Kaleb's Birthday and More!

Kaleb's birthday was last month and this year he wanted a hot wheel's party and wanted friends to come. (He had been talking for months about having a hot wheel's party) Anyway, here is his hot wheels party! He had a blast with all his friends! Thanks everyone for coming!

All the kids waiting for their turn to hit the pinata.

I'm not sure how Kaleb ended up not sitting next to the cake! hahaha!

Kaleb's "Hotwheel cake!" I cheated and bought a car mold.

Kaleb showing us how old he is! I had to use a ton of food coloring to get the blue that blue that the next day you can guess what color Kaleb's poop was! (He had to show us.)

Kaleb had another get together with our family at my mom's house that Sunday. Thanks for having us over and for the present!


So on Sunday I was trying to get everyone in the car when Kaleb comes to me smiling. . . I think he is missing Mitch's mustache and beard!


One of the reasons I haven't posted in quite a while is that our computer got a virus and had to be taken in to get repaired. It was gone for two week! When we got it back, the company gives an invoice along with upgrades they suggest. He listed one thing only which surprised me. . . until I read it. "Get a new computer!" hahaha Anway, I had extra time because I didn't have a computer to do my work (so nice!) so I spent some time teaching Kaleb how to play "Settlers of Catan!" He's gotten pretty good! He never does what I tell him to do. All he wants to do is buy "mystery" cards and guess what! He has won 3 out of 4 times that we've played with him!I made the board smaller and play to only 7 points to try to make the game go faster, but Kaleb was really upset when he won! He wanted to play longer! Notice all the development cards he has!

Here is a picture of Kaleb's and Kayden's new room! They are using the same bunk bed that my sister,Andrea, and I used when we were kids!

We are making his bedroom into a beach theme room. Mitch's sister's family gave us some awesome decoration straight from Hawaii for Christmas. I still need to put them up!

Talk about random pictures, eh!

Life in a Nutshell

Where to begin. . . Is it already January?!?

RECAP:
Halloween was fun--Kaleb was Iron Man and Kayden was a monkey. We went trick-or-treating at Mitch's work & the mall! Thought we'd stop by on the way home to check something out and were surprised that even grownups were trick-or-treating there. If you want to see some crazy outfits, this is the place to go! We were going to do some more trick-or-treating but Kayden fell asleep so that was the end.

We passed final inspections the day before Halloween and moved in the following Saturday--THANK YOU so MUCH to all of those who helped us move in. We are excited to be out of my mom's basement and living near my little sister. . . I'm not too sure if she is excited though! :) We are also in the same ward and visiting teaching companions.

Between moving in, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, my birthday(thanks to the birthday emails and calls!), and many other family birthday's, we were still able to find time to get away. We were able to go to two weddings in Mesa--my cousins and my husband's cousin's daughter! Both happened to be in the same city and just a day apart. We also were able to spend time with my family, and Mitch's family for Christmas--Thank you Shan & Dave for having us over! We were also able to get away for our anniversary which is just 3 days before Christmas--thanks Ciara for babysitting!
The weather in Mesa was so nice. Swimming in November. . .


During the month of November, Mitch's work had a mustache contest for prostate cancer awareness. He was super faithful to that mustache--he didn't even shave for the weddings! :( I'm sure our new ward thought Mitch was a little weird. . . or an ex-convict.



Well that's been our life in a nutshell! Hope you all had a Merry Chrismtas and a happy New Year's!