Grant's Birthday Party!!!

Grant celebrated his birthday Saturday with a party at the Athletic Club with lots of school buddies!!! They got to play in the big maze and then moved onto the gym floor for games (dodge ball, british bulldog and basketball). The kids got to expend lots of energy running around playing. With the weather being so cold, its been hard to let the kids be active and I think this is just what everyone needed!!!


Mario Kart cake... Alyssa, Reid, Cade, Brock and Samuel

The birthday party crew...

Kayla, Ellie, Molly, Nicholas, Kara, and Alyssa

Garrett and Grant

Jackson

Harrison

Grant and Kayla

Embarrassed look...

Make a wish...

Nicholas and Mitchell...

Nana with the birthday boy...

Bathtub Buddies!!!

Just wanted to show you what bath-time looks like at our house!!! All the boys love it and beg us to let them take a bath. And foam soap is a must, I have to ration it out or they could use a can per bath. Don't know how much longer the three of them will fit in the same tub!!!

Happy 7th Birthday Grant!!!

I can't believe I am the mom of a now 7 YEAR OLD!! That seems sooo old!! It seems like it was just yesterday when he was born!! Such a sweet, funny, caring, innocent, carefree, independent, smart, beautiful boy he is!! Grant, you make me sooo proud to be your mom, we love you more than you'll ever know!! Happy 7th Birthday, my big boy!!


My 7 YEAR OLD Grant and his friend Kayla, who joined us for birthday dinner, cake, and presents!!

Grant with Nana

Happy New Year!!

We had a fun-filled New Year's Eve celebration with Pepka, Gigi, Blake, Jennifer, Charles, Catherine, Brian and Jackson. Our boys got a Wii this year for Christmas (I know, a few years later than most people) so we decided to have a fun-filled New Years Eve night playing Wii!! We played bowling, tennis and Family Feud. I'm already ready for another game night!!
Nicholas with his "party" hat on... The "BOYS", don't ask why they don't have shirts on, I just looked up at one point and they were all shirtless!!

Dad and Scottie

Nicholas

Party hats and noisemakers...

Even "Harry D" wore his party hat

Nicholas lost his 1st Tooth!!

Nicholas lost his first tooth a few days after Christmas. He was so excited that the tooth fairy got to visit him this time instead of Grant!! A few days before he lost it, he and Grant were rough-housing and he came up to me and his mouth was bleeding, so I was worried he knocked that tooth loose, but felt better when we went to the dentist for a cleaning days later and he said there was already another tooth coming in where he lost that one. So, it really was ready!! Kids look so old when they start losing teeth.

Christmas 2009

Here it is, finally!!! I have such issues with uploading these pictures, it has taken forever!! Our Christmas festivities began on my birthday (December 20th) with Christmas at Nana and Papa's with Uncle Beak and Aunt GiGi. We celebrated my birthday and opened Christmas gifts with Beak and GiGi, since we wouldn't see them on Christmas morning. The boys got electric scooters from Nana and Papa and had so much fun riding them in their cul-de-sac. We worried about Nicholas because they are really for a bigger kid, but he caught on so fast.

Posed pictures in front of the tree...
Grant
Nicholas...

Harrison...

Me with my angels...

Nana with Nicholas and the scooter...

Harrison on his new big boy motorized scooter...

Nana with Harrison (his new thing is to squint his eyes while having his picture made)...

Grant and his scooter...

Harrison loves singing Happy Birthday and blowing out candles...

My helper...

Posed pajama shot by the tree, I do have sock monkey pajama pants too (you just can't see them). I don't know how many more years I'll get Grant to wear matching pajamas with his brothers...

My sweet, sweet baby. I got a new camera and was trying out some of the different settings.

A few days before Christmas, we decided to put a Gingerbread House kit together. It was actually from last year, so I didn't let them eat anything. It was a fun activity even though the house itself wasn't too pretty!!

This picture got kind of out of order. Christmas Eve during the day, Amber came over and we went out to eat for lunch and exchanged gifts with her. Harrison didn't want to pose for this one...

Harrison posing by his tree in his room. He didn't have one last year and specifically requested one this year!!!

Christmas Eve night, we went to Pepka and Gigi's for our traditional dinner and gift exchange. Blake, Jennifer, Catherine, Brian, Jackson and Charles were all there. We had many laughs and the kids had a great time playing and making messes with all of the paper and boxes!!

The four cousins!!!

Grant and Nicholas with Jackson...

Blake posing with Grant...

Annual picture of Pepka with "Jane Doe"...

Nicholas playing with his dragon castle...

Jennifer, Grant, Ted and Brian...

Harrison with a dragon...

The three couples...

Now, on to Christmas morning. The kids were so excited to see what Santa Claus had brought them. I am so savoring the ages they are now because everything is so magical to them!!

Harrison with his Diego Train set...

Grant with his big boy (6 speed) bike...

Nicholas was all smiles...

Grant posing by his tree in his room...

Nicholas with his tree...

So sweet...Nicholas and daddy...