Happy Birthday, Tyler!

As I am slowly getting caught up I wanted to tell Tyler Happy Birthday! I can't believe you are 4 years old now! I will put a blog in time about the events of his birthday and how grateful I am to be his mom and have him as a son. I am VERY lucky! Happy Birthday, Son!

Lincoln's Birthday Party Back In November

Hey Everyone... slowly I am getting caught up from the months of delay with all I had on my plate. So, now we are at Lincoln's year mark! (November 8th).

First lets show the comparison of my three boys growth at 1 year.

12 MONTHS:
PARKER:
19 lbs 3 oz (7th percentile)
29.25 inches long (40th percentile)
47 cm (60th percentile)

TYLER:
17 lbs 9 oz (-10th? (who knows) percentile)
29 inches long (25th percentile)
45 cm (15th percentile)

LINCOLN:
18 lbs 12 oz (5th percentile)
29.5 inches long (45th percentile)
46 cm (40th percentile)

It is fun to see the comparison of my skinny kids :D.

Now onto his birthday party!

Here is his birthday invitation for Lincoln's "Block" Party!:


Here is his cake.

I learned a lot from this cake.
1. Give yourself more time.
2. Frosting a cut cake is not easy. I definitely didn't do a great job on that. About 2 weeks later we had a Relief Society activity and part of it was cake decorating. I learned you need to do a crumb layer first before putting on the real layer. Ok, nice... would have been nice to know that two weeks before, LOL.
3. Decorating a cake with a one year old wanting to be held doesn't make it easy.
4. Make sure you have enough frosting to frost your cake or it is a lot harder.
5. Make sure your board is big enough or you have to be more creative on how to position the cakes, LOL.

Here are photographs from his party:

Because the theme was shapes the kids all decorated their treat bags with shapes.


The kids then decorated the sidewalk, using shapes.


Next we had two teams race to build the biggest tower they could with shapes.


The goal of the "square" beanbag toss was to get as many in as they could and win a prize.


Now it was time to open presents.



Lincoln was getting tired... partied out! Gotta have your favorite "B" and your daddy to cuddle.

Cake time! I think being tired and having the cake be as big as his head made for a not so eventful cake eating for Lincoln. He didn't eat much of it that was for sure.





Lincoln loves ballons! We love how long the high float lasts! Joy for weeks!



Happy Birthday, Linkers! We love you soooooooooooo much!!!

Way Far Behind: Catching Up - Halloween

I am so far behind... it has been a hectic few months. Hopefully I can get caught up. I will start back where I ended off and work my way through the months to tell you what has been going on in our family. I guess the next update is Halloween, hahaha. Here I go:

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Parker only had one Halloween. He was in the NICU at PCMC on his first Halloween when he was 3 days old. When he was 3 days shy of turning 1 he had his first and only Halloween. Toran and Erin let us use a scarecrow costume for Parker. Because of the events that followed in Parker's death Toran and Erin graciously gave us the scarecrow costume. We have had Tyler and now Lincoln be the scarecrow on their first Halloween. Here is a three "generation" scarecrow as well as other photographs from Halloween 2009 (click on image to enlarge).


Parker just turned 1. Tyler was about 8 1/2 months old. Lincoln is about 2 weeks shy of being 1.

Since Lincoln was a scarecrow Tyler was a Tin Man. Also my twin sister, Lori, had her kids Ami as Dorothy and Enoch as the Lion. It was fun to have the Wizard of Oz crew. Here are some other pics of the Halloween parties and Halloween Day. Enjoy!

These photographs are from my Dad's work Halloween Party:

Here is a play-by-play of Lincoln at the bean bag toss game at my dads work halloween party. I thought it was hilarious and cute. Click on the image to enlarge it if you want.



Here is Tyler and his cousin Ammon doing the candy walk. I wish I counted how many times Tyler did this! Around and around and around he went...


Look I am in a photograph! My kids have a mom! This is evidence, hahaha. I am usually the one taking photographs so it is cool to be in some sometimes.




Here is Tyler with his cousins witch hat on.


Here is Lincoln with his cousin Emma.




Our neighbors invited us to go on a train ride that is in their parents neighborhood. It was hard to get photographs... but here is me with my boys:


Here are photographs from our Ward Halloween Party:






Here are photographs from Halloween Day.
We lost Tyler's hat... we found it weeks later. He was sad to not have it when he went Trick or Treating... alas:

Tyler is ready to knock in advance... cocked and ready!



Here is out Wizard of Oz Crew: Enoch: Lion; Ami: Dorothy; Lincoln: Scarecrow; Tyler: Tin Man.



We hope you had a Happy Halloween!