Britton Turns Five!

Britton is one of my "littles", how can he be five?!

Having your two youngest kids birthdays within days of each other is not a good idea as far as emotions go. They are the babies and here they are turning three and five. 

Crazy.

Britton starts kindergarten in the fall, and he's ready. Now that he's five he keeps asking if he gets to ride the bus and go to school with Ella.

This boy has so much exuberance for life, and is genuinely a happy guy. 

When given gifts he is so thankful and shows it! All gifts are "The BEST GIFT ever!!!"

He does not know how to sit still, but that's okay.

He's definitely a "rough and tumble" boy, but still has his sweet side.

Definitely has a sense of humor already and I love see it come out. 

He's very independent in a lot of areas, and that will be very helpful when he starts school.

Some of his favorite things are books, playing ball, riding his bike, playing the Wii, flying his toys, and tormenting his sisters. ☺  

So I tried getting out of doing two birthday parties, since they didn't want to combine parties. EskDale high school has combined forces with West Desert high school to have a boys basketball team, the season is almost over and so we thought the kids would have fun going to a game. The problem being that the gym is an hour north on a dirt road and we're spoiled. ☺ But Christian and Caleb  (and a few other EskDale students) are on the team, so we planned to go to the game on Britton's birthday.

Side note: On our way driving to Partoun, I realized it's been 20+ years since I'd been to the West Desert high school last. Whoa! 

I've been up to the Warm Springs area in the past year, but haven't ventured north of that since a basketball game in 1995. ☺

Aidan and Britton saw some friends there and went to hang out with them.

Clara wasn't sure what to make of the cheerleaders and the noise. 

Christian broke his foot the day before this game so he obviously couldn't play, and I wasn't able to get a picture of Caleb because I waited too long to remember to pull my camera out.

The kids had a blast, and of course, their favorite part was after the game when they could all run around the court chasing after the basketballs.

We did still end up having a little birthday party for Britton with family, because he requested one with chocolate chip cookies and green frosting. I told him that was disgusting, so he asked for chocolate chip cookies and brownies. 

Ella turns 5!

Ella turned five and she's ready for kindergarten. She didn't have a list of requirements for her b-day party this year so I was kind of at a loss of what to do...so I did the usual "fly by the seat of our pants" in unorganized chaos. ☺ She did request a pink scooter and a pink helmet, so I at least got that part right.

I had just gone to get my camera to take a picture of her with her new scooter and she crashed, so she had been crying right before I took these pictures.

Aidan turns 5!

 Aidan turned five, and his request was a red bike, and a pizza party with chocolate-chocolate chip cookies. So we got him a red bike and we let him see it early since he's not friends with change.

 The bike is a teensy bit too big, but he can still ride it and more importantly, he'll still be able to ride it for awhile.

Guess what Aidan's favorite color is...

 I used to be an organized person, I can no longer say that and have it be true. Thankfully my family must be used to this, so I say, "we're having a party" a few hours ahead of time and everyone still comes. :) I strive to be better next year especially since Aidan is going to want all his friends there and they will need a little more notice. Mom and Sharon showed up to help me make pizza, breadsticks, roasted zucchini, and Kenneth made the requested cookies.

After we were done eating food, some of us went outside to enjoy the lightning show. Sharon and Janille got some cool shots.

Sharon's.

Janille's.

We hung out and watched the storm for awhile, but then it started coming towards us and soon started raining (hard!) so the party broke up and everyone went home.