Brycen's 10th Birthday

My little guy turned 10 this year 

He loves to dunk oreos in milk

A new Bike!!

A Basketball is always a favorite too

Brycen you are the best kid ever!   Such a happy, easy-going boy.  

We love him forever!       

Happy Birthday Elder Soutas!

Today our missionary son, Elder Benjamin Soutas is 21!!   We love him so much and we miss him as he is serving the people in Portugal.  We are excited that he is coming home this year!! (July)

Here is a small package I sent to him.  We can't send much and this small package cost $58 to send - far more than what the contents are worth - but missionary packages are worth it!

Here are pictures that he sent back of his birthday

 chocolate salame

Kaitlyn turns 12

It's an exciting Birthday for Kaitlyn.  She is 12 years old.  The magic of this special birthday is graduation from Primary and moving into Young Women's.  She is a cute beehive.  She has also
looked forward to go to the Temple.  We are so proud that she decided that she wanted to spend
part of her birthday at the Temple!

We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple and baptized some family names: Angell (see post)

 her new favorite face for pictures

I made her a Raspberry pisachio cheesecake :)

 Favorite frozen Menchies on a cold winter day

Kaitlyn Noelle is our Christmas Baby

Ty's 18th

And just like that he became an adult!  I can't believe I am the mother of 3 adult sons!  
Believe me when I say...your children grow up just way too fast!

We celebrated as we always have.  With a family halloween birthday party and then going out to dinner on Nov. 1st 

Other cousin birthdays: McKay, Matthew and Andrew

BYU Party

On Friday I had a belated Birthday Party for Brycen.    I was feeling guilty about not having a friends party for him, because he never had one last year either.  I asked him  if he was OK that we didn't have a party or if he wished he had one and he started to cry....I then knew he really wanted one, he is just not a demanding child at all.  When it's Kaitlyn's birthday she will ask me 100 times when we are going to have a party, but he never really brought it up, so I'm glad I did so I could know how he really feels.

A BYU party is hard to beat

We had a fun party at the park.  I cooked hot dogs like a tail gate party, I went to BYU creamery when I was down at Kelly's for my braces this week and got some Lavell's vanilla ice cream and Jimmer Crunch chocolate icecream.

  I made some BYU brownies and the boys just played some football, bball and soccer since this was one of the first real warm days this year.  It turned out great 

One of Brycen's favorite presents:

Brycen is 9

We celebrated Brycen's birthday in the morning with French Toast and Buttermilk syrup and a candle to blow out!

He really wanted a download of MineCraft (he spends way to much time playing it thought) :)
and he wanted a glow in the dark nerf basketball hoop.  So he got his wish

Later we went out to celebrate at Texas Roadhouse

Cousin Party

We love our Brycen Bear!