New Year's Eve and a Very Happy Birthday to Scott

Scott had New Years Eve (his birthday) off from work ... Thank Goodness!! We had a FUN day filled with lots of different activities and tons of games!! The night before, I wrote different activities our family would do together randomly throughout the day. Those ideas were then stuck inside balloons and a time written on the balloon that told us when it would need to be opened. It started with a delicious breakfast.  

Here is a list of the things I planned for the day:

• breakfast
• mock tails (I made three different ones of these)
• write our resolutions on the chalkboard
• draw and color pictures
• decorated cupcakes
• "ring in the new year" with ring pops
• open gifts (Happy Birthday SCOTT!!!)
• go to the zoo (it ended up being too cold to do this!)
• Poppers
• make mini pizza's for lunch
• sparklers
• Fireworks
• special games
• jacuzzi time

 Here is the list we came up with of games to play. We went through most of them...and it was a ton of fun!!
Below we are "ringing in the new year" with our ring pops!

CHEERS!! Here's one of the mock tails I made. Yum! I went to Pinterest and found a few I thought were not only easy to make but that my boys would enjoy. I bought plastic wine glasses for the boys to use. We also took turns making a toast. SO fun!

I found some cute pages for the little boys to color. And for the older boys, they completed a 2014 remembrance page. It was fun to see the kids write their year in review. (again, from Pinterest!)

One of the "special games" was the flour and the dime. Messy fun!  All the boys wanted to retrieve the dime and once they did they regretted it immediately. They say flour mixed with a bit of spit tastes like glue! 

Happiest of birthday's to this guy! 38 years old. Scott is such a great guy. We're lucky to have him in our family.

And, of course, was the annual fireworks celebration at the Towers'/Monson's home. Over 2,015 fireworks were set off. Awesome!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!

Jump Around!!

Jackson's birthday is officially tomorrow, but he collected on one of his main gifts yesterday. Jackson invited a couple of friends and went to a place called Airborne. Will joined them as well, and man did they all have a blast. I was tired just watching them! There was several different rooms with tons of tramps to jump and flip on...But my favorite room was the XTREME room. It was a mini American Ninja Warrior course!!! So cool!!

 Here is most of the Extreme course that the boys practiced on over and over...It looked super fun and hard! 

Happy, happy birthday Jackson!! 

I'm glad you had a great time at Airborne. I love you with all my heart!!

Tyler is in the double digits!!

Tyler turned 10!!! He's now in the double digits and loving it!! We threw a pool party for him a couple of weeks ago, right after his football game. (which they won by the way!! Tyler scored 4 touchdowns!!) Our good friends let us have it at their home. They have a huge yard with a zip line and tramp.





The boys played a little football while waiting for the rest of their friends to arrive.



It was about 55-60 degrees that day. But, the pool was heated to 90 degrees! The boys had a ton of fun jumping and playing in the warm water.



We served hot dogs , cheeseburgers, drinks, chips and other delicious, non-healthy food.








Even this little guy ate a cheese burger!

Pops was in town! He helped manning the grill.



All the boys ended up in the Jacuzzi. Like I said, it was super cold!



Tyler had 12 friends and also his brothers there to share in this extra special day. Tyler is such a great kid. He is super athletic, smart and will try anything. He is also a tender hearted kid and loves to snuggle with me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER!!!!!!!!!!

Science Birthday Party

 A few weeks ago we celebrated Brigham and Gavin's birthday by hosting a Science Party. It was fun to plan and fun to be part of.
Scott and Will, gladly, played the role of mad scientists and helped run the entire party. I have all these grand ideas of vacations and parties and Scott is the one who always pulls them off perfectly!

When the children came in they had to use a disinfectant hand rub  and then scan their hand on the iPad to make sure they had clearance to enter the party.
Next Will would hand them some nerdy glasses and a couple of antibiotics (Mike and Ike candies) that they needed to take before entering the lab.
While we were waiting for the other children to arrive, we made molecules in the kitchen by using toothpicks and mini marshmallows.

 
Scott held their attention by showing a few different science projects.

 Density test (above). Elephant toothpaste (below).

 

 
Slime. And a few others...

 We then headed outside to make fake snow.

 We handed out water bottles with balloons attached to the top. As they poured the powder (baking soda) fro the balloon into the bottle (containing vinegar) the balloon expanded.

 

 
Here is Brigham with his "girlfriend" Betty. They are inseparable. So cute!

 The perfect ending was the Diet Coke and Mentos trick. Such a fun party. The kids took their glasses, bottles with balloons and a bag filled with fun Science activities.

 
Two hours later, we held another Science Party for Jackson and Tyler!!

 
Scott attached the laptop to the TV in the kitchen and loaded a few fun videos to watch.

 
There was a competition between Tyler's Diet Coke bottle and Jackson's...Jackson's went higher and won!

Cupcakes for all! I sprinkled pop rocks on top of them. They were a huge hit!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOYS!!!