7/26/13
Hobbson turned 1!
He is: so funny, incredibly ticklish, strawberry blonde, loves his sister to death and smiles SO big when she enters the room. He's said, Mama, dada, Hayee, Hi, NAN!!, all these a couple times but nothing is super consistent. Except NAN!!!
(I think that's what he calls me because he yells it right at me when he wants food/drink.)
He's a dang fast crawler and has only taken a couple steps 1-2 times, but not walking. He's got 8 teeth and teething about 8 more, not sure since he doesn't welcome my poking around in there. But his poor gums are swollen and tender.
(Nevermind my mess of hair...it's so annoying to see a picture with hair in your face,
you just keep wanting to brush it away)
Silly boy, wasn't sure what to think of the treat. He did like the whip cream frosting.
A few gifts, Mom and Dad were nice to come visit and celebrate with us. Since we knew they were coming we celebrated a day late. (hence the photo time stamp)
Naturally this is what he's interested in doing with new toys...
Funny since this is what Hayley did with her toys at about the same age...
(Yes, she is supporting herself, with no help)
7/30/13
Happy Birthday Skyler!!!
This was Skyler's "Golden Birthday" for those unfamiliar...it's when you turn the age of the date you were born. For Skyler it was 30yrs. on July 30th. Double reasons for celebrating since 30 is a big one.
I'd been planning this for awhile...
I arranged for a sitter, not one we usually use to make it look like I was running out of people to ask, and I said we only had 2 hours for dinner and travel time, since the sitter "had plans" afterwards. :)
In the weeks leading up, I had contacted probably 40 of his fellow co-workers, past friends, mission companions, siblings, scout leaders, anyone and everyone I could think of. Asking for memories, short stories, funny moments and sentiments that they love about Sky. I received quite a few and boy were some funny. It took all my might not to squeal the surprise.
Day of, I picked up 30 Gold balloons, printed the sentiments and tied one to each balloon. I made some map bunting since decorating for a mans' party isn't easy... a map themed bunting seemed to be a nice medium (and Sky loves maps.)
We got home from dinner and actually everyone was arguing about where to stand, his friends in the front, spouses in the back etc. It was funny. Then they saw us and were like, OH! SURPRISE!!
Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the Birthday boy on his special day, or of all the treats. :)
But I will note, there was Brownies, Homemade shortcakes w/lime-strawberries and cinn. whip, tuille cookies with homemade strawberry/watermelon sorbet and white cantaloup/pineapple sorbet.
(I was very happy with how everything turned out, and I do take special orders ;) )
Sky was very surprised. At the end of dinner he even asked me, "so what do you want to do when we get home?
To which I looked down and solemnly replied:
"oh nothing, maybe just put the kids to bed early and watch a show."
8/6/13
Happy Birthday Chelsea!
The day before my actual birthday, Skyler was able to take off work,
and he let me pick all the activities.
So we drove up to Heyburn State Park which is about an hour north of Pullman in a town called Plummer. We started with a picnic lunch (that was cut short because the bees this summer are seriously out of control!) then we rode bikes along the lake for awhile. It was beautiful, I hope we can go camping there sometime.
(Then since it had been hectic before all our birthday's hit, he took me shopping and let me pick out a few new things, including a pretty polka dot dress that I'm super excited about)
The next day on my actual birthday I celebrated by taking the kids to the WSU creamery, Ferdinand's, for my free birthday cone. I'm such a child, I know.
Then if that wasn't enough, Skyler treated me to dinner at Black Cypress.
And a brownie sundae of course since I'm not crazy about cake.
I'm so lucky.
So Happy Birthday to all of us, Hayley was a great sport in all of this considering her birthday was back in April. She was sweet.
