Happy Birthday Cory!

Cory is a simple guy who doesn't like a lot of attention, especially on his birthday.  I tried

to have Boston print out a note for him while i was at the Hospital with Ivy, and reminded

him to have all the kids write a cute letter to their daddy. 

Boston was AWESOME!!  He made him the absolute cutest card and letter and had

the kids all sign it. He made his birthday special even though the circumstances. He's 

such an awesome young man.  Plus he knew how much i love to celebrate everyone's 

birthday, especially their dad!  

Cory is seriously such an amazing dad and husband.  My kids are blessed

beyond measure to have him as example to follow and to look up too.  HE has set the bar extremely high for my girls, which makes my heart extremely full!  He is our Rock!  

I love how much they love and adore him.    

xxoo 

Olivia's "9th" birthday {cake boss style}

It's always a bit crazy around the holidays for me, with the twins birthday's and Cory's too.  

But it was well worth the stress this holiday season, especially after the hospital trauma 

of our sweet little ivy!  This beautiful daughter of mine needed to celebrate and enjoy a fun party with her besties.  

I had made the Aprons  & chef hats around thanksgiving time with the help of my sweet girl when we knew she wanted to do the "Cake Boss" theme and they turned out super super cute!

This party was so much fun, and i had the greatest helpers ever to help me.  The girls arrived and got their chef hats and aprons on and then started decorating with cupcake liners a cute flower to put on their hats. Then we started decorating away, with fondant, beads, all sorts of colors of frosting, and toppings.  I had the greatest helper, Chelsea, who was olivia's primary teacher and an amazing baker help with fondant and showing the girls how to make flowers with icing, etc.  She was AMAZING!

the girls had the cutest cakes, and they really used a lot of creativity.  

they loved taking home their cakes! 

Hayes' 9th birthday party... {minecraft style}

Hayes was more than thrilled to have the Game Truck come to our house for his party!! 

This truck was so awesome, It was so clean, supervised the whole time and they 

all had SO much fun!!  

They all arrived about 30 min before the truck arrived and we did a backwards party and opened presents, and ate Pizza and cake before heading into the game truck!!

eeazy peezy party and well worth the smile on that face! 

xxoo

Happy Halloween & Birthday!!

it's my last year in my thirties!! yikes!!  

I absolutley LOVE having my birthday on Halloween!  It is so fun for my kids too.  

It is definitely the busiest day EVER, but so much fun.  

we started off the morning getting kids off to school in costumes, I went to Crossfit

 dressed up in my first costume for the day, a Red Sox fan!  Then ate lunch 

at Cafe Rio with my sisters! My sister Rachel came down from Idaho for the weekend

and I LOVED having her here.  After birthday lunch they met me at the kids

School for the Parade and then Class Party.

I make the Witches Brew every year in their class and they LOVE it! It's my favorite

thing to do,  Ivy was my cute little witchy helper. ha!

the kids LOVE it!

After school we had my sisters and their kids and my nephew and niece who 

are here at BYU come and eat some Soup in bread bowls and cupcakes

 before we sent the kids out to trick or treat! 

It was a perfect night for trick or treating... always fun to see all the kids dressed up 

in costumes.  

the night ended with an extra scare to the Haunted Forest with the older cousins... ugh!

Rex Kwon Doe!

  

olivia and her bff Tessa match eachother every year.  It's so cute!!

**** Class Party****

Witches Brew with the twins class, they LOVE this...

*** Ivy's pre school party the day before***

we played a fun game called "don't eat the Monster" and decorated cookies!

pictures before they head out for Trick or Treating!!

 Brody and Hayes were so cute this year... Loved how they matched for Mario & Luigi!

ha!  My nephew Garrett loves mario brothers! 

Mindy made a yummy Clam Chowder that we ate before heading out... along with the Sweet 

Tooth fairy cupcakes! yummy!!

The cousins!

birthday lunch!

lately we like to do birthday hikes instead of birthday lunches! Ha! 

Jenn was here from Hawaii and we were planning to go to the P!NK concert for my bday and 

then Pink cancelled her concert! ugh!  instead we had a fun time at "Thriller." 

The weather was beautiful and Jenn was dying to see the fall leaves and color in the mountains

so we went on a fun hike up south fork then met the girls at "tortilla bar" for lunch.  

It was delicious! 

love these girls and so grateful to have such good friends! 

and of course we had to bring our dogs... ha!

Ivy turns 5! {cowgirl style}

My baby girl is now 5!  She was so excited to do a cowgirl party!  She couldn't wait to 

ride pony's with her cute friends.   

she has been into American Girl dolls and wanted Saige for her birthday.  Saige loves to ride

horses and also is an artist.  Ivy said "mom that's just like me!" haha!!  

Love my cute little cowgirl.

We loved celebrating Ivy with pony rides and sack races.  The kids ate a light lunch of 

Grilled cheese sandwiches, carrots and ranch, grapes, chips & Root Beer.  

They all took turn on the two horses that my neighbor brought over.  

Penny and Magic were beautiful horses and I'm so grateful there were 

no soccer games in the park behind my house, and it didn't rain!! 

  It made for an absolutely beautiful day for 

a party!

My friend Stacia made this darling cake, it was so delicious too!

  

My cute little helpers during the party!

Her birthday was the following monday, so of course we had our tradition of waking up to a crepe breakfast before the kids were off to school.  She got to open her presents and loved every minute of it! 

Some of ivy's favorites... 

 ~She loves to whistle

                                                  ~has to kiss daddy & me 100 x a day {i secretly love that part}

~loves to play with her friends ALL day!

~is really good at coloring

~chocolate milk sippies 

~loves to do jobs, and is a great little helper

~'sofia the first'

~playing minecraft with hayes

she has the most infectious laugh and giggle, i die over her dimples!  She is a bit bossy but is 

a leader amongst her friends, so i guess thats a good thing, {wink}   

she has the cutest sayings that we love to repeat and we all laugh with her! 

then we brought pink sprinkled krispy kreme's to school for all of her friends.  

She had a fun filled day!