Partay!!!

 The amazing cake!!! Wow i really have no skill when it comes to cakes. So this is as good as it gets!

Ry didn't seem to mind!

 The big birthday boy!!! He is so stinkin cute.

 What is on that cake???

 He was terrified of those candles. In this pic he was ready to bolt! Good thing daddy helped.

And here is osme of his toys!! Check out that mini ranger! How nice is he to give batman a ride!

Happy bday to my little man! We love him! 

RY is 2!!!

My baby turned 2 yesterday!!!

I just can't believe it!

Time has flown by so fast.

At about monday of last week ry came down with a nasty cold. Soon after that it moved into his chest and then the fevers came. We had many sleepless nights and lots of tub time during the night.

We laid low and tried to get him feeling better.

Since we have the latest church ever.... I cooked some lunch and made a cake. after lunch the boys sang to him and he opened his presents that the boys got him!!!

He was so excited and would of eaten the whole cake had we let him!!!

IT was a great day!!! Even with the post nasal drip from ry!

(I will post pictures tomorrow)

Riley is the sweetest little boy. He is the most amazing sleeper and was shortly after he was born. I was so lucky!!. He is blond and has out of control curly hair!!! He is stubborn but pretty easy going. He entertains himself well!!  The thing about having all boys is they all play well together!!! You can never have enough cars right??? He adores his older brothers!

We are so blessed to have him in our life and I can't imagine it without him!!

Happy Birthday my little Ry!!!

Bent goes under the knife.

Well the day has finally come. Bent had to get his tonsils/adenoids out! He is a deep snorer (like and 80 yr old) and when a cold goes through our family he usually gets a sinus infection with it and it lasts 2 weeks plus. Poor thing. Finally he came of age and we were able to get this taken care of.
The night before we went out and bought him some new monkey pjs (he is in a monkey thing  right now) We went to the hospital and got all ready. I had to change him into their little nighties. He was super upset and said "don't like this mom. everyone can see my bum".
He did great in surgery. But all these kids that were behind us kept coming out... but no bently. I was starting to freak out a little. Then I hear this little boy saying "no no let me go.... MMMOOMMM" and here comes my sweet bently. UMm no he was not sweet, he was thrashing, if he knew cuss words he would of been doing that too. He was arching his back, yelling and trying his hardest to get his IV out. The nurse goes "I'm sorry he had a reaction to the morphine. and this is what happens sometimes" I just tried to hold him, he was bleeding from his nose and trying to fight me. IV cords were all over. Then he got the Coban off his wrist and here comes the IV. So more blood. It was a disaster and i was at my wits ends. The dr came in and said that he had massive tissue growing on top of his adenoids and puss pockets everywhere. He also told me that he guarantees that they were the root of the problems of all of his infant ear problems. About 45 min after they brought him to me he was out. And had finally calmed down. He recovered like a champ and it was hard to keep him down actually. I know his feelings got hurt a couple of times because he couldn't play and go to school. I am so glad that is over!!! I will take stitches over that anyday!!!!

xmas festivities

 Brody Xmas Morning!!!

 Bent and his loot

 Bently's beloved Batman Belt!

I couldn't get ry to sit still for a minute! So this is it.

 The boys most adorable hats in the world!! Santa has got it goin on!!

I love them.

 And then there is this mean/funny joke that blake did. My Gpa Butterfield passed away a couple of months ago.

Blake had recieved a gift card from his mom in the box.

So blake cut a hole in the bottom and stuck his nasty smashed finger in there. He had the top on and told the boys to come here because he had one more Christmas gift to give them. He said that it was a gift from my gpa and it was very special because it was a piece of him. So he opens the box and brody's eyes were huge. And he was totally creeped out.

So then after a minute of brody looking at it but not too close Blake moved his finger and Brody screamed like a little girl and Blake nearly peed his pants. I have never in my life seen him laugh so dang hard.

Not a very nice joke huh, Hey at least its something we can talk about when they are older and laugh!!

We had a wonderful christmas. It was so nice to not have to travel and just take it easy and take our time!!

Here is to next year!! Hope its a good one!

Merry Christmas!!!!

Brody gets the camera!!

My neice does this all the time. She steals her moms camera and takes a whole bunch of pictures that turn out some embarrassing and some funny!!!

Now it happenend to me!! And i am quite impressed.

(Can you tell of the lack of stuff to blog about! sorry!)

 Look at Riley's hair!!! Still blonde as ever but getting so curly!!!  I love it!

Looking at these pics brody took made me realize that I am usually the one taking the pics, So i am never in them!!! So here is a change!! Can Christmas just get here, and all the sickness go away,  so we can break out the activities!!!!! It's driving me crazy!!!

An Experiance worth sharing

For family night I read the Story Christmas Trolls by Jan Brett

It talks about these trolls that steal all of Treva's christmas presents and decorations. So she follows them and finds out all they want is to have a Christmas of there own.

She has a prized red horse that is her most favorite toy. She decides to give it to the trolls to show them that Christmas is about giving. In the end she gets a present of her own. Such a great story. LOve all Jan Brett's stories.

So after the story I asked Brody and Bently if they could go through their own toys and find some toys that they could part with to give to children that might not get any presents this year.

Bently's eyes well up with tears and he says to me that he would give one of his stuffed Curious George Monkeys. They are his most favorite toys.

My heart was so touched that my 3 year old had got the concept of the story and was willing to give something worth so much value to him. Not gonna lie I cried too.

We are so fortunate to be able to give gifts to our children but there are some that aren't. Hopefully our plastic Walmart bag full of toys will bring a smile to someone!!