Hailey's 2nd Birthday Celebration!

We celebrated Hailey's 2nd Birthday this week! This little cupcake I found at Hobby Lobby the other day. It's called "The Hidden Cupcake". I thought it would be fun to start this tradition. Every time someone in the family has a birthday, they wake up and have to go find the Hidden Cupcake and inside is a special surprise! I just filled Hailey's with Hershey Kisses and she was happy!

Hailey's new kitchen. I was super excited to give this to her, hoping that she will leave me alone to cook in my kitchen while she plays in hers!

We had family over for a BBQ and cake and ice cream.

Mom forgot to sing Happy Birthday before we cut the cake-OOPS! So we sang to a partial cake!

Bryan started a fire in the backyard so everyone could go enjoy some warmth. Izzy looks so cute in her little pose!

Meili snugglin with Grandma.

Happy Birthday Bryan!!

Bryan turned the big 3-1 yesterday. Of course he "worked" most the day. If you want to call it work. Mark got him some kind of fancy remote control car that goes faster than my car, so apparently they played with it in the parking lot most of the day. Oh what a hard life! :)

When he came home I made him dinner and had a couple presents for him, and the kids made him the sweetest pictures.

We celebrated our 10th anniversary a couple weeks ago. Bryan got me some beautiful flowers and the sweetest card ever. Bryan had a convention to attend in Vegas a couple weeks after our anniversary so we were able to get away for a couple days. Thanks to our parents for watching the kids! I am so glad that I married Bryan. Even after ten years, he is always complimenting me, and makes me feel so loved. He is the greatest dad ever, and I love him so much!
We were bad picture takers in Vegas, and didn't get too many, but we had a good time. The only one that we took of us together didn't turn out, so here's a couple of me. We spent a lot of time just wandering around all the hotels and checking them out. It was nice to come and go as we pleased and not have to chase around kids for a change!

My Sweet Kids

Carter's 6th Birthday Party

We did a GI Joe Boot Camp theme for Carters party this year. It turned out really well, and I think everyone had a good time. These pictures are not in order, so if my rambling doesn't make sense, that's why! Above is Hailey with her Aunt Eryn. They were playing peek-a-boo under the camo netting, and Hailey had the cutest little giggles.

After the friends went home Grammy, Papa, and Uncle Mark came up for Pizza and Cake.

My favorite peeps

Aunt Eryn and my cute niece Izzy

Kai, Daxton, and Carter

We played lots of games, did a fun obstacle course, a pinata, and at the end the kids got a medal and a Certificate of Achievement

This is Gavin on the balance beam which was part of the obstacle course. Bryan and Mike acted as "Drill Sergeants" and they were hilarious! They did a great job!

Daxton crawling under the beam

The Drill Sergeants teaching the kids how to "Stand Attention"
It was pretty funny. This was towards the first of the party, and I was a little nervous they were going to scare some of the kids!

All of the kids were issued a weapon, a personalized dog tag, and helmet when they got here. Then their faces were painted.

All of us minus Aunt Eryn.

My beautiful mom, Izzy, and Hailey. I LOVE this picture! Beautiful girls for sure!

Bryan got a bunch of camo nets from Smith & Edwards. We draped them throughout the house. This is one we put on the stairs, so you had to crawl to get down.

My Tank Creation

My big 6 year old(actually not quite yet. We celebrated his birthday early so he has a few more days)
Thanks to everyone who made the trip up here. Carter had a blast!

4-in-1 Celebration!

We went to my parents house on Sunday and celebrated Valentine's Day, Carters Birthday, my nephew Ty's Birthday, and Chinese New Year! Let's just say the kids got lots of treats! This is Carters face after opening the dreaded "clothes". He has never liked getting clothes for presents, but mom sure does!

Grandma and Grandpa gave him a really cool Dinosaur lamp that rotates different dinosaurs. I thought this was cute with Carter and Hailey both lying down watching it.

We played a game to see who could get their m&m's in their cup with a straw the fastest.

Aunt Cami and Uncle Glen did some fun things for Chinese New Year. They watched a little video and each kid got a red envelope with a dollar in it. Then they went outside and did Sparklers and Snaps.

This is my cute niece Meili

Ty and Carter blowing out their birthday candles!

Just Bein Silly

The other night Carter and I were just being silly and taking pictures of ourselves. As I was putting him to bed he said "Mom, you are the coolest mom ever." I definitely am NOT the coolest mom ever, but doesn't it just make your day when your kids say things like this?

Congrats to my Hubby!

Bryan graduated from the RCA Academy last night. He was picked for Valedictorian and did a short little speech. This is him receiving his Medal and Certificate.
Bryan still has a Math, English, and 3 month EMT class he needs to take which will start in March. The RCA is definitely the hardest, and they say once that's done, that it gets a lot easier! I am so proud of Bryan for what he has accomplished. He has worked so hard, and I know he will miss this class, as grueling as it was. He would make me laugh because on the days that they had "burn" days, meaning they got to fight a fire, he would be soooooo excited. I would think that would make one nervous, but not my Bryan!

The class had to do a project to present to the school to leave behind as a remembrance for their class. This is what they came up with, which turned out amazing!

There were 7 who graduated this year. This isn't all of them, but we have Jeff, Brodie, Captain Davies, Bryan and Dirk. What a great group of guys! Bryan has spent many many hours with these guys, and truly loves them!

After the graduation we went to Bluebird with our parents. Thanks for celebrating with us!