Becca turns 6!

 Becca is 6! She has been anxiously awaiting this day and makes sure everyone knows she’s 6 now.

I asked if she wanted a party, and she decided she would rather go to Laser Zone as a family. We went there after school and work. We played laser tag, had hot dogs and pizza, and spent some time in the arcade. Becca loved playing on the playground. 

Once we got home, we sang Happy Birthday to her. She wanted an Agent P cake (Perry the Platypus from Phinneas and Ferb). 

Lily turns 6!

Somehow our little princess is now 6 years old!

Cameron turns 6!

During the weeks leading up to Cameron's birthday, I kept asking him if we could just skip his birthday so he could be 5 a little longer. His response was that, no, we need to skip Kimball's birthday for two years so they can be tied! Cameron has been SO EXCITED to turn 6 and talked about his birthday for months beforehand.

On his birthday, Cameron woke up to streamers and balloons hanging from his doorway and all over the living room. I heard him come out of his room that morning and exclaim "this is the best birthday ever!"

The boys are both very into Star Wars and my mom gave me a dome cake pan, so I decided to make a Death Star cake. Once it was decorated, Cameron declared that it's the top of a droid head...whatever works, right? I was going to add more decorations and Lego Star Wars ships flying around it, but Cam begged for us to skip that part and just get straight to presents.

After singing and blowing out candles, it was finally time to open presents.

He got a folding camping chair (with a cupholder!), Lego AT-AT, Berenstain Bears book, shirt with Darth Vader playing basketball, submarine toys, key chains for his back pack (he has been begging for keychains for months!), and a Star Wars backpack. The cake was strawberry with chocolate frosting, accompanied by sherbert. Dinner was pizza with 7-Up, Star Wars Jello jigglers, and cheese puffs.

We are so blessed to have Cameron in our family!

Happy Birthday Kimball!

We have a lot of cake around this time of year...in case you couldn't tell :). Anyhow, yesterday was Kimball's birthday and I am reeling that he is 6 years old!!! The first thing I heard from his room yesterday morning was Kimball yelling at the top of his lungs "I'm SIX!". He proceeded to sing the words "I'm six, I'm six,.." for the next 2 hours and made sure everyone at church was well aware of the fact that he is six now. He was also sure to point out the fact that he only has 2 years until he gets baptized.

I'm not one who likes to throw birthday parties (sorry kids!) but I will make them a special cake and treat them as much like royalty as possible on their birthdays :).

Since his birthday was on a Sunday, Kimball was insistent for the longest time that we would celebrate on Monday so we could keep the Sabbath day holy and not make me have to work making his cake on Sunday. At the last minute, the pressure was too much and he decided to celebrate on his actual birthday (who can blame him?!).

The gifts he got were...a cliffhanger firehouse, a Hot Wheels bath toy, a Tag Lightning McQueen book, a VTech switch & go Pteranadon, and a launching Cars toy.

Kimball keeps us laughing and keeps us thinking with all of his questions. He has learned and grown so much this year and we are so blessed to have him in our family.