Thomas is Eight!

Oh my! My blogging has been abysmal lately! I have lots to catch up on, hopefully it won’t take me forever to get caught up! Thomas turned eight on Dec. 16! I can’t believe how old he is. He had a little party with a couple of friends. Jim took them to Playtime Pizza and they got to do all kinds of fun games and laser tag. They came back to the house for cake and ice cream after.

He got lots of fun presents including this cool magic set. We have enjoyed him showing us different magic tricks.

He also got baptized. It was a special day. I made this invitation for family and friends.

I’m so proud of Thomas!

My cute kids!

We were so glad that Grandma and Grandpa Anderson could come from their mission in Virginia and be here for his special day.

My dad took some more pictures of all of us, but I haven’t gotten them from him yet!

Here’s a video that Cathy made of Thomas, it is just some pictures of the first week of his life. He was such a sweet baby. It is hard to believe it has been 8 years! We love you Thomas!

Happy 3rd Birthday Averi

I can’t believe that my baby is 3! {Her birthday was Dec. 4, I’m just behind}. Here is a sweet picture of her when she was so little and new. Time really does fly!

I love this picture of my 4 kids, It makes me realize how little Kaylee & Matthew still were when Averi was born! I really don’t know how I survived.

We let Averi open her presents from us in the morning before Jim and Thomas left for the day.

I love how happy she was with everything she got. She had fun all day playing with her new toys.

Averi is such a fun, spunky girl. She knows exactly what she wants and gets upset when she doesn’t get it. Even though she is difficult at times, I can’t imagine our life with out her.

I can’t believe how long her hair has gotten, last year she still didn’t have much!

She requested Wendy’s for dinner so Jim brought it home and we ate it before going  to the parade.

We had her party on Saturday, here’s the invitation I made for it.

She said she wanted a purple banner, so I threw one together with my stash of supplies.

She picked out princess cupcakes this year. She was so excited for them and couldn’t wait to go and pick them up.

We invited some of her church buddies, they were all busy, so it was family. She loves having all of her cousins around.

She was very serious while we were singing to her.

 

She had fun opening her presents from her cousins and grandparents.

It was a fun birthday party for our spunky girl!

We love you so much Averi Elizabeth! Happy 3rd birthday!!

Kaylee & Matthew are 5!!!

So I am really behind on my blog! This summer has been crazy! We moved at the beginning of August {to a different house, long story I’ll share later} so I have been busy packing and unpacking! We did an easy party for Kaylee and Matthew this year at our {old} neighborhood pool. I took my camera one day when we were swimming and got this great picture for the invitation.

I made the invitations in PSE and emailed them out. Their birthday snuck up on us! We invited family and a few friends.

It was the perfect day for a swim party. The kids had so much fun swimming with cousins, friends and Grandma DeVaux.

We got subs from Wal-Mart. They make amazing sandwiches and they are so good {and cheap}

It was so windy we couldn’t light the candles, so we just pretended to blow them out. The kids thought it was pretty funny!

We got cupcakes from Sam’s club-Kaylee picked out Princess & Matthew picked out Batman.

the kids loved the rings they got on their cupcake.

It was a fun birthday party! one of the easiest I’ve ever thrown.

On the morning of their birthday they opened their presents from us

and had their candles in their donuts.

We went to Chili’s earlier in the week for their birthday dinner. {we were moving into our new house, so their actual birthday was low key}

I can’t believe that they are 5 now! Weren’t they the cutest, little babies! They get to do one more year of preschool. The cutoff for kindergarten here in Arkansas is August 1, their birthday is August 2! Oh well.

We love you Kaylee and Matthew and so glad we have you in our family!!

Thomas is 7!!

Thomas turned 7 a couple of weeks ago. With all the busy Christmas stuff I haven’t blogged about it!  He opened his presents from us before  school.

Kaylee picked out this grabber for him.

Matthew & Averi got him a Lego Ninjago watch.

Jim & I got him a bow and arrow set. He was very excited about it.

Jim took him to breakfast before school.

I got to go have lunch with him at school. I picked up subway for lunch. He wanted a turkey and cheese sandwich with lettuce and 2 pickles.  It is always entertaining to eat lunch with 1st graders.

Thomas invited 3  friends over for a little birthday party on Saturday. It was a nice afternoon so they got to play outside for a while. They enjoyed trying out his new bow, playing a little soccer and tossing a football around.

His friends gave him some nice gifts, he was very excited about this Ninjago Lego set from Evan.

Thomas was very specific about what he wanted for dinner with is friends. We got Larry’s pizza, cheese and pepperoni, and he wanted a chocolate chip pizza for his cake. Easy for me!

This was the easiest cake I’ve ever done… Thanks Larry’s for a delicious birthday pizza.

After pizza the boys enjoyed some Mario Cart.

It was a fun birthday for Thomas. I can’t believe his is 7 years old. He is a great kid and we are so proud of the good boy he is! We LOVE you Thomas!