Front Yard Makeover

We knew when we moved in that the front deck was going to have to go sooner or later because it was completely rotted out and such an eye sore. With the beautiful spring weather we finally were able to get it done.

The boys loved helping and collected all the old screws in the bucket.

Trash Compactors

Papa, hard at work. When my dad was digging to find the pipes he barely knocked the pipe and it burst. We quickly realized the wrong type of pipe was in and our quick, easy job turned into something much more.

Lunch break!

What a difference!!!

My dad brought the 511 pound rock from the bay area. It it the perfect accent piece! Now to fill in everything else...

Preston is 4!!

It is incredible to me that my dear Preston is 4 years old today. It feels like he has always been here, and that he was just born! I couldn't imagine life without him. He brings us so much joy.

 At four years old, Preston is a ball of energy. He loves to be active and still jumps up and down whenever he is excited, which is a lot. He LOVES games and we are currently working on reeling him in on that. We got rid of our smart phones with games and are limiting time on the Wii. We hope that this will help him broaden his horizons as he is such an intelligent boy.

He is loving preschool and can already spell his name. He has recently really taken to drawing (I think inspired by his cousin Kayden) and loves to draw scenes from Mario or treasure maps. He also loves his lego duplos and builds castles and towers and Mario racetracks. He is getting so much better about playing on his own and I love watching his imagination run wild. He is so creative!

Preston has been so excited for his birthday and immediately upon waking in the morning he changes the number on our days until sign. He wrote every number himself and even used more than one color to make it pretty!

For his birthday breakfast he asked for an eggo with fruit to make a face. Strawberry hair, blueberry eyebrows and raspberry mouth.

He's excited it's his birthday!

 This was a "woo-hoo it's my birthday" arm in the air, 

and Tanner copied. Cute boys.

I made some vanilla cupcakes for Preston to take to Preschool today and he had fun with his friends singing him "Happy Birthday" and blowing out a candle.

After preschool we took Preston to get his birthday present, A FISH! He has been asking for a pet and we thought a fish would be a good start. I asked him in the car on the way there if he had any names for his fish and he said, "No. We can think about it. Actually! I have a lot of great names! Cocononi!" And Cocononi it is!

Preston really wanted to go to Chuck E Cheeses for his birthday so we did! He had a great time playing all the games (he loves games...) and we had a great time as a family.

Tanner using the top as a pacifier :)

Aaron had to go to mutual but we topped of the perfect birthday with frozen yogurt. I don't think this little boy could have asked for a better day.

Happy Birthday Buddy. We love you.

Tanner is 18 Months!

Tanner is 18 months old. I cannot believe my little baby has grown into a little boy so quickly. He is such a joy in our family and we are grateful every day for him.

He is quite the little personality. He is happy and is constantly smiling. He is always flirting with ladies behind us in the checkout line with his adorable smile.

He loves his brother and tries to do whatever Preston does which includes jumping on the couch, trying to jump up and down, and mimicking what Preston says.

He loves to talk and knows so many words. Some of which are: the usual "no, yes, mama, dada, bro-bro" (Preston), "shoe" "sock" "moon" "show""yee-haw" "go" "up" "down" "ni-night" "pooh" (he sleeps with his Winnie the Pooh from GG Carter), "done" "balloon" "pizza" "Lisa" (from Gaspard and Lisa) "ball" "more" "Buzz" "Woody" "nose" "eye" "ear" "sorry" "book" etc. He knows how to communicate whatever he needs or wants and understands everything I say which makes my life a little easier.

He also makes my life much harder now that he is a climber. We cannot keep the chairs at the table because he will inevitably climb up. He also has climbed up on the dresser, the counter, the toilets, other people's tables and chairs. You basically always have to have your eye on him or he will be up on something.

He loves being included in what his big brother is doing. It has been fun when we have preschool at our house because he likes to sit in the carpet circle and do snack time and crafts at the table with the "big kids".

He is the best sleeper. He almost never cries when it's time to go to bed or take a nap. I just tell him it's time to go ni-night and he says ni-night and sticks his thumb in his mouth. He usually goes to bed between 7:30-8 and lately has been sleeping til 8:30-9:30 in the morning. He then takes about a 3 hour nap.

He loves goofing around and totally has a sense of humor. One of my favorite things he does is puts whatever he can on his head.

 

 

Here are a couple snapshots on Feb. 25 when he officially turned 18 months.

Trying to "cheese"

We love this boy so much!! And we're SOO glad he can go to nursery now!

Skeleton

"Mom! I'm like those guys on the Olympics!"

I would not be surprised if this little athlete did do the skeleton someday...

Super Bowl

While the boys got together at Wes and Lani's house to watch the super bowl this year, it was so fun to have the girls and the kids party here. We had great food and such a fun time cheering for our teams (Go Broncos!) and dancing.

During half time, Bruno Mars

First Day in Sunbeams!

With the New Year, Preston graduated from Nursery and is now in the Primary and in Sunbeams! He was so excited to be such a big boy and couldn't wait to go to his class. He has no fear and after lining up with his class and teacher, walked off to class without looking back.

New Year's Eve 2014

We had such a great New Year's celebrating with Anna and Brett and Don and Maclaine who just drove in from Utah. We ate, sat around and talked, played our own version of the Newlywed game and stayed up long enough to ring in the New Year with some sparkling cider. I loved having 2 of my siblings and their spouses sleep over and Preston loved having Kayden over. Anyone is welcome anytime!

Playing around with icing colors...it didn't work like I wanted and I was too lazy to make more. It tasted good!

Happy New Year!