Aidan's Birthday Party and Trip Home!

The Boys and I took a trip home and celebrated Aidan's Birthday with Family and stayed a while to see everyone. Nate unfortunately had to stay home in Vernal and work. I came home to a nice clean house and lots of surpises which included some honey-do's finished! Thank you, Honey! I really appreciate all you did while we were gone! To me those kind of surpises are even better than getting a big expensive surprise like a trip or shopping or whatever. Thanks for showing us you care and missed us too!

Aidan on the Morning of his Birthday! Corbin was soooo excited to give him this cute little wheelbarrel and also to try it out himself. Both Boys were up bright and early probably just 'cause they were so excited! Aidan also got a big bucket of building blocks! He loves blocks and can play for hours just putting them together and taking them apart again....he also loves clean-up time with the blocks because he gets to throw the blocks into the bucket! Of course, as soon as we get them picked up it's time to dump them out again and start building!Aidan's Birthday Party was at Barnes Park in Kaysville. It's one of our favorite parks! It has playgrounds, ducks, walking trails, volleyball & basketball courts, and baseball fields....tons of fun stuff to do! Thank you for all our family that came to Aidan's party! We had lots of cousins, Grandparents, Great Grandma P., my Aunt LeAnn & Uncle Sonny, and my 3 Sister-in-laws(thanks for coming even without your hubbies), and brother Corbin. Aidan had a blast being the center of attention! I'm not sure he understood it was all for him, but I know he was sure having fun being in the spotlight!Happy Birthday, Aidan! We had to sing to him with no candles because silly Mom forgot to pack a match or lighter and no one else had anything either....duh Mom, what was I thinking?Here's C.J. at Grandma & Grandpa Haws's house drawing wonderful pictures of his family...he gave us all lots of hair( I think the finished one is Aidan and he's working on Grandpa).

I made them pose for me and they hate that. Every day they were doing something cute either by themselves or with cousins, but by the time I got back with the camera they usually had moved on to something new. So I didn't get a lot pictures of the fun things they were doing but I tried.Corbin and cousin Chloe jumping on the trampoline....one of their favorite things to do at Grandma's house! They wanted their swimsuites on and hardly got in the water because they were too busy jumping!While I went to a Dentist Appt. to see Dr. Haws, my Boys started a good water fight with Grandpa and Grandma. This is what I came home to. Isn't Grandpa cute?Aidan's just paying Grandpa back for squirting Corbin in the ear(above picture). They all were having a blast and had apparently been going at it for a few hours!

We had a wonderful time playing with all our Cousins and Grandparents. We also went to Logan and tried another attempt at fishing with Uncle Jerry, Aunt Katie and Chloe. But as usual we didn't catch anything even though we could see tons of fish in the water....they were even coming up and bumping our lines but not biteing. Thanks Jer, for being so patient with us...sorry for the bad luck we brought. Afterward we went to lunch and Willow Park. We had a Great Day! I went to see Mama Mia with my Best Friend Janae and then to lunch. We had soooo much fun and laughed all through the movie and a lot afterward too! We went as kind of a celebration of our coming up too soon 30th Birthdays....Yikes! It was another Great Day! Thanks Mom and Dad for giving us all your gift certificates for our fun day! Later I went to see Mama Mia again with My Mom, Katie and Aunts Ellen and LeAnn. We had another Great Time and could have went to see it again right after. It was so nice to have some girl outings, I don't get many in Vernal. We were really spoiled and I always had someone to watch my kids wether it was for Dentist appts. or girls outings. I love going home and being with family....it seems to slow things down for me and be more relaxed and peaceful....a lot less stressful than everyday life. Thanks again Mom and Dad for everything, Love You Both.....you are the Best! We miss everybody like crazy and you can all come visit us in Vernal any time!

I just wanted to thank Nate again for all he did for us while we were gone! I even got surprised with a Mama Mia soundtrack CD. He must have been listening at least a little bit as I gushed about how much fun I had seeing it and how much I loved the show! Love you, Honey!