A Blissful Busy Boy Birthday

Ahhh... I feel the days of no birthday parties quickly coming to an end. Sometime in the next few years my children will start requesting and then stomping their little feet to have birthday parties at Chuck-E-Cheese, Bouncer Town or insisting that their entire third grade class come to a Spiderman party at our house. So, for now, while they don't know any better and don't have TV to help them to know better, we will enjoy living in this blissfully ignorant state of the no-birthday-party land. I fully plan to take advantage of the time when family birthday parties and homemade birthday cakes are gladly accepted and welcomed.

For the little guy who just turned 3, we let him make the decisions on his birthday.

We went to the Children's Museum:

We checked out the new Superhero exhibit which was pretty awesome. Here we have a very muscley Superman and a Batman meets Captain America. We weren't the only ones who thought that was funny. I only posted this picture for the girl in the background. Why can't I get my kids to post like that? The other really cool thing they had at this exhibit was a real Bat Mobile. There have been four BatMobiles made and one of them is at the museum right now. Each BatMobile cost 250,000 each! We played with dinosaurs...We dug for fossils...
We made it home in time for a nap and the highly anticipated orange T-Rex cake. Sadly, it's more yellow than orange because I ran out of food coloring (orange is Search's beloved color). After the boys ate the only part of their cake they liked, the frosting, the little dinosaurs were there to "help" finish the rest. Those dang dinosaurs jabbed their tails and snouts into the cake spreading it all over the plate, table and the floor. Clean up was sooooo much fun!
Search got some GeoTrax for his birthday which is exceeded all expectations in toy-usage. It has met all requirements for a high toy rating by the number of time-outs for hitting, the number of times the trains have been taken away for yelling at each other. All because the boys both love this new toy and haven't figured out how to share it yet. He got this present from his grandparents and great-grandparents (GeoTrax are a bit spendy). Thanks!

Happy Birthday Little Man

Search is three today! OK, well, tomorrow really, but it's 11:19 pm. I knew I wouldn't have time to post tomorrow so I figured I would do it now! Tomorrow is Search's day to do whatever he wants. So we are first going to a primary activity (that one's not his choice), then to the Children's museum, then swimming. Somewhere in there he'll get his long awaited orange T-Rex cake. Not only has he been given free reign for tomorrow's activities, but he also gets to eat whatever he wants for meals. Tomorrow's breakfast forecast looks like hot dogs with a chance of chicken. We'll see how the rest of the day goes!

BIRTHDAY 5/17/05:

How's that for hair???

FIRST BIRTHDAY:

SECOND BIRTHDAY:

Stay posted for more pictures!

Happy Birthday, Brookie Cookie!

WARNING: If you don't know Brooke Hinckley, this might be a little boring for you. But the pictures are priceless so do take a peek!

Wow, freshman year of college was a LIFETIME ago. I was one of the lucky kids who wasn't quite smart enough to go to fall semester at the Y unless I went for summer term too. So, I did. I was so scared to go because I didn't know anyone and I didn't know any of the roommates that I would be stuck with. Well, summer term was when I met Brooke and Mica. It was the most fun that I ever had in one semester at the Y. The three of us are still good friends to this day... we're just spread across the country!

So, I actually don't have any pictures from our first summer semester because they are all put together in a cute little scrapbook. And I didn't feel like scanning the entire thing. So here are a few from sophomore year when we lived in the Glenhole. I mean the Glenwood, sorry.

Girls take pictures of the dumbest things. Like our feet. But, we had good reason... they are all different colors! This was the summer that I was a lifeguard at Seven Peaks so I was as brown as I'll ever be in my life. Brooke is well, probably the same as she'll always be :) She's in the middle. Mica is on the left, the nice natural olive colored feet. Brooke and I were always jealous.

Brooke, our roommate Alyssa, and me.
Ahhh... the road trips. This one was up to Brandon's house in Idaho. Doesn't he look thrilled to have us? He's the tall guy. Well, I had fun anyways, especially when I fell off a horse after he got his foot stuck in barbed wire. Brandon wasn't too happy with me about that. Don is on the right. What ever happened to that guy? Or Brandon for that matter?Going to Brooke's house in Snowflake. Remember the wild horse standing in the middle of the highway on the scary Indian Reservation, Brooke? Like I said, girls take pictures of the strangest things. But, I'm glad we did because now I have something funny to post about.Me, Jaden (sp?) and Brooke. The lucky little fellow is Brooke's nephew. Ah, this was fun. I think we had a ward talent show, and it just so happened that Alyssa was a fantastic dancer and choreographer. So, she put together a pretty good song mix including "I Like Big Butts (where we naturally stuffed our behinds with pillows and shook it), the love song from The Little Mermaid and that one song where two women are fighting over some guy. What was that song again? That was the part Brooke and I got to do. Brooke has always been fabulous at lip-syncing. Here we are doing the country song part of the mix. What were the other songs on there, Brooke? Why didn't we TAPE IT? We performed it with the guys that we hung out with: James, Brandon, Zach (well, Alyssa still hangs out with him every now and then :), Don and Mike (right?) Brooke and I fighting over our guy. Were we fighting over James?We probably got all gussied up to go to the grocery store. Don't worry,Brooke, I cropped it above your showing midriff.Another road trip to Southern Utah with Scott, Mike and Bryce. Sheesh, Mica and I are scandalous. Good thing you have sleeves on, Brooke. Hey, isn't that my shirt?Ben & Jerry's: our source of sanity (and the freshman 15:). We were freaking out to see a Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Shop in a mall in Vegas.She is no longer Brooke Jones, but Brooke Hinckley!
Mica, Brooke and I went to get pedicures right before her big day. My mom, Destroy (who was 15 months old) and I flew out for her wedding.
The BEAUTIFUL bride. I loved getting to come to your wedding!
The last picture we had together (No, that sounded bad. She didn't die :). We were out in Utah for spring break during Aaron's first year of med school. Destroy was 3-4 months old and Brooke had just gotten home from her mission in Missouri, right? I guess we didn't get any pictures together last time I saw you right after Ellee was born, huh?

She is and always will be one of my favorite people on the earth. She is SOOO sweet, can't say no to anyone and will do anything for you. My favorite part about her, though, is her unbeatable sense of humor. This girl could make me laugh for hours. Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to friends!

So here's a tribute to Mica and Lacey. They both had birthdays this last week... so I dug up some pretty good grub. Mica, I don't have a ton of pictures of you because most of them are in my scrapbook. I guess I could try scanning those in, but it might look odd. Lacey, I have tons of pictures of you because of high school and college (there are a lot in my scrapbook of you too :) Out to dinner. I think we were actually out at Brick Oven celebrating your birthdays! Lacey and I took a couple trips together right at the end of senior year. This one was to San Fran where we stayed with her Aunt and went to Great America. This picture is taken at the Golden Gate park. We rented a Surry but we kept calling it a Scurry. Remember that, Lace?

Here we are senior year with a whole bunch of other date-less girls at Homecoming, I think. No, it was not a disco dance. We just decided to make it one. Aren't we sexy?
This is the picture I was hoping to find of Lacey! We were on another senior trip, this time to the nice cold Oregon coast. We were riding with these two guys and we decided to play truth or dare on the way back. We made each other do weird things like put our toes in our mouths and crawl into the trunk while driving. I hope this doesn't embarrass you too much, Lace :)
Lacey was the only person I knew when I moved to Medford as a junior. She was a really good friend to me but I sadly ditched her when I started dating a guy. Sorry, Lace. look, Maria was there too!
On a family trip to Sunriver with my family senior year. Our friend Ethan came too but I think he was taking a nap. I guess we wore him out :) What ever happened to that guy?
Senior All Night!Brooke, Mica and me in Las Vegas. Did we go with Bryce and Mike that time? And Scott? I think that's when we went to Arches too. We were in love with Ben and Jerry's during college. Well, I'm sure we still are but probably consume it in moderation now. Right?

Here are me, Lacey, and her little sister Misty after playing football on thanksgiving. This was junior year in high school. Me, Lace, Mica and Ruthann on a trip up to Rexburg. I think.
Same trip to the coast. It was freezing and raining but we still went in the ocean.
Who knows when this was.
Senior pictures. You like our hats? My overalls?

Brooke, me, Mica. I think we were at Scott's family's time-share or something in St. George???
Brooke, Mica and I went to get pedicures/manicures right before Brooke got married.
Lacey, Mica, me, Ruthann, Katie skiing at Jackson Hole, right??? We went with the boys who lived in Rexburg too (Alex, Ethan, Josh, Jeff?) And I think Bryce and Brandon came too.

Anyways, that was a fun walk through memory lane! Thanks for being such great friends!

Happy Birthday to my Dearest Mother and Papa, too!

I love my mom. She is honestly the greatest mom in the whole world. The last person she thinks about is herself because she is always trying to make everyone else as comfortable and happy as possible. She's such a great example of serving others and putting others before yourself. She is also very creative, artistic, a great cook and fun to talk to on the phone. Which is all I get to do with her most of the time! Love you, Mom and we hope you have a great day! She's holding Wes at 2 months in this pic. You like the afro?
Happy Birthday to Papa, too! I love going to Papa's house because he and Amoo always grow amazing gardens with loads of yummy food. I leave their house with a full tummy of blueberries, carrots, onions, and whatever else is growing. He's very knowledgeable about mechanics so he can always answer my car questions. We wished we lived closer, but soon enough! Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday, Jordan!

After much searching I was able to find a couple of sweet pictures. Trust me, I had to pick and choose because there were some pretty good ones. But, Jordan, I didn't want to embarrass you! I scanned them and wallah! Here we are in college. We look so young! I guess two little boys gives you a few years, huh? Where were we in the second picture? I think that's my Dad's truck but I can't remember where we were. Snowbird?
Anyways, hope you had a great day! And a great year!
PS: Sorry it's a few days late!