Dino Party...

Ryder insisted on having a dinosaur party this year for his birthday. And he had a lot of fun! His pile of presents, which he could NOT WAIT to open! Notice his new bike hiding behind the table. Hee, hee. :) He finally noticed it and was ALL SMILES and rode it around the house throughout the day. Mostly it was, "someone push me", because he hasn't quite figured out how to pedal yet.

Thumbs up for the bike!

There were no dinosaur jump houses so he settled for Lightning McQueen.

One time down with Daddy.

Then he was doing it all by himself!

He got lots of trucks and tractors.

Toys and Hot Wheels.

A huge dinosaur book that he has read every day.

I even found a blue dinosaur cake at Costco! Totally saved me from figuring out how to make one. :)

Happy Birthday Big Boy! Your dino party was a blast!!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Ryder!

Our sweet little boy joined our family three years ago! We were so excited!

He's grown so much...

One,

Two,


Three!

Kendyl's awards...

Kendyl had an awards assembly on Friday where she received two certificates.

The first one was the Principal's Honor Roll for getting all A's.


She has been on the Principal's Honor Roll every semester and is a very smart girl!


Her second award was for Great Attendance which means she only missed 2 days of school this semester.


Good job Kendyl! Thanks for being such a wonderful girl and an excellent student! We love you!!!!

My little superman...

Lovely day...

We like to have fun for birthdays and we try to make it extra special. I like my cousin's idea of making it a "National Holiday", because basically you are the star for the day. I don't think mom's in general EVER get a national holiday (sorry Mother's Day) because there are still meals to cook and laundry to wash and little faces to clean. And despite all the best intentions, the aftermath will still have to be cleaned up tomorrow. :)



The kids decorated and made me cards and had a whole pile of presents that they had wrapped. They were so excited, it made my day. I had lunch with my 3 favorite guys at the park and relaxed with a book while the boys napped. We went out to dinner on Monday, and Steve cooked dinner on my birthday so I scored twice. Lots of great wishes from family and friends were wonderful too. It really was a lovely day.

No Girly Stuff Allowed!

With just Kendyl and Brityn our house was full of pink clothes, blankets, walls, girl toys, dolls, barbies, ponies. When Ryder came along, it was a whole new world of boy toys, and as time has passed the last two years, we've acquired more blue, cars, balls, dinosaurs, trains, tools, etc.

A few months ago Ryder started to refuse drinking out of a pink girly cup. His words were, "That's too girly!" So no problem, we bought a few blue cups and those are HIS. Do not attempt to even put a pink cup at his spot because he will not use it. Along with the cups came his frequent declaration of "That's too girly!" to anything with pink, ponies, dolls, barbies, or "girl stuff"! Valentine's day was pure torture to the kid because everything was pink, red or flowery! :)

He loves his dinosaurs, cars, tools, blocks, legos, building, creating, destroying, crashing, complete with sound effects.

Everything he wears must be rough, tough and thoroughly boy. His Superman shirt is his favorite!

He only wants to listen to boy songs (meaning a boy must be singing) in the car. And won't watch any tv shows that do not have boys or boy stuff in it.

For Christmas he got a "boy" leapster, because there was no way he was playing the pink one! So we seem to be acquiring more blue boy stuff at our house to balance out all the girl stuff. This makes Steve, Sawyer and Ryder very happy.

On a cute side story...when we were reading scriptures a couple of nights ago, Ryder was reciting his verse and when he said the word "sword" it came complete with a swinging, stabbing motion and a "whooshing" sound effect! :) We were all laughing!