Just Catchin up

Well the last month has been crazy busy. We had Tyler's birthday party, family visits, and lots and lots of getting ready for daddy to leave. Brian was able to have almost a week off before he left so he and the boys went to Jackson for my brother-in-law's birthday, I was going to go but woke up REALLY sick that morning so didn't go. I'm sure I caught it from Tyler who had been sick the day before, or Connor who had it the day before that. We tried to do something fun (for the boys) as often as possible before Brian left so we ate at Arctic Circle a lot, went to the parks, and of course went shopping to get just the right present for daddy to give the boys before he left. Which if you could guess was batman pajamas, like with capes and everything, which of course they love and want to sleep in EVERY night.

We took Brian down to the hotel in Salt Lake because it was conference weekend and all the flights the army tried to get him on for days surrounding the day he was supposed to be there were booked. We stopped to get some envelopes and saw the weirdest looking he/she clerk I've ever seen, Tyler just kept staring at her (I think it was a guy who really wanted to be a girl). Yeah interesting. Luckily my brother in law needed a ride home from the airport the same day Brian needed to be in Salt Lake so I didn't have to drive home since it was snowing part of the way.

It's been 10 days since he left and the boys keep asking when he'll be back. Tyler keeps asking how long 10 weeks can really take but they both really liked talking to him while he was processing last week and had phone privileges. He is supposed to be sending us letters so we can have his address soon so they can write to him. Tyler has been practicing his letters so he will be able to write a letter to daddy as soon as we get his address.

Well I am in the process of making Sugar cookies and the dough is cold so I'd better go start rolling them out or I'll never get done baking today...

Tyler's Birthday

Well I know this is really late but better late than never right? Tyler had his birthday party a couple weeks early so that Brian could be here for it. It worked out well because my brother and his family were here that weekend for a family sealing so we had even more cousins here for it than we had thought we would.

Tyler wanted a Batman birthday and once again, not a store around here carried anything Batman Birthday but the cake. So after a little on-line hunting we were able to get the decorations. We made houre derv's (or how ever you say the snacks you eat before dinner) and that's all we ate but since the party was at 3 in the afternoon it worked out well.

Here are a few of the many pictures we took...

Tyler playing with his new cars

So funny story, we bought cool star candles for the cake but the wicks were totally burnt off before we even got it to him to blow out and so he is supposed to look like he is blowing out the candles

The cars he is playing with in the above picture


The cool Batman blanket from his cousins, he LOVES it.

Once again thanks goes to Broulims for making a cool themed cake, because well I am not any good at cake decorating.

We had a lot of fun and had lots of family come that somehow only ended up in the back ground of the pictures.

For Tyler's real birthday we made goody bags for him to take to his friends at preschool. They were a big hit and we got lots of compliments, thanks Dollar Tree :) his teachers made him a crown with candy on it, which i did get a picture off but with my phone and the cord to my phone is at our house in Jackson. But believe me it was cute.