Jackson Pics (see above post for details)

I really needed a new post…

 

Can you guess where this is?

More to come on this *little* trip later!

Happy Birthday to Mommy

Carlos helped the boys make the cake for my birthday.  They baked it on Tuesday night and I helped them make the frosting.  They made a carrot cake so I did cream cheese frosting.  They wanted to color it and we let them choose.  They chose purple and black!  It was pretty late so we said we’d decorate it in the morning.

I had told Carlos that I wanted to sleep for my B-day but I woke up at 6:15 and was wide awake!  I finally got up and folded some laundry and blogged.  At 8:00, the kids were still asleep (wow) and I was tired so I went back to bed. They let me sleep until 9:30.  Not that I really slept that well but it was nice to know I could!  I could hear them talking a lot about the cake which they were decorating at that point.

When I got up, Jaiden came and sang happy birthday in the sweetest voice.  It was so cute!  Austin told me happy birthday too and Zach was just cute.  They gave me some cards and then we did the cake.  So we had cake and milk for breakfast!  Hey, it was my birthday!

This is the cute, cute cake that they made:  

They had baked it in a 9 x 13 pan but then Jaiden wanted a circle cake because “mommy always makes circle cakes”, but when they tried to get it out of the pan, a lot of it crumbled.  Carlos said it was decorated 98% by them.  I did have to correct the numbers (am I really admitting this?!?!) because they originally had a number 3 and a regular candle to make 31.  Sadly, I had to tell them I was actually 32! 

It was so much fun and they were so cute singing happy birthday over and over.  Jaiden even sang it in Spanish for me!

Carlos had to work but the boys and I finished the day with a Peanut Butter Cup Perfection ice cream in a chocolate dipped waffle bowl from Cold Stone.  So yummy!

Don’t Play with Matches

This is what we found the other day when I went to check on the boys, who were playing with their friend in the backyard.  We had been cleaning the garage.  I went out and they were by the corn so I thought they were getting into it…Jaiden went running as soon as he heard me and I saw the box of matches in his hand, then found unlit ones in the grass and in the sandbox.  This is where they put all of the ones they had lit.  We’re still not sure as to how they knew how to strike a match but some more information has come out since then….we’ll see.  Talking with others, we’ve come to the conclusion that it must be a boy thing and that they are all basically pyros!

Needless to say, all of the boys got a good talking to.  I did have to sneak in a picture though…

Family Reunion, Part 1

This was our nice little spot, it was just perfect!  We could even hear the stream “gurgle” at night. 

So here’s a summary by child:

Zachary

He wheeled around camp, threw rocks in the lake, colored on plates, got into the hula-hoop action, LOVED the canoe ride, and wasn’t quite awake at breakfast!

   

 

Austin

He waded in the lake, rode his Plasma Car (aka “Scooter”), ran around, did silly poses for pictures, tore bugs apart and had a good time!

 

Jaiden

He rode his “scooter” and bike, helped put the fire out (more on that to come….), threw lots of rocks in the lake, got to go on two canoe rides, waded in the lake, won a cement truck in the sack race, got really dirty (not as dirty as this camp memory), and made friends with Josh and others and played the whole time, including making these logs into a see-saw.  I guess he was really friendly around the campfire too and would just go up and sit on peoples laps….that’s what I’ve been told anyway!   

More to come in a future post, but this is long enough for now!