Birthday Goodies

These are the Birthday goodie bags I made for Mason's class at school.

Mason finally got his wish of having a "friend party" for his Birthday. This is such a busy time of year for me that it's been hard to schedule one. This year I made it happen! Sadly, only 3 friends showed up but I think Mason had a great time anyway.

We played some Transformer games and I made very simple transformer cupcakes. One game that they enjoyed was locating the Allspark. We hid it in the backyard and they had to search for it, when they found it they got a turn to hide it.

Another game they all enjoyed was finding the gumball hidden in a plate of whip cream. It was pretty funny. Even after they found their gumball they wanted more whip cream on their plates.

It's great to be 8!

It's hard to believe that our oldest son is 8 years old!!

We let Mason choose where he wanted to go out to eat for his Birthday dinner and he chose Red Lobster. Check out that plate of food! Mason loves all things meat.

He was baptized on Sunday March 7th along with another girl from our ward. We had over 110 people show up for their baptism!!! We started out in the RS room and we were overflowing into the hallway so we moved to the chapel. A huge thank you goes out to the stake choir for giving up the chapel!

On Wednesday Mason went to his first Cub Scout activity. He was very excited!! His birthday was just intime to be able to attend his first Pinewood Derby coming up in a couple weeks. I then realized that I had 18 years of scouting ahead of me with two other boys to follow. Let the sewing on of patches begin!

Scrapping projects

I've been busy trying to catch up on my scrapbooking lately. The first weekend in February I took a trip to Portland for the Creating Keepsakes Convention (CKC). This was my 4th year going! It's so fun to have a weekend where scrapbooking is all I have to do. If you ever get a chance to go you really should, loads of fun!!! It helps that I have a great husband that lets me go. Not only does he let me go but he keeps all the kids at home! He's awesome, LOVE YOU ALEX!!

Anyway, these are some projects I've done lately. Some at CKC and some at home.

Happy Heart Day

carter giving his valentine some love


Ra-ra


Nay-nay

Ha-ha

and...I'm not sure yet what Cater calls Spencer

1st lost tooth!!! Don't you just love close-ups!

Spencer lost his first tooth on Valentine's Day WHILE he was in Primary!

Spencer graphing his hearts at school.

He quite enjoyed a valentine sucker!

This is how much he enjoyed being in the stroller at school!

Little Party

We're only a few weeks late but we finally had a little party for Carter. We kept having a round of sickness in our house and just couldn't make it happen to have everyone over. We ended up just having our own little party for him. It's always fun to watch a one year old have at it with their cake! I just snapped away with the camera. Thank goodness for digital. I was surprised to see that I had taken 84 pictures!!!

A Little Of Everything

*We had a fun Halloween as usual. I was a crazy woman sewing madly for weeks right up until the end. I made costumes for Harley, Cierra, Carter, Alex and myself. I don't have a picture of Alex and I.

*Cierra turned 12!!! She's very excited to be in YM and going to mutual. I can't believe how old my kids are getting. Where did the time go!

*Christmas!!! I decided to take on yet another project and made new stockings for us. It really bothered me that our old ones didn't match!

*Carter turned 1. We had a round of sick kids the week after Christmas and we STILL have not had any kind of Birthday party for Carter. So sad!! Good thing he's only one and he doesn't know any better. I even had a day planned this week to party but then we all got sick again.

Carter just amazes us every day. We get a kick out of his comprehension level. He doesn't forget anything! You can take something away from him and 10 minutes later he's still looking for it. He is getting into everything! Everything needs a lock or a latch on it to keep him out of it. I caught him the other day sticking his fingers behind a cupboard door trying to undo the child latch. What a stinker!

Check out the picture of him standing on his bucket chair! He loves to climb too. Nothing seems to be out of his reach.