Preschool Birthday Celebration

Hayden's final 5th birthday celebration was on his first day back to preschool after Christmas break. He got to be the big helper for the day and boy was he excited! We were supposed to make a poster for Hayden telling his friends more about him. Well, I think Mommy went a little over board. OK, so maybe a lot over board.

Nate and I went shopping to find some things to put on his poster and when we got home a started laying everything out the big white poster didn't seem so big. I just couldn't leave any pictures out so we covered both sides of the poster. I think Teacher was probably thinking we were such dorks! Oh well, it turned out cute anyway and Hayden had a lot of fun telling his friends about the pictures we had used. In fact, Teacher asked me to tell the kids about it but Hayden took right over. It was pretty cute! I thought he was more shy but I guess when he is the shining star he coems right out of his shell.

Teacher and Hayden

Teacher was telling the class how special Hayden was and how she loves his big brown eyes and his big loves that he always wants to give her. Hayden is a very lovey boy!

One of my favorite parts of the poster! My Silly Monkey!

Our Big Helper

Hayden loves to help his Mom and Dad to anything and everything. This boy would rather do the dishes, mop the floor, or fold laundry than picking up his toys and cleaning his room. I really don't blame him because growing up I always thought it was so much more fun helping clean my friends houses than cleaning at home. It's funny to think about now that I am older.

I guess I better let Hayden help all that we can now because I am afraid the big willingness to help won't be here forever!

Mopping the floor for Mommy. Oh what fun! Mommy is one lucky girl!

Hayden seen a black mark on the pantry door and he thought he better use the bottle brush to scrub it off. Boy, what a great kiddo we have!!

Music to My Ears!

The most amazing sound is to hear my little miracles laughing!

I love tickling Bryn to hear her giggles and to have her laugh the hardest she has ever laughed. It is the cutest ever!

I love hearing Hayden burst out into laughter while watching a movie. Hearing his burst of laughter brings a huge smile to my face and even makes me start laughing too.

It's truly amazing how these two precious little laughs and giggles bring us so much joy and happiness in our lives. Once I hear these little giggles after a long chaotic hectic day it seems as though it has wiped it all away. This is what makes the world go around for me!

It's music to my ears!!

Happy Birthday "Little Chef"!

For Hayden’s special 5th birthday party we decided to have all his little friends join us for some cooking fun at Little Chefs Academy. Hayden has always loved helping out in the kitchen so I thought it would be great fun for him and his little buddies to cook their very own pizza all by themselves. We actually decided to have double the fun and have our favorite little cousin, Landen’s 5th birthday party together with Hayden’s. It only made sense since their birthdays are 7 days apart and they have almost the same guest list. Besides, who wouldn’t want to share their special day with one of their most special friends!

The party turned out fabulous! Hayden and Landen brought all their guests their very own apron with their name on it along with their very own pizza cutter with some gummy pizza candy. Everyone looked so cute in their little aprons!

The kids had a blast making their own pizza dough and learning about measuring. The Chef that was helping us was great with the kids and he made cooking a lot of fun! The pizza turned out pretty dang good too! All of our little chefs did an amazing job!



Happy Birthday to our special “Little Chefs”! We Love you!



Side Note: We got “Little Chef” from the movie Ratatouille. We have watched that movie a bazillion times and for some reason “Little Chef” sticks out in our minds so we are constantly calling Hayden that. He used to not like that we would say that but I don’t think he minds now. Hayden just prefers we call him Bubba!

Loftin and Hayden getting the pizza dough all ready for baking.


Hayden and Landen got to be the special birthday helpers of the day!

Although Hayden and Landen were the extra special chef helpers all of their guests got to help too!

All were pretty excited to take their turn, except for Trevor. He is our shy little buddy.

Kayson's turn...

Gage's turn...

Baylee's turn...

Loftin's turn...

Karrie's turn...

And Landen's turn.

While they were making up their pizza dough the Chef said it was a must that they put flour on their face. You know, like maybe one stripe of white flour under each eye like a football player would do with black. Well, Hayden thought he needede more! He had his face and everything around him covered!

And the finished product...Landen and his yummy pizza...


Karrie's yummy pizza

Rivers yummy pizza...

Gage, Baylee, and Kayson's yummy pizza

Hayden and Trevor's yummy pizza.

And the life of our party, Loftin with his yummy pizza. Loftin is no way shy and he is so stinkin' smart! He is always the life of our parties! We love having him around!

Landen chose to have a Batman Birthday so here he is with his cute Batman cupcake cake.

And Hayden of course wanted to have a Transformer birthday.