Better late than never...

Happy birthday to an extraordinary 5 yr old!!! (Back in August...oops) Though this post is late, I didn't want to forget to document this special occasion and to make a note of what you are like now.
You celebrated your birthday at Pirate Island with your cousin Holly (who's B-day is the day before yours)
Another little party with some Camp aunts and uncles at our home too.
You are not normal, you are amazing.
You love to serve.
You love to play.
Your best friend is your cousin Holly.
You love school and cried today when I had to check you our early.
You love to play with Dallin!
You also like to fight with Dallin on occasion :)
You love to help take care of Parker and Colby.
We all love you so much!
Happy Birthday...a few months ago

My attempt at a fun cake. It is almost more fun for me to do this than for her to get it.


Another fun princess cake!

Just one recent example:
The other day you knew I was feeling sick (gotta love pregnancy) and you offered to bring me a drink or something to eat. When I declined, you found something else to do for me...you emptied the dishwasher and then loaded the dishes in the sink (loading is something you had not done before).
I don't think I knew how lucky I was to have you first.
I don't know any other 5 yr olds that LIKE to take such good care of everyone.
You are not normal, you are amazing.

Alive with Five?

That is the question.


What in the world am I going to do with 5 kids 5 and under!
Yep. That's right. Baby #5 is due May 21st. We are super excited and will keep you posted when we know what we are having.

I hit the JACKPOT

I couldn't have asked for a better husband and father for my children!
Thanks for all you do and especially recently the extra help! You are the best babe!

Here are some photos of recent great dad moments.
(I don't have any cleaning up, bathing kids, dish doing pictures, but for the record, he does all that and more!)

Reading the glow in the dark book to the kids.

Brandon and Colby (tight hug)

Brandon is AMAZING.

Catch up of the century

In no particular order here are some of the things we have been up to since...oh July.

Uncle Travis was the favorite at the park!




Colby didn't make it long after the park

One day after breakfast I had gone up stairs for something and came back to find this...Guess Parker was still hungry!

Parker and his new yogurt hair style'n products

Brooklyn has been reading to Dallin. I love this! they are so cute together!
(memorized books mostly, but she is learning to read fast!)

Every morning this is the hair train.

Picking apples with Grandma and Grandpa. Thanks! It was fun and now we have lots of apple sauce and apple pie filling!




Trouble strikes again at our house. I don't know how the stamps even got in the basement, but this is why they don't belong down there! And 10 min can be way too long to be in another room!


Brooklyn also had a lot all over her...I am not sure how she escaped getting her picture taken!

I was very mad about this, although I still managed to be calm enough to take a picture. But Brandon thought it was pretty funny! It was in the unfinished basement and a little on a scrap of carpet we use for the play area...there was no harm really done, but It took me some time to cool down.

Dallin trying to help Brooklyn learn to ride her bike with out training wheels.

Colby





Attempting to camp with the twins...they look cute now...

I ended up taking the crying babes home around midnight.Then Dallin woke up in the middle of the night crying for me. oops, and did I mention this was a WARD CAMP OUT? Everyone loved my family!



The dorky head lamp! Amazing to change diapers and to walk around in the dark while carrying both twins!



My mom and I went to Thanksgiving point with my kids and my sister Lori's kiddos.




Brandon and I also went to WICKED in Arizona with Brandon's sister and her husband. It was fabulous!!!! We had a great mini vacation visiting there! It is always fun to visit family!

OH and in Aug, Happy birthday Brandon! I don't think we have a single picture from your birthday, but we I think it was one of the best! We left all of our children for two days(first time to leave the twins!) to go hang out up in Heber, play racquetball, go bowling, shopping (mostly for Brandon, so he enjoyed the shopping part). We just had a great time! It was so fun to have a break! Thanks Mom and Dad!!!!

Ok, so there are probably a few more things in that I need to catch up on, but I am so done staring at the computer! I hope you enjoyed the pictures!