Josh turns 9!

Our baby Josh turned 9 this week! I can't believe it! 

We had a great party with his awesome friends.

They all came for cake and ice cream and then we spent the afternoon at Classic Skating. So much fun!  

Then his actual birthday was on Father's Day so we had a party for him and his dad.

  Brittany and Matt made him a Jurassic World cake, we had seen the new movie earlier in the week.  

It turned out awesome! 

 Brittany made an amazing stuffed guy from Minecraft called a creeper.

Flag Football Fall 2014

My boys have had a great time this year playing flag football again. I haven't taken a lot of pictures but have to post the ones I do have. I did get Josh posing,  I have to work on getting to do that same . There is something about watching football in the fall that is just so fun!

Joshua's Baptism

This weekend was a busy one for us. Joshua was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Here are my wonderful kids as we got to the church. Josh was a little nervous. I can't believe  all three of my kids are now baptized members of the church, time is going too fast!

 Josh with Mom and Dad before getting ready to be baptized.

 Joshua with Grandma and Grandpa after getting dressed. Love how happy they all look. I can't believe I didn't get one with Oma and Opa!

 This is Josh with his friend Jordon Kokkola who also was baptized yesterday. Such cute boys!

 Already to go with Dad!

 And with Mom jumping into the picture.

 

 Brittany took this cute thumbs up picture, ready to go! Joshua's Dad did a beautiful job baptizing and confirming him a member of our church. I was so proud of them both. Then after our Bishop asked Brittany if she would bear her testimony which she did, completing a perfect day for me!

Then we went back to out house with all of our wonderful family, most of whom I failed to get a picture of. There are so many things to do when having such a party that I forget important things like that! But it really was a wonderful day full of great memories!

Josh Officially turns Eight

Today is the day Josh has been waiting for! Today he is eight! 

 

The morning started with presents.  Then his dad took him to Boondocks.

 

Lots of racing, mini-golf and bumper boats. Followed by lunch at their favorite Habit Burger. Grandma and Grandpa came for dinner and cake.

 

Have I mentioned we have the most fun grandma ever? First, Grandma's new, cool gift is to load money into balloons along with a lot of confetti.  Then the lucky recipient gets to pop them and keep the money. The kids love it. It was a little scary because Josh got a new pocket knife which the male members of our family encouraged him to use on the balloons. Luckily everyone survived but the balloons. 

Then,  because it has been a tough week after Matt's tonsil surgery Grandma offered to make Josh's cake. It was amazing! The best frosting ever inside and out and decked out in candy!

And now Josh and his dad have headed back to Boondocks for more fun. I hope our boy has had a great day, we are so lucky to have him in our family. He is a sweet, smart, funny boy and we sure love him!

Josh's Eight year old Party

Today we started the celebrations for Joshua's eight year old birthday.  It was party day. These cute boys came over for a party. First they started outside, then fought a great nerf gun war.

Then they came inside and opened presents. I love the picture on the right. I said "Josh, aren't you going to thank your friends?" to which he responded, "Group hug!" And they all jumped into this pile of boys hugging. I wish they could just stay eight! His older brother and his friends definitely would not do that. Then we all took off for a movie. I had offered to take them to the new How to Train Your Dragon movie but Josh wanted to see Rio 2 at the Kaysville theater. The Kaysville theater means mom will buy drinks and a candy or popcorn because the tickets are so much cheaper. I cracked up at how great the boys who hadn't been to the Kaysville theater thought it was! It had to be the extra treats! It was a great party day, now we are ready for the real thing tomorrow! 

Joshua's Soccer

Joshua has also had a good season of soccer! He isn't as intense about it as Matthew but he was a little more engaged this year. He even tried playing keeper like his brother!

Josh's Last Week

We are two days into Summer.  So far so good. In an effort to update this poor old blog let's detail Joshua's last week of first grade. I got to go with Josh on a field trip to the Tracy Aviary. Hadn't been there before so it was lots so fun. I love this picture, it is perfectly typical of field trips.  See every kid is looking in a different direction.  They run that way too.  They actually were good kids, I volunteer in their class so they know me and that I'm not a total push-over.

Josh absorbed in the bird show.

Those are flamingos behind him. Note to self: do not cut this kid's hair yourself. Yikes!

Joshua's amazing teacher Mrs. Warburton. First grade was such a great year. We are really hoping that she moves to second grade so we can do it all over again!  Love the kid photo-bombing in the back.

Did I mention these kids know me?  So they insisted I take their picture too. Which I didn't mind in the least. They are great kids! Good bye first grade!

The Birthday that Never Ends

 Josh turned six! Over and over and over again. It felt that way anyway. It started on Thursday. Because Boondocks gives the birthday child a free unlimited pass I convinced Josh to have his party with his friends the next day so he and his brother could enjoy it.  Man was that a good idea! He has been begging to go for months and now he is truly in love. I paid for Matthew to go because I knew he couldn't drive the go-karts and let's face it, they are the best part. We got there early so they had the track to themselves



. It was fun to watch them start off slow and then go faster and faster as they got more comfortable.

 Then they did the bumper boats. Much slower but Josh got to drive his own and squirt Matthew.

 I had a free bowling coupon for Matt from school so they did that too. As you can see it was pretty exciting when Josh got a strike.  I love when these two boys are buddies. This summer they really have had a great time together-most of the time anyway.  The day ended with presents and the dinner he picked.

 The next day was the friend birthday party. I recommend Classic Skating. Occupied everyone and except the fact that they go  home smelling like sweating little boys (or little puppies) it is perfect. And cheap if you use the two for one coupon like I did.I don't know how but this is pretty much the only picture I have that was at all worth looking at.

 Sunday was the family party. See, I told you this birthday went on forever. The family party is when I usually make the big birthday cake.  So I started creating that afternoon. It was going to be a mountain with a monster truck climbing to the top. This is what it looked like an hour and a half before the party. Earthquake! Stress! Just ask my kids how freaked out I was. I stood there thinking, "You have to have a birthday cake for the birthday party!". I took a deep breath, and scooped half the cake into the garbage.

 Luckily I had some of the frosting left and managed to try and salvage the thing.

In the end the kid was happy and the is the important thing right? Whew, that birthday is over! Now for Brittany's this week...