Happy Birthday Ty!

Matthias turned three on Sept. 12.  Here are some of the pictures from our celebrations.  I love the "pup" cakes I made.  They were fun to decorate and tasty as well.  I am trying to master a great recipe that a friend of mine shared with me--thank you Julia!  Matthias had a great birthday full of much candy, toys and family.  His favorite toy was the tootsie roll bank he ate all of that day.  And he loved the light saber his bro and sis gave him.

Grandma Pitt got to come down the day before and be with us for a day full of soccer and was nice and brought Matthias a great present of clothes, and tinker toys.

Opening the Tootsie Roll Bank

Light Saber Fun!

My two birthday boys.  Ryan's b-day is two days after Matthias' so we kind of celebrated both b-days with the Whitchurch family and Ry's brother Jordan.  Matthias requested pizza for his birthday dinner.  It was a busy fun day!

"pup" cakes en mass.  I used tootsie rolls flattened for the ears.  Marshmallows and m&m's for the eyes and nose, and a piece of licorice flattened for the tongue.

Close up cake!  I think I would have added a white dot of frosting on the eyes if I made these again.  I think it would have made them that much more fun to look at.

My cutie!  Happy birthday my wonderful Matthias.  I am so thankful you are in our family.  You make each day an adventure and I love it! 

First Days of School

So I waited to post this entry because Sarah started school a week later than the kids.  My older three started Aug. 25, but they have the Kindergarten kids start a week later so they can do individual assessments.

At our school there are two times or tracks the kids can go one.  Track one starts at 8:00 am track two starts at 9:15.  We've always been on the later track until this year, when we thought it would be good for Rebekah to get to used to the earlier time before jr. high. and because I teach dance a lot earlier in the day.  Anyway it makes for a crazy morning but we seem to still be able to have a good sit down breakfast and scripture study.

Here is the older three the first day!  I can't believe how much they have grown up!

They really like their classes and they have good teachers. 

Last year of elementary school

my big 5th grader

2nd grade here we come!

Kindergarten fun!  In the next picture notice the black eye she has. This was achieved by attempting to make a bunk bed out of couch cushions with her siblings.

Sarah was very concerned about the black eye the first day of school.  But it worked out just fine.  She loved her first day and her teacher! 

One more side note to this post.  Since I began this post about a 1.5 weeks ago, Joshua came down with pneumonia.  He has attended a total of four days of school and missed a total of 9 days of school.  Hopefully he will be back tomorrow but we will see.  He's lost 10 lbs. and is still a bit weak, but thanks to the many prayers and faith of our friends and families he is returning to good health.

Here is to a great school year!