Tytyn's 5th Birthday!!! (On May 6th)

I cannot believe that I have a 5 year old!!!!!! He will be starting school in a few short weeks and it definitely hasn't hit me yet. Where does the time go?!?!?! I am so truly grateful to be the Mother of these sweet boys! I LOVE being a Mom to boys, boys are just so much fun! Our house is always full of laughter, fart jokes and dirty faces, but I wouldn't trade it for anything! Tytyn had a really fun 5th Birthday. My Mom decided to drive down and surprise him and she brought my Aunt Delina along with her, we LOVED having them here! Tytyn was SO excited when he showed up to the house and walked in to see my Mom there! Thank you so much for coming, it was such a blast to have more women in the house to cook and chat with! Tytyn got to go to work with Tyrel all day so that I could get food ready, make the cake and wrap presents. Tyrel took him out to lunch, wherever he wanted to go, he chose Taco Bell ha ha! We had a little party with family and appreciate so much everyone who came and made Tytyn's day that much more special! Tytyn is such a huge blessing to our family! He was a surprise baby that God knew we needed for a lot of reasons! He helped me through a lot of really hard years and was always there by my side to give me one of his infectious smiles. He always seems to know when I need an extra hug and kiss and sometimes he's the one rubbing my back telling me it's ok and to just take a deep breath. He was my only child for 4 years and we did SO many fun things together. He made me a Mother and for that I will be eternally grateful! This kid is an awesome helper and a great big brother! He loves Halter so much and I love watching them play and just be silly together. We love you so much Tytyn and are so grateful you are a part of our family!

Five years old and feeling good!

This is my little buddy pal!

Isn't he the cutest!!!

One of the days my Mom and Delina were here I had a trip planned to take my scouts to the zoo, so they got to come along. It was nice to have a few extra hands! The 2 boys I have in scouts are  HANDFULLS (which is a HUGE understatement!) They have a little petting zoo where you can brush some goats, Tytyn thought that was pretty neat. 

I love my Aunt Delina, she is the best! She taught me how to make all sorts of new things while she was at my house. We made cinnamon raisin bread, tortillas and pocket bread. She is so talented and my boys love her! I'm not sure how my Mom didn't end up in any pictures, probably because she took most of them, but we sure appreciate her making that LONG drive to surprise Tytyn. He will always remember that and will want you to come every year for his birthday now!

My Mom took this picture of some of the wheel lines in the hay, I thought it was pretty!

Birthday Questions for Tytyn's 5th Birthday: Straight from the mouth of Tytyn :)

1. What is your favorite color: Red and blue 

2. What is your favorite toy: Airplanes

3. What is your favorite fruit and vegetable:Watermelon, cantalope, and cucumbers.

4. What is your favorite cereal: Rice krispy treat cereal

5. Favorite breakfast: cereal (which is funny because I make breakfast every morning so he hardly ever has cereal, maybe that's why it's his favorite ha ha)

5. Favorite treat: cinnamon rolls

6. Favorite drink: treat drink (flavored water)

7. Favorite animal: cheetahs because they're fast and it sounds like cheetohs ha ha 

8. Favorite game: Zingo

9. Favorite book: Berenstain Bears

10. Favorite song: I Am a Child of God and the temple song. (I Love to See the Temple)

11. Favorite movie: Turbo

12. Favorite thing to do outside: Play with the dogs.

13. What do you want to do when you grow up: I really don't know maybe I'll help dogs, not our dogs, different dogs, any dogs that need help with something. Like if I see a dog when I'm driving in my pick up I'll stop and help them. (He is his Mother's son!)

14. Favorite thing to ride on with Dad: Rhino

15. Favorite thing about being 5: Throwing balls around with Daddy and Halter and playing basketball too.

April-May

I am SO behind on my posts! Hopefully I can remember the highlights though! Spring was a really busy time. Tyrel was out working ALOT, but on a positive note a lot of the work he had to do was in the field right behind our house. So when he couldn't come in we would just walk his meals out and when we wanted to see Daddy we would just walk out and go for a tractor ride with him. We have a few little games that we like to play when we sit in the tractor with Tyrel, we've created some pretty good memories out there with him. Other than that we did a lot of projects outside of our home. We hauled lots and lots of gravel in, bordered off bits and pieces of our yard, picked LOTS of rock, hauled in more dirt for where the lawn was going to be, got our spruce trees and fruit trees planted, etc. Unfortunately I failed to get any before and after pictures of outside.

My handsome boy, Tytyn. This was one of his last days of being 4!

We brought dinner out to Daddy this night and came back inside to eat, which was smart because sloppy joes are messy and Halter LOVES him some sloppy joe meat!

One of my most favorite things about our new house are the big picture windows that give me an incredible view every night of the sunsets here. They are always SO gorgeous!

This was a night right after Tyrel had finished getting the hay planted behind our house. I like the pivot at the side of the picture with the water on. 

My sweet bots!

Here is Tyrel smoothing out the dirt in our soon to be backyard.

See our little spruce trees!

The first weekend in May, my cousin Misty and her family came to visit us for a night. It was so much fun having them in our home and our kids got along really great! It was fun to watch them play. Mason loved everything about the farm, it was fun showing them around. He got to sit on a horse, chase cows, go for a ride in the loader with Tyrel and I think it's safe to say he loved every second of it! Thanks for coming to visit us, we love you guys!