Where did I go wrong?

Yesterday the kids and I were driving down the freeway when Kaiden spotted the Y on the mountain. Keagan made some fun remark like, I wish I had a bunch of dynamite then I would blow that Y up (totally influenced by his father on that other red team). So non-violent. I replied that our church owns BYU and that would be very sad for our church if something happened to that school because it would cost a lot of money for the church to rebuild it.
Keagan's response, "Our church owns BYU? No wonder I don't like going there!"
I asked, "where?"
Keagan, "To Church!"

It is monents like this where I feel like my degree from BYU in Marriage, Family and Human Development is really benefiting my family!! (I am rocking this parenting thing!!)

Oh Eyeballs!

So, usually Camden is the cause of trouble, this time he was the recipient. The boys were all playing out back and Kaiden found an old broken shovel under the deck. Somehow the jagged broken end of the handle ended up in Camden's eye. Needless to say we were off to the eye Dr. who was amazing! Camden did so well, held still while his head was in the big head vice thing, looked exactly where the Dr. asked him to and he even let the Dr. put in drops 3 times withoug a single objection! (Blessings from heaven!) So, with a massive corneal abrasion, lubrication drops (to be dropped hourly) and an antibiotic, we were out of there. Camden has to stay completly out of any wind, and has to avoid sunlight. He has been rocking the sunglasses and looking so cool. He is a little trooper, the Dr. said this is a very painful injury and an adult would not handle it as well as he has. The Dr. also said he will not have any permanant damage to his eye. There are definitly guardian angels watching little boys!

(This picture was taken on day two, already looking so much better! Little bodies heal so fast.)

Happy Mother's Day! (A little fashion for moms)

I love this video, because I'm not a woman anymore, I'm a mom!)
http//www.hulu.com/watch/10333/saturday-night-live-mom-jeans

Happy Birthday to Kaiden!!

I can't believe my little Kaiden is already 5!! He is such a super cutie and we love him so much!! Kaiden wears pajamas every chance he gets, so we decided to throw him a pajama party to celebrate his fabulous five years of life!
These are the invitations we sent out.

Here are all the pillowcases I made for the event. If you have millions of pillowcases, you may as well make beds for tables, right? (I got most of his party ideas from parents magazine, lots of fun stuff!)

Some of the kiddos making their teddy bears.
and if you are making teddy bears, it is only right that you have a stuffing fight, right?
Kaitie and her little BYU bear, go cougs!
Potato sack races, this was hilarious! Lots of kids going crazy without complete control of their legs, so funny!! (especially Simon, who wiped out at the start of the race, poor guy!)
Next we played musical pillows, again pure chaos kids running everywhere, Keagan and Tobey cracking eachother's skulls, and most of the kids not quite getting that once you are out, you don't rejoin the game. Gotta love 5 year old parties!
The gifts, oh my goodness, thank you everyone! He loved everything and everyone gave him such different presents.
The party people
Here is the little dorm room of birthday cakes. The extra marshmallows on the ends were acting as supports while the frosting set. I had too much fun decorating blankets (made from melted starburst and air-heads.)


My handsome birthday boy and his cake.
And sometimes you blow out the candles while everyone is still singing happy birthday because you have total control and you are 5. These are the party favors for the partiers. After that crazy experience I doubt any of the kids had trouble catching any Z's. Huge thanks to everyone who came and to those who couldn't, we missed you but felt the love anyway :) Adults, thanks for all the help and patience with birthday party crazy house!! Love you guys, Love you Kaiden we are so happy to have had five awesome years with you and look forward to 500 more!!

6 month old photo shoot

My super talented sister took these pics of Casen when he turned 6 months, there were some super cutie bum cheek shots, but maybe not appropriate for the blog. :( So cute! Thank you Lori for capturing my little man in all his cuteness.