Hannah's Birthday and Party

Birthday Day: Opening Presents.

Her cute new outfit for school.

Waiting for her ride....she loves to have her picture taken.

Having lunch with Hannah and all her school friends. So happy she has good friends.

 Cousin Grace

 This boy totally has a crush on Hannah.

Playing at recess.

 Cute girl friends. Hallie, Ella, Allie, Hannah, Eveiya, Grace

Running off, back to class.

Came home looking like this and had a large envelope with birthday cards from everyone in her class.

Getting in trouble with younger brother and sister. Crying. Making up. And eating cake. (younger brothers can be so rotten sometimes. Somehow Nathan looks well pleased with himself...little stinker).

Poor quality pictures with mom and brother.

  
And some more with dad.

On with her birthday party. We tried to go with a rainbow theme. While waiting for her friends to arrive, these three sure had fun with the giant balloons.

The girls played, pin the cloud on the rainbow, made suckers, a really hard, but really fun candy game, and made necklaces.

 The kids LOVED these rainbow suckers we made out of jolly ranchers. (Thank you pinterest!)

The idea of the candy game was to try to pull out as much candy as you can until the person to your right rolls doubles. Much, much, much harder than it looks.

Aaron explaining the rules. Intensely.

 Addy scored a big chunk of candy.

Making necklaces.

Opening Presents: Her friends know her well. She got lots of art stuff and journals. She really enjoys writing lately.

 Back row: Grace, Mia, Sophia, Lydia.  Front row: Addison, Lindon, Suzy, Hannah, Chadley, Mackenzie

Cake and ice cream

Cute Sophia is tri-lingual. She sang happy birthday to Hannah in Spanish, English, and Chinese. Smart girl! and silly too!

 Made this funfetti cake from scratch. Was. Not. Good. Bummer!

I think Hannah had a fun fun day. I was completely exhausted by the time it was over.

Two more to end the night, because for some reason it's tradition.

Joseph at 5 months

He sure is cute!

He's starting rice cereal....not a fan just like my other baby's. He's loving this bumbo that he sits in. He's talk, talk, talking all the time. We are all a little nervous that his personality is already showing signs of being very intense. ie: There have been times when I haven't been able to go right in to pick him up after his nap and by the time I get there he will really be screaming. There's been a couple of times that he's pulled his blanket over his face and, boy oh boy, he'll  really let me have it! He'll scream and scream at me and will not be consoled until he decides to forgive me.

We are loving his shout outs, his open mouth kisses, his cuddles into our necks, and toothless smile. Now, I would sure be a happy mom if he could sleep just a titch longer at night.

Day of Thanks #10

Today I am thankful for a strong and healthy body, that does most things I want it to do.

Day of Thanks #9

So thankful for my mom who will come shopping with me, or watch my kids from time to time, or takes a basket full of shirts to iron and brings them back nicely pressed (Aaron is super thankful for that), or when she calls just to see how I'm doing. Yep! Super thankful for this lady in my life.

Day of Thanks #8

My husbands pay check. So thankful for his good job that provides all of our fundamental needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter.