Happy First Birthday little baby

Tonight we celebrated Aiden's FIRST Birthday. I can't believe how fast the year has gone by. I can remember the day he was born so vividly, like it was yesterday. It seems like as I get older the time goes by much quicker.. maybe because it makes me terribly sad that my boys are growing older. I have felt very sad the last few days knowing that this is it... no more FIRST birthday parties. But, I have to keep perspective, there will be lots more firsts for my kids. It's been hard knowing that I am not going to have any more kids. I have been trying to talk Jared into getting his vasectomy reversed, but he's not going for it.
We had some family over tonight for pizza and cake. I feel bad, the last two kids we had big parties for their first birthday, poor Aiden. Oh well, I am sure he won't be deprived of anything. He loved eating his birthday cake. He actually threw a fit when I took it away from him finally. I think he would have eaten the entire piece, but I actually wanted him to sleep tonight. We are going to California in the morning and taking the kids to Disneyland and California Adventure.
Aiden is such a sweet little boy. He has the most amazing little smile. I don't capture it on camera very much because he smiles for me, but then when the red flash light on my camera goes on, he stops smiling and just glares at the camera. He has started to show his personality traits more. He actually has started throwing fits too. He gets very angry at his brothers or parents when we take something away from him. He throws himself down on the ground or arches his back and screams. Its kind of cute though.
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY AIDEN. We love you!

Aiden wasn't remotely intersted in his presents. As you can see, he is actually holding my bottle of water. That is ALL he wanted to play with.

Grandma Kathy and Auntie Dani holding Aiden.

MMM Cake...

He devoured the birthday cake.

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday!

This picture was actually taken in our trailer last week, but this is the glare he gives me most of the time when I try to take his picture.

At the Halloween party last week. He sat in his bouncy chair for over an hour just watching all the kids.

Happy Late Halloween

Its been a crazy few weeks at our house... I've been working a lot, and we went out of town last weekend camping in Zion. I will post those pictures later. I wanted to post a few Halloween time pictures. Better late than never!


Aiden as a scary dinosaur..

Halloween night, our friends that we went trick-or-treating with.

Matt and his new girlfriend Camryn. She lives in our neighborhood and is in his kindergarten class.

Some of our friends that came to our house for our kiddy Halloween party! We sure had fun, thanks to everyone that came over.

Matt and Zach dressed up for Matt's school harvest festival!

Zach touching a scary pirate something...

Matt riding a pony at the Pumpkin patch.

To be so CAREFREE

As you may have gathered from my prior posts, I have my hands full with three boys! Wonderful boys they are, but still there are three. They keep me BUSY, but also keep me laughing at the constantly funny things they do. Last week Matt and Zach were out in the back yard playing. It was a warm day so they decided to turn on the hose and spray each other down. Just a quick spray turned into them both being soaking wet. I had to go out and turn the hose off and told them to take their wet clothes off. As they were taking their clothes off I went to get them a towel. When I got back I found them swinging naked on the swingset. Of course I couldn't resist grabbing the camera and taking a few discreet shots of them. Oh to be young and carefree!

Tribute

My grandfather Maynard M Dye passed away last night. He had a long battle with prostate cancer which spread to his spine and other bones. He was 84 years old. He was a wonderful man who lived a long life and was blessed with 4 amazing sons, 16 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. He and my grandmother were married for 63 years!! My grandma had several stokes over the last 8 years, and he took amazing care of her, never wanting her to end up in a nursing home. I think held on for so long because he was so worried about her and didn't want her to be alone. Last night, as he lay in the hospice bed, she was at his side and took his hands and told him it was okay to die. She told him that she would be well taken care of by her sons, (and daughter in-laws) and that she loved him. He passed away about an hour later. He was a great example of a giver to take such good care of her. He will be greatly missed.

This is what I found......

So I taught Matt a few days ago how to use the camera because he wanted to take some pictures of Aiden. Well, today I wanted to take a picture of Aiden eating, and turned the camera on, took some pictures and started going through old pictures. I came across these wonderful pictures of my son's bums. I called Matt into the room and he told me that he and Zachary had been taking pictures of each other. NICE!

Notice the gray tooth... Matt hit the tooth on my brother Jared's head a few weeks ago. We just noticed it started to change colors... has trauma to it. So tomorrow Matthew gets to have the tooth pulled out.

Oh My dear BOYS!!

Aiden 10 Months Strong

I feel like I don't post much about Aiden so I wanted to have a seperate post just for him. Yesterday he was 10 months old. The kid is a "chunk" as he is called by his brothers and dad. He is wearing size 18 month clothes, and a size 4 diaper. I just recently weighed him and he was almost 24 pounds. Zachary, who is 4, only weighs 35 pounds. He is a delightful baby, cries only when he is being ignored, hungry, or tired. He has started to stand up next to furniture and walks along the sides. He does the "army crawl", and moves around like a speed racer.

This was a Halloween costume that both Matt, and Zach wore. So, I thought well Aiden should wear for his first Halloween. It's a 12 month size costume, and when we put it on him, this is what he looked like.. Capris.

This is what we call his "ugly face". I love it!

Been Busy

I haven't posted in a while.. I do have pictures I want to post of both Matthew and Zachary on their first day's of school. Matthew started Kindergarten, and Zach is now in "Pre-K". We are all doing well.. I have been crazy busy with getting kids to and from school, working, keeping up on the house (for those of you that have been to my house and know how much tile I have, I scrubbed on my hands and knees, the grout last weekend on all the tile in the house) and I just started my first Biology class towards "maybe" going to nursing school. I have been a little discouraged about going back to school because I met with a school counselor and I have to take Speech 101, don't know WHY i need that, I was a teacher for crying out loud. I also need to take another Math class, and possible retake Psychology 101. I already took that class my very first semester of college, but got a C, so I might need to retake it for an A. Plus I have another THREE BIO classes to take before I can get into the program. Anyways, I just don't know now if I want to devote all this time, and money, towards nursing when I already have a degree, and could go back to teaching. The last week taking Matt to and from school has really made me miss being a teacher, and reminded my why I went into teaching to begin with.. not for the money, but for the kids. I figure I will finish this BIO class and see what I think after Christmas.