Friday, March 28, 2014

New Year's

This is the first year we celebrated New Year's Eve with our kids. We had Brenda and Andrew's family up, along with Austin and Mindy's family. We went swimming, ate dinner, went and watched some fireworks and then rang in the new year at home.
All of the cousins eating dinner.

Watching some funny YouTube videos.

Ringing in the new year with some poppers and noise makers.

The kids that made it to midnight.

Caden celebrating with Chase the next morning, since Chase fell asleep before 'all of the fun.'

Caden's 7th

Birthday's are so fun with young kids! Everyone gets excited, even if it is not their birthday. We had a family celebration in October and Caden was promised a friend party this year. Unfortunately, the friend party didn't happen until January. We just couldn't do it sooner with Ken working a lot of weekends, holidays and me being extremely tired from low iron.

Caden makes the silliest faces.


Ava always wants her picture taken and then wants to see it.



Brotherly love.



Caden does not care for cake so we had brownies.

We let Caden plan his friend party. He wanted to have it at Chuck E Cheese. I don't know if I will ever have a party there again. It was so crazy. It was really hard to keep track of the kids, they took forever getting us our tokens even though we had pre-ordered everything, pizza was gross, nearly impossible to round up kids for pizza, or hear them when we were opening presents. Caden did have fun, so I guess that is all that really matters.



Jordan trying to win it big.

Me at 38 weeks.

Dancing with Chuck E.


Rocking it out with Chuck E

Pretty excited that we are having brownies.



Legos were the theme this year.  Caden got Lego sets from every friend except one. Good thing he loves Legos.

Caden in the ticket machine. He ended up getting the big 500 bonus ticket. Go Caden!

Caden got two identical Lego sets. I telling him we could exchange one when he excitedly said he could give one to Chase and then they both could have one. What a great big brother.

Favorite color? green
Favorite food? pizza
What do you want to be when you grow up? police officer
Favorite thing to do? spend time with my family (oh, I hope he always feels this way)
Who are your friends? Jackson, Harvey, Owen, Jamie, Preston, Hannah 
What is your favorite toy? rocket ship and legos
Favorite Story/Book? Magic Tree House
Where do you want to live when you get big? mansion
How many kids are you going to have? 6
Favorite song? Gethsemane
Favorite movie or thing to watch? Wild Krats (on PBS)
What makes you happy? playing with friends and reading books
What makes you sad? when Ava does something mean to me, hits me, bites me
How do you know mom and dad love you? because they're nice to me