Hunter's Baptism Pictures

 I did a little photo shoot with my sweet Hunter for his baptism in his new suit.  I sure love this boy and his fun personality.  

Trip to St. George

The boys had a soccer tournament in Mesquite and we were so ready for the warm weather!  I had been wanting to get to the Sacred Gifts art exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art and we thought it would be fun to stop by on our way south.  The boys were so good and I think they really enjoyed the exhibit.  I really loved it.  Those paintings mean so much more to me now when I see them.

Even though these were sad little palm trees outside our hotel, it was so fun to see them and feel the warmish weather!

We spent most of our time at soccer games, but we did have a chance to eat yummy food and saw "Frozen" again while waiting for our last soccer game of the day.

McKay found all sorts of things to do.

We introduced the boys to "Swig" and their delicious sugar cookies.

Palmer is going to be Brigham Young in his 4th grade "Wax Museum," so we decided that it would be fun to go and check out Brigham Young's winter home in St. George.

I really love to see period pieces in old homes and pioneer homes are my favorite.  I thought it was so interesting!

This was Brigham Young's bed.  

The games didn't turn out great (tied one, lost two), but we had a great time in St. George.

The best part about it for the boys was that the assistant coach has family in St. George and they invited the whole team over for a pizza/pool party.

They all had so much fun that I am pretty sure they didn't remember anything about losing soccer games.  It was a fun weekend!

Hunter Turns 8

 Our family is a little birthday crazy in January and February.  Hunter and McKay have birthdays just a day apart.  Josh insists that we take all of McKay's decorations down and redecorate for Hunter's birthday (I didn't get a picture...). McKay's birthday always gets Hunter excited for his own.

 His pajamas matched his wrapping paper this year.  Hmmm, might need to do this every year :)

 Hunter is in love with colored jeans and wears his red ones as often as possible.  We tried to get him some variety.

 For his breakfast he chose breakfast casserole and sausage (he is obsessed with sausage).

This was Hunter's birthday poster that Josh and I made for his class.

Hunter had a soccer game during the day, after we headed to the scout shop to get the traditional 8 year old birthday scout uniform.

 For his dinner we had steak and for his cake he chose a soccer ball (I am always relieved when they choose something easy).  We had the cousins over for cake and ice cream (there were awesome to come twice in two days).  

Happy birthday my sweet Hunter-Cakes!

McKay Turns 4

For weeks leading up to McKay's birthday, he would ask us to build him a "party", which turned out to be a fort where he could have all of his toys come to practice celebrating his birthday.  Josh and I both thought it was pretty awesome, so we regularly built the party.

McKay got to celebrate his birthday at preschool the day before his actual birthday.  He has been counting down the days, so getting to celebrate a little early was pretty awesome.

His teacher had some pretty cute things to give him.

 He got to tell the class about himself.  He is such a cute little bashful kid, but he did great.  

He chose fruit snacks for his class, the ultimate 4 year old treat.

 The next day he woke up to presents and decorations.

 He was pretty excited about it.

 McKay loves Rescute Bots right now, so pretty much that is what he got a lot of.  He has played with them like crazy ever since.

The favorite gift was a new "party" that he could put up himself.   

 He picked Mickey Mouse waffles for his birthday breakfast.

 For his dinner we had cousins and Grandma Ann come over for hot dots (that's what he chose) and cake.  He wanted a "Rescue Bot cake with orange on it".  So this is what we did...

He got more presents that night.  

McKay and Lincoln both got Broncos blankets from Grandma Ann.

It was a happy, happy birthday!