Look Who's 5!!

Sweet baby!



Sweet Boy!


Brody turned 5 on Monday, what a big boy!! Brody got to do all his favorite things on his special day. Waffles for breakfast, preschool, taking treats to preschool, and a pizza party later in the day with all of his favorite people, opening presents, eating a football cake and staying up past bed time!


Look at the excitement in his face! I love it.






Time for presents!







He had so much fun at his birthday party playing with all of his new toys, it was fun to watch.

The fun spilled over into the next day (as it should) when he got to try out his new tee, and his new clothes.

I wasn't going to get another plastic tee (those don't last long around here)so this is the real deal, so far, so good.

He had fun playing with the play dough set too. I only cleaned up play dough 7,592 times yesterday. Uh well it keeps them very occupied.

He keeps asking me, "now that I'm 5 can I go to Braiden's school?"
Well yes but you'll have to wait a few more months. ;) You have to finish preschool first.

They grow up too fast.

We love you Brody!!

This is Hudson enjoying some birthday cake:


I walked into the kitchen..
Oh Hudson, did you make a mess?
H: uh-huh
Me: Why?
H: cause
This kid cracks me up, it makes the mess less of a deal if you are laughing about it.

On Being a Mom

So I'm to the point now when I am starting to grow out of my maternity clothes, so that makes people ask, "Whoa, when are you due?" Always fun. Last night we had a Christmas party to go to and I was struggling to find something to wear that wouldn't look like I was going to bust out of the seams. I finally settled on the white shirt and same ole' pants. I finished getting ready and rushed into the kitchen where Hudson was yelling from his highchair "DONE...DONE...DONE" So I scoop him out of the chair only to get his dinner "mess" on the front of the white, only decent thing that fits shirt. UH, I give up.

Friday night we took the kids to A Christmas Carol. I thought it was a little too scary for little kids. Brody kept asking if we could go home and was plugging his ears and closing his eyes half the time. Even Hudson had his face buried in Nate shoulder and was whimpering. And believe it or not, my kids are not ones to get scared in movies. I told Nate that I liked the Mickey Mouse version better. ;)

Nate and I went to Boise this past weekend and left the kids with Kurt and Terril. We had to get Christmas and Birthday shopping done. We made a huge dent in the list (only a few little things left) and we got some great deals. Gymboree was having 25% off the entire store and I had a coupon for 15% off my entire purchase...Needless to say I went hog wild for the baby, Nate just stood there and rolled his eyes. After a huge day of shopping I was exhausted so we went to dinner and Nate took me to New Moon (what a guy!!) It was so fun to get away without the kids, love em', but it's nice to have time together too.