them all on his own. He got more on himself then in the air

Garryn enjoyed dumping Warren's Nerds. He started licking them off the floor after he was done dumping

Grandma Tripp bought Devon a set that had a bunch of flying things. The kids enjoyed watching the balloons fly around the room. It was quite entertaining to watch

Christmas Eve

For Christmas eve we made sugar cookies for Santa

Amber and Brennon enjoyed helping out

Devon just wanted to play in the flour

He did enjoy eating them though

The kids got to open up their pajamas before going to bed

My baby turned one today

I feel kind of bad because today was Garryn's 1st birthday, and I set up a doctor's appointment him for today. I knew he would get shots, but I didn't think about how miserable he would be. That is no way to spend your birthday!! I feel so bad. He kept rolling around on the ground crying. I was trying to get a picture to show how miserable he was, but as soon as I pulled the camera out he started to pose. If you enlarge this picture by clicking on it you can see a tear running down the left side of his face. SO SAD!!


He couldn't pose forever and I did manage to get a picture of him looking pretty miserable. So you don't think I am a mean mom for taking pictures instead of consoling him. I did do that first, but he was too miserable and just wanted down.


He recovered a bit by evening and was ready for some cake. He even started singing Happy Birthday to himself after we did.

He really enjoyed his cupcake. I hope that makes up for me getting him shots on his birthday. Probably not, but it makes me feel better to think so.

Birthday

I had my birthday last Thursday. It was a perfect day filled with family. For lunch Jayson and I went to get my free meal at Joe' BBQ. Then we went with the kids to see the temple lights that evening. I am so grateful for my family.

Thanksgiving Weekend

This is what my two youngest were up to last weekend. My Aunt Florence caught them and took pictures of them on her cell phone. That is Comet Warren is trying to clean Garryn with. I guess he thought he was REALLY dirty.