Cade's Birthday

Cade's birthday has come and gone. I'm about a month behind on blogging. We had his and Chance's party between their two birthdays with all of their friends but wanted to make sure we acknowledged his actual day too. I made cake balls for the first time ever and they were pretty good. I can't believe my oldest child has turned 8. What a blessing he is!

Happy Birthday Cade and Chance

We celebrated Cade and Chance's birthdays this weekend at Up-N-Jumpin. They had lots of their friends there to celebrate with them. I think everyone had a great time. They jumped on bouncers and play lots of other games. We ate hotdogs and other goodies and of course had cake and ice cream. The boys both wanted football themed cakes so that made it easy for me. Cade asked for a football field and Chance asked for a football helmet! That's what they got!! It was a great afternoon spent with family and friends! I've said it before and I'll say it again.... we are blessed with many great friends here! I love watching the kids of my friends and my boys grow up together! They are a special bunch of kiddos with great parents!

Happy Birthday Cade

Cade turned 7 yesterday. It's hard to believe I am the mom to a seven year old. Just doesn't seem right! We had his party a month or so ago along with Chance but we wanted to acknowledge his actual day!! We had lunch at Pizza Hut because pizza is his favorite food! Afterwards we enjoyed an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. He had a great birthday celebration.

Showing off his new shirt from Rah Rah.

and his new shirt from us. The boy likes clothes....well athletic type clothes!

His yummy mint chocolate chip ice cream cake!

Happy Birthday Cade!

Birthday celebration

Saturday we celebrated Chance and Cade's birthday's with their friends. We had a big time with over 25 kids and lots of parents present!! Whew! The kids had a great time jumping/sliding on the party jumper and playing ball! The boys declared it a great party!!

Cade and his superman cake!

Chance and his batman cake

Chance and 2 of his favorite girls!! We were so glad Haven was able to make it to the party!!


The kids enjoyed playing on a party jumper again this year!! Sure does make party planning easy when you get a jumper!! Add a ball and they are set for hours of fun!




Cake and present time!



Papa and Clara Ruth and the boys!!

Happy 5th Birthday Chance

January 1st not only starts the beginning of a whole new year it's the day we get to celebrate Chance!! He turned 5 this year which is really hard to believe. He is growing so fast! This year will be a big year for him because he's finally old enough to do some of the things Cade gets to do like go to school and play baseball just to name a couple. We celebrated his day with cupcakes and a few gifts. He will have his "real" party with friends and more family later in the month along with Cade who will turn 7 in Feb.

Got a new baseball helmet! He'll be ready to play when the time comes!



Cade and Cooper excited about eating cupcakes with Chance!

Cooper's birthday

My baby turned 3 today! When I look at him I have a hard time seeing a 3 year old....he's supposed to be the baby (I know he'll always be my baby but still) and a 3 year old is NOT a baby! I love that my boys are getting older and able to do more "big boy" things but at the same time I wish time would slow down just a little because they are getting big way too fast! We had a great celebrating Cooper!

Sarah and Paden stopped by Thursday night with an early birthday surprise for Cooper. They brought an ice cream cake (love those) and a present from Aunt Amanda, Uncle Scott and all the cousins! They couldn't be with us today at the birthday party but they wanted to celebrate Cooper turning 3 too. My boys love their cousins and would love to see them more than they do. Cooper loved the present (4 very cool airplanes)...actually they all loved Coopers present!




Cooper loved his Spiderman cake. He originally wanted an animal cake and then switched to a tractor cake, then to a dog and finally settled on Spiderman. I was pleased with how it turned out and I think Cooper was too!

Happy Birthday Boys!

Today we had a combined party for Cade and Chance. Chance's birthday was back on January 1st and Cade's was yesterday. My plan was to have their party at the end of January...right in the middle of their actual birthdays... but that was spoiled due to a winter storm that hit that same weekend. It was rescheduled for today! They had a great party with lots of family and friends. We had the Incredible Hulk theme which was fun. They have been looking at and playing with their new presents for the past 3 hours..they love everything!





What a great bunch of kids! These are some of my boys closet friends. I worried when Cade started school this year because he wouldn't be getting to go with any of these guys. These kids have been the ones he's gone to bible class with, played ball with, gone to parties with , etc for the past several years. They have always been the best friends he's had. He's made some good friends this year in school but when asked who he wanted to invite to his birthday party, these were who he chose....none of which go to school with him!! This is the greatest bunch of kids.... with great parents I might add. They're the kind of kids you want your kids to hang around! Glad my kids have them as friends. I will add that Cade did take some special goodies to school on Friday to celebrate with his friends there. That was good enough for him! Chance was just thrilled to finally have his first friend party!

Happy Birthday Chance

My New Year baby turned 4 today!! I can't believe how time has flown by. He picked this cake out of one of my party cookbooks for his birthday. He opened a few presents and had his cake today. Later in the month we will have his "BIG" party with friends and family. He and Cade are going to have a combined party this year. Cade's birthday is at the end of Feb so we thought we'd try the party in the middle of their 2 days. They are excited about it. Cade will get something special on his actual day too!! We are planning an Incredible Hulk party for friends and family. Now to come up with 2 cakes for that!! More birthday pictures to come later in the month. Happy New Year!

Happy Birthday to me!

Today I turned 31!!! It was a pretty normal day for the most part. I got up bright and early, sent Cade off to school, got my extra morning guy on the bus, cleaned a little before my extra kids for the day arrived, went to play group, came home, did lunch time, craft time, play time, and finally nap time! At this point I actually decided to park my self on the couch and do NOTHING..well I did watch a movie! It was great. I watched "Becoming Jane" . It was so good. It was the story of Jane Austin. I really enjoyed the peace and quiet for a couple of hours. Sarah and Chelsea called late this afternoon and said they were coming with supper!! That was a nice surprise! Chad brought me home an ice cream cake and we all enjoyed Pizza Hut pasta, bread sticks, and cake. Turned out to be a very good birthday. I got some nice gifts too including money, gift cards, snacks, Pride and Prejudice, and even a Wii game ( I think Chad used my birthday as an excuse to buy a game he wanted...that's okay...we'll all enjoy it! :)) We have movie night tonight so we'll have friends coming over very soon. What better way to spend the day than with family and friends.

I just recently watched Pride and Prejudice and fell in love with it. Chad did a very good job picking out this gift!

Happy Birthday Rah Rah

Today was Rah Rah's birthday. We celebrated by grilling out hamburgers and hotdogs. Chad did a great job and everything tasted wonderful. The boys wanted me to make Rah Rah a cake. They actually wanted either a princess cake, mermaid cake, or a Barbie cake. They thought she would like one of those :-) since she was a girl!! I looked and looked for a cake online that I could make. I finally gave up and decided to go for a flower. They looked much easier. It didn't turn out quite like I had hoped for but it was a girly cake and the boys were satisfied! Happy Birthday Rah Rah. We love you!!

Cooper loves to sing

Cade and Chance are sleeping over at Rah Rah's house tonight. Cooper has not reached the point where he gets to sleepover with them yet...but it won't be long! He got to enjoy having the house to himself for a while tonight. While Chad and I cleaned house he sat at the table and played with play dough. He sat at the table for nearly an hour playing and singing. The child LOVES to sing. I know most kids at that age do but I really love listening to him. Tonight his song was "Happy Birthday". He sang it over and over and over again each time putting a different persons name in the song. He just had his birthday last week and Rah Rah's birthday is tomorrow so I guess that's why that song is on his mind. I looked over at one point to see him blowing candles (pencils) out. He used pencils and stuck them down in the play dough to make his cake. For someone who just turned 2 last week I thought that was pretty creative..I'm sure he saw one of the big boys do that!

Happy Birthday Chad!

Today is Chad's birthday! For the most part it was just a normal day. We had basketball camp all morning, mowed grass this afternoon, played outside with the kids, etc! The one thing that Chad requested was an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins! I know it probably sounds really terrible but he went and picked his own cake up! Is that terrible??? He was already out anyway!! He got to pick the one he wanted doing it that way :-) I do think he picked the messiest cake they had...bright red icing! We all enjoyed cake after supper and the boys went directly into the tub after cake! Cade and Chance also gave Chad the homemade cards they made for him..with the help of Rah Rah!


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Birthday Fun!

Today we had Cade's birthday party. It's so hard to believe that he is really 5! The kids seemed to really have a good time. There were close to 20 kiddos there. They all enjoyed the party jumper a lot. Cade has some great friends (and family) and almost all of those that we invited were able to come! He had a great day!! He (and Chance) are at the moment playing with his cool presents. Here are a few pictures of the day. I didn't get to take as many pictures as I would have liked. It's hard to get that many kids to stop long enough to take a picture!! That's okay.
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I made a Scooby Doo cake for his birthday!
The party jumper was a big hit! He got so many great gifts!

Chance's Birthday Celebration!!

Chance's birthday was on January 1st but we waited until today to have his party. He chose Transformers as his birthday theme. I looked and looked at birthday cake ideas but didn't find any that I wanted to make. They were all way to difficult and I just don't have that much time! I decided on a very simple cake for his party. I was happy with the way it turned out. Chance loved it so that made me feel good. We had a great birthday celebration. He was so excited and full of energy!! His Transformer cake
I also made Transformer memory and Bingo for the kids to play. They really liked these games. I found these games on the site Executive Homemaker and downloaded them, printed them off, and got them laminated for durability.
Chance opening some gifts!

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He loved the cake!!!