Happy 40th Kris!

Happy B-day, my Kris friend!!! Hope you have a fantastic year! You deserve it! Hugs! Fun ladies to "surprise" Kris for a little celebration! #professionalbirthdaysingers

Happy Birthday Amber!

Amber & I have been friends for almost 11 years! We have kept in touch through moves and babies, good times & bad times. I adore this girl! We both love to craft, laugh, cry, be organized (ok- she likes to clean & I like to organize but they compliment each other) and now apparently we both like to Instagram! LOL Anytime we talk it's like we just live next door. Love her!
So when she invited me to come down to ID for the weekend to go to the Hilary Weeks Concert- I made it work. We also share a love for Hilary Weeks! Plus as a bonus- it happens to be her birthday this weekend.
Happy Birthday Amber friend! Thanks for letting me celebrate your day with you and helping me figure out this Insta-stuff!



We did a little shopping while I was down there. LOVE the DownEast Clearance deals! I got another one of my Christmas stockings for $1.50. Pottery Barn, baby! Score!

I treated Amber to the most magnificent Birthday meal! Seriously- where has Kneaders been my whole life?!!! Yum!!!

And I also adored her kids! It was like a big "Aunt Shay" party all weekend. I totally messed up their schedules and eating patterns. But man did I love it! (Sorry Ben & Amber for the aftermath- you'll deal with afterwards from the pure sugar high we are all on! LOL)

Even our trip to Walmart was fun! Silly kids! Thanks Ian for hanging out with us!

We drove by this beautiful place at night when we were picking up the teenager, Yes- Motherly-taxi-driver duties do not cease because you have friends in town. LOL

Oh yes... we also both love to re-purpose things. Amber was working on this chair so she showed me the ropes so I can do a couple I have at home. She's so talented! (There was definitely not even time for us to do all the things we wanted to do. Another visit is in order, I guess! ;) Love you, lady!

Brett's Birthday Celebration

Since Brett was gone for his birthday, so we celebrated today! XOXO to our favorite guy!
We spoiled him with presents like a bipod for his gun, candy, a new shirt and a pretty good-lookin' bayonet.

Fed him a yummy dinner.

And made one of his favorite desserts. Yum!

Great to be Eight!!!!

Glory had a very special birthday! She's turning EIGHT! She has been so excited! She asked for a special breakfast that HAD to include strawberries! They are her favorite!!!

She danced with excitement for all her presents!

For dinner, she had chicken, corn on cob, potatoes & gravy, and margaritas (virgin-style!) and .... strawberries!!!!

We made her cupcakes and sang to her.

One of her presents, was face paint! They had a grand time painting everyone's faces for our movie night! She loves the movie- The Book of Life!

During the day, she took cookies to her class and performed in her class play! Fun day for sure! Here's her with Shannon & Kovi.

Remembering When I was seven...

When I was seven....
I loved Friends
My favorite color is Purple
I love Playing
I love Swimming
I learned to ride a bike
I rode my 1st plane
I went to Hawaii
I swam in the Ocean
I joined Activity Days a few days early
I had a pet bunny (but he was dead)
I learned to Ski
I adore Cricket (Davis' dog)
I visited Fairmont
I participated in VBS
I love our cotton candy machine
I visited the Seattle Gum Wall
I like to be Silly!

Love you, Baby! XOXO Glad you're a part of our family!

Last Bday in the 30s

We celebrated my last birthday in my 30s today. Wowzers! How did I get this old???
My family always spoils me! I'm one lucky lady!

Saturday Morning Breakfast

(I had Church Meetings on my Bday so they did it early)

 Date Night Dessert:

 Birthday Dinner (Amazing!!!):

 Presents:

 Cash & Letters from my Primary kids:

 Singing me Happy Birthday!:

PG-13, Here I come!!

Justice has been looking forward to this birthday for a very, very long time! His celebration started last night when he had the chance to go camping with his Boy Scout Troop. They did some fishing & Hobo Dinners and I imagine all the dumb Scout stuff boys do! ;) Brett went out early this morning to do a little fishing with him and bring him home early.

Back at home, he got all cleaned up & we ate some Subway together as a family.

Then it was present time!! He is one lucky kid. He got things like socks, rubik cubes, gaming headphones, avenger pants, gift cards, a movie  and a air soft gun. He's pretty happy! The girls made him some pretty sweet cards. They sure love their brother!

We got to watch some of our favorite shows with him for the 1st time! We're super proud of him for waiting to watch PG-13 movies until he was actually thirteen. He, of course, LOVED them! He wants us to watch them all with him. He had in his head that Liberty got to watch them all the first weekend. Silly boy!

We continued his birthday celebrations the next day. (the adult session of Stake Conference require that the girls had to make him a special breakfast for dinner while mom & dad were gone) We made him a special T-Bone dinner and all his favorite stuff.

Happy Birthday to you, Son! Cut the cake & say Hi-Yah!!!! We made his requested Birthday dessert of Monkey Bread in which we melted the wax of the candles into the dough. Gross!!! But really funny! Love you, kid! XO

12 Things to Remember

Important things happened when I was 12.

To name twelve...

* I received the Aaronic Priesthood
* I went to do Baptisms for the 1st time in the Billings Temple. I also got to do them in Hawaii and Payson UT where I pulled off the doorhandle. Oops!
* I shot my 1st Deer with my Dad & Brother Caldwell plus did some Elk Hunting with Bishop Staley
* I visited Hawaii & learned to surf
* I tried my 1st fresh Coconut- YUCK!
* I like to separate all the marshmellows in my Lucky Charms. I eat them last!
* I grew an Avocado Plant from the seed
* I attend my 1st Prisesthood Session at the Conference Center in SLC
* I went to the Regional Science Fair
* I was the MBU Chess Champion
* I played Football
* I love to fish with my Dad & eat what we catch

Justice- so glad you're part of our family. Love you, Bud! XO -Mom

Birthday Parties Galore!

Happy Birthday to Everyone!

Glory at Brooklyn's party

 Victoria spent the day for Kaylee's Bday

Birthday of Remembrance

The Wannabe Time Lord's 15th Birthday Celebrations

(WARNING: Half the time- we don't understand the things that come out of this Fangirl's mouth. It's like she speaks a different language with all the "cosplay, fandom, O.C." things she talks about. So if you are confused by this post---- join the club!! LOL And know that she had a fabulous day! ;)

Liberty took her "Personal Day" to spend her birthday with her mommy. We let her sleep in until we had made her a special birthday breakfast. She requested waffles, blackberries, turkey bacon and choco milk. The kids were excited to help make it for her before they left for school. We presented her with her "Doctor Who" (Leonardo DaVinci painting inspired) bouquet of flowers as well as special bonus of the Flower of Remembrance in the middle. It's a native golden Gallifrey flower that the Tardis turned into during the time of the Third Doctor. She thought it was pretty awesome!

During the day she got to open presents. A majority of them being from her Fandoms so she was elated! Her mommy made her several doctor who buttons, magnets and charms for a necklace. We also made her a vinyl to hang over her closet door. Her closet is now an official Police Box entrance. Alons-y!!!

We had lunch together and watched a show before the other kids came home.

After she finished Karate- We made her birthday dinner of Zuppa Toscana and "that yummy bread".

We had donuts for her while we sang and almost burned the house down with her fire she had to blow out. 

Happy Birthday girlie from your family and....

Victoria's Double Digit Bday

Victoria turned 10 today!!! Can you believe that???? We are so lucky to have her as a part of our family! She's like the glue that keeps us all together.

We celebrated by a special breakfast of Pancake Sandwiches. Justice helped make eggs. We baked up some bacon and put them all on little pancakes. Yum! Oh yes! We also had "mangos! mangos! mangos!"

We had lots of fun gifts for her birthday. She requested Shopkins, shoes, basketball shorts, candy, frosting, boots, etc. 

She opened some in the morning and most at the evening with the family!

For dinner, we made her chicken, potatoes & gravy, broccoli, avocados and raspberries.
For dessert, we sang to her over ice cream sundaes and cookies.

We have the great privilege to be this girls parents. We are seriously so lucky to have her in our lives. She is so smart!! She's creative and kind and brave and loving and funny and peaceful and gorgeous! Love this girl! XOXO

Nine Year Old Memories

For our super sweet, creative, beautiful girl-

Victoria's Nine Memories

* Favorite Color: Still pink
* Friends- 3rd Grade- McKenzie, Jadyn, Sophie & Aspynn; 4th grade- Sophie, Jayden R, Clara, and Kaylee, Other friends- the Weaver girls & the Payne kids
* Very creative- learned oil painting, make puff balls, drawing notes for everyone
* Had a part in the Missoula Children's Theater- The Little Mermaid
* Visited Hawaii & Seattle and the Lewis & Clark Caverns
* Loves to swim
* Learned to Ski
* Perfected the Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
* Won the Dear Author Award- she won $150 for her school & a Kindle Fire

Brett's Another Year Perfect

We celebrated Brett's birthday this week!!!

The day before his actual birthday- he had the day off. We went on a date to Cielos- this cute little Mexican Restaurant. We had Shrimp Tacos and Chicken Tortilla Soup. Deliciouso!

On his birthday- we made him a yummy Rib dinner! It's his favorite!

We tried a new dessert- a pumpkin cake thing with yummy icing!

We sang and then he High-Ya-d his candles out! LOL

While we cleaned up, we let Brett go shoot some hoops in our backyard. It turns out he got to play with a bunch of wildlife. For some reason they didn't even budge while he played. Can you see the 4 deer behind him???

We opened presents as well. The kids blew him up some balloons, made certificates and gave him cereal, a superhero jacket and some mula for a rifle thing.

We're really grateful for Brett in our lives. Here's to all your wishes coming true!!!