Evelyn's birthday

When our kids turn 12, we throw them a big party.  After that, they are in charge of inviting and planning any birthday parties.  We just provided donuts, Evelyn invited some friends and they walked to the park and watched a movie.  I'm glad she has good friends. 

 

random tidbits

 

Ward fall party

Seth's robot. He builds fun stuff and the daycare kids always love what he's built.... but then he's sad when they break his stuff to build things themselves.  I told him that we could take a picture and then give them a chance to build cool things too.

Seth planned, shopped for and made bacon mac n cheese for dinner for us.   The first attempt didn't go well, but the second was delicious.

We went to Cristina's daughter's birthday party on Saturday.  Mia is 4 now.  She's not afraid of me any more and is so cute.

Mia

Instead of a birthday cake on his birthday, Seth asked to have ice cream at Farr's.  They have yummy ice cream and free games.  I loved the pinball machine, but it's not there anymore.  

For his birthday dinner, he wanted Ramen noodles... He's a cute noodle lover.

Our dwarf pear is so loaded this year!

My Mom's cousin (I think it was Deena Harding) painted this for Aunt Margaret for her birthday.  I love it.

The 4 biological Ellis siblings.  We missed taking a picture with Reid by just a minute, but he did come up for the Ellis Reunion.

Diane, Mark, Moana, Beth

Seth's birthday party

So we had Seth's birthday party on Saturday.  We were going to do it next Saturday, but my niece was saying that she was going to have her party next Saturday.... so we moved Seth's up a week.  It was fun.  Ada and I built him a volcano/dinosaur cake.  Seth drew it and we built it.

We played "triceratoss"

Seth had never had a pinata before.  I found a cute dinosaur one, but it didn't break very well.  No one seemed to mind though.

Ada and Devin were the pinata rope person... they had to give Sam a hard time.

Ada, Aubrey, Sam, Jack, Seth, Alex, Moana, Gabriel, Jordan, Peter, Rose, Evelyn, Jasmine

We went out to eat with the Wilcox's after the party.  That was fun.

 

Church Trunk or Treat

Ada also went to the Mult-Stake church dance.  She was a pirate.  I loved hearing how many friends from school she came across.  I love that even though most of her immediate friends are not really members, she can still find friends anytime and is not shy of church functions.

 

Bowling

When I asked Seth about an activity for his birthday, he said he wanted to go bowling.  I asked who he wanted to invite and he said Collin and Jack.  Jack is at his Dad's house on the weekends and his Dad never brings him to things like this, so we just invited Collin's whole family.  It was so fun.  Very relaxing not to have to organize a party.  And Seth said that he loved bowling.  I think it's the first time he's ever been.  Another plus is that Collin's family kind of lines up with ours.  Ada and Austin have been friends for years, Sam and Logan have been friends for a while and Seth and Collin have been friends since the beginning of kindergarten.  Added bonus on top of that.... I went to school with both the parents and was friends with the mom in High School.  They are a sweet family and even their oldest girl was fun to talk to while bowling.

Bowling was a little challenging for me.  Even though I'm a decent bowler, I couldn't slide my right foot to the side like you're supposed to.... when I tried to I hurt myself.

 

Seth Bear Lake Birthday

While we were at the Lake, my baby turned 6 years old.  He lost two more teeth at Bear Lake too.... for a total of 3 teeth in 8 days. Seth is a good reader, loves to wrestle, loves people... especially Mom, and is a good helper.  We went to shakes in Garden City, made a dutch oven soda cake, and did a treasure hunt with Joe and Jen's kids.  When it was done, Seth said, "This was the best birthday ever!"  I wrote out the map, but Jer was so cute and got up a little early to place clues and bury the treasure.

 

Grandma wanted to try smores with reeses peanut butter cups and fudge stripe cookies.  I think Ada's a fan.

Sam, Ada, Evelyn, Abigail, Clara

Alaina, Seth, Vivien  (not in the picture: Benji, Olivia, and Thea)

Seth found a clue to the treasure hunt.

Ada and Clara were super cute.  They wanted to have the babies included so they each grabbed one and chased after the crowd with babies in their arms.

Jer hid a clue on the raft.  They all raced for the boats.  Ada gave Seth a ride and let him bring the clue back to the shore for everyone.

These babies spent hours following each other around, sharing shells and rocks.  They were so cute.