Birthday Countdown

In September, Will turned 9 and had a sleepover party.  Since then, Nathan (now 5) has been asking daily when his birthday will be (November).  Just about that same time, I ran across a chain calendar on Pinterest for kids that aren't proficient with a regular calendar.  I thought this might work perfectly for Nathan and I got to work. 

I included a blue ring for the day his Daddy would be back from a business trip and a black ring for Halloween.  The final one is red and is his birthday. Each morning he wakes up and cuts off a ring getting closer and closer to his birthday.  He LOVES this!

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas from the boys that rule my life! :)

Two days before Christmas, we made our annual batch of cut-out cookies. (This year they weren't dairy-free though!)

Will is smiling funny because he has a loose tooth! :)

On Christmas Eve, we set out cookies for Santa along with some apples and carrots for the reindeer! (Yes, I realize the picture is sideways. lol!)


The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...


Below, Jeff is reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas to the boys in the bunk beds that he built. :) Will is wiggling his tooth... what is up with him and loose teeth on Christmas? LOL!

Santa came!!!

We unload our stockings first on Christmas morning. Here I am helping Nathan put a Lego tracker together.


Oh, I forgot to mention... we had a white Christmas!! YAY!

All day long it was, "I want to play in the snow!" then "I want to play with my toys!" then "I want to play in the snow!" LOL! Jeff and the boys went out in the snow and built a snowman and attempted an igloo (or "egg-woo" as Witt says it!). I stayed inside and made some hot cocoa!


Merry (belated) Christmas!

Will Turns Eight!

As is our tradition, he decorated the cake himself. It's not his fault that it was falling apart though... or that there wasn't enough frosting. The baker (me) had a few measuring mistakes, I think. :)


This boy never looks at the camera! LOL!


Listening to "Happy Birthday" and deciding what to wish for.


Take a DEEP breath...



and blow 'em out!


He saved all his birthday money, sold his wooden trains to Jeff & I (so now we have "control" over them and can keep them for as long as we want), and took what money was in his piggy bank and we went shopping for an electric train set. After about an hour of deliberating on which set to get, he decided on the Lionel Penn Flyer, complete with whistle and smoking funnel. He proudly pulled out that $250 in cash and plopped it on the cashier's counter. His first big purchase. :)

Sparklers and Such

Eat Cake! :)

Apparently I left my birthday cake unsupervised for too long. LOL!

And yes, that's a set of 3 and a set of 5 candles, but I'm still 28 years old (again).

You Say It's Your Birthday?

It's my birthday, too! :)

Off to make my birthday cake with three little boys!!!

Merry Christmas 2009

Meet Silver!

We adopted Silver from the local animal shelter as a Christmas present for our family. We think he's a Husky/German Sheppard mix. He's 3 months old and the sweetest! So good with the boys!

We've got him in the house right now as he's recovering from his neutering... poor fella. And he's got some sort of cough that the vet said is contagious to our other dogs. So that leaves the boys with a puppy in the house and lots of fun!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

The Boys Decorated the Tree

'Nuf Said.

Nathan is FOUR!!!

As you will see our birthday boy, Nathan, has a fondness for a certain green and yellow tractor. :)


I made the cake and decorated it, too. I'm not bragging, but he loved it. :)


We just had family over, but we all had a great time! Gran, Papaw, Aunt Debbie, Great Grandmother, and Great Grandaddy all came to party with the Birthday Boy!




He looks pretty comfortable here on Papaw's lap, right?

Well, I promise you that expression changed when someone said, "Birthday Spankings!" (He didn't get any, of course!)


Singing HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!






PRESENT TIME!!!!

Tractor 1 and 2:


Daddy made special John De.ere wrapping paper!


Trailer 1:

Trailer 2:



Can you guess what the last gift might be? ;)


He also got money from Aunt Debbie and Aunt Deborah! He has JD pillowcases and a JD flat sheet on the way from Nana and Grampa (my folks in Washington state).

I'd say he had a Deere of a birthday!