Brother's Birthday

January has become a busy month these last few years. With Wesley (10), Jared (34) and Isaac (5) having birthdays two weeks of each other, and right around Christmas time, we celebrate them in January. Wesley has started some friendships at school, especially those who loves sports! Bradeon, Noah, Barik Boley and the Bennett boys are a few. Wes wanted to do a triathalon for his birthday, but we settled for kickball and a pie eating contest. He was so sick to his stomach!

Isaac wanted to do the traditional piñata and play some games at the park. Since his friends are just little guys, I planned fruit roll up on a string, three legged race, piñata (that the boys make every year), and of course the Basha's cake. Keep it simple for this prego mama!

so grateful for beautiful weather in AZ during January. The green grass and blue skies are always lovely to celebrate a birthday or two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Year's Eve party

This is a picture of my 2 year old up at midnight with glowsticks, an exhausted face and sugary lips. What a mess he was the following day as you can imagine! We spent New Year's Eve with our friends the Souder's and Taylor's. The boys ran around with the other children playing bball, games, eating and watching movies. We all brought some type of Asian food and had a really yummy spread of food! The adults laughed HARD with the game Quelf. So fun to have belly laughs! We wore our robes for comfy fun and I got a distracted hubby to give me a New Year's kiss (he had been trying to get Levi down for a quick nap b/c he was melting down, but I made him come out for the countdown). Happy New Year! Let's have a healthy baby, get back into shape, give our kids some solid life skills and maybe even switch jobs? 

Wesley's 10 bday

A tradition that we have for our boys' birthday is to make them whatever breakfast they want, as well as have the brother's make them homemade cards. Wesley's special day was no exception! He came downstairs to chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream and a fruit smoothie. Homemade cards from Isaac included a rainbow and Austin made him a birthday crown. He then opened up his gifts; a robe, new shoes and a basketball (which Levi still thinks is his and cries over it whenever Wesley tries to play with it). That night we took the boys to Uptown Alley here in Surprise for bowling. They loved it! Didn't take them too long to figure out how it works, especially with the bumpers and dad around to help. I had my own bowling ball in my belly so I enjoyed watching from the sidelines. I love spending time with our boys when they are happy and enjoying themselves! Feels great to have a family. 

Christmas/bday dinner

We were invited to celebrate Wesley and Jared's birthday/Christmas dinner at Ms Jan and Gpa Lowe's house. What a delight it is to have family nearby! Ms Jan made a lovely turkey dinner spread with all the fixings, and of course soda, which the boys loved!  We later opened Christmas presents; animal blankets, jackets, and robes. We celebrated Jared's birthday with his favorite breakfast; hashbrowns, fried eggs, bacon, fruit smoothie and biscuits. Homemade cards were included (my favorite was Wesleys' cartoon drawing of a muscle man with Jared's photo of his head on the top). Happy 34th dadeeee!