6 Years Old!

It's been three months, but Jackson turned 6! Wow! Our first little addition to the family! He is such a sweet kid and we are so proud of him and love him very much.
He chose a Batman party and wanted to invite just his cousins. The kids went home with a little favor. I found these little growing washcloths at the Dollar Store. Perfect!

And lots of presents. Grandma and Grandpa Stark gave him Three of these. Yep, lots of dart wars at our house.

We gave him a DS, and sometimes I wonder if it was such a good idea! He loves that thing! I am still trying to figure out a good way of keeping a time limit of video games.
And his cake! I think this has been one of my favorites.

I even did a batman cape on the back.

Note: you can't blow out a sparkler candle! But you can try really hard!
Love you Buddy! So glad you are part of our family and such a good example to your little brothers!

Happy Birthday Landon!

If I want to post anything about this baby when she gets here in the next few weeks I better finally get caught up. And before Landon turns 5 it might be good to post his pictures from his 4th birthday! I am gonna try and make this short, so just a few pictures, even though I have plenty more. Landon turned 4 on Sept. 25. (seriously Sept? I am awful!)
So excited for his birthday muffin!
He chose to have a dinosaur party. We played pin the head on the dino bones! Even some of the adults played this one.
Then of course a little beating of the pinata.
And of course every kids favorite part, present time.
He got so much fun stuff, and I think the one he loved the most was his "Dollars" from Great Grandpa and Grandma Hansen. Pure joy in that kids face.
Everyone got a monster thank you hug.
And showing off the whole loot.
Cake and ice cream. I was struggling with this cake so don't look closely.
But if you do look closely you can see the volcano was really smoking. Landon thought that was pretty cool. A little bit of dry ice can sure impress a kid.

What a sweet boy you are! Sorry it took mommy so long to get around to your birthday post!

Iron Man is TWO!!

Bryson started out his birthday with his birthday muffin (pics posted previously) and it was a non stop party for the next couple days! He got a birthday package in the mail on his birthday from Grandma and Grandpa Stark and Aunt Keri, Uncle Travis and boys. He had some help opening it.
And he loved the contents! Thanks everybody

He is just growing up way too fast. I don't remember feeling like that with Landon, Jackson I did but I think that is because he was my first. He loves, loves, loves anything superhero! And he's two! Aren't two year olds supposed to like Elmo, Wiggles, Backyardigans, etc? He still likes that stuff, but man he loves to be batman, superman, and his favorite Iron Man. Hence the Iron man birthday party. I tried to mention other things to him but no, he was set on a Ironman cake! He also really like balls right now, and knows the difference between all the different balls. Soccer Ball, basketball, baseball, football, and bouncy ball.
We asked him what he wanted for this birthday dinner and he said "Pizza!" So we went to Pizza Factory. He was being a ham on the way to get in the car so I snapped some pictures. He loves his sunglasses and wants to wear them whenever we go anywhere.
What a stud!
We were lucky when Grandma and Grandpa Hansen decided to meet us for dinner! And they brought, Aunt Kristina, and cousins, Austin and Savanna! He got a new "bayseball gove" which he loves. We let the kids play around at Fat Cats arcade after and it was so fun!

And cutie Savanna wanted to pose for some pictures too!
Sunday was his birthday bash. It was pretty low key. So low key that these invites didn't even get done until Thursday, and then they were emailed to family. They knew about it, but I was just not in the mood for party planning, if you can believe it, so I wasn't even going to do invites. Gasp! But the fun Ironman suit that Grandma and Grandpa Stark sent convinced me. We missed you guys!

He loved his presents.
Grandpa H. playing with the new "Ion Man Piwoe"

And I found these stinkin' cute alligator converse that are so him. Savanna thought they were pretty fun too, and wore them the whole time. On the wrong feet.

The funny thing is that at Savanna's birthday party a few weeks before, she got some princess shoes for dress up, and Bryson was quite interested! He walked around in these forever and even ran down the hall in them! Although he had to have a gun in his hand as well, "I shoot Princess"
I stole this from Kristina's blog. It was pretty cute!
The Cake. I really wasn't looking forward to doing an Ironman cake since there really isn't a lot of options, but I guess it turned out pretty cute, and the boys thought the buildings were "awesome!" A few of you have asked if I took a cake class. No, I pretty much just taught myself, trial and error. And I am far from the perfect cake maker, but I love to do it!





Bryson is such a sweetheart and really keeps us going.
Happy Birthday to you Bubba! We love you so very much!

Cakes and stuff

It seems like I kinda had a dry spell and didn't get to make any goodies for a while! But in March I made a cake for our Relief Society Birthday Party. The theme was Dr. Seuss' Oh the Places You'll Go, so I played with that a little and came up with this. The Elephants I made out of melting chocolate.




Then my grandma turned 80 in April and I made some cupcakes for her surprise party. The top is a little 6 inch cake. I was excited to finally have a reason to make a cupcake tower. It was fun and they were super yummy!

Half a Decade

5 years ago our little family grew to a family of three.
Jackson had his 5th Birthday back in December. Crazy how quickly 5 years can go by. He his such a fun five year old. I love watching him grasp and learn new things. I am amazed at some of the stuff he figures out. He is obsessed with Transformer's, and has been for probably the last 2 years. His daddy has his own love for them, which creates a special little bond. :) He's a happy kid with lots of enthusiasm. He is mommy's little sweetheart and tells me daily that he loves me, along with a big snuggle. Jackson absolutely loves his little brothers and helps me out so much! The minute Bryson wakes up from his nap, Jackson is in there pulling him out of the crib. And he always includes Landon in what he is doing. Words can't describe the Joy of watching those three play together. Jackson is getting so tall and he doesn't seem to slow down any. Seriously, that kids goes through pants like no other. Luckily we have two cute little boys that can wear the ones he grows out of!

We got back from our Cruise the day of Jackson's birthday, so my wonderful mom helped him celebrate a little bit while we were gone. Then he had his first little friend party a couple days later. He was so excited! We recently had just finished the basement and we put a home theater down there, which Jackson loves to watch movies in, so he decided to have a movie party!

The invite

The guests eating their pizza

He is so lucky to have such good little friends.

After they ate, they got to put their head in the picture to receive their movie award. I didn't know if they would even care to do this, but it was pretty funny how cool they thought it was. I do have pictures of all the kids doing it, and for all you parents, maybe one day I will actually get around to sending them to you.

Present time!

Thanks everybody! He got lot's of fun things!

Then we had some popcorn cupcakes!

Jackson got his very own extra large cupcake.

Then the kids ventured down to start the movie Bug's Life. Don't they just look so cute!

Then they had their concessions during the movie

And we finished the night with a pinata!

His strong cousin Austin I think was the breaker. He's got one hard swing!

Hope you had a great one Jack! We love you so very much and are so glad you are a part of our family! Mommy's gonna miss you when you head off to kindy!