Random October

This is Isaac's new favorite "say cheese" face.  Seriously?!?

This one is exactly the kind of girl I would have ordered if I could have.  Spunky, sassy, fiesty, snuggly, sweet, and all girl and all fighter at the same time.  She wants to be the princess in her dress and shoes and accessories and she also wants her mask and weapons to defend.  Best girl ever!

Baby Stella won't sleep without being held?  Mom needs to do the dishes and babysit at the same time?  Ethan to the rescue.  Can't change a diaper but her can put a swaddled baby to sleep like a champ.

BYU game with the Winfree cousins.

Lazy Sunday afternoon?  Mom needs a nap and tells us all we have to read?  Teddy is the perfect pillow for all 3 of us.

U of U game with the padres.

And when we're tired of watching it drag on and on, we go eat treats.

Isaac officially has his badger badge.  I mean bobcat.  Ooops.

Learned to blow kisses like a cheeseball.

Destroying moms newly made bed like a champ.

Dad's new tradition:  family movie time on lazy Sunday afternoons.  Classics only of course.

I wanna be just like my big brothers.

Miles is 6!

The only request for his birthday this year was a giant bear like grandpa-great's George.  Luckily Costco has already started their Christmas toys and they had this lovely guy.  Done!

What better to sit on when opening present?

All I wanted.

And then it was on to Kindergarten for a normal day except that Mom and Isla got to bring in treats.

And just to make it the best birthday EVER there was a Real Soccer game on your birthday and you got to go with just Grams and Grandpa who of course spoiled you at the team store with a new jersey and ball.

And you passed out on the way home.  Good day.

A Minecraft Birthday Party

So I may have been a little crazy but these invitations I found on Pinterest were just to easy and too perfect for Miles' minecraft themed 6th Birthday Party.

Here they all are.  Don't they look like the real game?

And then to go along with the theme, we collected a bunch of empty moving boxes from Grandpa-great so we could do our own building.

The requested "cake" turned out great.  Truthfully not a cake since that'd be impossible to do little bricks without going crazy from crumbs.  So instead it's little rice krispie squares and brownie squares covered in frostings.

Come in if you dare!

The enderman welcomes you.

To start off the party we had the boys build their houses with our boxes.

Then we turned off all the lights for night time (not very effective on a sunny Saturday afternoon) and dad the Creeper came to attack.  Isaac explains this to me since I know nothing of the game.  He could be a zombie or skeleton if he was just attacking at night but because he's breaking the blocks then he's a Creeper.  Okay.

Time to rebuild.

Oh no!  Another creeper attack.

Oh no!  One more attack and this time from the outside door we all just assumed was locked so no boxes had to be broken down.  Can you imagine the mass screaming of little boys (sounded just like little girls).   Lots of screaming and running away!

Then it was on to calmer games (cause mom can only stand so much screaming).  Carnival style creeper beanbag game.

Pin the tail on the minecraft pig.

And finally time for cake since we need to refuel.

"sink your face in hot lava"

And since potions are apparently a "major" part of the game we had to make potions with water bottles and koolaid packets.

Then on to bingo.

And present opening of course.

And for the biggest potion of all...

Dad added mentos to bottles of coke and the boys got a great exploding show.