Brigham's First 5th Birthday Celebration!

The benefit to Brigham not having a party with family is that he gets small individual celebrations that last weeks!  On Saturday, March 12, we got together with the Gerdes families to celebrate Brigham and Izzy's 5th Birthday's.  We just met at McDonalds for ice cream and the kids played and opened a few gifts.  

Bronx loves to color with the Color Wonder markers!  Greatest invention ever!

 Izzy & Brigs

 Kids love money!

 Uncle Ja & Aunt Shana made his day!  

He tells me every other day how much money he has saved up in his piggy bank!  

 A Michael Jordan shirt from Grandma Glady & Grandpa Les

 And a Darth Vader cup!

Sunday, March 13

We were having a little too much fun with the Face Swap app!

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Snacks & playing outside!

 Boston brought home his first piece of poetry.  Brought me to tears!

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Olive and Brooklyn had matching leggings and the cutest smiles for me!

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Boston came home from Cadets proud as ever about the box he made!

Friday, March 18

Brigham and the other SFC preschoolers got to sing at Chapel so Bronx and I were there to watch.  

It was so cute!

 Look at all those Preschoolers!

 Brigham came home with a birthday gift from his teacher.  He was so excited about his new straw and gave me very stern instructions that I was NEVER allowed to put it in the dishwasher 'cuz it's plastic mom and it will melt!'

 Brigham working on tying shoes.

 Watching the SFC Chargers play at the state tourney!

Saturday, March 19

I took the boys to the Easter Egg Hunt at Kidtopia.  This is a yearly tradition of ours!

 Lacey, Paisley & Holdyn stopped by with a birthday gift for Brigham!

 SFC Chargers are State Champs!  First time in school history!

Sunday, March 20

I headed to Hardwick bright and early Sunday morning to spend the day with my grandparents.  Grandma Marty fell down some steps on Monday and broke her pelvis.  She is laid up and not able to get up for anything other than the bathroom or to eat, so I spent the day keeping her company!  I did miss out on the boys singing in church for Palm Sunday, but Derek took the boys.. and that's good for him!  Derek dressed Bronx for church in this flannel shirt, so of course, I had to get a comparison collage put together of all 3 boys!

 So thankful our church has their services posted online now so I did get to watch the kids sing!  It was so cute seeing how excited Bronx was when his brothers walked in!

Baby Girl Shower!

My friend Dana and I were blessed by a Diaper Keg shower on Friday night, March 11!  It was so much fun for the dad's to be involved too!  I never expected a baby shower for our 4th baby, but our friends Megan & Crystal insisted that these little baby girls needed to be celebrated (and spoiled)!  We got so many diapers, wipes and adorable little girl clothes and accessories!  It was such a fun night!  We are so blessed by these friendships old and new!  Jade & Megan graciously opened up their garage for the party!  It was the perfect night for it too!

So different seeing all of the pink decorations!!

This was such a fun idea!  

The ladies planned some very entertaining games!  The first game was a baby food tasting game.  I'm so glad it was the dad's doing the tasting and not the moms!  Derek was 3 for 5 guessing what food was which!  Team Gerdes won this game!

 Bite #1 was peaches.  Not so bad! I could even eat them!

 Then we moved along to some veggies!  Ewe!

I couldn't stop laughing!

 Bite #5 was ham and after Derek made a loud gagging noise, Justin was NOT letting Dana give him a bite!  It smelled like canned dog food or tuna!  So GROSS!

 The next game was a relay race for the men!  The dad's had to blow up a balloon, stuff it under their shirt, run across the garage, bend over and put their shoes on and then run back to their team for the next person to go!  Team Gerdes won this game too :)

 These guys have NO idea whats it's like to carry a real baby belly!

Opening gifts!  I couldn't believe how generous everyone was!  Dana and I's little girls will be dressed so cute, and matching quite often!!

Dana and I

Megan, Dana and I

Some of the crowd!

 The last game was a Snyder win!  Derek is NO good at a pony tail!  You had to put a diaper on a doll while blindfolded, then put a pony tail on the Barbie, and then race around to a chair and drink a baby bottle!  

 Derek was still giving it is best shot!  Thank goodness we have some time to practice!

Megan thought it was hilarious that Derek had no clue how to do a pony!

 Derek was a cheater on drinking the bottle, so team Gerdes lost.  

Moms were up next!

I change over 20 diapers a day most days, so I was quick at this!

I was trying to convince Dana to just call it a tie!  

It was harder to drink out of a bottle than I expected!

I did end up finishing it!

Crystal, Dana, myself & Megan

Both did a great job with all of the planning!!

And we can't forget the men!
Ross & Crystal and Megan & Jade

We needed a log of help loading up all the diaper boxes and gifts!

It was SUCH a fun night!  I can't say thank you enough to everyone who came, and especially to the ladies who did all the planning & preparing!

This gift was just so cute I had to take a picture!
Tied together with an adorable little headband!

 She is spoiled already!  The boys had so much fun looking through all the clothes!

 I can't wait to get up in the middle of the night to change a diaper and see one of these fun messages!
We are bound to get a lot of laughs, just when we need them!

 My favorite :)