Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Our Move to Oregon

We have had a lot of changes in the last month! Kevin graduated from school, we went visited the family in Utah, Kevin got a job, we moved across half way across the country! With all the changes it has been hard getting the boys on a schedule. But we are finally starting to settle in here which is nice.
When we moved out here my parents were nice enough to come out and help us move in. We were also able to do some fun activities with them here. Mid Valley Dental associates which is who Kevin works for sponsored some donkeys at the rodeo. They asked Kevin to ride one of the Donkeys in the Donkey race and it was the funniest thing I have seen. He fell off multiple times almost got ran over by a donkey, I got scared for a second but once I saw he was fine I continued laughing! He did run over the poor rodeo Queen geese Kevin learn how to steer your donkey! But they did pretty good they came in dead last their donkey went and stood by the side and would not move at all until some guy came up and kicked it in the butt!
We also went out to Newport Beach which was beautiful. It was really windy though and the water was FREEZING! But we still had fun with it. I felt bad though because poor Corbin fell into the cold water and we were not in swim suits but clothes and it was a long walk back to the car! When we went to leave he was so mad an was trying to go back in the water! We also went to the Newport Aquarium which was fun and neat to see some of the animals. It was fun exploring the area and seeing some of the beautiful sites! Thanks Mom and Dad for coming out to help us.
We are really liking it in Oregon so far, our house is a little small but it works for now we are just renting. Hopefully our house in Ohio will sell soon! It was been a tough market and we still have not sold our house which has been disappointing. I guess we will see what happens. Our ward is really nice and we are making new friends out here which always makes life easier. There are a lot of boys Braxton age in our ward and he is loving all the boys to play with! We actually have multiple people in our ward that live in our neighborhood or really close to it. I think this was a really good change for us and we are enjoying it so far.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Braxton's 5th Birthday

Braxton is really into space right now so he really wanted a space party. So we had little NASA packs for all the kids, had space decorations and party favors, we had a moon walk, and a rocket. We had a lot of family there and the boys had a blast with their cousins! It was a great time! Thanks everyone for your help and for coming!
My baby is 5 years old!! Geese time goes by fast look how big he is! Happy Birthday Braxton we love you so much!
Brothers! Brian is going to be going on a mission soon so we had to get one of all the boys together.
My Brother had this nice blow up slide he let us borrow for the party and the kids loved it.
Braxton is not a fan of cake so he told me all he wanted for his cake was a pile of strawberries. So I was trying to think of how I could work in the theme and the only thing I could think of doing was a Mars cake. Braxton was pretty excited about it and of course he did not eat the cake but he ate all the strawberries off it.
Whats a party with out a pinata!
We played a fun alien came were the adults had alien balloons tied on and we armed the kids with toothpicks and they had to destroy the aliens. They loved chasing us around.
These Cute little rockets were fun to make and Braxton was pretty excited about them. I make them out of Ho Ho's, Ding Dongs, Hershey Kiss dipped in frosting and placed on top, Cookies cut up and placed on the bottom. Then M&M's for the windows.

We filled a tent full of white Balloon's for the moon walk and the kids loved playing in there throwing balloons around!

We were not going to do a rocket but Braxton wanted to have a rocket so Kevin went and got a big box and made this for him.

All the cousins enjoying their dinner.
Posted by PicasaBraxton opening his presents, he was spoiled by everyone and loved everything he got. He is really into Transformers again so that is what he got.